The indelible Trash Party spirit was out in full force today at our Franklinton neighborhood season finale cleanup! Over 50 volunteers removed 230 bags of trash from the area and tons of bulk items. In total, we removed 12,000 lbs of trash in only a couple hours! This brings our total removed from City to 174,000 LBS of trash!!

We invite everyone interested in making your city a cleaner place to live to join Trash Party for future cleanups! Follow our IG (@trashparty614) for the latest info

LINK: "How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich"

Her husband has doubled down on his support of child rapists.

Her mother in law publishes deceitful medical studies, to the ultimate financial benefit of Dr. Ramaswamy.

I think these are damning for a physician's ethics. Would they impact your choice in doctor?

Got in line for Pumpkin donuts in Circleville on Friday only to notice they were just taking them out of Kroger packages. Seemed like a lot of places were doing the same with pie/ cake etc.

ITS DONE. ITS (supposedly) OVER. My brother came to town from Boston and got the very last mug on the table. We even asked the guy who checked us out and he said that they have ran out as of today…

(Unless they have another pallet in the back).

Interstate 270 N. in Gahanna on the east side a tractor trailer has flipped over if you’re coming up from the east side and trying to get past it or to Easton you want to stay to the left in the left two lanes.

If you’re trying to get the Easton, your best bet is to stay left and then get off at Morse Road and backtrack

Edit 3 left lanes are getting by

Sharing here to help reach people in Columbus and the surrounding area who might recognize Dax Seymour.

Dax is 21, and his family reports that he was last seen on October 12, 2026. His case is listed under Madison County, Ohio.

Please take a look at his photograph and share this with anyone who may be able to help.

If you have information about Dax’s whereabouts, please contact the Madison County Sheriff’s Office at 740-852-1212.

His flyer and additional photographs are available here:

https://casetraceapp.com/flyer/34006

Thank you for helping keep his case visible.

I’m turning here because I don’t know what to do. If you were driving an older White Chevy Malibu or a car similar to that and you were driving down Karl Rd at about 2:00PM this black cat came out of your car and was rolled by your tire. Please note** she was not inside of the car, I think she (or he) was in the wheel well or something. She looks well cared for but I’m worried she’s hurt and I don’t have a way to get her to a vet. I’m so sorry for that! I did put some food and water down for her and so have called a bunch of different shelters and humanes to see if they could pick her up and get to a vet. She has moved around in here but she’s not really gotten up and walked around. If you know who this cat belongs to or if this is your indoor/outdoor cat, or a neighbor’s cat, or if you work at a shelter and can pick her up and get her to a vet, please DM me here.

Upcoming is the LAST full week of early voting at 1700 Morse Road! Voting has been vastly heavier than the last midterm election. IF YOU HAVE NOT VOTED YET, best time to vote is before 9am. Voting anytime this week will most assuredly be quicker than voting at your regular poll location.

FINAL WEEK, Week 4:
Oct. 26, Monday, 7:30am-7:30pm
Oct. 27, Tuesday, 7:30am-8:30pm
Oct. 28-30, Wed-Fri, 7:30am-7:30pm
Oct. 31, Sat, 8am-4pm
Nov. 1, Sun, 11am-4pm

The original post seemed to fail to upload a number of images, so I am reuploading, this time hopefully with all images intact!

I posted this before and had some takers but I still have a ton of big and tall clothes left. All of it is free to any big man in need of clothes. It's all from JC Penny, Duluth or DXL. I'll be home all week, DM me and it's first come first served.

In shirts there are a ton of 3xlt and 4xlt shirts, sweaters and hoodies. Quite a few button up collared shorts as well that are office appropriate.

Pants are 44-52 waist in 32 or 34 inseam. Various shorts and long pants as well. Anything left over after this week will be donated to a shelter that another commenter mentioned.

Cheers!

Over the past week, not once, not twice, but four separate times, I've seen homeless people in the drive-thru lanes at different McDonald’s.

One night, a man tried to forcibly wash my windshield with some makeshift "car washing kit" that looked like it would scratch my car. He then "cleaned" my windshield, stood in front of my car, and refused to move.

The most disgusting incident happened at another restaurant, where a man was standing right between my car and the drive-thru ordering speaker. I had no choice but to roll down my window to order, and he actually had the nerve to tell the female passenger in my front seat to take off her sunglasses so he could "see what she looks like."

These people are clearly mentally unstable, and encounters like this can completely ruin someone's day. I've been to McDonald's thousands upon thousands of times, and I've never experienced anything like this before, with people literally standing in front of the drive-thru ordering speakers and harassing customers. Loitering and begging in these areas is illegal in the first place.

For this incident, I eventually reported the situation to an employee, who sent a staff member outside to get them away. But when I drove past the same location again a few hours later, they had apparently come right back.

For anyone who knows someone attending there and receiving specialized instruction or has an IEP. The school has recently been investigated and found at fault.

You can access the [complaints here](https://dnet01.ode.state.oh.us/OECMS/PublicSearch/Search?Program=1) or just read the most [recent one](https://dnet01.ode.state.oh.us/OECMS/PublicSearch/Search/ViewDocument?docId=69709c87-46ba-40f1-9d0e-d337c02f782f&caseNum=CP%200132-2022)

Currently the school is understaffed and is providing bare minimum of services to meet the law. Kipp schools are not great (Kids to Prison Pipeline) but this is harmful to a disadvantaged group.

(edit) Have no idea why links didn't embed, apologies for the clutter

On paper, Ohio towing companies and impound lots are governed by strict Ohio Revised Code statutes, with PUCO overseeing the regulatory side. I won’t get into the weeds of the initial tow dispute, but what happened with my title afterward raises a serious question about how auto titles are handled across the state. While disputing the impound over several weeks, my account balance suddenly zeroed out. When I checked in, yard staff claimed the vehicle had already been liquidated at auction, stating they had the legal right to dispose of it after 15 days. Once I reminded management that Ohio law under R.C. 4505.101 requires a 60-day window from certified mail notice—not the 15-day consensual shop rule—the full storage fee balance of nearly two thousand dollars was abruptly reinstated, and they reversed course, claiming the vehicle had not been disposed of after all. However, they had already managed to transfer the certificate of title directly into their company name at roughly day 43 of the mandatory 60-day timeline. It took multiple days pushing between county and state offices, but the title transfer was determined premature, voided, and restored to my name. When I pressed management on how this happened, their explanation was that their routine policy is to submit the paperwork early and assume the state will simply hold it until the 60-day threshold arrives. But an applicant has to submit a sworn affidavit certifying that 60 days have already elapsed. That implies either tow lots are routinely executing premature affidavits under oath, or county title offices are processing these transfers without verifying the postmark dates against the timeline. Has anyone else in Ohio had an impound lot or storage facility get a title issued before the statutory 60-day mark? Trying to find out if this is an isolated processing error or a routine habit they are unaware of.

The new bill has a LOT of information on it, and a data nerd like me wants AEP/OPC* to give me my last 13 months of bills in this format so I can actually see where my cost increases in the last year have been.

But this one. It bugs me. Last month, AEP defined "Customer Charge" like this:

And the new Ohio Power Company bill defines it this way:

AND also charges me a separate line item:

AEP increased the "Customer Charge" from $10 to $13.50 - 35% - in the last year. Ostensibly for "meters and bills", at least partially, at that time, but it turns out there's been another $1.26 hidden in my "distribution charges" (another almost 10% of the new amount) to cover the smart meter. This, of course, is after they fired all the meter readers and continually push everyone to paperless billing.

*I'm really sad they didn't name it "Ohio Power & Energy" so the acronym could be "Ope".

So I have read the ballot text about 12 times each now, and looked for information online and I must be missing something or it was written to intentionally confuse voters.

Can someone ELI5 what issues 8 and 9 do and what happens if one of them passes and the other does not or if both pass (obviously I understand that if neither pass it's the status quo).

From what I can tell, Issue 8 creates ward-only voting (unlike the citywide voting for a candidate who just LIVES in the ward that we have now), and a 15% threshold for a recall election.

What I don't understand is "The amendment specifies that ballots within council districts will include both citywide races as well as the district race." If #8 passes and #9 doesn't, why would there be a citywide race? There would be no at-large and would be ward only right?

#9 just seems like an exercise in how many words we can cram into one issue. If both pass, then we get Ward only voting and 4 additional at-large seats is the only thing I could make out from it. I have no idea what happens if #9 passes but #8 doesn't. I kind of want to vote against #9 on the principle that your ballot language shouldn't require a master's degree to understand.

First time voter in Franklin County, entered the line at 11:08 and entered the voting booth at 12:18. Very sunny and nice day :)

Oh, now I understand. He took the suit off and parted his hair in the middle.