Every week I read a story that stops me in my tracks and many are from Matter News. This is one.

Two Ohio brothers built a sprawling prison telecommunications firm. They were shut down after a year in business. New from Ellin Youse. matternews.org/community/po...

Two Ohio brothers built a sprawling prison telecommunications firm. They were shut down after a year in business. New from Ellin Youse. matternews.org/community/po...

This is a sad and remarkable story.

Two Ohio brothers built a sprawling prison telecommunications firm. They were shut down after a year in business. New from Ellin Youse. matternews.org/community/po...

“I want to tell the people out there, this is not a refugee problem, this is an American issue,” she said, going on to draw attention to the essential lifeline SNAP provides to low-income families across demographic lines, and especially to single parents with children.”

“I want to tell the people out there, this is not a refugee problem, this is an American issue,” she said, going on to draw attention to the essential lifeline SNAP provides to low-income families across demographic lines, and especially to single parents with children.”

“I was not on [federal benefits] for a long time, but it’s been helpful for me to get food as I work to become self-sufficient,” Saeda said via an interpreter in late October. “But with [SNAP] being discontinued next month, I’m very much afraid of what will happen.” matternews.org/community/fe...

Great ink by @andydowning33.bsky.social in @matternews.bsky.social about the new doc #TeenageWasteland screening Nov 6 at 7pm at #theWex as part of this year's Unorthodocs! The fest runs Nov 6 - 10! #documentary matternews.org/culture/expe...

“You don’t know the times your movie will meet when you begin to make it. ... And I’m not saying you have to trespass, but I think symbolically we need to encourage a certain amount of creative trespassing. We need to lean into what’s uncomfortable.” matternews.org/culture/expe...

Your donations to Matter News are doubled through the end of the year. Here's a letter from our editor as we kick off our biggest fundraising campaign yet. matternews.org/community/do...

Happy Monday y’all! This week’s newsletter includes a voting guide for tomorrow’s election, Cranksgiving Columbus (a food drive on two wheels 🚲), a @matternews.bsky.social fundraiser next week, and more! buttondown.com/goodworkscol...

Your donations to Matter News are doubled through the end of the year. Here's a letter from me as we kick off our biggest fundraising campaign yet. matternews.org/community/do...

Your donations to Matter News are doubled through the end of the year. Here's a letter from our editor as we kick off our biggest fundraising campaign yet. matternews.org/community/do...

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“That whole early time was such a blur, and I don’t remember most of it, but I was working every day, and I was super hungry to make something cool and to just be good at something. … I mean, at the end of the day it’s just rock music. We’re not trying to outsmart it.” matternews.org/culture/musi...

Here's the debut from our new Local Politics columnist, Jules Roscoe, who recently moved to Columbus from Boston, where they covered politics for the Boston Guardian, in addition to writing for 404 Media, Wired, and Vice. matternews.org/voices/local...

Guess who's now writing the Local Politics column for @matternews.bsky.social ! My first this month is about the Columbus Ohio school board elections next week— but it's actually a lot more than that. If you have city politics tips for Columbus, please find me :) matternews.org/voices/local...

Here's the debut from our new Local Politics columnist, Jules Roscoe, who recently moved to Columbus from Boston, where they covered politics for the Boston Guardian, in addition to writing for 404 Media, Wired, and Vice. matternews.org/voices/local...

Breaking news out of the Wexner Center. matternews.org/culture/art/...

“I do have reservations about letting certain parts of myself be revealed, but even on this phone call I’m trying to be super open and honest without thinking about it, because ... that’s what you deserve. Just like anyone who listens to the music, that’s what they deserve to get out of it.”

“There was a stretch where I was like, maybe Kurdish literature is all dark and heavy, and maybe it is all about genocide and being a refugee. But, no, that really isn’t the case, which is fantastic.” matternews.org/culture/word...

“It was easily the most toxic culture I’ve ever had to work in or be around.” In late August, 13 employees at the Wexner Center signed on to a letter sent to university officials in which they expressed a vote of no confidence in the leadership of executive director Gaëtane Verna.

“It was easily the most toxic culture I’ve ever had to work in or be around.” In late August, 13 employees at the Wexner Center signed on to a letter sent to university officials in which they expressed a vote of no confidence in the leadership of executive director Gaëtane Verna.

As a longtime member, this hurts to read. Hope the people I know who still work there are managing to cope through the dysfunction.

“It was easily the most toxic culture I’ve ever had to work in or be around.” In late August, 13 employees at the Wexner Center signed on to a letter sent to university officials in which they expressed a vote of no confidence in the leadership of executive director Gaëtane Verna.

Vice President JD Vance wrote on X that “killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.” But U.S. officials saying fentanyl comes from Venezuela doesn’t make it so writes @jackshuler.bsky.social. matternews.org/voices/fenta...

Who gets to shape a city's schools? My latest @matternews.bsky.social column examines the Columbus school board race where grassroots progressives are challenging the CEO-funded Democratic Party establishment. It’s a story playing out in blue cities nationwide. matternews.org/voices/when-...

“Todd May asked us, ‘Are your songs going to be different now that your windows will be different windows?’ And that’s a sincere concern that I have.” Ahead of a move to California, Micah Schnabel and Vanessa Jean Speckman will commune with friends for a farewell show at Rumba on Thursday.

CMHA’s recent decision to purchase a large downtown property nearly a decade after stepping back from that model emerged from being caught in a swirl of a growing need for affordable housing, changes in federal policies, and new ways of looking at housing needs. New from Brian Williams.

I had a great lil chat with @ninawest.bsky.social for @matternews.bsky.social about QUEENS OF THE DEAD & monsters that lurk in power ahead of the @shudder.com film’s OH premiere Sunday. Check it out & support local journalism!

Implement forced outing of LGBT kids, put them at risk of homelessness and then take away housing resources. Great job being cruel and heartless, Ohio politicians. "Residents express fear, uncertainty as Kaleidoscope prepares to end youth housing program." matternews.org/community/re...

Ohio U has removed Thomas Hayes from his course for providing his students w/instructional videos to cover his absence & not labeling his course as both in-person and virtual. Stop doing things like this & then asking me for money, OU.

“I think life really is what it is in contrast to death, and at least for me it’s hard to feel present and appreciative of what’s happening around me if I don’t remember that I’m very much mortal and I’m not going to be here to experience the world and love and other people for very long.”

“We never assumed we wouldn’t make it,” said Ohio University professor Tom Hayes, who returned to Columbus this week after being detained by Israeli forces on Oct. 8 following an attempt to deliver medical supplies to Gaza. “All of us wanted the mission to succeed.” matternews.org/community/th...

“We never assumed we wouldn’t make it,” said Ohio University professor Tom Hayes, who returned to Columbus this week after being detained by Israeli forces on Oct. 8 following an attempt to deliver medical supplies to Gaza. “All of us wanted the mission to succeed.” matternews.org/community/th...

“If there’s a legislative agenda we should have, it should be to eradicate houselessness in our city,” Upchurch said. “And I don’t understand why we don’t have that bigger, shared vision of liberation in our community.” matternews.org/community/re...

“If there’s a legislative agenda we should have, it should be to eradicate houselessness in our city,” Upchurch said. “And I don’t understand why we don’t have that bigger, shared vision of liberation in our community.” matternews.org/community/re...

“If somebody is scrubbing that history from the Smithsonian, people can still be introduced to it in this way. And I think that’s something important for us as creators to keep in mind: If you want to erase it from there, well, we’re going to flood it into everything we do.”

Columbus artist LaShae Boyd explores issues of childhood trauma, faith, and recovery in "A Letter to the Liberated Child," which kicks off at Brandt Gallery with an opening reception today (Friday, Oct. 10). matternews.org/culture/art/...

“I almost never sit down with an idea. ... And I like that it’s a puzzle. Instead of going to a therapist, I can sit in my studio and start picking things apart, like, ‘This painting is about this, and this is about this.’ … I never know what that next show is going to be until it builds itself.”

“But I think watching [my father] die was a real moment of clarity for me, like, oh, I’m going to die one day, too. … And when I’m in this position and I’m dying, I want to look back on love and friendship and nature and beauty and joy.” matternews.org/culture/word...

“But I think watching [my father] die was a real moment of clarity for me, like, oh, I’m going to die one day, too. … And when I’m in this position and I’m dying, I want to look back on love and friendship and nature and beauty and joy.” matternews.org/culture/word...

“Those mixed-up vibes of happiness and sadness are somehow truer to life, in a way. We all crave patterns and meaning, but sometimes it all just kind of happens. Everything is chaotic and there’s no rhyme or reason to it. And sometimes it feels good to make music that reflects that.”

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.” By Larkin Cleland.

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.” By Larkin Cleland.

Essential article in @matternews.bsky.social on how cruelty-motivated GOP bills and actions impact everyday people. matternews.org/community/tr...

“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.” By Larkin Cleland.

“Certainly, I’m having these formal shifts in the paintings relative to what seems like the condition of the world. Sometimes the world collapses and you go, ‘Well, I want to give everybody a treat.’ And sometimes the world collapses and you need a painting that feels like that collapse.”