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Shannon Hardin scores first victory over Mayor Suburbs in the 2027 mayoral race.

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January 12, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Zeiger spoke today at the Wexner Medical Center Open House 😫
January 12, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Another Dave Yost masterclass.
January 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
It’s not about sending him to prison. It’s about taking his name down, which will be forced to happen the first time he takes the fifth about any direct question about being in the presence of Epstein victims.
I'll just get out in front of this: Leslie either pleads the fifth or cannot recall anything regarding Dr. Richard Strauss (or Jeffrey Epstein).
January 12, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Paging Congresswoman Joyce Beatty! Please call your office.
Massive news, per well-placed source:

Billionaire Leslie Wexner has been served by way of order and will be deposed in the Dr. Richard Strauss class action lawsuit against The Ohio State University.
January 12, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Massive news, per well-placed source:

Billionaire Leslie Wexner has been served by way of order and will be deposed in the Dr. Richard Strauss class action lawsuit against The Ohio State University.
January 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
I'd love to hear more about how HUD grants are spent in Franklin County.

You can submit that information anonymousy:

dirt.tips
January 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
The Japan trip was at the center of a bust up in September, with O'Grady taking the fall, even though Crawley attended that trip, too.
January 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Today's Rooster is about Franklin County taxpayers spending $119K to send two public officials and six bureaucrats to Japan and Italy in 2025.

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January 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I just went on a conservative radio show up near Cleveland and called Max Miller a "trust fund baby who has never had a real job" and it didn't go over well, let's just say that.
January 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Biking/Walking in Seattle over the weekend. Long live Wandrer.
January 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Maximum truck size. 95% of truck owners do not need a bigger truck.
January 11, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Seeing an elevated monorail through an urban core is basically like staring upon intergalactic alien technology to this Ohio Man.
January 10, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Trump is a unique force in American politics, largely because of his run with The Apprentice.

No other Republican will be able to get away with what he does. Not that it will make all the little impressionists that follow him any less insufferable.
MAGA do not hate rich people, they have consistently voted for a man who plasters his name in gold on literal skyscrapers everywhere he can.
January 10, 2026 at 4:15 AM
You know ball.

And the dirty secret on Ramaswamy is he doesn’t gaggle with the press because he can’t stop putting his foot in his mouth.

His team clearly plans on campaigning through big room speeches and his billionaire buddies bombing the airwaves.
She needs to get this stuff onto the television screens all over the state. It doesn’t even have to be a big production. Just her in front of a camera with this type of stuff superimposed next to her talking about it.
Dr. Acton appears to have developed a cunning campaign strategy: Simply posting Vivek Ramswamy’s words and rich guy facts about his life.
January 10, 2026 at 3:38 AM
It’s Ohio. But she definitely has a shot and it’s only going to get better over next 11 months.

There would have been Republicans self-immolating by now if Sherrod Brown had run for governor like was the longstanding plan.
It would be amazing if she could pull this off…
January 10, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Well, no proof of that. But probably more damning, he’s an alleged billionaire who hired independent contractors for his wife’s security because he’s cheap!
January 10, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Dr. Acton appears to have developed a cunning campaign strategy: Simply posting Vivek Ramswamy’s words and rich guy facts about his life.
January 10, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Seattle might be GOATED for real for real.
January 10, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Joyce Beatty has yet to say a word about Leslie Wexner being subpoenaed.
"A chronic, devastating cancer in American society is prominent Democrats outright refusing to share their constituents' urgency and horror in the face of what is being done to society by Republicans..."
January 9, 2026 at 9:44 PM
That time Mehek Cooke tried to guilt trip people into donating $25 to her doomed Ohio House campaign because her dog died.

Legendary rizz.
January 9, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Today’s Rooster dispatch features an exclusive interview w/ Emmanuel Remy.

We discuss Remy’s position on alcohol, treatment of City Hall staffers, why he sent his children to private school, Columbus campaign finance laws, and his biggest 2026 legislative goals.

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Clearing the air with Councilman Emmanuel Remy
Say what you want about him, and I've said a lot, but Councilman Remy had the honor to sit down and work through some of our problems.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Tomorrow on The Rooster: Clearing the air with Columbus City Councilman Emmanuel Remy.
January 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Postal Inspectors are only law enforcement organization that require college degrees.

The load of Amazon packages (and frankly, drugs) means they can’t get everyone, but it’s lights out if they turn their eyes on you.
Ask anyone. The postal inspectors do *not* play games.
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 AM
They didn’t have the Ramaswamy angle, which I reported at 9:39 this morning.
January 9, 2026 at 12:41 AM