Bradley Center to host free open practice Thursday

Published March 15, 2010 at 11:35 p.m.


Don't have a ticket to the NCAA Tournament? You can still take in the action -- for free -- at an open practice Thursday at the Bradley Center.

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Six Apartments Destroyed In East Side Fire

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Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 3:29 a.m.

Columbus fire department was called to the Yearling Green Apartments at 4218 Rickenbacker Ave. around 1:15 this morning after reports of a fire ...

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Iran teetering like Soviet Union

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.

I felt a sense of deja vu as I watched televised scenes of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad exhorting a huge crowd last week on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Members of Iran's "Green" opposition were hardly visible, leading many to conclude that the protest movement had been crushed ...

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Distractions allow theft of freedoms

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.

If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office. Dire alarms and heady crusades are among the many distractions of our attention from the ever-increasing ways that government finds to take away more of our money and more of our freedom ...

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U.S. must keep out invaders

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 2:59 a.m.

Spend time on Lake Erie and you will hear amusing stories about the fish that got away. One story that is anything but funny involves the detection of Asian carp beyond manmade barriers meant to prevent it from reaching the Great Lakes ...

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Politics is part of national security

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 2:59 a.m.

"Politics should never get in the way of national security," wrote John Brennan, the White House's shockingly political deputy national security adviser. His USA Today Op-Ed article last week set off a firestorm inside the Beltway by essentially accusing critics of administration policy of deliberately lying -- "misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of coming together to keep us safe" -- and aiding and abetting al-Qaida: "Politically motivated criticism and unfounded

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Luger photos weren't fit for newspaper

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 2:57 a.m.

Has The Dispatch no shame? Printing the photographs graphically detailing the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili sinks to a new low ...

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Residents should have say on gun range

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 2:57 a.m.

The tragic shooting death Feb. 9 of Billy E. Howard while he was shoveling snow is a perfect demonstration of why Driving Park does not need more guns on the streets. The proposed gun store and shooting range on Alum Creek Drive would be just a few blocks from where Howard was shot. This facility can only mean a net loss for a community already struggling with gun violence. Communities east of Alum Creek -- Berwick and Bexley -- also can expect an increase in gun violence if this facility goes

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Beverage industry helping obesity fight

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 2:57 a.m.

The American Beverage Association agrees that childhood obesity is a serious problem, and we applaud the first lady for addressing it ("A good cause," Dispatch editorial, Friday). In fact, in support of Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" campaign, we announced that we will place the full calories for our products on the front of our containers, company-controlled vending machines and fountain machines ...

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Nuclear-energy fears are irrational

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 2:56 a.m.

I take issue with Lee Blackburn's Monday letter, "Nuclear energy is expensive, limited." He refers to the cost of building nuclear reactors, not the generation cost for nuclear energy, which, in 2008, was the lowest of all sources, at 1.87 cents per kilowatt-hour. Coal was 2.75 cents per kWh, gas was 8.09 cents per kWh and petroleum was 17.26 cents per kWh ...

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