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Panel urges daily civic engagement, civility and voting at Columbus Metropolitan Club forum
Summary
Panelists emphasized civility, everyday participation and teaching civic skills, and closed with a direct call to vote from host Matt Barnes.
Speakers at a Columbus Metropolitan Club forum on civic engagement urged everyday participation, stronger civic education and civility as antidotes to polarization, and one speaker closed the evening by urging all present to vote.
“Disagreeing, but never being disagreeable,” Dr. Frederick Birtley, president and CEO of COSI and interim CEO of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, said in describing why civility matters. Birtley invoked Sen. John…
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