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Former Assistant Energy Secretary owns ‘Crack Palace’ at center of Belmont County cocaine raid
Multiple well-connected sources say Robert "Bob" Gentile, 82, was on the scene when the Belmont County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction Unit pinched three overly stimulated freaks at his home.
The Belmont County Sheriff’s Office and...
False Flags & Fear Mongering: The Strategy Group's Manufactured Monopoly
The Elephant in the Room returns to expose one of The Strategy Group's lucrative rackets.
Columbus-based freelancer Elephant in the Room returns today to shed light on The Strategy Group, a once-mighty “Christian” Republican hobgoblin cons...
Oh hell yes: J.D. Vance's downfall is here
All that's left to do is laugh at what's to come.
It probably all seemed so simple to Vice President Boss Baby in January 2025.
🚨🚨🚨 Columbus Partnership to terminate CEO Jason Hall 🚨🚨🚨
Soon-to-be-former Columbus Partnership CEO Jason Hall
Central Ohio’s Republican shadow government, the Columbus Partnership, will fire CEO Jason Hall in the coming days, multiple well-connected sources tell The Rooster.
Ohio’s corrupt pol...
Rooster in Review: Anger in the base
In June 2025, The Rooster sounded the alarm about Sherrod Brown meddling in the Ohio Democratic Party chairperson’s race to appoint a loyalist, former Portage County Commissioner Kathleen Clyde, to the position.
Brown had threatened Big La...
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