Bob Fitrakis

He also had a program on WVKO 1580.

He also appeared with Charles Traylor on "The Fitrakis Files" on WSMZ 103.1 FM Columbus, and now regularly hosts "The Other Side Of The News".

Robert Fitrakis (born November 29, 1955) is an American lawyer, political author, political candidate, and Professor of Political Science in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at Columbus State Community College.

He was a Ford Foundation Fellow to the Michigan State legislature in 1975 and studied at the University of Sarajevo on scholarship in 1978.

The 1985 mob-style murder carried out against Arthur L. Shapiro, who was representing Leslie Wexner’s company “The Limited” at the time of his murder.

Shapiro was set to testify before a grand jury about tax evasion and his involvement with questionable tax shelters.

"The Shapiro Murder File" also won an Honorable Mention nationally from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

From 1990-2000, Fitrakis co-hosted a regular public access news/public affairs program, "From the Democratic Left," offering analysis of political events and social issues, locally and nationally.

This program chronicled the activism of the progressive community in Central Ohio, from Gulf War demonstrations to anti-Klan protests.

Fitrakis is a Political Science Professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at Columbus State Community College, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1991.

Bob Fitrakis is the Executive Director of the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism (CICJ) and has published the Columbus Free Press since 1992 and acted as editor since 1993.

He wrote monthly investigative news articles, including articles on Klan activities in Ohio.

He both participated in, and wrote about a controversial plan by Columbus' NAACP to "out" Klan leaders in Ohio.

Fitrakis produced an interactive educational CD ROM on hate groups in Ohio and published the journal article with Dr. Judy Gentry "High Tech Hate" for the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges.

He has been the editor of the Columbus Free Press since 1993 and wrote extensively about the 2004 U.S. presidential election and related 2004 U.S. election voting controversies.

Fitrakis is a Green Party activist.

Fitrakis also wrote The Idea of Democratic Socialism in America and the Decline of the Socialist Party (Garland Publishers 1993).

Fitrakis is a frequent speaker on political, labor and social policy issues at national academic and political conferences.

In March 1994 he served as an international observer for the national elections in El Salvador and in 1993, he visited Reynosa and Matamoros, Mexico as part of a human rights delegation to investigate conditions in the maquiladoras.

Fitrakis was a columnist and investigative reporter for Columbus Alive from 1996 to 2002, a local alternative weekly newspaper, and was awarded First Place for Best Coverage of Government for the article "The V Files" investigative report on Sen. George Voinovich and Second Place for "Spook Air" about Southern Air Transport's ties to the CIA and drug-running at Rickenbacker Air Base in central Ohio from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists (OSPJ).

"Spook Air" was also awarded a Second Place in Investigative Reporting from the Press Club of Cleveland.

Since June 1996, he has co-hosted, and now hosts a weekly public affairs call-in talk radio program, "Fight Back!"

first on WSMZ 103.1 FM Columbus now on the internet via Talktainmentradio.com.

In 1998, he won an investigative reporting award from the Central Ohio Chapter of the SPJ for his article "Striking it rich in the bail bond industry."

He has also written for other national and local publications.

In 1999, the OSPJ awarded him Second Place in two categories: Best Coverage of Government for his coverage of corruption in the bail bond industry "Money for Nothing" and Best Investigative Reporting for "The Shapiro Murder File" linking several of Columbus' prominent citizens to organized crime.

Fitrakis earned a J.D. from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2002.

His Ph.D is in Political Science from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where his doctoral advisor was Philip Abbot.

He has also taught political theory at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and political science at Wayne State University and Oakland Community College.

Undergraduate: Grand Valley State Colleges, B.A. History and Political Science and Redford Union High School.

He is the author of six Fitrakis Files books: Spooks, Nukes & Nazis, Free Byrd & Other Cries for Justice, A Schoolhouse Divided, The Brothers Voinovich & the Ohiogate Scandal, Star Wars, Weather Mods and Full Spectrum Dominance and Cops, Coverups and Corruption.

Compilations of his writings at the Free Press and Columbus Alive.

Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman co-wrote ''Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election?

Essential Documents, and What Happened in Ohio?

A documentary record of theft and fraud in the 2004 election (New Press 2006) (with Steve Rosenfeld) and How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008, George W. Bush vs. The Superpower of Peace in 2003 and Imprison George W. Bush: Commentary on Why the President Must Be Indicted'' in 2004-2005.

Fitrakis was an Election Protection attorney on November 2, 2004, in Franklin County, Ohio.

He called the first public hearings on voter suppression and election irregularities and was one of four attorneys to file a challenge to Ohio's presidential elections results: Moss v. Bush and Moss v. Moyer.

Robert served as the co-chair to Ohio Green Party State Central Committee, and was a member of The Green Party Shadow Cabinet.

Fitrakis served as the Ohio Chancellor and was voted the National Vice Chancellor in 2005 of the International Association of Educators for World Peace, an NGO in over 100 nations working to promote human rights and world peace.

His most recent collaboration with Harvey Wasserman is, The Strip & Flip Selection Of 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft.