Our policies suggest a willingness to spend any amount to add lanes and bigger (towering!) interchanges for major highways, while transit spending is too often regarded as frivolous.
The ongoing data center construction boom has our columnist asking himself some questions.
The city needs to find ways to support economic development and build more housing without so readily awarding tax breaks, and that means bringing in new perspectives.
It’s very easy for owners to pay low taxes on decaying properties while waiting for somebody else to begin a resurgence. A proposed move to a land tax would make it harder for these squatters to wait.
Economic strategies in Ohio are more focused on helping existing corporations get stronger than on actually developing something new.
Despite the hospital construction projects all over the state, residents across most of Ohio are no closer to health care – and many are even further removed from hospitals.
Many developers and sellers confuse demand for a certain type of housing and a willingness to buy. There are hundreds of thousands of people in central Ohio who prefer older houses and apartments.
The billions of dollars of new road improvements cited in MORPC’s analysis 26 years ago have already been spent, and now we’re still looking at the same challenges with more people and more roads.
There is a savings associated with closing schools. But there also is a cost.
Traffic violence is not a term in common usage. But it’s a whole lot more accurate than “accidents” – a benign misnomer for the carnage that can take place on our streets and highways.
