Notes on a cross-country Amtrak
With Ohio considering expanding train access, our columnist reports on a summer spent riding the rails.
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‘The Male Animal’ finds fresh relevance amid university crackdowns
During a February screening at Wexner Center for the Arts, the audience broke into applause both times the film’s main character defied university administrators who were attempting to clamp down on academic freedom.
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‘Walking between the Wexner Medical Center and the Wexner Center for the Arts all the time [is] just morally exhausting,’ said Murray Katkin, who helped organize an early April protest obscuring the Wexner name from the Ohio State arts center.
How Wexner’s desire for a city center led to a more fragmented Columbus
As the central Ohio retail magnate faces a larger public reconciliation owing to his ties with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a look back at how the Wexner name became so synonymous with the city.
Anduril teach-in highlights Ohio State’s long-developed military connections
The fight over the Arsenal-1 plant is a part of a larger struggle for the future of the country but also the soul of one of America’s largest public universities.
How Columbus shaped protest singer Phil Ochs
During his time at Ohio State University, Ochs became somewhat of an authority on the Cuban Revolution and its gunslinging protagonists – in addition to causing a stir in the school’s journalism department and in the bars on campus.
When CEOs pick the candidates: Inside the Columbus Board of Education race
This year's school board election could be viewed as a fight between insiders and insurgents, centralized power and community power, corporate influence and neighborhood voices.
Crypto-militarism comes to Columbus
If and when Palmer Luckey’s Erebor and Anduril open, residents and policymakers will have to ask what kind of future these right-wing capitalist ventures will usher in at a local level
‘You don’t have to try and con us’: Area Commission meeting reveals tensions underpinning Columbus’ growing housing crisis
Owing to its affordable homes and proximity to downtown, Milo-Grogan has become the latest local frontier for developers. On Second Avenue, modest houses that cost under $200k sit next to sleek new half-million-dollar builds, creating a tension that bubbled over in a heated public meeting earlier this month.
The roots of the looming AEP rate hike can be traced back decades
Markets were opened up to competition in hopes of creating affordability and efficiency. Consumers have been met instead with monopolies and rising costs.