Local Politics: The small-time data center resistance
A petition to ban data centers statewide won’t be going to the ballot this year. So organizers are working locally instead.
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Opinion: Maybe it’s time for participatory government, Columbus-style.
Tired of politicians doing things that you disagree with? The answer might be more citizen involvement.
The Worker’s View: The Parable Coffee debacle comes full circle with Palomino
Are pop-ups the future of Columbus’ service industry? Former Parable employees think so.
‘It was a holy and sacred experience to speak for them’
Stacy Schwab had submitted a victim impact statement weeks earlier, but she wasn’t prepared to speak when she entered the courtroom with others who testified about the harms done by Purdue Pharma.
On Development: Progressive tax policy in Ohio?!? Maybe
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.
Local Politics: City funding can’t meet the scale of the growing homelessness crisis
Why Columbus’ $13 million investment in services for the unhoused is unlikely to make a difference.
Opinion: The politics of abandonment and the future of district representation in Columbus
At-large voting has produced a culture of auto-pilot governance by electeds who acquiesce to the demands of the donor class instead of their constituents, the most recent example of which is the handover of McCoy Park to the Haslam Sports Group.
The Worker’s View: Upper Arlington stages anti-union ‘educational campaign’
The fleet workers voted in March to join Teamsters Local 284 in spite of the actions taken by the city.
Opinion: Poetic Justice: A love letter to Columbus
A little over a week ago, a police officer stood in front of cameras and lied. He lied loudly into a microphone, attempting to plant evidence on my character by fabricating the cost of my suit and the brand of my shoes, all to set up a rehearsed line calling me a 'poverty pimp.'
Victim impact: Listening to testimony at work on a Tuesday in April
At one point, a woman thanked the judge for letting her speak. The judge replied, ‘It’s the least I could do.’ And the woman replied, ‘You’re right. It is the least you could do.’
Opinion: Maybe it’s time for participatory government, Columbus-style.
Tired of politicians doing things that you disagree with? The answer might be more citizen involvement.
The Worker’s View: The Parable Coffee debacle comes full circle with Palomino
Are pop-ups the future of Columbus’ service industry? Former Parable employees think so.
‘It was a holy and sacred experience to speak for them’
Stacy Schwab had submitted a victim impact statement weeks earlier, but she wasn’t prepared to speak when she entered the courtroom with others who testified about the harms done by Purdue Pharma.
On Development: Progressive tax policy in Ohio?!? Maybe
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.
Local Politics: City funding can’t meet the scale of the growing homelessness crisis
Why Columbus’ $13 million investment in services for the unhoused is unlikely to make a difference.
Opinion: The politics of abandonment and the future of district representation in Columbus
At-large voting has produced a culture of auto-pilot governance by electeds who acquiesce to the demands of the donor class instead of their constituents, the most recent example of which is the handover of McCoy Park to the Haslam Sports Group.
The Worker’s View: Upper Arlington stages anti-union ‘educational campaign’
The fleet workers voted in March to join Teamsters Local 284 in spite of the actions taken by the city.
Opinion: Poetic Justice: A love letter to Columbus
A little over a week ago, a police officer stood in front of cameras and lied. He lied loudly into a microphone, attempting to plant evidence on my character by fabricating the cost of my suit and the brand of my shoes, all to set up a rehearsed line calling me a 'poverty pimp.'
Victim impact: Listening to testimony at work on a Tuesday in April
At one point, a woman thanked the judge for letting her speak. The judge replied, ‘It’s the least I could do.’ And the woman replied, ‘You’re right. It is the least you could do.’