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Opinion: To meet climate goals, Columbus leaders must address data centers
With the City Council presenting its draft proposal for municipal data center policy this week, residents must seize the moment to demand meaningful safeguards that will actually minimize the climate impacts of data centers.
Notes on a cross-country Amtrak
With Ohio considering expanding train access, our columnist reports on a summer spent riding the rails.
On Development: More local voices needed
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.
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.
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: To meet climate goals, Columbus leaders must address data centers
With the City Council presenting its draft proposal for municipal data center policy this week, residents must seize the moment to demand meaningful safeguards that will actually minimize the climate impacts of data centers.
Notes on a cross-country Amtrak
With Ohio considering expanding train access, our columnist reports on a summer spent riding the rails.
On Development: More local voices needed
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.
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.
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.