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Local Politics: City Council votes today on plans to turn McCoy Park into an NWSL training facility

After spending years working with neighbors and promising improvements to benefit disabled residents, elected officials are prepared to give away a 28-acre park in the poorest corner of the city for the use of billionaire investors.

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Mourn the dead but hold space for the living

The work of harm reduction is only sustainable when you take time to notice those places where the light breaches the dark.

On Development: Developing better health care and hospitals

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.

Local Politics: Proposed trade partnership with Israel draws criticism 

A bill to create an Ohio-Israel trade partnership is under review in the State Senate. Reactions in the city have been mixed at best.

‘I am not going to stand before God and say, well, I chickened out’: Reflections on building caring coalitions

More than three years after the City of Columbus bulldozed Camp Shameless, one of the founders of the encampment offers their perspective on the housing crisis and the people working at the grassroots to give aid to those routinely left behind.

The problem with the CDC prohibiting ‘never use alone’

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly told recipients of overdose prevention funding that they may no longer be allowed to promote the message that has become one of the pillars of harm reduction.

On Development: Of salad greens and sensible growth

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.

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.

Local Politics: The fallout of serving ICE(d) coffee

A local coffee chain has been under fire for saying it would not refuse to serve ICE agents. But the people who work there say that’s not the full story.

A window and counter at a syringe services program with a sign on the right that markets available services, like “rigs,” “wound” care, “fentanyl tests,” “Naloxone,” “Boofing,” “Hormone replacement,” and “Nicotine replacement.” Behind the counter is a staff person wearing a blue surgical mask and typing on a keyboard while looking at the client across the counter, who has long dark hair and a blue shirt. The counter is covered in colorful stickers.
Ohio’s Recovery: The past, present, and future of the overdose crisis

Fewer people are dying from overdose, but the policies and the social determinants of health did not vanish.