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On Development: Time travel shows how CCS history repeats itself

The following is a sample column Brian Williams provided with his application to become a Columbus Dispatch Metro columnist in 1997. This is the first time it has seen the light of day.

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On Development: Columbus must work together with school district

Rather than trying to grow with the city and attract more families to district schools, CCS appears to be selling off its assets – like a failing business shrinking into oblivion.

Overdose surges are a function of prohibition

The illicit drug market is in constant flux. People who use drugs are at the mercy of these changes – and any sudden shift in what is readily available can take lives.

On Development: Don’t zone out – get engaged instead

The most important voices needed on Zone In are those of people who will be living in Columbus for the next 40 years rather than those who have been in their homes for the past 40 years.

Pro-Palestine movement carries on amid Ohio State repression

Most of the young people holding the line during a campus protest last week were half the size of the officers, who continued to advance on a movement they were beating into prominence.

The student view from Ohio State’s pro-Palestine protest crackdown

Nearly 40 people were arrested last week after six hours of prayers, chants and calls for OSU to acknowledge the genocide and divest from Israel. Here's an account from two of the students arrested.

‘We want to capture people as humans’: Crackdown’s vital voice

Why you need to listen to the podcast highlighting urgent stories of the overdose crisis.

On Development: Bold new zoning code would make dinosaur extinct

The new code would repair damage from the 1950s zoning code, which was more about accommodating the automobile than building a vibrant city.

Local Politics: Sam Randazzo’s death opens void in HB6 scandal

The former PUCO chairman died by suicide on Tuesday, leaving behind questions about who else he could have implicated and how much of that information might have died along with him.

Twenty One Pilots as a symptom of suburbia

The Columbus band’s sound is an honest reflection of suburbs such as New Albany – a seemingly non-threatening landscape that makes the corrosive elements more frightening.