As I continue my search for Columbus’ history and identity, I regularly rediscover the City’s and the city’s willful lack of the foundational elements for a modern city. I return to its absence of typical city reforms toward...
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My struggles to gain democratic legal rights and respect for residents in the “city” of Columbus continue. The three documents reprinted here below elaborate the themes of my recent essays. To expand the discussion to a larger public, I...
I call for 19th-century urban reforms and an early 20th-century Progressive Era for Columbus, Ohio in 2022.
Columbus clamors for an unimaginable future alternatively as the Columbus Way or Opportunity City. But it has no...
Part Four (of Four)
Residents’ lack of basic rights (cont’d.)
Public safety
The right to public health and a clean environment for healthy living, which I explored in Part Three, is inseparable...
Part Three (of Four)
Residents’ lack of basic rights (cont’d.)
Adequate city services
I can call attention to only a selection of the principal lost or stolen rights. These include the right to...
Part Two (of Four)
In the shadows of democracy (cont’d.)
City Council appointments and elections
The process of filling public offices, especially City Council, is a key element in the reproduction...