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Articles by Harvey J. Graff in 2022

Busting Myths - The plague city: Daily life in Columbus, Ohio

17 December 2022
Busting Myths: Columbus’ home grown illegal landlords in a destroyed historic district

11 December 2022
Busting Myths - Columbus City Council muddies, no--defaces art in public

08 December 2022
Busting Myths - Columbus’ anachronistic, private interest-dominated “area commissions” and “neighborhood organizations” must go

03 December 2022
Busting Myths - Columbus meet another “real” city, nearby, smaller, but….: Pittsburgh

30 November 2022
University bragging rights: OSU whimpers but doesn’t bite or swallow

27 November 2022
Busting Myths: Andy Ginther as Columbus, Ohio’s very own shabby 21st century imitation of New York City’s 1860-70s Boss Tweed

19 November 2022
Busting Myths - The City that breaks its laws has a police force that refuses to enforce the city’s laws: The Columbus Way

16 November 2022
Busting Myths - The City that breaks its laws has a police force that refuses to enforce the city’s laws: The Columbus Way

13 November 2022
Busting Myths - How universities fail their students: The president may be “born to be a Buckeye,” but the students are not

10 November 2022
I call on the Columbus Dispatch, aka Dishpan or Dishrag, to do the city a public service and close up shop

05 November 2022
Abandoned by my elected and unelected officials (unless I pay to play): The Columbus Way

02 November 2022
Abandoned by my elected and unelected officials (unless I pay to play): The Columbus Way

30 October 2022
Busting Myths -The OSU Way: Slogans over Truth and Honesty in Graduation Rates and Student Well-Being

27 October 2022
The enterprise of scientific misconduct: Malpractice at Ohio State University

26 October 2022
Why won’t Columbus, Ohio, grow up?

22 October 2022
The City of Columbus, Ohio and The Ohio State University: Two peas in a pod, one bigger than the other, relatively speaking, but so much the same

14 October 2022
The City of Columbus, Ohio and The Ohio State University: Two peas in a pod, one bigger than the other, relatively speaking, but so much the same

07 October 2022
Busting Myths -- Columbus, meet a “real” city: Toronto

01 October 2022
Growing up was always hard to do. It’s getting harder, and universities are doing little to help

26 September 2022
Busting Myths: Why I remain in Columbus despite Columbus. . . .

16 September 2022
Newspaper Opinion Essay (Rev’d 8/19/22): Searching for Literacy

05 September 2022
Busting Myths -- The United States’ worst managed large public university? Ohio State’s 5½ “D’s”: Disorganization, dysfunction, disengagement, depression, dishonesty, and undisciplined

31 August 2022
Busting Myths - The United States’ worst managed large public university? Ohio State’s 5½ “D’s”: Disorganization, dysfunction, disengagement, depression, dishonesty, and undisciplined

28 August 2022
Busting Myths - Columbus continues as franchise and fast-food chain leader: Columbus Classical Academies

24 August 2022
Busting Myths – You can’t sue City Hall, can you? But we should educate the public and use the ballot box: That’s the American Way, if not the Columbus Way

21 August 2022
Frederic Bertley, Salesperson, Meet Science and English Expression

17 August 2022
Busting Myths: Still searching for Downtown: “Ideas considered for Downtown plan”

14 August 2022
Busting Myths: Recreating universities for the 21st century without repeating the errors and myths of the 20th century

07 August 2022
Busting Myths – Mr. Mayor and City Council: May I introduce you to the city of Columbus? Beyond the Short North and the Scioto River Bank, there is a diverse complicated city

31 July 2022
Busting Myths – The rights to read and write and to organize: Local roots of democracy and our historical moment

24 July 2022
Busting Myths: Is Columbus the corruption capital of a corrupt state? Mismanagement, no management, and corruption in the 2020s

17 July 2022
Busting Myths: My ongoing struggles for responsibility from the City of Columbus

12 July 2022
Busting Myths: Remaking the City of Columbus for the 21st or is it for the 20th century?

05 July 2022
Busting Myths: The Columbus Way versus the rights of Columbus residents

30 June 2022
Busting Myths: The Columbus Way versus the rights of Columbus residents

27 June 2022
Busting Myths: The Columbus Way versus the rights of Columbus residents

24 June 2022
Busting Myths – The Columbus Way versus the rights of Columbus residents

21 June 2022
Busting Myths: An open letter to Kenny McDonald, new head of the “Columbus Partnership”

16 June 2022
Franklinton, 1797-2022 and Columbus’ Contradictions, Part 2

09 June 2022
Franklinton, 1797-2022 and Columbus’ Contradictions Part 1

05 June 2022
Ohio is 2022’s most successful voter suppression campaign: Anti-democracy in action

24 May 2022
My short life as a “civic leader” in the directionless maze called the CITY of Columbus: Part Two

14 May 2022
My short life as a “civic leader” in the directionless maze called the CITY of Columbus: Part One

11 May 2022
America First: An Excavation of Trumpism and the Trump Agenda

07 May 2022
How Columbus, Ohio State University, and major developers destroyed a historic neighborhood—A continuing saga

02 May 2022
How Columbus, Ohio State University, and major developers destroyed a historic neighborhood

29 April 2022
How Columbus, Ohio State University, and major developers destroyed a historic neighborhood

26 April 2022
Busting Myths: Columbus isn’t Cowtown or Silicon Valley Heartland; it’s the lawless, wild-wild-Midwest

20 April 2022
The right-wing truck convoys arrive in Ohio: The unconstitutionality and inhumanity of book banners

14 April 2022
Busting Myths: Is Columbus really a City?

07 April 2022
Busting Myths – A big question for the month before our (supposed) primary elections: Is Mike DeWine actually a governor?

03 April 2022
Busting Myths: The Ohio Attorney General vs. Science, Ethics, and Law

27 March 2022
Busting Myths: A citizen vs. Louis DeJoy and his crippling of the U.S. Postal Service

24 March 2022
Busting Myths: WOSU, the nation’s worst NPR affiliate? The challenge of criticizing a self-parody of a “news and information” station

20 March 2022
Busting Myths: Ohio State University versus “campus safety”

13 March 2022
Busting Myths: Columbus’ major "news media" against democratic politics and the public

10 March 2022
The State of Ohio assaults its children: The war on those least able to defend themselves

06 March 2022
Busting Myths: Ohio State falters again, a continuing higher education tragedy

28 February 2022
Busting Myths: Ohio State falters again, a continuing higher education tragedy

28 February 2022
Busting Myths: Shouldn’t Ivy League graduates know better than to remake American history?

24 February 2022
Busting Myths: Shouldn’t Ivy League graduates know better than to remake American history?

24 February 2022
Busting Myths: An Open Letter to the Ohio unDemocratic Party

20 February 2022
Busting Myths: How many “projects” does it take to obstruct a truly American history?

16 February 2022
Busting Myths: The U.S. and Canada - Confronting the past in the present

14 February 2022
The media mangle the Second Big Lie: The nondebate over critical race theory

07 February 2022
Busting Myths: The disappearance of journalistic standards as opinion essays replace the news

30 January 2022
Busting Myths Intel and the Ohio Way - Secrecy, deals, public neglect, myth making, and re-election campaigning

27 January 2022
Busting Myths: The Misrepresentation and Marketing of “Financial Literacy” - The Fallacies and Dangers of FL4ALL

23 January 2022
Busting Myths: The Columbus Dispatch - The decline of a metropolitan daily newspaper

20 January 2022
Busting Myths: Can we resurrect our “founding” faith in the American “People”?

15 January 2022
Busting Myths: Columbus, Ohio, searches to be a city: The myth of the Columbus Way

09 January 2022
Busting Myths: Texas and Florida secede from reality; Ohio imitates

04 January 2022