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...
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21 June 2022
Part One (of Four)
Unlike those of any other U.S. city of its size, and certainly its slogan-dominated, boosterish aspirations, residents of Columbus have few legal rights and fewer ethical democratic rights. I write...
16 June 2022
Dear Kenny McDonald:
I write to you in your capacity as the new CEO of the self-proclaimed since 2002, Columbus Partnership.
Columbus Dispatch business reporter Mark Williams belatedly announced your ascension in...
12 June 2022
Unknown to many residents of Columbus is the curious one-sided relationship between a small revenue-generating, non-academic element of the prestigious Harvard Business School, and certain elements of Columbus’ aspirational self-...
09 June 2022
Early twenty-first century’s continuing contradictions
With Franklinton’s increasing geographic and structural isolation came population loss: from 36,000 to 26,500 in 1950, 15,000 in 2000, and 8,132 in 2017. ...
05 June 2022
Early Franklinton and Columbus’ forgotten beginnings
Dismissed, when even noticed by City government and city residents alike, Columbus’ historical, political, economic, social, and cultural origins lay in Franklinton. The...
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