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...
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05 July 2022
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...
30 June 2022
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...
27 June 2022
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...
24 June 2022
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...
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...
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