Welcome to Columbus sign
22 October 2022

This essay grows from an informal conversation over coffee with a friend. As I criticized the former mayor, but far more influential chair of the self-appointed and uncontrolled Downtown Development Commission’s unembarrassed promotion...

Harvey J Graff
14 October 2022

Part Two

Failure of internal and external communication

Part and parcel of the foregoing is the lack of effective communications systems and open, integrating, and supporting cultures that modern institutions...

Harvey J Graff
07 October 2022

Part One

The proximity of “Buckeyes” and “America’s Opportunity--for a Few--City” is partly historical accident. Although main campuses of some American state universities originated in their states’ capitals, OSU...

Toronto skyliine
01 October 2022

Should we take up a public collection to send Columbus’ “mayor,” at-large unrepresentative city councilors, and non-expert department heads to visit Toronto? Every Columbus resident and voter suspicious of the “Columbus Way” and “...

Harvey J Graff
26 September 2022

Experts on children, youth, and college students never tire of spouting superficial generalizations about the relative ease or difficulty of growing up over time. They seldom define their terms, specify age ranges, present systematic...

Biden and Mike Dewine
20 September 2022

Homebound Entrepreneurs Against DeWines goes after Republican Governor Mike DeWine for avoiding former President Donald Trump, embracing President Joe Biden

 

To keep the general election season interesting, the anti-...

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