Not in Columbus

Experience Columbus is embarking upon a unique way to deliver the Columbus message to the rest of the world. It’s uniqueness revolves around what isn’t in Columbus, so rather than boast about everything that’s here, Experience Columbus is taking a bit of a cheeky approach and making a bold announcement about what isn’t here.
To [...]

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Ganther’s Place Garden Tour

There’s still time today to enjoy the Fourth Annual Ganther’s Place Garden Tour. Come see how the residents of this central-city neighborhood are making a difference.
Access to this event is available at no cost.
566 Reinhard Avenue, 43206
From 1p-6p Sunday July 27th.
UPDATE:
Ganther’s Place Garden Tour now has a Flickr tag of GanthersPlace08.  Use this tag [...]

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Tax Abatements and the Downtown Condo Market

Because of property tax abatements, residential condo units in Downtown Columbus are likely to appreciate in value less than residential units elsewhere in the region.  This might provoke worried headlines in a few years, but this lower appreciation doesn’t imply that Downtown property owners have made a bad investment.
 
These property tax breaks can be substantial.  [...]

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Flash Mob Food (non)Drive

The Columbus Social Media Cafe and your local bloggers invite you to join us for the first ever Flash Mob Food (non)Drive for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank on Monday July 28th. Bring non-perishable food items to donate and have fun doing it.
Here’s how it works:
Everyone participating will board the COTA route #3 either at Broad [...]

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Social Media, Buying Power and Corporate Change

Just one of the great things about San Francisco is that its a city where you can expect the unexpected. There’s so much free thought in San Francisco that even your accountant gets giddy. So when San Francisco blogger Brent Schulkin came up with the idea to solicit local businesses to bid against [...]

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COTA Neighborhood Guide (beta?)

COTA Neighborhood Guides don’t exist yet, but thanks to Google Maps, I’ve created what could be the model for a more useful way of demonstrating how public transportation serves a specific geographic area.
The map I’ve created highlights the COTA transit routes serving German/Merion Village (command + click to open the image to in a [...]

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10 – 20 – 40

On the days when I’m cruising around Columbus running errands, meeting friends, catching a film at the Wexner Center or just commuting to and from work its not uncommon for me to ride on any number of busses throughout the day.  I’d met up with a friend one evening and knowing that I arrived by [...]

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Motion Sensitive

And even as protest strikes rippled across Spain and edged into France, Europeans had taken conservation measures that in the long haul leave them better-prepared than Americans to deal with the energy crunch ahead.
Commentary from the July 14th issue of The Christian Science Monitor.

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Clothesline-Protection Provisions

From today’s Columbus Dispatch….
Only Colorado, Florida and Utah have clothesline-protection provisions, said Alexander Lee, founder of Project Laundry List, which promotes clotheslines and laws to protect them on the Web at laundrylist.org
Since we’ve been on the topic of fascism this past week…
Does it really have to come down to legislating the options one has to [...]

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Forward

The manuscript for my book Hakaniemi went off to the publisher yesterday. According to the delivery confirmation receipt, it has arrived at its destination.
As the writing of my book neared completion I asked a friend of mine if she’d consider writing the “forward” and when she agreed, I was delighted. She was there [...]

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