Dec 14, 2022
You can thank Ohio farmers for the beginnings of one of the state’s business powerhouses and one of Columbus’s top philanthropic supporters.
Nationwide Insurance, one of the county’s largest property and casualty insurance companies, was created in 1926 by the Ohio Farm Bureau as the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile...
Dec 7, 2022
CMC unpacks the new Downtown Columbus Strategic Plan with distinguished panel. The City's new plan outlines a vision for a downtown Columbus that’s greener, more liveable, and friendlier to pedestrians. It also calls for less surface parking and more trees. Read more about the plan here.
The panelists are:
Michael B....
Nov 30, 2022
This week, we unpack recent events in high-profile criminal cases, in Ohio and nationally, and explain how criminal investigations really work. How do FBI agents obtain search warrants? Does “lawyering up” make you look guilty? How do potential defendants learn they are under investigation?
The speakers...
Nov 14, 2022
Founded in 1871, The Columbus Dispatch remains the only mainstream daily newspaper in Ohio’s capital. Dispatch leaders have witnessed dramatic changes in recent decades to how news in America is gathered, shared, and accessed by readers. We discuss the future of “Ohio’s Greatest Home Newspaper” and journalism...
Nov 9, 2022
The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called states the “laboratories of democracy.” But thanks to gerrymandering and fiercely partisan politics, many Ohioans fear this laboratory is in jeopardy, and the November 2022 elections were run in Ohio with unconstitutional district maps. This CMC forum looks...