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The Columbus Metropolitan Club

Each week, the Columbus Metropolitan Club hosts a forum discussion on topics that range that gamut, from business to policy to social services and more. The discussions might feature a diverse panel of experts, or it could be an interview with a high-level community or business leader, with our customary audience Q&A at the end. Whether it's something that impacts the local community or has global implications, listeners walk away educated, informed, and engaged. (All forums are recorded live in Columbus, Ohio.)

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...