Jordan Laird

My first clue this is a scam? We don’t have a DMV in Ohio. We have a BMV.

Haslams pitch new NWSL facility on site of Columbus city park dispatch.com/story/news/loc… via @LairdWrites

Go Fort Worth reporters! Don’t listen to their nonsense and vote guild. ❤️😊 Supporting you from Columbus, Ohio!

City Hall reporter Jordan Laird ‘s headline “Columbus activists want to change ‘weird’ district voting system” is a terribly ill-suited definition of our current city council election system. After reading the article, the Press Release and the group’s website, I found no quote of anyone or the group describing the current city council election system as “weird”. Therefore, it must be assumed that Ms. Laird is describing the district voting as “weird.” Ms. Laird, (like so many others) still doesn’t comprehend that the current city council election system is “unrepresentative” and “authoritarian.”

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City Hall reporter Jordan Laird ‘s headline “Columbus activists want to change ‘weird’ district voting system” is a terribly ill-suited definition of our current city council election system. After reading the article, the Press Release and the group’s website, I found no quote of anyone or the group describing the current city council election system as “weird”. Therefore, it must be assumed that Ms. Laird is describing the district voting as “weird.” Ms. Laird, (like so many others) still doesn’t comprehend that the current city council election system is “unrepresentative” and “authoritarian.”

Columbus activists want to change 'weird' district voting system dispatch.com/story/news/pol…

Columbus settles after probe finds bias in police stop of Black man Dept Public Safety told council the officers were disciplined so I asked police about it this morning. The discipline was verbal counseling. dispatch.com/story/news/loc…

Wish me luck getting off my unplowed residential street to make it to the mayor’s press conference on snow removal! ❄️

A solidarity message from the Record-Courier News Guild to our Newark siblings in the @dispatchguild : Small shop. Small staff. Small salary. We at USA TODAY Co.'s smallest newspapers know that story all too well.

Drone photos by Doral Chenoweth @doralchenoweth of a Columbus apartment building’s retention pond that has claimed 11 lives. dispatch.com/story/news/loc…

Did you know @dispatchguild has two photojournalists on staff who are also awesome drone photographers? Linked below are 2 stories where @atomicphoto and @doralchenoweth’s drone photos added depth my words couldn’t. Support professional journalism! Support #dispatchnewsguild

Drone photos by Adam Cairns, @atomicphoto, of Hoover Reservoir dispatch.com/story/news/loc…

EXTRA! EXTRA! The Columbus Dispatch is unionizing! cwalocals.org/columbusdispat…

@vkoganpolisci 👋I reported how city is spending voter OK’d bonds (includes supporting rehab of 1,700 units). I encourage you to submit your view to opinion section for more to see! City is also trying to streamline construction approvals w/ Zone In but that’s not what this story is about.

5) LA teaches us everything we need to know. Local govts spent literally BILLIONS $ on new affordable units -- and housing got more expensive. Then made construction cheaper, faster, and thousands of new units are being built without any public $. x.com/vkoganpolisci/…

This @LairdWrites piece contributes to misunderstanding about housing affordability. dispatch.com/story/news/loc… 🧵on what it gets wrong. 1) Main $ issue is (and always has been) maintenance of EXISTING subsidized units, not new construction. Bond does little to address this.

Where are the affordable apartments past Columbus levies supported? I mapped it. It’s important because voters just OK’d $500M more in housing bonds. dispatch.com/story/news/loc…

Jesse Vogel lost the Columbus District 7 city council race by 1,600 votes. But he actually won in the district he was vying to represent by nearly 4,500 votes. From @LairdWrites and I (link below)

This comes a week after Hardin and city council self-introduced and passed $25k for food and challenged the community to respond. So Ginther one-upped Hardin and then didn’t invite Hardin to the announcement or mention council in the press release.

Bit of inside baseball: Ginther announced today $700k to deal with SNAP fallout. Even though council will have to vote on it, Council Pres Hardin was not invited to press conference, had to send his own statement. What does this say about Ginther and Hardin’s relationship rn?

SNAP benefits must be paid, judge says in ruling siding with Columbus, others dispatch.com/story/news/pol…

What does Downtown Columbus have in common with rural Highland County? Soon, a Congressman.