Sapp, Gregg. Dollarapalooza: or the Day Peace Broke out in Columbus. DeKalb, Illinois: Switchgrass Books, 2011. “When the sun rises over Ohio, it casts a the whole nation’s shadow.” “Say what?” “What I’m saying is that you can take the boy out of Ohio…” “But you can’t take Ohio out of the boy. Oh, [...]
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Curry, Timothy Jon, Kent Schwirian, and Rachel A. Woldoff. High Stakes: Big Time Sports and Downtown Redevelopment. Columbus, Ohio; The Ohio State University Press, 2004. One of the recurrent themes spoken by developers and civic officials in Columbus as reported in High Stakes was that getting an NHL team would make the metropolis a Major [...]
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Jacobs, Gregory S. Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools. Columbus, Ohio; Ohio State University Press, 1998. As another school year approaches, I thought I would look at a education-related title. Desegregation (and its aftermath) of Ohio’s large municipalities has not been one of the state’s prouder moments. From the late sixties [...]
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