I talked to Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther about his increased opposition to the second Trump administration, and whether he has political aspirations beyond Columbus. www.axios.com/local/columb...

I still see a lot of talk about squishing the invasive spotted lanternflies. It’s a bummer, but we’ve already lost the fight against them. www.axios.com/local/columb...

The UFL team coming to Columbus will play at Historic Crew Stadium, not Lower. com Field as ESPN reported today. #Crew96 www.axios.com/local/columb...

New Columbus Crew DP Wessam Abou Ali is a Palestinian international. It appears that #Crew96 fans will not be permitted to bring the flag of his nation into their stadium. The @nordecke.com asked the Crew to ask MLS for an exception. It’s unclear whether they will. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Columbus will now be asking voters to approve $1.9 billion in capital improvement bonds this November. www.axios.com/local/columb...

I wrote about the tricky Columbus housing market and how a $500 million bond package this November will try to address it. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Visas have officially been reinstated for a dozen international Ohio State students who had them revoked by the Trump administration without warning or explanation. www.axios.com/local/columb...

I wrote about the efforts to create the first Columbus sports bar focused on women’s sports. www.axios.com/local/columb...

The Ohio House is trying to eliminate a dedicated library funding mechanism from the state budget. It would cost Ohio libraries $100 million over the next two years and force the Ohio Library Council to lobby for funding each budget cycle. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Columbus City Schools updated every student’s name to reflect birth certificates, inadvertently outing and deadnaming kids in the process. Asked why, CCS blamed laws that never mention student names in any capacity, then refused to explain or give interviews. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Columbus! 🅿️ Have you experienced parking rate hikes, changes in parking agreements, full lots or anything else weird and notable over the last few weeks/months? I’m looking into it! Hit me up here or at the email in my bio if you have anything to share/leads for me to follow.

To commemorate March Madness, I dug into some different aspects of Ohio’s first two years of legal sports betting. First up: The money, logistics and challenges that led to $330 million in tax revenue so far. www.axios.com/local/columb...

After the latest delay, Intel’s proposed timing is openly in conflict with Ohio’s required timeline for the $600 million the state has already delivered. Neither Intel nor the State have much of an explanation for why or whether that’s OK. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Shakers Public House posted a video Tuesday featuring a man serving 54 years to life for murder. Social media was…not pleased. I called the owner to ask about how and why this happened. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Some more #Crew96 preseason coverage: When new ownership took over, staff found “a skeleton of a club.” The new team started community outreach with pitch installations, but didn’t find it effective. Now they’re refocusing outreach around soccer education. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Did some #Crew96 reporting ahead of the season opener. First: Redevelopment around the stadium originally aimed to have 440 apartment units done by 2023. Instead, they haven’t even broken ground. Here’s an Astor Park status update. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Did you know the country faces a crisis-level shortage of CPAs? Ohio is the first state to take action aimed at easing the path to certification, and others seem ready to follow. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Thurman/Greenlawn/High is one of Columbus’ most annoying intersections. Don’t worry, the current construction there hasn’t changed the city’s plans to fix it. …but it won’t be done until at least 2027. www.axios.com/local/columb...

I wrote about COTA’s plans for Bus Rapid Transit. - Why it’s different than other buses. - Which cities it’s modeled after. - Why we can’t just skip it and go straight to light rail. www.axios.com/local/columb...

📬 Axios Columbus subscribers: Our newsletters are stuck in some traffic this morning, but for now you can read today's on our site: www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Central Ohio organizations that help refugees and other completely legal immigrants are bracing for the loss of millions of dollars that helps those immigrants resettle and stay off the street. www.axios.com/local/columb...

I tracked down some details of Columbus’s massive Anduril project, including: - Requirements, safeguards and economic math behind $450 million in tax breaks. - Where it will actually sit. - How soon they’ll be cranking out drones. www.axios.com/local/columb...

City and nonprofit leaders in Columbus are confused and concerned about whether their federal funding is at risk thanks to yesterday’s Trump administration funding freeze memo. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Can Columbus finally get a James Beard award? www.axios.com/local/columb...

My colleague Alissa broke this story this morning. A few hours later, other media outlets were asking the same questions. This afternoon, the Whitehall special prosecutor assigned to investigate Andrew Ginther announced that there’s “no probable cause” for charges. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Oops! All Haslams. www.axios.com/local/columb...

I’ve been to Fort Rapids and have written about it before (I even went to a wedding reception there!) and the amount of drama around this property still blows my mind. “NFL running back Jamal Lewis bought it for a minute” had to be a throwaway hyperlink in this mess. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Did you know a bunch of recipes from Columbus restaurants are out there ready for you to steal and impress people? www.axios.com/local/columb...

Among a variety of differences in the new Columbus bike/scooter plan: The city will go from spending money on CoGo to making money on Veo. And they say it’ll help meep scooters out of the way. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Ohio’s “bathroom bill” takes great pains to define “biological sex” and various words for bathroom, but doesn’t say a word about enforcement or penalties for non-compliance. That uncertainty is a “double-edged sword” for those worried about the safety of trans kids. www.axios.com/local/columb...

“If we're wrong and we arrest them, then they get to sue the city and we write them checks for thousands and thousands of dollars and their attorneys get paid too.” Everyone wants to arrest the Nazis for being Nazis. But it just isn’t that easy. www.axios.com/local/columb...

We wrote a Hot Chicken Takeover review that got me an email from their corporate PR team within six hours of publishing. www.axios.com/local/columb...

A neo-Nazi in Columbus pepper-sprayed a fellow neo-Nazi accidentally while being detained by police I found this gem while skimming through body cam footage released yesterday You can’t make this stuff up:

Hi Bluesky! Gonna try to up my usage of this platform because its old alternative is pretty damn toxic these days. The Axios daily newsletter is really flexible, and we’re working to make it a useful and interesting resource for Columbus. Hit me up if you have thoughts!