Local Columbus News and Events
UPTOWN COLUMBUS — UNDER THREAT Teen takeovers, stretched police, and a City Council searching for answers By Robert Haven | 706Reports.com May 27, 2026 SERIES PART 2 OF 3: THE RISE, THE THREAT, AND THE WARNING It took forty years…
UPTOWN COLUMBUS — ORIGIN STORY How Columbus reinvented its downtown — and decided to call it Uptown By Robert Haven | 706Reports.com May 2026 SERIES PART 1 OF 3: THE RISE, THE THREAT, AND THE WARNING There was a time…
Part 3: Race, Gentrification, and Who a TAD Really Serves A plain-English guide for Columbus, Georgia residents The Question People Are Actually Asking When people ask whether there is a racial component to Columbus’s TAD system, they are asking something…
Part 5: South Commons, The Battery, and Capital Taking the Easy Road A plain-English guide for Columbus, Georgia residents 📰 This Is Happening Right Now On May 12, 2026 — just days before this article was written — Columbus City…
Part 4: The Chilling Effect — How Much Community Protection Is Too Much? A plain-English guide for Columbus, Georgia residents The Central Tension Part 3 of this series laid out the equity problems a TAD can create — the risk…
A plain-English guide for Columbus, Georgia residents Part 1: What Is a Tax Allocation District — and How Does It Work? Welcome to TAD for Dummies, an easy to understand, six part series designed to educate readers about how things…
Part 2: How TAD Amounts Are Determined — and Why Some Are Much Bigger Than Others A plain-English guide for Columbus, Georgia residents Quick Recap from Part 1 Part 1 introduced the basic idea of how a TAD generates money:…
Columbus has been without a permanent city manager since the May 2025 termination of Isaiah Hugley. With the search now resuming, a look at what the position actually controls — and how the charter shapes who can fill it.
Columbus Water Works' 2025 Water Quality Report documents PFOA concentrations in finished tap water as high as 33.9 ppt — more than eight times the federal limit — while the utility highlights its 120-year record of zero drinking water violations.
New 2026 data shows Columbus ranks above the state average for both violent and property crime — but a sharp north/south split, and a five-year decline, complicate the picture.
