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 Water Works faces PFAS contamination at nearly 9x the federal safety limit, triggering a $200M filtration overhaul and a $750 million total infrastructure investment by 2031.
Columbus, Georgia hosts its inaugural Porchfest today — a free, walkable live music festival turning historic neighborhood porches into stages, with over 35 acts and an afterparty on the RiverWalk.
Columbus Mayor Skip Henderson presented a $402.5 million budget proposal for fiscal year 2027 at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, a plan that offers raises for employees and retirees while holding the property tax millage rate steady. The proposed budget…
The inaugural Columbus Porchfest brings free live music to the porches of Uptown's historic district this Saturday, May 2, from noon to 6 p.m.
The Georgia Lottery has raised over $28 billion for education, but new scrutiny reveals a stark pattern: the program is largely funded by the state’s poorest residents to provide scholarships that primarily benefit its wealthiest students.
