[Toespi]

Downtown Columbus was a thriving and rejuvenated area after eight years of a Republican mayor. Coleman was elected and it has gone so far down hill that it will take years to come back.

[Rockingham]

I am watching the same thing happen now in several Florida cities.

The early warning signs seem to be: expanding budgets and municipal employment; showpiece civic projects; a rise in identity and grievance politics; and the injection of PC considerations into city government and police work.

Within a few years: budgets are out of balance and taxes raise; the big civic projects turn out to be over budget money-losers; identity and grievance politics hijacks civic life and demoralize the municipal workforce; and the crime rate runs up, with the true extent often masked by deliberate under-reporting.

I know nothing of Columbus. But is that the scenario being played out?

[macaddict]

right rocky, ever heard this one, "yeah, we're getting a light rail system". We're the BIGGEST US city with no real public transit. Coleman is intent on keeping us flyover land.