Thursday, September 28 2017

Happy Thursday. Let's get after it.

Ohio State has put its neck out with a real game changer for lower income students. The university has become the first public school in America to cover all tuition for Pell Grant eligible students. This is heartening news that hopefully other Ohio colleges will feel able to follow. Navigator full story: OSU Will Now Cover The Entire Tuition Of Any Student Eligible For The Ohio Pell Grant [Miller]

Thursday Weather 🌡71 - The heat wave breaks. Sunny, and will get all the way down to the upper 40's tonight. ☀️

Navigator Originals ✏️House Hunting? Here’s What A $300,000 Budget Buys You, From Downtown To The Suburbs [Wiley]These are list price, so it's possible you could snag one for even less (although in this market ... maybe not.) Chelsea hits up all kinds of locations to show you how far your dollar stretches in different areas of the 614.8 Things Columbus Can Do To Be A Better City For Tomorrow [Miller]Zoey has some suggestions on things Columbus could do to take it to the next level. I particularly agree with the need for more recognizable landmarks, especially more public art. How New State Legislation Plans To Ban Abortions For Unborn Children With Down Syndrome [Miller]It seems as if the main result of this legislation will be less prenatal screening.

Coming Up 📆🍔 9/25-30: Burger and Beer Week❄️ 9/28: Curling lessons with Columbus Curling Club🎭 9/29,10/1: The Turn Of The Screw🍻 9/29-30: Festival For Good🎸 9/29: Zoso - the Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience👾 9/30: GDEX Gaming Convention🎭 9/30: John Cleese🍁 9/30: Fall Harvest Jamboree at Smith Farm🎃 9/30: Pumpkinpalooza🎸 9/30: Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band🎸 9/30: Glass Animals🐱 9/30: Hello Kitty Cafe Truck⚽️ 9/30: Columbus Crew vs. DC United☕️ 10/1: Columbus Coffee Fest

Around Town 🏘A woman named Amanda Warner recently co-founded a non profit organization called Better Plate. It provides cooking classes from another country for $30, but the twist is the classes aren't taught by chefs. Instead they are taught by recently settled refugees who are adjusting to life in central Ohio WOSU calls it "dumpling diplomacy". [WOSU/Honig]Columbus Underground has a look at all the rooftop patios that have recently opened as well as rooftop patios that will be opening soon. So glad this is becoming a thing in Columbus. [CU/Evans]An ancient earthwork, probably 2000 years old, was recently discovered in Blacklick Woods Metro Park. The small mound was discovered by David Lamp, a retired archaeologist from Lancaster who spotted the mound from an aerial photo taken in 1954. He thinks he has spotted "a couple dozen" more using the same method. [Dispatch/Ferenchik]

Longread 🏦Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.ProPublica: How the Bankruptcy System Is Failing Black Americans

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