City leaders call ABC corruption claims ‘baseless’
Bill Gavin was minutes away from having surgery on Tuesday when he got a phone call from a constituent.
“The lady started complaining about streets,” the Ward 6 councilman said. “I said, ‘Ma’am, I can’t talk to you right now … I’m going to get an operation.'”
A Better Columbus founder calls for new city leadership
Leslie Sorrell warned the audience that she gets “embarrassingly emotional talking about good government” when she spoke Tuesday at the Columbus Rotary Club meeting.
“I would be less emotional giving a eulogy,” said the co-founder of A Better Columbus, a nonprofit political action corporation aimed at fundamentally changing the city government.
Nonprofit aims harsh criticism at city
Better or Bitter? Over the past several weeks, a new political action corporation has emerged as an unapologetic critic of city government, targeting both the mayor and the entire city council for mismanagement as well as leveling thinly-veiled accusations of corruption.