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Columbus City Council member Lourdes Barroso de Padilla warns that Friday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling has implications beyond birthright citizenship. The court's decision removed lower court universal injunctions as a roadblock for President Donald Trump's administration to enforce executive orders.

Columbus announced its next phase for the Zone-In plan, which seeks to modernize and update its zoning code and land-use policy to encourage development. This next set of parcels include more than 40% of the city, mainly in commercial and industrial areas.

Columbus City Council rezoned 160 parcels along Route 161 in Northland near the Worthington border. Most were designated as "community activity centers."

The permanent commission will advise Columbus City Council and the mayor's office on policies, programming and outreach, and also monitor local and federal legislation that would affect LGBTQ+ citizens in the city.

The Sutphen union dispute has engulfed the company since October. Since then, workers have been working without a contract as negotiations have come to a halt.

Council members approved the $2.5 million ladder truck purchase after rejecting it narrowly last week. Sutphen, a Dublin-based company, is in a dispute with its union workers.

Columbus Water and Power knows of more than 24,000 lead service lines still in the ground. The city is working to replace these pipes and also take inventory of private properties that have lead pipes to get those replaced too.

The 5-to-4 vote was split with council members Rob Dorans, Lourdes Barroso de Padilla, Melissa Green, Otto Beatty III and Nancy Day-Achauer voting against the purchase. Council President Shannon Hardin voted for the purchase alongside council members Emmanuel Remy, Christopher Wyche and Nick Bankston.

Columbus City Council candidate Tiara Ross took a more traditional approach to yard signs. Her lead rival Jesse Vogel chose not to invest campaign cash into the traditional campaign tool. Kate Curry-Da-Souza, who held far less campaign funds than Ross or Vogel, used recycled signs that were placed illegally in the right-of-way around the city.

Unofficial results from the Franklin County Board of Elections show Jesse Vogel won a majority of the precincts that make up the District 7 seat. The results also show a clear geographical line of where Vogel and Tiara Ross got support that aligns with the city's history of racial segregation.