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Taylor Dorrell @taylordorrell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by Instagram story sales, posting their best vintage online at dawn looking for a quick $15.

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Taylor Dorrell @taylordorrell.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Who gets to shape a city's schools? My latest @matternews.bsky.social column examines the Columbus school board race where grassroots progressives are challenging the CEO-funded Democratic Party establishment. It’s a story playing out in blue cities nationwide. matternews.org/voices/when-...

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When CEOs pick the candidates: Inside the Columbus Board of Education race – Matter News

This year's school board election could be viewed as a fight between insiders and insurgents, centralized power and community power, corporate influence and neighborhood voices.

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Taylor Dorrell @taylordorrell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

And people say Columbus doesn’t have any landmarks.

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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Melissa Thompkins said her family has watched Milo-Grogan change over the four generations it has called the neighborhood home. She and other commissioners said high-priced, tax-abated homes directly raises costs for everyone else – especially those living on fixed incomes. New from Taylor Dorrell.

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‘You don’t have to try and con us’: Area Commission meeting reveals tensions underpinning Columbus’ growing housing crisis – Matter News

Owing to its affordable homes and proximity to downtown, Milo-Grogan has become the latest local frontier for developers. On Second Avenue, modest houses that cost under $200k sit next to sleek new ha...

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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Markets were opened up to competition in hopes of creating affordability and efficiency. Consumers have been met instead with monopolies and rising costs. New from @taylordorrell.bsky.social matternews.org/community/th...

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The roots of the looming AEP rate hike can be traced back decades – Matter News

Markets were opened up to competition in hopes of creating affordability and efficiency. Consumers have been met instead with monopolies and rising costs.

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Taylor Dorrell @taylordorrell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My latest essay for Trigger takes on the political debates surrounding Alex Garland’s film Civil War: fomu.be/trigger/arti...

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Neutrality is defeat: Civil War and the responsibility of artists in…

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Taylor Dorrell @taylordorrell.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My latest weekly Substack (please subscribe) is about the time that composer Aaron Copland crossed paths with Communist farmers in Minnesota: open.substack.com/pub/taylordo...

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How Communist Farmers in Minnesota Helped Radicalize Composer Aaron Copland

A Composer’s Journey from the Concert Halls of NYC to Communist Picnics in the Heart of the Great Depression.

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Matter News @matternews.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

When the new Anduril facility was announced, the company’s chief strategy officer, Chris Brose, said that “America’s next arsenal of democracy will be made in Ohio.” New from @taylordorrell.bsky.social. matternews.org/voices/cold-...

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Cold War City: AI weapons factory from Anduril planned for Columbus – Matter News

The future of the Midwest is increasingly being dictated by right-wing venture capitalists from Silicon Valley, including Anduril founder Palmer Luckey.

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Andy Downing @andydowning33.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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Cold War City: AI weapons factory from Anduril planned for Columbus – Matter News

The future of the Midwest is increasingly being dictated by right-wing venture capitalists from Silicon Valley, including Anduril founder Palmer Luckey.

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