Amelia Plair
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- Sep 17, 2026
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Our View: Budget and new position are signs of financial progress (opens the original)
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The budget passed by the Columbus City Council didn’t satisfy the city’s wish list. Municipal budgets rarely do. But this budget does indicate that the city’s finances are in better health. The roughly $29 million budget included money for pay raises for almost all of its employees, as well as almost $250,000 in additional raises in the police department. It also included funding pay off a pair of TIF debts ahead of schedule and complete the Terry Brown Amphitheater. All of these are good indica
Butter Together: Kathleen Buckley’s chocolate chip cookies (opens the original)
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Sure, it sounds like no big deal to you, but for a woman who is always hot, it was a Major Event. (Not to be confused with a Major Award. I am, sadly, still not in possession of a leg lamp.) What brought me to this action? Cookies, of course. But let me start at the beginning. From the time I was in third grade until I graduated from high school, I took piano lessons from Kathleen Buckley. I thought there was no one in the world more glamorous than she was. A former beauty queen, she wore red li
Butter Together: A drop in the bucket (opens the original)
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I have a love/hate relationship with canned chicken noodle soup. (My apologies if you were not expecting such a controversial statement here on the food page.) For many years, I just didn’t buy it. Many brands of chicken noodle soup – especially name brands – contain soy. Julia was allergic to soy through much of her childhood, and we avoid having her allergens in the house. So my “sick bucket,” the bin I kept locked and loaded in the pantry in case of illness, included the requisite Sprite and
Butter Together: Let’s hear it for 2020 (opens the original)
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Have you ever wanted to have a little taste of 2020 here in 2026? I mean, we have. There was something sort of lovely about having fewer obligations outside the house. We ate breakfasts together – pancakes, biscuits, eggs, bacon – usually on the front porch. We created a lawn bowling game using Clear American bottles refilled with plain water. (I’ve already forgotten what we used for a ball.) I stopped bothering to match my socks. (I know. I’ve often been called a rebel.) But the thing we don’t
Butter Together: The salad that ain’t (opens the original)
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Certain flavors just seem to go together. Not really. It doesn’t sound like it should work. And yet, somehow – kind of like french fries and Frosties – it does. A little sweet, a little salty, this strawberry pretzel salad is a pretty perfect treat, in my opinion. And then there’s the fact that someone, somewhere, named it a salad. It’s definitely not a salad, y’all. Or maybe it is a salad, but only in the same way that the mixture of Granny Smith apples, Cool Whip and Snickers is a salad. (Do y
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