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Joe Blundo takes a look at predictions made post-9/11 and after the economic crash of 2008-09. Will post-pandemic follow the same route of being hyperbole?

Welcome to the Egg Hunt Court of Appeals. For those who have no idea what I’m talking about: Every year, I hide 10 imaginary Easter eggs and challenge readers to find them by solving riddles. Then I reveal the locations, and, inevitably, disputes arise. Let’s turn to Riddle 1, which said “Egg 1 is taking a nice nature walk/At a place that attracts avid fans of hard rock,/Over 500 acres, straddling counties,/People still dig its mineral bounties,/Cutting-edge stuff that really excites/With its piercing beauty and what it ignites.” The hard rock in question is flint, found at Flint Ridg...

As usual, the winners of Joe’s Mildly Entertaining Easter Egg hunt proved harder to fool than I expected. A Laotian Buddhist shrine tucked into an East Side neighborhood? They knew it. Two virtually identical statues of an aviator? They located the right one. The 16th annual contest challenged readers to decipher rhyming riddles pointing to the location of imaginary eggs. The winners of the always competitive early-bird prize are Steve Huggins, 54, of Bexley, and his daughter, Betsy, a 22-year-old Ohio State University student. Their 10 correct answers arrived in my email inbox at 12:03 a....

Now in remission, Sari Goldson has started a fundraiser to help cancer patients at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

I speak of the big red arrow at North High Street and Morse Road. “A beacon for the community,” says Paul Da Silva, who celebrates it and other neon masterpieces in photos at columbusneon.blogspot.com and on Instagram. I asked him for his thoughts on the arrow sign after news broke this month that Tee Jaye’s, the restaurant it so emphatically advertises, would close in May after 29 years. (The company will still have seven other Tee Jaye’s restaurants in central Ohio.) Da Silva sees the free-standing sign as a gateway, for both Clintonville and the Morse Road commercial strip.