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Wilmington Weekly is a local podcast focused on Wilmington, Ohio City Council and how local government decisions actually work. Hosted by former Council President, Matt Purkey, the show provides context, explains process, and helps residents better understand what’s happening at city hall and why it matters.
Matt Purkey hosts Wilmington Weekly with Matt Purkey, a government show with 28 episodes published.
Three ordinances are headed to Wilmington City Council’s August 20th public hearing, all carrying emergency language, all tied to the data center project. In this special episode, Matt breaks down what “emergency” actual
Council voted down a previously unanimous data center ordinance, five to one, with no discussion on the floor, right after the longest executive session of the year. The same night, the city quietly added three public he
Thursday’s Wilmington City Council meeting carries the heaviest agenda of the season. Council is set to give final passage to the data center zoning text amendment, the same use category currently being challenged in fed
Council took data centers from a permitted use to a conditional one on the same night a separate rezoning locked one specific property out of ever becoming one. A fire department restructuring got its second presentation
Episode Twenty-Three previews Thursday's Wilmington City Council workshop and regular meeting. The meeting opens with two public hearings: a zoning text amendment touching the data center use category at the center of an
Episode Twenty-Two is the wrap-up from the Wilmington City Council meeting of June 4, 2026. Thursday night's meeting ran less than an hour. The agenda was light. But light meetings in a heavy season carry weight, and thi
Thursday night is one of the lighter agendas of the year, but there is enough context worth understanding before the meeting. The workshop opens at 6:00 with Columbus Street parking. The regular meeting follows at 7:00 w
Episode Twenty is the wrap-up from the Wilmington City Council meeting of May 21, 2026. This episode opens with a disclosure: Matt served ten years on council, knows people involved, and is not neutral about Wilmington.
Episode Nineteen is a preview of the Wilmington City Council meetings scheduled for Thursday, May 21, 2026. This episode covers both the 6:00 PM public workshop and the 7:00 PM regular council meeting. Workshop items inc
Episode Eighteen is the wrap-up from the Wilmington City Council meeting of May 7, 2026. This episode covers the city treasurer's financial overview, a water tower engineering supplement tied to the AWS data center proje
This episode previews the Wilmington City Council meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 7. The meeting includes a 6 p.m. public workshop followed by the regular Council meeting at 7 p.m. In this preview, I walk through the
This week’s Wilmington City Council meeting was shorter than usual, but it still covered a wide range of topics, including long-term fire department planning, routine legislation, and a fast-moving zoning change that rai
In Episode Fifteen of Wilmington Weekly, Matt previews the Wilmington City Council workshop and regular meeting for Thursday, April 16, 2026. This week’s agenda includes a Wilmington Fire Department organizational struct
In Episode Fourteen, Matt wraps up Wilmington City Council’s April 2, 2026 workshop and regular meeting. He covers the swearing-in of Officer McKenna Branham, Ron King’s introduction from the Clinton County Veterans Serv
Matt previews the April 2, 2026 Wilmington City Council meeting, including old business on downtown parking, infrastructure, landfill notes, and subdivision review, along with new business on Union Township fire and EMS
This week’s episode covers both the 6:00 public workshop and the 7:00 regular Wilmington City Council meeting on March 19, 2026. That matters, because if you only watch the regular meeting, you miss most of the explanati
In this Wednesday preview, Matt walks through the Wilmington City Council agenda for Thursday, March 19, 2026. The workshop includes a presentation on downtown flowers, plus legislation review on Curtis Drive reconstruct
In this special episode, Matt takes a closer look at the March 9 Public Works Committee meeting and two issues that could be headed to full council. First, curbside recycling. The city’s own survey showed strong reported
This week’s episode walks through the Wilmington City Council workshop and regular meeting held on March 5, along with a Planning Commission discussion earlier in the week that focused on the growing debate around data c
In this episode of Wilmington Weekly, I preview the Wilmington City Council workshop and regular meeting scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2026. Council will meet at 6:00 pm for a public workshop followed by the 7:00 pm r
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