I looked for the article you mentioned and found the following recent articles in the Dispatch:

Compost Clubhouse inspires Columbus-area kids to reconsider food waste (dispatch.com)

Composting is a great way to help add organic matter to soil (dispatch.com)

Coffee ground, literally | Ohio State Sustainability Institute (osu.edu) None of them say anything about coffee grounds being bad for the soil, nor do any of Mike Hogan’s articles that I remember reading in the Dispatch (which I always enjoy and know that he’s quite knowledgeable).

I read several recent articles from universities and they all agree that coffee grounds improve the structure of soil, and add nitrogen and other nutrients. If you’d like to read what the experts say, you might enjoy Using Coffee Grounds in the Garden | Cooperative Extension | The University of Arizona, Coffee grounds cover a lot of ground - AgriLife Today (tamu.edu), and Coffee Grounds and Composting | OSU Extension Service (oregonstate.edu). Anyway, keep adding coffee grounds to your garden. I’m sure your plants will appreciate it.

Thank you for the information concerning the title and date of the article. It helped me locate it. It was interesting but said most of the same information you will find in the articles I suggested you might like to read. She skewed her information to talk about the little amount of nitrogen in coffee grounds but didn’t mention much about the other nutrients and she wrote about the possible negative effects of coffee grounds. I realize there is little nitrogen and it’s slowly released but am guessing it’s not the only fertilizer you use. The only additional comment she made was concerning caffeine. I found a few research articles about the effect of caffeine on plants. While they all seem to conclude excessive amounts of caffeine may stunt the growth of some plants depending upon how it is applied and that more research needs to be done, they seem to say that the small amounts we put in our gardens can be helpful. If you’d like to read more information, I would suggest fs207e.pdf (wsu.edu) which goes into information about how to safely use coffee grounds in your garden and suggests not putting them on seeds which may inhibit some germination. Also, Fernando-Diaz.pdf (southmountaincc.edu) and UCSB Science Line
talk about scientific experiments that have been done to determine the effects of caffeine on plants. I think after you read a couple of the articles I’ve listed you’ll want to make your own decision.