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By the way... does anyone remember how many millions of State taxpayer dollars were wasted on the last "big thing" for the "Big Farm" (Columbus) called AMERIFLORA?? Wow THAT was a wise use of precious tax money, wasn't it? The Franklin Conservatory was restored. That was a good thing. But the rest? Wasted. Down the toilet. How about the faux Santa Maria "tall ship" on the un-navigable Scioto River? What's next Columbus? Why not create a grade change or two... add some hills, valleys, mountains. Columbus is SO terrain challenged. Every map of Columbus is a relief map. Why not "SKI COLUMBUS"... add a 6,000-foot mountain near Polaris! Add snow-making machinery! WHA-ZAH it's "Vail in the Corn Field"! You know what else Columbus could do with State funds? How about a lake? Hell... what about and Ocean!!! Yee hah! "SURF COLUMBUS"! Just dig out an adjacent county or two and create sandy beaches! Why not? Anything but REAL economic development for the poor people who don't live in "(fill-in-the-blank) VIllage". No. that would be too much like the rest of Ohio.

HEY SILVERFISH... Columbus in the summer for the Olympics? Get real. Hotlanta was a lesson to us all, I would have hoped. Here's a thought... disperse that State government to some of the suffering cities elsewhere in the state and stop ladeling all the economic development eggs into Franklin County. Have some shame, for God's sake. The Olympics? When Ohio is in a near depression? How about taking the billions of dollars and using it for jobs in Youngstown, Toledo, Dayton, and Landcaster. (Those are other cities in Ohio. Yes Columbus... Ohio has other cities.)