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^ You ain't kiddin' about Kasich's horde in Pickaway. Most everyone there bought into him hook line and sinker without even being able to explain why. And the last thing they want to see is something good happen to Cincinnati. Yet, go 20 miles south to Chillicothe and things are completely different -- Strickland country.

Overall the weather along the Ohio River is pretty mellow. Once you get up in the flatlands, the wind blows in whatever it feels like; often very quickly.

I've often wondered if I've missed out on jobs from having no credit rating. The fact that I don't borrow money really shouldn't exclude me from employment. It should show restraint and frugality, two qualities that are highly desirable in a candidate. I pay all my bills on time and my previous and current landlords all recommend me. It makes sense for a highly negative credit report to bounce someone, but this practice may not work in all situations.

I think Kasich's a clown, but it seems pretty clear to me that the ad in question was paid for by Americans For Prosperity, not the Governor's office. Thanks for clarifying that, I've seen several of those on here, but I saw another one that had a picture of Kasich saying "Join me... etc." that I can't seem to call up again to investigate further.

Nice That video's almost three years old now, and things certainly haven't gotten any better out there.

Jesus Sherman, you didn't walk on that floor in pic 11, did you? I didn't know that the kudzu plague had traveled that far northwest.

Also, I don't recall the Strickland administration spending a bunch of money on Google ads trying to get us to agree with him when he wasn't campaigning. This guy is so corporate it hurts. While it's true that government should be run like a business, it should be run like a family business that intends to benefit the family as a whole. Instead, he's trying to run it like a sociopathic American publicly-traded company -- spending a bunch on advertising so that people don't notice the product sucks.

I like the ads for Ford SuperDuty trucks in the oil threads.

Churches (especially ones of the mega- and alternative types) have learned to use the same sales techniques that the door-to-door, telemarketing, pyramid and other high-pressure sales industries use to get you to do what they want.

A popular term for the concept is "flight to liquidity".

My dad used to go there a lot. My folks used to take me there from time to time until I ditched church completely in the early '90s. For awhile it was closer to Pickerington and was called World Life until they moved it out to Gender Rd. Can't say I much of a fan of these megachurches. The Southeast Side seems to generate more and more of them every year. Don't even think about driving down Refugee between 33 and Hamilton on a Sunday; they shut down traffic to let all those places empty out.

By the way, you have to go by Minneapolisus now.

Hillard-Rome pretty much did need widened. Crummy traffic patterns and congestion are what killed Brice Road and started another round of sprawl out to 256. Today, there might not be the kind of capital available to pick up the sprawl party and move it again further out, but if Hillard-Rome failed due to traffic, I don't picture them moving the Sam's Club inward to Wilson Rd. or Grandview Yard, and a bunch of big box stores shutting down on the fringe probably isn't the tipping point that will convince people to revitalize Franklinton or move to Wienland Park.

You mean Jeff Ruby's Waterfront? Either that, or the Soviets did pay Jack a lot of money to silence Oswald -- enough to start a restaurant empire. :-D

Columbus is actually like that too, with the liquor stores outside of the supermarkets. The first time I went to the Hyde Park Kroger or the St. Bernard IGA and saw liquor available right there in the store I thought, "I didn't know this was legal in Ohio". It's the same way with pony kegs -- in Columbus you can only get them from the beer distributor.

In this case, it's "One of These Days"

The strategic oil reserve should be saved for the use of the military or during disasters.

Nah, the vid is from the old-fashioned cable Weather Channel.

What's the point in watching the Weather Channel? Waiting for them to play Pink Floyd during the Local Forecast and having your stoner friends go nuts when they do.

up $0.10 to $3.59 across the street

I was in grad school at Marshall when Facebook hit (2004 or so?). There were all these articles in the school paper about it and I would see people in the library using it all the time. Taking the "it's only for college kids" thing seriously, I never got on it until 2009 when MySpace got really boring. I was thinking, "Where'd everybody go?"

A relative ton of development is going between Downtown, Campus, Grandview and other older parts of town. In fact, this article states ] Columbus leads the nation in new construction jobs. Almost none of the development is going on in the suburbs/exurbs. They're done. Meanwhile, you can't drive on 315 or through the split without dodging dump trucks. There's all kinds of gravel and rocks built up between the travel lanes and the barricades from it flying out of the dump trucks. Columbus is starting to look like Berlin. I'm not kidding.

Retro Video Game stores eh? Where are these places? I never play video games but I do get nostalgic for classics like PacMan, Super Mario and Mortal Kombat. I go to Buybacks on occasion and I've been to Video Games Express. Are you talking about something different? Never heard about the Retro Video Game stores... Wellllllll, since you asked, just come on up to Super Game Team at 1724 Northwest Blvd. between 11-8 Monday-Saturday and find out! Mario, Pac-Man and Mortal Kombat will all be there.

I guess that they're not good-looking or else you wouldn't care.

I've seen several studies quoted that show estate taxes have minimal effect on people's choice of residence. For example: http://ideas.repec.org/p/ecm/nawm04/111.html I would say that weather and the lack of income tax is just as big a reason for wealthy old people to move to Florida. Considering we don't have the weather they do, or the tourism that comes with that weather to support the state allowing us to eliminate the income tax, wealthy old people are going to move to Florida regardless of the estate tax. They often end up moving back before they die for support from family and legal counsel/estate planners. I can think of several people that moved back after hurricanes as well.