Let’s just say I’m a bit disappointed with you, Ohio.  After the past two elections I thought maybe you were getting the hang of things.  Vote down Casinos.  Vote in a Governor that isn’t obviously crooked.  Ban Smoking.  You even did a decent job not being racist in the presidential elections last year.  But what happened?  I thought we had an understanding here. Remember 2007?  We said no casinos, right? And here you go changing your constitution to let in casinos and you don’t even get a decent tax rate?!?  Did they really take you in by saying they’d give you 34,000 jobs? Do you actually believe for a minute that those are lasting permanent jobs instead of fluffy pink fairy-like jobs that soon go flitting off to the next state in need of casinos?  Well I guess the respite is over, I’ll go back to a cold ambivalence towards you, Ohio.  Please don’t take it personally, you just don’t know what’s good for you.

Looked at Ohio’s light and high-speed rail plans.  The first phase is a Cincinatti ➝ Dayton ➝ Columbus ➝ Cleveland light rail. This makes sense to me. However connecting two different ways to Ft. Wayne Indiana makes no sense when you have the whole of south-east Ohio unconnected to the system by anything but “bus feeder lines”.  I think it makes little sense to forego connecting the state’s poorest regions, further cutting off them off from sources of commerce, tourism, etc. that could help bolster their anemic economies.

Disclaimer: Yes. I live in south-east ohio.