I don't usually do political commentary in my blog. I reserve it for unsuspecting friends and family who make the mistake of listening to the news in my presence. In local news, the big issues are 1. where they'll put the new hospital (our existing hospitals merged) and 2. where they'll put the new high school (see previous comment). Everyone wants the hospital to go town, but no one really believes it will end up there. (One can only hope that it will still be in town somewhere. Being a regional hospital is all very well, but not if it becomes a ten minute drive for even the closest city residents.) Combining the high schools is probably a good idea, but it was entirely ridiculous to contemplate such a change before we'd clearly passed operating levies. And the classic excuse for doing such a thing is supposed to be ending the geographic divide (which isn't really created or perpetuated by the high schools), yet they pretty much have to put the new building where one of the old ones currently stands. It came out in the past week that there is a significant price difference - the south side location, site of the original city high school, requires buying and clearing a lot of property and would involve a large increase in price and preparation time. I don't know how they'll ever justify chosing a site that is millions more expensive - at lowest estimed prices. In state news, you probably know that Ohio is having all kinds of issues concerning voting irregularities. My (totally unfounded) feeling is that it's probably more a matter of incompentency and sloppiness than fraud or bias, but I do think they need to take a long, hard look at what went wrong. What if we'd had a state-wide race come down to 42 votes, like the governor's race in Washington? We saw Alexander last night. I'll tackle it in my next post. It needs lots of space. ~Erin, 1:19 PM Comments: Post a Comment
