Mark Knows It All

My pet peeve is Columbus, Ohio. There is not a time that I visit there that I don’t become aggravated by the excesses I see in a city that hosts our state government, the two of which have joined to drain the rest of the state. It is unbelievable. It is unforgivable. Our lawmakers should be ashamed for allowing this to happen. And it is not just a Democrat v. Republican issue. The money sucking machine draining the state’s wealth to the center has been fueled by both parties for forty years. I suspect it was deliberate, fed by smart Columbus planners who wowed our lawmakers with Columbus perks. On the way down to Columbus last week, the lead story on the local news was that the City of Youngstown refused to take control of the old Paramount Theater which has been closed since the early 1970’s. It is a rat trap. It is a health hazard particularly since there are number of restaurants operating around it. Various reports say it is filled with asbestos. Those ceramic panels on the front c