Looking for any nice courses about half way between Columbus and Detroit. Toledo would be kind of stretching it but doesn’t seem like there’s too much ~30-40 min south of Toledo.

Bought some weed in Michigan and got pulled over in Ohio. They took the weed but I got a letter to appear in court for a misdemeanor charge. Seeing if anyone has any lawyer suggestions. Thanks.

On July 27, the Department of Homeland Security ended Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, Syria and Yemen.

Temporary Protected Status allowed hundreds of thousands of Haitians, Syrians and Yemeni people to live and work legally in the U.S. while their home countries experienced political violence and turmoil.

With the change in legal status, locals in Springfield have noticed a heightened Immigration and Customs Enforcement presence and arrests in the community in recent weeks. Local law enforcement agencies are deciding what level of cooperation they want to have with them.

WYSO went directly to Ohio sheriff’s offices and police departments seeking more information on how the agencies plan to handle — or assist — in the increased ICE activity. Here's what we learned.

Dayton, Ohio

A senseless tragedy caused entirely by hate and ignorance.

The family has said they want this story shared so people see the consequences of the dehumanizing treatment of this administration.

Well done, Officer!

Straight into the garbage can. Fuck off Jon.

My electric bill has an $85.22 transmission charge, a $97.72 distribution charge, and a $13.50 customer charge—apparently the privilege of merely existing as an AEP customer.

The actual electricity from my supplier?

$165.79.

So I’m paying $196.44 before we even get to the electricity itself. I’m paying more to have the electricity transmitted, distributed, and an account maintained than I am for the actual electricity.

And somewhere along the way, I have to admit that younger me was a goddamn fool for believing that a sufficiently capitalist system would naturally sort this shit out.

Because there is a fundamental problem with applying ordinary free-market logic to things people cannot realistically choose not to have.

We built American society around electricity. We built it around running water. We built our cities and suburbs around vehicles and transportation. Most Americans cannot simply decide, “Electricity has gotten rather expensive; I believe I shall stop purchasing it.” Nor can most people walk out their front door and choose among six competing sets of electrical wires running down the street.

You need electricity to live in a modern home. You need transportation to get to work because your employer isn't conveniently located next door and you don't live in the company fucking village.

That's not a normal competitive market.

And when I look at this electric bill, suddenly I understand perfectly why people start looking at solar panels, batteries, generators, and anything else that gives them some independence from the system.

Because paying more for the infrastructure that delivers my electricity than for the electricity itself feels fucking absurd.

And AEP? Spare me the excuses when the power goes out.

This isn't some undercapitalized little rural co-op operating out of a pole barn. This is an enormous utility company with enormous resources operating infrastructure that millions of people absolutely depend upon.

If you're going to collect billions of dollars from customers for transmission, distribution, infrastructure, riders, fees, and everything else attached to the bill, then I expect something in return.

I expect the electrical grid to be extraordinarily safe, extraordinarily reliable, properly maintained, resilient, and restored with extraordinary speed when it fails.

That's the bargain.

You don't get monopoly-like control over essential infrastructure, collect enormous amounts of money from a captive customer base, and then behave as though extended outages are simply an unfortunate act of God for which nobody could possibly have prepared.

And I'm not even going to start on UnitedHealthcare, because that's another rant entirely.

But the underlying problem is the same.

At some point we have to recognize that there are certain things at the foundation of modern human existence—electricity, water, healthcare, transportation infrastructure—where “the market will sort it out” isn't an adequate public policy.

Capitalism works extraordinarily well when customers can meaningfully say no.

When they can't, you'd better have competition, strong regulation, public accountability, or some combination of all three.

Otherwise, we haven't created a free market.

We've just created a tollbooth in front of something people need to live.

ELBOWS UP IN NOVEMBER.

Canada is supposed to be our friend!

American flag on one end and a Canadian flag on the other, on the corner outside the Haslam house in Bratenahl tonight, while Vivek Ramaswamy and Rob McColley raised money inside. Tickets started at $1,000 a head. Event chairs were asked to bring $100,000.

Canada is Ohio's biggest foreign trade partner. Roughly 18 billion dollars of what this state makes goes north every year, and a couple hundred thousand Ohio jobs ride on it.

Not a word about it from inside that house. Their party spent this year picking a fight with the one neighbor Ohio can least afford to lose. Tariffs, taunts about the 51st state, and now an executive order renaming Lake Ontario. Canada's next round of retaliation lands September 8th, in the middle of this campaign.

Canadians noticed. They've been cancelling trips, pulling American products off their shelves, and asking why the country that stood with them for 200 years suddenly treats them like a mark.

Neither campaign for governor has said much of anything about it. Ohio has more at stake in this than almost any state in the country.

Elbows up is what Canadians say when somebody starts shoving. Seemed like the right thing to bring to the corner.

Elbows up in November.

Background on tonight's event, including the $600 million Browns stadium grant McColley's chamber pushed through out of Ohio's unclaimed funds, and the Haslam Sports Group executive who negotiated it and has since given the Ramaswamy ticket $43,231 with his wife:

https://tiffinohio.net/posts/haslams-host-ramaswamy-fundraiser-browns-stadium-deal/

In a sit-down interview with 22-year-old evangelist podcaster Bryce Crawford, Vance said that he’s “OK” if his work on earth brings about a biblical doomsday event.

“I think there are things about the world that make feel like not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us,” Vance added.

Should I tell him he's working for or sucking the antichrists dick?

I hope this is a proper post for this sub.
A Husted supporter came to my front door earlier today as I was going out to get the mail. He didn’t get to say too much before I told him I wouldn’t vote for Husted or any other republican. He said aren’t you conservative, I have you as conservative on my list. I told him No, I’m way too smart for that. He said we’ll just have to agree to disagree. I said nope, can’t do that regarding the Epstein files. He mumbled something. I said to him, “They r*ped children, and that’s not a deal breaker for you, you should think about that.” He got in his car and left.

The biggest threat to Ohio's fall elections isn't even local -- he's in Pennsylvania. Meet billionaire Jeff Yass, this generation's equivalent of the ultra-conservative ideologue and GOP campaign-financing Koch Brothers -- but even worse by several orders of magnitude. He's pro-school voucher, pro-data center, pro-Zionist, and anti-progressive, and has already given millions to Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign to run slanderous attack ads targeting Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, and plans to fund even more. 

Billionaires like Yass represent everything that is wrong with our politics today, and he is only possible because of the notorious Citizens United decision by SCOTUS. 

In any case, Ohioans need to send him and other out-of-state billionaires a message: We decide our future, not you. Take your billions back home, asshole, and STFU.

Police say the head of Fox Run Center for Children and Adolescents drove nearly 200 miles to meet with someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/09/01/teen-residential-treatment-center-abuse-ohio

A federal judge has refused to dismiss the whistleblower claim against Ohio’s Republican nominee for governor, ruling the former Strive executive alleged enough to keep Ramaswamy personally in the case.

The new trains will be start to be in use summer of 2027.