When will the lights be turned on? For the past several months I have noted a large number of areas where the streetlights are not lit along stretches of West Broad Street and areas along North High Street. Of course, the City bureaucrats offer as an excuse the recent storms that came through central Ohio, but the lights in these areas have been dark for much longer than just recently.

Then again, I should ask when will the arches in the Short North be lit? Expensive, ornamental iron arches, installed with much fanfare nearly three years ago, still remain unlit. Perhaps I should suggest the City of Columbus run extension-cords from the White Castle and Papa John’s to light the arches in front of their areas.

No one should be surprised that the City of Columbus has so much difficulty mastering the technicalities of electricity. After all, Columbus is the city whose Mayor’s house burned down twice because of electrical malfunctions; not to mention a city who would rather pay a million dollars to the parents of a little boy electrocuted on the Town Street Bridge than fix the bridge.

Apparently the Electromaniac is still at large.