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Granny gather up your girlfriends, and head to Hollywood, Casino that is: Ohio needs more gamblers

Taxpayers beware! Encouraging granny to gamble may be the only way that Columbus and Franklin County residents can avoid an unexpected $100 million increase in the cost of the publicly financed Nationwide Arena, according to the Columbus Coalition…
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Nuclear News: USEC Bankruptcy

USEC Inc., the company building the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP) to enrich uranium at Piketon, OH, announced it will file for bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2014. USEC said they are restructuring to pay off $530 million in debts to…
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A splendid time was guaranteed for all

Guess what Joe Peppercorn's 12-hour Beatles tribute at the Bluestone the last Saturday of 2013 took me back to?

My Beatles-loving childhood? Well, of course. But that wasn't the biggest--or best--surprise of the night.

The music? Again, sure--…
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Ben Johnson Quartet

Everything I know about jazz I've learned from watching Treme on HBO. That fact not withstanding, I spent the evening of Wednesday December 18th, 2013 at the Brothers Drake Meadery and Bar absorbing the Ben Johnson Quartet. This experience seemed to…
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