Columbus’s shamed CEO Sean Lane – who failed spectacularly with his shadowy and shady AI software which promised to cut administrative costs for healthcare providers – has somehow once again convinced venture capitalists his AI hocus-pocus can save companies millions in labor costs.

Strange indeed, is how Lane incorporated his new company “GhostDog Inc.” on the same day his previous AI company announced it was going belly-up and didn’t want to be sentient after all, this according to the local BizJournal.

Lane was the much-hyped leader behind Olive AI which closed for good after it bamboozled hospitals and venture capitalists it could automate routine administrative tasks, such as uncovering whether a patient’s insurance had lapsed. But as former Olive AI employees so stunningly exposed on Reddit, Lane’s AI may not have even been true AI.

America’s Trail Networks—An Exploration of the Scope and Impact of the Nation’s Developing Trail Networks

On Tuesday, Dec. 12 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, media are invited to a panel discussion hosted by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) at WOSU’s Ross Community Studio to reveal new data about the trail networks that are developing across the country, and the effect that infrastructure will and is having on America

The panel will feature RTC, Latino Outdoors, and the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) for a discussion about the urgency to connect this walking, biking and active transportation infrastructure and what it will take to get there, spotlighting Columbus as a specific example of progress and potential.

What:         America’s Trail Networks—An Exploration of the Scope and Impact of the Nation’s Developing Trail Networks

When:        Dec. 12, 1 p.m. Eastern

Where:       WOSU’s Ross Community Studio, 1800 N. Pearl St., Columbus, Ohio (See it on a map.)

Who:          Ryan Chao, President, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy  

This is dedicated to “Senator” J.D. Vance who now ignorantly assaults his alma mater on the basis of an ignorant, ideologically-driven Wall Street Journal Opinion Essay. Despite his OSU BA and Yale law degrees, Vance writes to OSU’s incoming, not yet in office president Top Gun Carter, not to the acting president in office. Of course, all this is only for show…. Never for tell….

The contradictions are  incalculable. The right-wing—not conversative—National Association of Scholars joins forces with their ideological partners in the shameless Opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal to attack The Ohio State University baselessly. While this will thrill Sen. Jerry Cirino when he finds a literate person to read it to him, and amuse the Board of Trustees, it will rattle the ghost of Salmon P. Chase whose memory is deeply insulted by its association with OSU’s new anti-diversity center.