August 2012
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“My heart was sort of in my throat, wondering what he was going to say next.”
– Flying back to Ohio from the Republican National Convention, Dispatch public affairs editor Darrel Rowland asked traveling Republicans what they thought about Clint Eastwood’s debate with an empty chair that represented President Obama.
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Columbus library system will phase out daily fines →
Library officials want books in patrons’ hands, and they’re willing to drop daily late fines to keep them there.
The Columbus Metropolitan Library board voted yesterday to do away with daily fines in favor of a single, one-time penalty for each overdue book, movie or music CD.
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“Some people long to see the Northern Lights. Some dream of seeing Paris. Ohio...”
– Don’t miss Dispatch columnist Rob Oller’s Ohio State football preview for the 2012-2013 season
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'Free money' at Scioto Downs causes major traffic... →
If you think you can manage to get in, the offer of $25 in free play is being extended to midnight to allow those waiting in traffic to reach the casino…
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“I need some more tongue!”
– Three educators involved in a love triangle at a Columbus middle school are in hot water after some of their sexually explicit notes — handwritten index cards couriered between classrooms by students — were revealed at a Columbus school board meeting last night. “You are looking...
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Instead of arresting a drunk driver, cops can drop... →
Both the Delaware County sheriff’s office and the State Highway Patrol leave decisions about whether to arrest an intoxicated person up to individual officers.
It’s also up to them to decide whether that person will be safe if he doesn’t end up in jail. On July 28, officers may have made the wrong decision when they picked up an apparently intoxicated Uriel Juarez Popoca — who had been...
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Ohio Secretary of State orders uniform voting... →
Ohio voters will have the same chance to show up and cast an early ballot this fall regardless of whether they live in a Democratic- or Republican-leaning county, under a directive that Secretary of State Jon Husted issued yesterday.
His decision came in response to a growing controversy over disparities in early in-person voting hours across Ohio.
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“Stay curious about people and the world around you. Remember: YOLO.”
– E. Gordon Gee, to 1,600 of the Ohio State University summer-quarter graduates
When the Ohio State president uses “YOLO” in a speech, does that mean the phrase has really taken off, or that it’s dead?
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Columbus teen collapses after 4-day Xbox binge →
Tyler Rigsby found his breaking point. After a four-day long video game binge, the 15-year-old North Side resident collapsed. Rigsby was holed up in his room playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare game on his Xbox, breaking only to sleep for a few hours here and there or to guzzle Mountain Dew and grab snacks…
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