According to budget documents, basic aid for primary and secondary education would be cut 12.1 percent next year, and another 7.6 percent in 2013. The cuts largely stem from a loss of federal stimulus money, which accounted for $457 million this year, and another $736 million lost by the state accelerating the phase-out of reimbursements for the eliminated taxes on inventory, equipment and utilities. Columbus schools Superintendent Gene Harris said the district would lose $27.5 million in the governor’s budget, hurting the district’s ability to follow through on promises made during the last levy campaign. Kasich [also] proposes a major expansion of school choice: doubling the number of available EdChoice scholarships to 28,000 that allow more students in poor-performing districts to attend private schools. He also would lift the caps on the number of privately run, publicly funded charter schools. Primary funding for higher education would be cut 13.1 percent next year, followed by a small increase in 2013.

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Budget pain spread around, and down | The Columbus Dispatch

Because the way to build a better state (and future) is to slash education funding.

No one in Columbus drinks tea at a party (by ProgressOhio)

No one in Columbus drinks tea at a party (by ProgressOhio)

I’d like to give a special “thank you” to my lady, who got me this pretty awesome Columbus Neighborhoods map print (from These Are Things) for Valentine’s Day.
She’s a keeper.

I’d like to give a special “thank you” to my lady, who got me this pretty awesome Columbus Neighborhoods map print (from These Are Things) for Valentine’s Day.

She’s a keeper.

The Kyle Sowashes  |  ”(It’s Not) Easy to be Hard”

Filmed at Dirty Frank’s Hot Dog Palace.

Just passing this along for Columbus tumblrs.
Also, their posted link should actually go to womenhaveoptions.org (not .com).

Just passing this along for Columbus tumblrs.

Also, their posted link should actually go to womenhaveoptions.org (not .com).

If, for some reason, you want to find all the worst people in Columbus all in one place, I think this is where they’ll be.

If, for some reason, you want to find all the worst people in Columbus all in one place, I think this is where they’ll be.

For those not from Columbus, at Dirty Frank’s Hot Dog Palace, The Glenn Beck is “just a plain old wiener.”
Oh, and today we’re inaugurating a new Republican governor who used to be a Wall Street banker.

For those not from Columbus, at Dirty Frank’s Hot Dog Palace, The Glenn Beck is “just a plain old wiener.”

Oh, and today we’re inaugurating a new Republican governor who used to be a Wall Street banker.

Blueprint  |  ”Radio-Inactive”

New video from Columbus’ own Blueprint.

Via Rhymesayers:

Critically acclaimed mc/producer and Soul Position frontman Blueprint, returns with his highly anticipated sophomore solo release Adventures in Counter-Culture. Experimenting with synths, keyboards, and drum machines, Adventures in Counter-Culture touches on Blueprint’s cynicism with the world, his disdain for pop culture, the state of politics and an apathetic, uninspired society. The album encompasses every facet of music Blueprint knows. It blurs genre lines and connects his hip hop pedigree with his early days in the church choir, to the R&B bands he was a part of in high school, to his new found interest in rock and electronic music.

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