Gov. Palin Takes Out NHL Net Minder Manny Legace

Retrieved at 0053 on 25 October 2008 from http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=ap-blues-legacehurt&prov=ap&type=lgns

Okay, generally I will try to stay away from sports and comedy, but as a Columbus Blue Jackets fan and someone who appreciates physical humour...

St. Louis Blues net-minder Manny Legace somehow managed to get taken out by a carpet placed on the ice for the Alaskan Governor.  There was a comical video floating around the net a while back where a young lady botched the National Anthem, so she left the ice to get a cue card with the words and as she returned to the carpet (similar to Manny's incident) the thing slid out from under her and *ker-splat* she went....

Hopefully Mr. Legace will recover quickly and be back to playing in no time flat, but in the meantime, what's the harm in blaming Ms. Palin for ruining a hockey match?

Goalie injured after tripping on Palin carpet - NHL - Yahoo! Sports

Corruption in the Cleveland ODOT office....

The Columbus Dispatch : State officials took cash and sex from vendors, report finds

Retrieved 17 October 2008 at 0118 from:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/16/odot.html?sid=101

My favourite line in the article is "The misdeeds took place from 2000-2007"...  MISDEEDS???  Seriously?  Someone at the Dispatch needs a Thesaurus.  This is appalling - my only hope is that when I enter the world of Public Administration is that I do not have to deal with such a corrupt culture and have to be the marked individual who has to clean it up and cut large portions of staff and have to rebuild an entire department.

Best wishes to ODOT in getting this mess straightened out...

Funding for the 3C rail corridor

This Week News : Agency awarded passenger rail grant

Retrieved 01 October 2008 at 1605 from:
http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/marysville/stories/2008/09/26/Rail.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=104

This is great news!  The Ohio Rail Development Commission (ORDC - See link under my "links I like") was awarded $62,500 from the Federal Rail Administration to study the feasibility of reviving passenger rail to more portions of Ohio.  According to the article the Cleveland - Columbus - Cincinnati would service nearly 60% of the State's population - many of whom have not had passenger rail service since 1971. 

I for one, applaud the efforts of Gov. Strickland and the ORDC to bring passenger rail back to Ohio.  I have traveled by rail, and depending on the destination, prefer it.  Some locations I went to include Toronto, Ontario, NYC, and Philadelphia, however - to go to NYC & Philly I had to drive to Pittsburg to catch a train and to go to Canada I drove up to Niagara Falls, NY...  Having to drive hours just to get to a train and leaving your vehicle in some scarry looking lot in a city far from home is not the way to attract passengers.  This step to bringing rail closer to more citizens is a much more effective way of increasing ridership!

Hopefully this study will bear out evidence that people will utilize rail options if they are made available to us.