Tuesday, August 1 2017

Hello Tuesday. It's James.

Madeline travels to Hocking Hills and shows off one of the most unique experiences going in Ohio. Are you ready to play in the dirt?

Navigator full story: The Most Unique Outdoor Experience In the Midwest Is 1 Hour From Columbus

The Rundown:Weather: 86. Mostly sunny.To do: It's Blink-182 day at Express Live. Show is sold out, but if you are up for it there's plenty of tickets on StubHub and on the secondary market. All the details here.

Navigator Originals:Matthew McConaughey Didn’t Break Down In Pataskala, And Neither Did Samuel L. Jackson In SanduskyChelsea takes a look at an old fake news scam making it's way around central Ohio Facebook timelines once again. Preying on people's interest in their hometowns, scam artists put up cheap domains, write fake articles targeting hometown pride, and cash the Adsense checks after the articles go viral.Say Goodbye To Your Pineapple Berry Blue Tea, Starbucks Is Closing All 3 Columbus Teavana LocationsTeavana is closing all central Ohio locations, but Starbucks will continue selling the tea at Starbucks locations.Peace, Love, and Little Donuts Has The Psychedelic Donuts Of Your DreamsMadeline looks at a new donut shop in Worthington, Peace, Love, and Little Donuts. It's a chain out of Pittsburgh, and this is their first central Ohio location. It’s Harry Potter’s Birthday, But We Get The Magical GiftThe Harry Potter concert series is returning to the Columbus Symphony next January, and tickets go on sale later this month.The Spring Cleaners Redevelopment In Italian Village Will Have The Perfect LocationThe Spring Cleaners building in Italian Village will be demolished and replaced with a 3 story mixed development building, with ground floor commercial space, parking, and 27 residential units.Fireball Ride Model At Fair Was Built In 1998, Manufacturer Had Major Safety Update in 2010More info on the Ohio State Fair tragedy continues to slowly trickle out, and Chelsea has all the new developments.

The Tuesday Conversation:87 of 88 counties will have insurers in 2018 after existing insurers have agreed to step in and serve counties that were looking at a scenario with zero health insurance options. Previously, there was a fear that 20 counties would be going without insurance options.  [Cleveland.com/Koff]A Somali immigrant who has been a United States citizen since 2013 is in limbo after a passport renewal request made 19 months ago has been met with nothing. He's now suing the State Department. Typically a passport takes 2-8 weeks for processing. [Dispatch/Rinehart]Some jobs news: state incentives are helping to create 420 new jobs in central Ohio, including an IKEA bedding supplier who will be opening a distribution center in Groveport. [Business First/Ghose]

Longread for your lunch break:Though it’s hard to know exact numbers because no one was counting, during pig-ownership’s peak years, in the early 1820s, some 20,000 hogs roamed the streets of Manhattan, says Catherine McNeur, professor at Portland State University and author of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City. That works out to one hog per every five humans—slightly higher than the ratio of cars owned by Manhattan residents today (pdf).New York's first time gentrifying involved a battle over 20,000 hogs that freely wandered the streets.Quartz: The hogs that created America’s first urban working class

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