Wednesday, December 20 2017

Pins Mechanical Co. opens its Dublin doors today 🎳🍻

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Pins Mechanical Co. looks set to ramp up expansion efforts, following their initial successful location downtown.

The company is opening a new location in Dublin today, the first of four new planned locations that will include Cincinnati (Over-The-Rhine neighborhood), Nashville, and Cleveland. The bar and restaurant will be familiar if you've visited their downtown spot - pinball, Duckpin Bowling, foosball, ping pong, shuffleboard, bocce ball, and giant Jenga will provide entertainment to go along with a huge outdoor patio and dozens of craft beers on tap.

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Around Town 🏘You are waking up to news that Congress has passed the biggest tax reform in 30 years. As the Associated Press put it "House passes first rewrite of nation's tax laws in three decades, providing steep tax cuts for businesses, the wealthy." Ohio Senator Rob Portman will be particularly happy about this news, as last minute language inserted into the bill to gain Tennessee senator Bob Corker's vote (by personally giving him a multi-million dollar tax break) will also enrich Portman.The tax carve out "allows investors in “pass-through” entities, including real-estate partnerships such as LLCs and LPs, with few employees to deduct part of their income that passes through those partnerships." Portman has such an entity and will personally benefit from the tax carve out on his $274,502 of real estate pass through income. It's worth noting that Portman also received $900,000 from real estate industry PACs and individuals during his 2016 campaign. [IB Times]The Ohio Senate is planning to kill a law that requires Ohio utilities to get a certain percentage of their energy from renewable sources. The bill would turn the energy requirements into voluntary goals, and it already passed the Ohio House. Kasich vetoed a similar bill that passed the General Assembly last year. Ohio has one of the highest rates of lung cancer deaths in the country, and air pollution contributes to that rate. [WOSU]In the continuing saga of where in the world is local nazi Andrew Anglin, the Huffington Post is asking readers for tips. It looks like Anglin was in Reynoldsburg on December 10th, and it also looks like his father (a Worthington resident who helps Anglin run the Daily Stormer hate website business) has bought him a car and set him up locally. Anglin is wanted for pending litigation in Columbus, but is claiming to be "stateless", even though it sounds like he's still a permanent Ohio resident (he voted here in 2016.) [Huffington Post]Whew. Ok. After all that a palate cleanser is in order. How about every personalized license plate rejected by the state of Ohio in the last year? The BMV knows what "AF" stands for, so don't try slipping your "DOPE AF" plate past them - it's not happening. [Jalopnik]

Picture of the DayLoving this pinball sign at the new Pins Mechanical Co. in Dublin. (📷:  Pins Mechanical Co.)

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