Wednesday, January 31 2018

Valentine's Day alert: 14 Etsy items that every Ohioan needs ❤️

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Hello Wednesday. It's James.

Valentine's Day is coming, and unless you're leaning on two day shipping or in person shopping it's time to start planning.

Your best bet for 2018? Lean in to your Ohio love and support a small business by buying something hand made. I'm pretty sure anyone's heart would melt for the Ohio shaped coffee table contained within, but if you want something a little more casual (furniture might be a little much for V-Day?) there's plenty of good options at every price point. 

Wednesday Weather 🌡🌥 💨 46. Mostly cloudy and breezy. Gusts 30mph+.

Navigator Originals ✏️Gov. John Kasich Went On Seth Meyers To Talk About Millennials And DACAKasich also hinted at a 2020 presidential run.Burgerim Is Bringing Fancy Sliders To ColumbusOk, so it's probably not the west coast burger chain we'd all prefer cross the Mississippi river (In-N-Out ❤️), but Burgerim looks intriguing with their slider-fast-casual concept.Buy A “Plane” Donut, Get Free Airline TicketsIf you have time on your hands and want some free travel, Buckeye Donuts will be handing out $200 Spirit Airline vouchers to the first 91 people in line Thursday morning. Hit the link for more details.

Around Town 🏘Only 73 days until Ohio State football returns. OSU announced the annual Spring Game will take place on April 14th. [Eleven Warriors]In a rare bit of bipartisanship, both of Ohio's senators, as well as Governor Kasich, and Ohio's House reps all signed a letter to Amazon touting Columbus and why it should be selected as the location for Amazon's HQ2. [ABC 6]On Monday, ICE deported a Youngstown man who had lived in Ohio for almost 40 years, despite a House Judiciary Committee request to review his case. Ohio congressman Tim Ryan released a statement, saying "In a highly irregular rebuke of Congressional authority by ICE, Amer Othman was ripped from his four daughters, his wife, and the country that he has called home for over thirty years." Othman's wife and three children are all American citizens. [CBS News]Longreads goes deep on fracking waste in Ohio in a piece called "A Toxic Tour Through Underground Ohio".  Toxic fracking waste is being injected 200+ feet into the earth. The waste seems to be flammable - in 2016 lightning hit a storage well in Colorado, which heated the vapors within, creating fireballs that went hundreds of feet into the air. 1,342,561,206 gallons of fracking wastewater was disposed of in 2016. [Longreads]

Longread 🇺🇸Franklin Foer spent six months reporting this in depth look at Paul Manafort, probably one of the most toxic people to ever exist in American politics, no matter your ideological beliefs (something Manafort himself doesn't seem to possess)."Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington."The Atlantic: The Plot Against America

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