
1980'sHatchback
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1980'sHatchback
@1980sHatchback
Lone wolf type - probably in the backyard feeding the birds on an existential road-trip to nowhere.










Where Americans moved to and from in 2025. Massachusetts experienced the most loss of any state, Kansas the most of any Republican state, and South Carolina grew the fastest of any state. In contrast, Delaware grew the fastest of any Democrat state. Republican states dominated in growth overall. Follow: @AFpost







People keep asking how Columbus Fire got to this point. How do you end up with broken ladder trucks, reserve apparatus held together with duct tape, stations literally falling apart, staffing shortages, and firefighters begging for basic safety needs? This is how. Recently retired Fire Chief Jeffrey Happ wrote directly to Mayor Ginther describing a culture of hostility, intimidation, and dysfunction inside city leadership. In his own words, he described being threatened during negotiations that if agreements didn’t align with the City’s financial direction, they would ‘scorch the earth.’ He described strategic goals for the Division repeatedly being undermined. He described being discouraged from speaking directly with City Council members and even communicating with the Union President. Let that sink in. When leadership spends more time silencing concerns than fixing problems… this is the result. The warning signs were there for YEARS. Firefighters warned about aging apparatus. Chief officers warned about the fleet. Work orders piled up. Safety concerns were ignored. Now the public is finally seeing the consequences. This was never about firefighters ‘complaining.’ It was experienced leadership sounding the alarm while City Hall looked the other way. And while politicians hold press conferences talking about ‘support,’ Columbus firefighters have been working in stations with collapsing roofs, trucks with critical failures, and equipment so unreliable firefighters themselves joke that duct tape is the city’s official maintenance program. At some point this stops being incompetence and starts looking like deliberate neglect. The citizens of Columbus deserve to ask a serious question: Where did all the public safety tax money go? Because it clearly wasn’t spent protecting the people responding to your emergencies or the citizens of Columbus.


My letter to constituents regarding recent accusations of Medicaid fraud in Ohio.














