- The Middletown newspaper today caught up with local-boy-made-good: J.D. Vance. (Middletown Journal-News, 3/8/17)
- State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria visited a number of rural northwest Ohio school districts this week. He had some important things to say about the state’s current school funding scheme while doing so. Those comments may be even more important to some folks after 12:01 a.m. tomorrow morning. Just sayin’. (Lima News, 3/7/17)
- On the complete opposite side of the state, the only candidate on the ballot for Lancaster mayor right now is a local high school student. Given the current mayoral turmoil in the little town I used to call home, dude’s got to be looking pretty good to a number of voters. (Lancaster Eagle Gazette, 3/8/17)
- Sticking with our semi-rural theme of the day, tiny Denison University in bucolic Granville, Ohio, has awarded full-tuition scholarships to 18 high-performing, low-income Columbus City Schools graduates. These are the first such scholarships awarded through a new partnership between Denison, the Columbus district, and the I Know I Can college-access organization. Its funding was seeded by two Denison alums with the hope that others will follow suit. Nice! P.S. – ANY dinner at the Granville Inn is special. Everybody says so. (Newark Advocate, 3/8/17)
