Rotunda Rumblings
Chips are down: Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday he’s confident Intel will complete its planned factory in New Albany despite the company’s mounting financial woes. Per Andrew Tobias, DeWine said he last spoke directly with company CEO Pat Gelsinger about a month ago, which would have been around the time the company announced it was laying off 15,000 workers and suspending its dividend. But he said everything he hears from the company says that the project remains a priority. A company spokesperson said the same in a statement.
Rubber meet road: Akron is the latest Ohio city to land state funding for an “innovation hub.” Jeremy Pelzer writes that the state announced Thursday that it would provide $31.25 million to back up $10.4 million from local sources for the Greater Akron Polymer Innovation Hub. DeWine has announced similar funding pools for hubs in Toledo and Dayton, and the Akron funding comes alongside millions in federal funding that is pouring in for a parallel effort in the “Rubber Capitol of the World.”
Herbivores: In the first month of recreational marijuana sales, dispensaries rang up 551,737 receipts and $44 million in product, Laura Hancock reports. That includes $11 million in the fourth week of sales. Prices for flower and extracts are dropping from the first weeks of sales.
Up in the air: Three Northeast Ohio airports are getting more than $4 million from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Program, Sabrina Eaton reports. Geauga County Airport, Akron-Canton Regional Airport, and Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport are getting money, according to U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown.
Popularity contest: Likely voters have a more favorable view of Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz than GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll. USA TODAY writes that 36% of likely voters surveyed after the Democratic convention said they had a favorable view of Vance, a U.S. Senator from Cincinnati, while 48% had a favorable view of Walz, who is Minnesota’s governor.
Suit yourself: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, said Thursday that he would be suing Columbus City Schools after the school board voted earlier this week to stop bussing charter and nonpublic school students for cost-related and logistical reasons. Per the Columbus Dispatch’s Cole Behrens, Yost announced the lawsuit on X, the social media website formerly known as Twitter, two days after he sent the school a “cease and desist” letter.
Buckeye Brain Tease
Question: What is the name of Ohio’s “best-loved” version of Bigfoot, that reputedly lives at Salt Fork Lake State Park?
Email your response to [email protected]. The first correct respondent will be mentioned in next week’s newsletter. Also, you’ll feel much prouder for winning if you don’t have to Google the answer!
Thanks to everyone who responded to last week’s trivia question:
The Ohio State Buckeyes are kicking off their season this Saturday at 3:30 p.m. against the Akron Zips. Against what team did the Buckeyes play their very first game?
Last week’s answer: Ohio State University played its first football game on May 3, 1890 against Ohio Wesleyan University. OSU’s team traveled to the site in Delaware “in horse drawn wagons leaving Columbus at daybreak and returning by evening,” according to a historical marker on OWU’s campus. The Buckeyes won the game 20-14 – and we can only assume their fans were furious they didn’t win by more.
Capitol Letter reader Rob Kirchstein of Plain Township in Stark County was the first to provide the correct answer.
Birthdays
Friday, 9/6: Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals Judge Kristin Boggs; Laura Hancock, Statehouse / politics reporter at cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer; Carly McCain, Ohio advocacy director for American for Prosperity; John W. Bricker, Ohio’s 54th governor, U.S. senator, 1944 GOP vice-presidential nominee (1893-1986)
Saturday, 9/7: Christopher Anderson, Mahoning County Democratic Party chair; Philip Kim, marketing and communications director, Ohio State Bar Association Foundation
Sunday, 9/8: Esther Kelsch, legislative aide to state Rep. Beryl Brown Piccolantonio; Adam Rapien, manager of Frank LaRose’s 2022 secretary of state campaign
Straight From The Source
“He accuses me of usurping his office, as if I’ve stolen his toy and must give it back.”
Butler County Auditor Nancy Nix, in a statement to the Cincinnati Enquirer. She was responding to a lawsuit filed by her predecessor, Roger Reynolds, who is trying to get his old job back after he got a felony conviction that disqualified him from office thrown out on appeal.
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