And not in a good way. It seems some people in the ol' Flag City are choosing to believe false rumors about presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Regardless of your politics, let's get the story straight, at least.
I wonder if someone started a rumor that McCain was brainwashed in Vietnam and secretly trained by the Viet Cong as a sleeper agent for the KGB only to be activated upon reciting the presidential oath of office, would some people believe that, too?
Meanwhile, Tiffin squabbles over the county courthouse and Fostoria, well, just squabbles.
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The Findlay story was all over local papers too.
I still think the courthouse should be maintained with a minor expense of property insurance, while giving a nonprofit group the opportunity to find a use for it.
New schools should be built in the county and the old schools converted into a circuit court. It is cheaper to bring the court to the people than the people to the court. Schools are more important.
Fostoria would save a bunch of money by paying for a post of the highway patrol and turning other policing over to the county sheriff departments. Hiring some rental security officers might help too. Its just a plain fact that sheriff deputies are paid less for comparably the same job as the police. Seneca County does not need more than one top level of law enforcement officers. This is not a comment on the quality of the Fostoria police department, just its expense.
The Fostoria Schools would serve the community better if they were closed and transportation provided to local schools (like New Riegel, Arcadia, Hopewell, Bettsville, Lakota, Vanlue, Elmwood, etc.) This is not a comment on quality of education, but of expense and connecting the area around the town to the town. An agreement to hire Fostoria teachers to surrounding schools could be arranged. This would create public transit to Fostoria (all roads lead to Rome)
One bus route to BG and Owens would connect Fostoria to Tarta (at Owens and then to Amtrak, the airport, intercity buses, and the Toledo area.) and connect Fostoria to the world. A bus to the west side of the Cleveland Metro area or airport could also be established.
Fostoria should allow the counties to administer the city, even asking the state to put Fostoria in one county. It would save the expense of extra layers of public management in the county. It might be a good idea to suspend the Fostoria government and name and make Tiffin and Fostoria the same town, linked by the route eighteen corrider. This is not a comment on Fostoria's leaders, just on expense.
Just like Louisville, Seneca County should consider the metro area to be Seneca County, not the individual communities.
Jim
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