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Good News in Columbus · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations, welcome my friends, do another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten WTV, and I'm Chuck Douglas.
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  Speaker 1: You know who you are, and we take it from there.
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  Speaker 1: We get one hour together, which means I talk early
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  Speaker 1: faster and you must listen even faster. My number eight
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eighty six eight two one WTV
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  Speaker 1: in or one eight hundred six' TEN wtv. In zachary
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  Speaker 1: is indeed here and on the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: glass where he, belongs preferably locked him AND i don't
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  Speaker 1: think the door, locks so we have to live with.
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  Speaker 1: That but you've been very quiet this. Afternoon you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Okay you feel? Okay i'm, okay, sir you, sure, yes all.
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  Speaker 1: RIGHT i don't want you to be, all you, know
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  Speaker 1: down in the doldrums or anything like.
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  Speaker 2: That, no, no, no it's a it's a good.
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  Speaker 1: Day what are the dol drums? ANYWAY i don't. KNOW
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  Speaker 1: i know somebody's made that up at some. Way you
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  Speaker 1: got the doll? Drums what's the, matter, Bunkie oh my, god.
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  Speaker 2: Okay aduldrum means a state of low, spirits a lack of,
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  Speaker 2: activity or an ocean belt near the. Equator with no.
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  Speaker 1: Wind that's, no you have plenty of. Wind so, anyhow
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  Speaker 1: gone behind the, glass trying to remember the. Commercial what
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  Speaker 1: was that commercial? For it was before your, time but
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  Speaker 1: the what's The Matter bunkie and google that for me
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  Speaker 1: see if there's A what's A Matter bunkie commercial, archive
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  Speaker 1: BECAUSE i remember the, commercial BUT i can't remember what
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  Speaker 1: it was, for which is very odd BECAUSE i usually
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  Speaker 1: do stuff making sense, today which In columbus you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Understand i'm not used to. It but some of the
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  Speaker 1: stories that are out. Today looking at THE wsyx six
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  Speaker 1: website right, now The Franklin County, courthouse they were going
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  Speaker 1: to build a New Franklin county, courthouse but they drugged their,
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  Speaker 1: feet is what it came down. To the city originally
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  Speaker 1: estimated a new COURTHOUSE wi cost about two hundred million,
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  Speaker 1: dollars but that was in twenty. Eighteen they finally get
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  Speaker 1: around to doing, it and now it looks it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: More it's like three hundred and thirty five. Million that's
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  Speaker 1: according to the City's department Of. Finance that is big.
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  Speaker 1: Inflation so, instead the city now plans to renovate the
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  Speaker 1: Existing Franklin county municipal courthouse and the Nearby Carnes. Building
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  Speaker 1: renovation expected to cost about two hundred and sixty million,
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  Speaker 1: dollars which will save more than seventy five million compared
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  Speaker 1: to new. Construction i'm Actually i'm glad about this on several.
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  Speaker 1: Levels first of, all a fiscal. RESPONSIBILITY i love. That
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  Speaker 1: i'm a little sick of this city in county for that,
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  Speaker 1: matter throwing away. Money AND i guess my antenna really
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  Speaker 1: went up because of the women's soccer practice facility. Thing
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  Speaker 1: twenty five million from the, city twenty five million dollars
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  Speaker 1: from the. County while at the same time they're talking
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  Speaker 1: about The Columbus promise and disappearing allowing kids to go
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  Speaker 1: To Columbus state for free if they graduate From Columbus city,
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  Speaker 1: schools not knowing if they're going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: fund that again after this, year and then throwing money
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  Speaker 1: away in other stuff potholes in the, street then throwing
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  Speaker 1: money away and other, stuff trash not getting picked, up
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  Speaker 1: throwing away in money and other. WAYS i just it
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  Speaker 1: was bugging. Me so it really has bothered. Me AND
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  Speaker 1: i see a story like this And i'm, like, wait
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  Speaker 1: hang on a, second this makes, Sense so the Fiscal
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  Speaker 1: i'm very happy about. This the other Reason i'm happy
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  Speaker 1: about it is The Jim Carnes building or The Carns,
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  Speaker 1: building named for our former, sheriff and, uh that was
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  Speaker 1: coming down and as far AS i, know there was
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  Speaker 1: not going to be A carns wing to the new planned,
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  Speaker 1: Courthouse so this building named for this Former Franklin county
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  Speaker 1: sheriff would have just, disappeared as would his name on the.
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  Speaker 1: Building And I'm i'm, Personally i'm very glad to see
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  Speaker 1: that that's that's not the plan now that the building
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  Speaker 1: will be renovated along with the courthouse and it's not coming.
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  Speaker 1: Down there's a space right there in. DOWNTOWN i don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've been down to the, courthouse but there's
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  Speaker 1: a space next to The Carns building Between Mound street
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  Speaker 1: and The Carns building that has been fenced off SINCE
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  Speaker 1: i think The George floyd. Stuff are you familiar with that?
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  Speaker 1: Corner do you know What i'm talking?
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  Speaker 2: About? No but why is something fit sed up for six?
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  Speaker 1: YEARS i don't. Know it's nowhere near the two million dollar,
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  Speaker 1: toilets so there's nothing to protect. There it would make
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  Speaker 1: an excellent little you, know lunch area or. Whatever it
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  Speaker 1: used to be kind of a park like, setting but
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  Speaker 1: you haven't been able to use it for. Years SO
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  Speaker 1: i let's let's do something with that while we're doing
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  Speaker 1: all this rehab of the courthouse and of the car
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  Speaker 1: and is, building and actually make that a Nice that's
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  Speaker 1: a very prominent. CORNER a lot of people come and
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  Speaker 1: go from that courthouse every, day and that's a very prominent.
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  Speaker 1: CORNER i think they should do something with. It and
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  Speaker 1: if they can do so without spending three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty five million, dollars that's an even better. Thing so Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: COLUMBUS i start the show with you, tonight And i'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Complaining i'm actually applauding a. Decision hang on a, second
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  Speaker 1: a moment of silence for my. Grumpiness there you, Go
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  Speaker 1: it served us. Well so another story again in the makes,
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  Speaker 1: sense BUT i JUST i can't believe it kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Way Columbus City. Schools did you already read this? One
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  Speaker 1: No Columbus City schools being held accountable by a board
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  Speaker 1: member for over forty mili That Columbus City schools always need.
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  Speaker 1: Money ask you for a, levee you pass the. Levee
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  Speaker 1: then they, go, oh, yeah well we're not doing anything with.
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  Speaker 1: It we just need to keep doing the same crap we're.
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  Speaker 1: Doing that was just to keep us. Float by the,
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  Speaker 1: way we need to cut some jobs and close the.
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  Speaker 1: Buildings so every dollar is important with The Columbus City.
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  Speaker 1: Schools that being, SAID i see this story And i'm, Thinking,
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  Speaker 1: okay who is who is the board member who dared to, say,
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  Speaker 1: yeah we need to account. This the headline Reached clemency
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  Speaker 1: school board members calls for accountability after forty million dollar
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  Speaker 1: insurance cost. Overrun what it comes down to is city
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  Speaker 1: school employees apparently used about forty million more in healthcare
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  Speaker 1: related stuff than what was. Budgeted the district. Says an
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  Speaker 1: outside forensic audit found That Courtney, hale executive director OF Hr,
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  Speaker 1: operations improperly signed, contracts failed to keep public, records did
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  Speaker 1: not properly oversee the employee benefits. Program hale's currently going
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  Speaker 1: through the termination process and is scheduled for another hearing On.
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday the school board Initiated hale's Termination june. Sixteenth district
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  Speaker 1: officials that employees used about forty million dollars more in
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  Speaker 1: health insurance benefits and they expected for medical. Care this
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  Speaker 1: means over two, years the estimated twenty nine to forty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars has gone directly to employees'. Healthcare, now who is,
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  Speaker 1: it who is it that's saying we need to audit
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  Speaker 1: and find somebody responsible and so? Forth any idea who's
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  Speaker 1: holding them? Accountable? Here? Uh democratic? Socialists, well they're all democratic,
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  Speaker 1: SOCIALISTS i. Think Brandon simmons all, that. Dude yes, again
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  Speaker 1: it makes, sense but nothing, Really it's just like news
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  Speaker 1: from bizarre world. Today it was a good. Thing Brandon,
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  Speaker 1: simmons if you don't, recall is the one who got
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  Speaker 1: in all the hot water for attempting basically to deceive
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  Speaker 1: you as a, voter as a funder of the city school,
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  Speaker 1: system wanting to you, know beat down various concerns that
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  Speaker 1: many voters, found, like you, know these will be important
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  Speaker 1: things for the school board to discuss and to hide
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  Speaker 1: them from. You and he contended that the other school
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  Speaker 1: board members were in on this with. Him they threw
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  Speaker 1: him under the bus so that we don't know nothing about,
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  Speaker 1: nutting and they decided to basically censure, him not allow
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  Speaker 1: him to speak in. Meetings he's a, YOUNGSTER i think
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  Speaker 1: he's twenty now twenty, one maybe graduate Of Klumbus City,
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  Speaker 1: schools A west side Of columbus, guy AND i was
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  Speaker 1: kind of hoping he'd be a. Star turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be kind of a Dut but now now when we've
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  Speaker 1: got this going, on he's the one who's stepping. Up
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  Speaker 1: the additional forty million dollars in health insurance costs comes
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  Speaker 1: As Columbus City schools is already dealing with a huge
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  Speaker 1: budget deficit after making fifty million in budget. Cuts after
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  Speaker 1: getting one hundred million dollars levee approved by you, People
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  Speaker 1: simon said he pushed for investigation after learning the district's
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  Speaker 1: health insurance costs were expected to go ninety three million
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  Speaker 1: over budget for five, years district official, said identifying after
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  Speaker 1: identifying concerns about the work and the employee, conduct the
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  Speaker 1: district took prompt action by retaining an independent actuary what's
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  Speaker 1: that costing us In october twenty twenty five to review
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  Speaker 1: the self insurance fund and determined the scope of any. Issues,
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  Speaker 1: Again i'm with, Them i'm with, Him but man h
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  Speaker 1: two positive stories About, columbus one from City, hall one
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  Speaker 1: From Columbus City. Schools it's a. Bizarre is it's really
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  Speaker 1: are we expecting a total eclipse or anything in the near?
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  Speaker 1: Future because this is this is sincerely odd THAT i
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  Speaker 1: just used to the bad. Stuff i'm used to the bad. Stuff,
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  Speaker 1: Also Columbus State Community college in the news, today AND
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  Speaker 1: i got a question about a commercial that we ran
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  Speaker 1: a little. While, well it's kind OF i don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it, is whether it's a commercial or an announcement
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  Speaker 1: or or a public service. THING i have no, clue
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  Speaker 1: BUT i heard it. EARLIER i wanted to bring it
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  Speaker 1: up because maybe SOMEBODY i should know, about BUT i.
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  Speaker 1: Don't so we've still got that stuff to get INTO
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  Speaker 1: a two one nine eighty six number two N Wtv And,
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  Speaker 1: bob you're on The Legacy Retirement group dot com phone.
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  Speaker 1: Line how are?
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  Speaker 2: You Huh? Chuck IF i remember, correctly they just built
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  Speaker 2: a courthouse, downtown didn't. They it was less than ten years. Ago, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: ye about one hundred million dollars at that one across
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  Speaker 2: the street from the one that was they were.
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  Speaker 1: Replacing remember as soon as they as soon as they
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  Speaker 1: opened that one. Up that's that's. IT i, mean it's
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  Speaker 1: a different division of. Courts but, uh, yeah you're. Right
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  Speaker 1: it's just on the other side Of Mount. Street and
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  Speaker 1: as soon as they opened it, up do you remember
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  Speaker 1: what they had to?
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  Speaker 2: Do, uh to tell you the, truth you, know it
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  Speaker 2: was so unbelievable for me that because of it was
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  Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars to, build but uh, uh you,
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  Speaker 2: KNOW i just quit paying attention AND i was so
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  Speaker 2: mad after.
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  Speaker 1: That they had they had to fix the stairs because
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  Speaker 1: they put in the pervert stairs that were they were
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  Speaker 1: glass and you could see through them and the perverts
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  Speaker 1: could look up women's dresses.
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  Speaker 2: On this the holy.
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  Speaker 1: Smoke, yeah that was like the as soon as they opened,
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  Speaker 1: up they're, like we have a problem. Here that's but,
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  Speaker 1: yeah that's that's a, uh THAT'S i. Forget is that
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  Speaker 1: the that's the Crim, no that's not The is that
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  Speaker 1: the criminal? COURT i think that's the criminal court. Building, No,
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  Speaker 1: no we'll get the criminal and the municipal down, there
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  Speaker 1: the common pleas and the one to handle civil cases
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  Speaker 1: and things like. That so there's two buildings and, uh
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  Speaker 1: one hundred. Million, yeah that was pretty. Expensive now we're
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  Speaker 1: looking at two hundred and sixty million dollars to renovate
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  Speaker 1: what we've got in the old.
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  Speaker 2: Place sounds like there's a crime. Problem, uh keep expanding
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  Speaker 2: all the. Buildings yeah and yeah They uh.
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  Speaker 1: IF i don't, Know, mayberry you could just go To
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  Speaker 1: andy's office and pay a. Fine that was much.
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  Speaker 2: Better oh, hey to spoil your sunny, day because you
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  Speaker 2: did have those two positive stories that might have just
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit of spinning, them but they were good.
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  Speaker 1: Stories, yeah it was nice to start with there for.
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  Speaker 1: Sure thank, You. BOB i appreciate. You, BUDDY a two
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  Speaker 1: one night SIX a two one w T. V and,
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  Speaker 1: yeah still plenty more. COME i JUST i had to
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  Speaker 1: get the, two the two good things and The Columbus
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  Speaker 1: state story that's actually good. Too, okay something's, wrong check
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  Speaker 1: the check the water out, there because there's something and there,
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  Speaker 1: was something's going.
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  Speaker 2: On