Columbus Police Department – Creating a Bad Business Model

Let’s say that you own a little shop that is surrounded by a few homes.  Your shop sells just about everything your neighbors might need.  Your shop also has a few goodies – things that some people really want.  Some folks near your shop might save up for years to buy these goodies and a [...]

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Back on Amtrak – Part I

When it was decided that I needed to get to and from Chicago with short notice and within a very specific time frame, my first thought was Amtrak.  And this is because I know the schedule in and out of Cleveland. Just in case, however, I checked the airlines. Delta’s last minute prices were $606 [...]

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Prepare for Amtrak’s return to Columbus

Last year I took my first Amtrak trip.  A year later, I’m embarking upon my third.  Essentially it was curiosity that took me for my first trip.  Having used Germany’s ICE trains from Frankfurt to Berlin, Finland’s Bendalino and England’s commuter trains to and from Brighton, I wanted to see how Amtrak compared. Despite the [...]

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Not What I (W)expected

It was only a matter of time until I viewed the Luc Tuymans exhibit at the Wexner, though I didn’t expect it to be today. Thanks to Twitter (@wexarts) I caught a tweet this morning about a short film showing at The Box entitled Killed.  Having never heard about the Farm Security Administration, I did [...]

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