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Sometimes I wish I’d named my blog something other than Columbus Best Blog. This is not the best of news. Columbus got an F in air quality according to the American Lung Association… or Franklin County got an F any way.

I heard it on the radio. I must have been listening to something national because they said L.A. is the worst in the nation, no surprise there. Pittsburgh is number two. Then they said Cleveland, Indianapolis and Cinci all were dismal failures when it comes to air quality. I heard no mention of Columbus.

I got on the computer thinking we must have a good report card here.
Nope.

State of the Air

Delaware County got a D. Franklin County got an F.

High Ozone Days- in Ohio by County:

FRANKLIN County - Grade - F - Weighted Avg. 6.0, Orange Days - 13, Red Days - 2, Purple Days
DELAWARE County - Grade - D Weighted Avg. 2.2, Orange Days - 5, Red Days 1, Purpled Days - 0

Nearby counties… Licking County got a C, Madison County got a D, Knox is there… where are Fairfield, Morrow, and Union?

Compare to L.A’s high ozone days:

LA County - Grade F - Weighted Avg. 80.8, Orange Days - 158, Red Days - 35, Purple Days- 16

The American Lung Association is not grading on much of a curve though are they? I heard on the radio that Salinas was the only California city that had a decent grade… is a C decent? I don’t know many places by county.

There is another measure…in the study, Particle Pollution, Franklin County gets an F on that chart too.

I noticed mortgages on the shelf at the Polaris Kroger Store on Sunday.

Wells Fargo? Fifth - Third? Countrywide? No… get your home mortgage at Kroger.

According to a Business First Columbus article Kroger is in the financial services game. In a Business First of Columbus - by Adrian Burns

“Kroger checkouts replace magazines with mortgages”

“The nation’s largest grocery store operator has quietly rolled out its personal finance product line at nearly 2,500 grocery stores, hawking home equity loans, mortgages, credit cards, identity theft protection and pet insurance.”

May’s Green Gardening Tips from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium include:

May 1, 2007

“Teach your kids about gardening by giving them their own plot”

Part of the Habitat Hollow is My House.

Sponsors of the My House at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium are the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife and The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio.

The photo is a corn field. So very Central Ohio