Archive for December, 2007
Columbus on America’s Most Literate Cities List
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Columbus is number 21 on the list of America’s most literate cities… behind Cleveland (number 13, congratulations Cleveland!) and Cincinnati (number 11, congratulations Cincinnati!) ?
OK.
The Top Ten Cities in the US according to the study are:
Minneapolis, MN
Seattle, WA
St. Paul, MN
Denver, CO
Washington, DC
St. Louis, MO
San Francisco, CA
Atlanta, GA
Pittsburgh, PA
Boston, MA
The list is from Central Connecticut State University says:
“This study attempts to capture one critical index of our nation’s social health—the literacy of its major cities (population of 250,000 and above). This study focuses on six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources.”
Link to page 2 of the list where Columbus is listed….
Congratulations to all the cities on the list…
Columbus Ohio Holidays
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Columbus gets some special holidays… Yeah Columbus Day is a bigger deal..when your name is Columbus… We have Columbus Days… but the real extra local holidays have to do with Buckeye football. The Friday before the Michigan Game is a tailgate party. The third Saturday in November has a holiday feel to it.
You don’t have to be all that big a fan, it’s still a holiday…
I lived in Green Bay a couple of times. There’s another town that takes football serious.
After Christmas, after New Years Eve and New Years Day… in Columbus we usually have another holiday after the first of the year when the Buckeye’s go to a bowl game…
Tigers - The kind in the Columbus Zoo
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Not LSU Tigers.. Real tigers, Siberian Tigers… It’s difficult to search the Columbus Dispatch for tiger news because of the sports stories.
Jack Hanna was on ‘Good Morning America’ this morning from Montana. His connection to the Columbus Zoo is still Hanna’s authority to speak for American Zoos, I believe.
Hanna was interviewed along with Adam Roberts of Born Free, about “Should animals be caged? “
In his first response Roberts angered Hanna, Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo by lumping zoos in with circuses. Roberts intimated that zoos are not educational.
I think I learned something this fall at the Columbus Zoo about what a small world it is. At an exhibit at the Columbus Zoo… all about conservation …a Zoo employee talked to me… me personally about animal skins that someone was trying to smuggle in through Port Columbus… I can’t remember which animals but I am sure there was a large cat skin… there was a story on the internet Sunday about a Siberian Tiger being beheaded and skinned inside a Chinese Zoo…
Columbus Dispatch from the AP:
“Did fatal tiger escape have human help? Jack Hanna doubts tiger jumped out on its own; San Francisco police open criminal investigation”
I have to admit I did not like zoos as a kid… my favorite part was the train ride… actually until quite recently the zoo was not a place I wanted to spend time. If the Columbus Zoo is an indication zoos are becoming more educational.
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