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From Uranium to Algorithms: Southern Ohio Tries Something New If you've ever driven through rural Ohio , you know there are places where industry arrived, changed everything , and then left behind a complicated legacy. Pike County , Ohio, is one of those places. Most Americans had never heard of it until recently , but now it is slated to become home to what may be the world's  largest artificial intelligence data center . The project will be built at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant , a uranium enrichment site that once played a role in America's nuclear ambitions. The numbers are staggering . Plans call for a 10-gigawatt artificial intelligence campus, along with roughly 10 gigawatts of power generation capacity . At full scale, it would rival or exceed any AI computing facility currently planned anywhere in the world. Watching coverage of the announcement, one detail stood out to me. The speakers had peculiar pronunciation, the kind that might...

Two States, Two Different Bets Wyoming issued its own stablecoin . Ohio opened its payment portal . The question behind both moves is the same one. Wyoming became the first U.S. state to issue its own stablecoin when the Frontier Stable Token — ticker FRNT — went on public sale in January 2026. The token is tethered one-to-one to the dollar , backed by U.S. Treasuries and cash held in a state trust managed by Franklin Templeton , and available for purchase through Kraken on the Solana and Avalanche blockchains.  The Wyoming Stable Token Commission , which was authorized by the Wyoming Stable Token Act in 2023, was explicit about where the money goes: net interest revenue from the Treasury reserves is earmarked for the state's School Foundation Fund . That is not a small thing to put in the fine print. Ohio took a different approach. Through its Buckeye Billfold initiative, the state now accepts digital asset payments for fees and services via a third-party proce...

Ohio's Got a Billfold and a Backstory Ohio just made history, and it did it quietly — the way Ohio does things . On May 22, 2026, Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague announced the Buckeye Billfold initiative , which will enable Ohio residents to make payments to state agencies using a digital wallet, including those made with digital currency . Ohio is now, by its own account, the first state to successfully authorize and promote statewide agency use and acceptance of digital asset payments . Congratulations, Buckeye State. Pull up a chair. We have questions. Let's talk about the mechanics, because this is where it gets interesting — and where a lot of headlines are going to get it wrong . When making a payment, whatever digital currency you use will then be converted to U.S. currency . That's the part that deserves a slow read. Ohio isn't actually holding your Bitcoin , your ETH, or whatever asset you use. The state isn't becoming a digital as...

He Turned a Raid Into a Revolution Afroman walked into an Ohio courtroom in an American flag suit and walked out with a verdict for all of us. You probably remember Because I Got High . It was 2001, and it was everywhere; yes, it was ridiculous. That was the point . Joseph Foreman — who recorded that song under the name Afroman — has always understood that turning life's messy moments into music is one of the most American things a person can do. Last week, an Ohio jury agreed with him. Loudly . Here's what happened. Back in August 2022, deputies from the Adams County Sheriff's Department showed up at Afroman's home in Winchester , Ohio with a warrant. They were supposedly chasing evidence of drug trafficking and kidnapping — including, improbably, rumors of a basement dungeon . They busted down his front door, rifled through his clothes, searched his shoes, and spent hours turning the place upside down. They found no dungeon . They filed no charges . ...

So About That OSU-Michigan Game... Look , I'm not mad about it. I'm just disappointed. Actually, no— I'm tired . Because here we are on Sunday, still reading about a game that happened yesterday, and for what? Because someone on your fantasy roster happened to be breathing near a football field in Ann Arbor  while Juventus was playing at the exact same time?  Priorities, folks . But let's talk about it . Ohio State won 27-9, which is both exactly what the spread predicted and somehow still felt like watching paint dry. And yet, there was literally a snowstorm. This is The Game™ , where weather becomes a character and everyone pretends they know what Hang On Sloopy  is really about. (Spoiler alert: you don't , but the people doing snow angels on the field afterward definitely have an opinion.) The Buckeyes snapped their four-game losing streak to Michigan , which—if you've been paying attention to college football, and let's be honest, you hav...

Breaking : Travis Kelce Has Opinions About Amusement Parks (And Possibly Buckeyes) Look, we need to talk about Travis Kelce . Not Taylor Swift's fiancé Travis Kelce—though yes, that Travis Kelce—but Travis Kelce, the grown man from Cleveland Heights who has actual investments and business interests and probably thoughts about roller coaster maintenance. For those keeping score at home, Kelce is reportedly an investor in a company that owns Cedar Point , the amusement park in Sandusky that Ohioans will defend with their lives despite the fact that it's basically just a peninsula of screaming and overpriced funnel cakes. This is the same Cedar Point that every Ohio child visited exactly once on a school field trip and then never stopped talking about. You know, the one with the Millennium Force ? The tall one? Look, Ohioans are very passionate about their roller coasters, okay ? But here's where things get delightfully awkward. Picture this : Tayl...

School Communication Device Restrictions: A Complex Security Debate The 2025-2026 school year has brought sweeping changes to student device policies across multiple states. Ohio now requires all school districts to adopt policies prohibiting cell phone use during instructional time by January 1, 2026, while New York has become the largest state to implement statewide bell-to-bell smartphone restrictions in K-12 schools. NYC Public Schools has expanded its ban to include internet-enabled devices such as tablets and smartwatches. These policies emerge during a period of heightened concern about school safety and emergency communication . The debate centers on a fundamental question: How do schools balance educational focus with emergency preparedness and family communication needs? The Emergency Communication Perspective Parents and students raise legitimate concerns about device restrictions in light of ongoing security challenges in educational environme...