{"id":697,"date":"2007-09-08T18:01:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-09-08T18:01:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T18:01:30","slug":"9607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"9\/6\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>average JoeOhio Tour cont:<\/strong> \u00a0 We went north to Vermilion, Ohio, on Lake Erie. \u00a0 I gave a talk at St. Mary&#8217;s Church, then we did a whistle stop event in the downtown area at noon. \u00a0 Afterward I interviewed Mayor Jean Anderson. \u00a0 She is a year and a half into her first term, and quite a dynamo. \u00a0 Her administration has helped pave the way for a new company, Cleveland Quarries, to locate in Vermilion &#8212; providing 73 new jobs. \u00a0 She also told me about a new Youth Center that is designed as an after school place for physical recreation, tutoring and just a &#8220;safe environment to hang out in.&#8221; \u00a0 Among a number of other projects, Ms. Anderson said her administration is working to make Vermilion a commuter rail stop to Cleveland. \u00a0 In the context of strategies to reduce global warming, this is something our administration would push for as well, \u00a0nationwide&#8230; We then headed west to Sandusky, Ohio, where I was interviewed by a reporter from the <em>Sandusky Register<\/em> newspaper. \u00a0 I said we&#8217;re spending billions to go to Mars to see about water, and so on &#8212; while meanwhile Lake Erie is still quite polluted. \u00a0 What&#8217;s up with that&#8230; And as if to underscore this, we camped at East Harbor State Park that night. \u00a0 And a sign at the beach said <strong>&#8220;No Swimming&#8221;<\/strong> because the bacteria count was extremely high in the lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>average JoeOhio Tour cont: \u00a0 We went north to Vermilion, Ohio, on Lake Erie. \u00a0 I gave a talk at St. Mary&#8217;s Church, then we did a whistle stop event in the downtown area at noon. \u00a0 Afterward I interviewed <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=697\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}