Right after we published an entry on MyHometownOhio singing their praises, the Toledo Blade posted another front-page story on historic preservation in Ohio in their Sunday, August 19 edition. Here is the start of that article:

Politics drives historic preservation: Question of demolition often left to mercy of lawmakers’ whims
By: Jim Provance/Blade Columbus Bureau

COLUMBUS - The state of Ohio has been willing to reach into its pockets, sometimes very deeply into its pockets, to preserve and restore historic structures.

But which projects are deemed worthy is largely a subjective political process left to the whims of lawmakers who control the state's capital budget, a two-year blueprint setting borrowing priorities for brick-and-mortar projects across the state.

Ohio has poured hundreds of millions of dollars over the years into restoring the Ohio Statehouse, opera houses and theaters, train stations, homesteads of historic figures, libraries, schoolhouses, and even the occasional county courthouse.

But for every preservation triumph - be it Toledo's Valentine Theatre in Toledo, or Adena, Gov. Thomas Worthington's mansion in Chillicothe - there's an Ironton High School, the classical-style 1922 building that preservationists wanted to save but recently fell victim to the wrecking ball...

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