Ohio
New Ohio group looks to tap the experience that comes with age to fight climate change
Third Act, a nationwide volunteer-based group targeted on defending the local weather and strengthening democracy, is increasing its attain to Ohio with a state-wide chapter formally launching right now. The brand new chapter, just like the nationwide group, is led by a bunch of “skilled Individuals,” folks over the age of 60. Relating to the struggle in opposition to local weather change, the chapter leaders say a easy manner to take action is for folks to try the place they maintain their cash.
“After I discovered how necessary it’s to guarantee that the cash that you’ve in a financial institution, or a bank card or in any kind of funding is just not getting used to gas the … soiled gas pipeline,” member Mimi Plevin-Foust mentioned, “I used to be very glad to know what a distinction a person could make.”
Dittie Wolin, a member of Third Act Ohio’s coordinating committee, mentioned people and enormous corporations transferring their retirement funds to completely different banks can have a big influence.
“Folks over 60, we have now 70% of the wealth on this nation, and loads of that’s tied up in our retirement funds,” she mentioned. “So individually, we are able to transfer our retirement cash out of fossil gas funding organizations and corporations and stuff. However … there are retirement funds which are within the billions, … and if we are able to advocate for them to maneuver the funds, then it is an enormous shift in the place the cash is being spent.”
Ygal Kaufman
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Ideastream Public Media
The nation’s greatest banks are among the high funders of the oil and gasoline trade, which contributes enormously to local weather change, based on a research printed by Rainforest Motion Community. Of the U.S. banks, JPMorgan Chase was the highest funder in 2021, with greater than $61.7 billion invested within the trade that 12 months and a complete of $382.4 billion invested between 2016 and 2021.
Third Act Ohio Secretary Ted Wolner mentioned banks like Chase are in a position to make use of cash earned by their prospects’ bank card use, funding or financial savings accounts and different financial institution companies to then put money into different industries that may flip a revenue for the financial institution itself, just like the fossil gas trade.
“All of that, over any variety of international locations through which Chase is positioned around the globe, creates an enormous funding pool that Chase can faucet for no matter tasks or functions it deems will return essentially the most amount of cash to itself and chase shareholders,” Wolner mentioned.
In an emailed assertion, Head of Sustainability Communications for JPMorgan Chase Charlotte Powell mentioned the financial institution facilitated greater than $100 billion in inexperienced actions corresponding to renewable power, power effectivity and sustainable transportation in 2021. The financial institution additionally doubled its inexperienced funding banking exercise and was the biggest underwriter, or purchaser, of inexperienced bonds used to fund environmentally-friendly tasks final 12 months.
“These efforts assist put us properly on our option to our goal of $1 trillion for inexperienced initiatives over 10 years, together with for expertise that may deal with local weather change however doesn’t even exist but,” Powell mentioned. “We’re additionally taking pragmatic steps to fulfill our 2030 emission depth discount targets in oil & gasoline, electrical energy and automotive manufacturing, whereas serving to the world meet its power wants securely and affordably.”
JPMorgan Chase additionally goals to finance and facilitate greater than $25 trillion by 2030 to advance long-term options for local weather change, based on its web site.
However by funding fossil gas tasks, Third Act Ohio Secretary Ted Wolner mentioned the massive banks are going in opposition to suggestions made by The Worldwide Vitality Company in 2021.
“The Inside Vitality Company mentioned nearly a 12 months in the past that to have any hope of attaining carbon neutrality by 2050, we have now to cease funding fossil gas tasks — any new ones — now,” he mentioned. “Clearly we’re nonetheless funding them. We’re digging the outlet deeper.”
Ygal Kaufman
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Ideastream Public Media
Final month, members and leaders of Third Act Ohio protested outdoors of Chase Financial institution in Downtown Cleveland and have held different protests within the state.
Membership coordinator Judy Smucker participated in protests round Athens earlier than working to determine the Ohio chapter. She mentioned she needed to assist out, partly, on account of a sense of guilt figuring out that future generations must develop up dwelling with the consequences of local weather change she by no means skilled.
“We’re standing with all of the younger folks. We’re making an attempt to assist them have a future,” she mentioned. “We are the ones that did this. We are the over-60 folks. We are the ones which have been including to the air pollution of the world.”
Third Act Ohio will maintain its digital launch celebration at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1 over Zoom.
Notre Dame and Ohio State will be facing off in the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship game. How did each team get here? Notre Dame — coming off playoff wins against Indiana, Georgia and Penn State — is riding a 13-game winning streak. But the Irish are a heavy underdog in the title game matchup. Ohio State — which went through Tennessee, Oregon and Texas in the playoffs — brings its top-ranked defense in a quest to capture its ninth national championship. This will be the first time Notre Dame reaches the title game in the CFP era after falling in the semifinal in the 2018-19 and 2020-21 seasons. The Buckeyes will be playing in their third CFP title game since winning the inaugural game in 2014.
Here’s a tale of the tape between the two squads ahead of Monday’s CFP National Championship game.
Established: 1890
Conference: Big Ten
Stadium: Ohio Stadium (102,780 capacity)
Head coach: Ryan Day (2019-present)
2024 season record: 13-2
2024 season leaders:
2024 AP Top 25 final ranking: No. 6
Total championships: Eight (2014, 2002, 1970, 1968, 1961, 1957, 1954, 1942)
All-time record: 977-335-53 (.744)
Bowl record: 26-23 (.531)
Heisman winners:
Head-to-head vs. Notre Dame: 6-2, 25.6 points scored per game
Established: 1887
Conference: Independent
Stadium: Notre Dame Stadium (80,795 capacity)
Head coach: Marcus Freeman (2021-present)
2024 season record: 14-1
2024 season leaders:
2024 AP Top 25 final ranking: No. 3
Total championships: 13 (1988, 1977, 1973, 1966, 1964, 1949, 1947, 1946, 1943, 1930, 1929, 1924, 1919)
All-time record: 962-338-42 (.740)
Bowl record: 23-18 (.561)
Heisman winners:
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Tim Brown, 1987
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John Huarte, 1964
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Paul Hornung, 1956
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John Lattner, 1953
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Leon Hart, 1949
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John Lujack, 1947
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Angelo Bertelli, 1943
Head-to-head vs. Ohio State: 2-6, 17.4 points scored per game
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Zaxby’s, a popular fried chicken chain, is getting its first Ohio location in Liberty Township.
A 56-seat Zaxby’s restaurant and drive-thru is planned to open at Freedom Pointe, next to Costco. The development, which was initially planned to be a hotel, will also house three other eateries: E+O Kitchen, which has locations at The Banks, Hyde Park and Loveland; Bismarck Donut and Coffee Shop and El Rancho Grande, said Christy Gloyd, Liberty Township’s marketing and events manager.
Costco opened near Interstate 75 on Cox Road in 2022. Construction on the new restaurants starts this summer, Gloyd said.
“We’re just really excited to be growing over there at Freedom Pointe,” she told The Enquirer. “Having Costco as the anchor is huge. Just to have another family-friendly restaurant and have the variety – to have the Zaxby’s and E+O and El Rancho Grande – I think it’s really going to be a nice offering for our residents.”
Atlanta-headquartered Zaxby’s has over 900 locations in 17 states, mostly in the South and Midwest. The chain is known for its chicken fingers and wings, sandwiches and salads. The closest Zaxby’s locations currently open are over an hour away, in Shelbyville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky.
Sales for license plates featuring Dolly Parton’s face began Monday for $25. All proceeds will go to fund her Imagination Library
Watch: Dolly Parton visits Columbus to promote Imagination Library
Dolly Parton sang a little and told a few jokes at a Tuesday luncheon in Columbus
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Fans of country music legend Dolly Parton can show off their pride for the singer with a new Ohio license plate.
Ohio drivers can now purchase license plates featuring Parton for $25. The money from each plate will go to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio, a charity that gives children ages 5 and younger a free book each month. The state began selling the plates Monday.
Specifically, the funds will go to the purchaser’s local county program of the library, which it says will pay for mailing a child 12 books, enough for an entire year. Ohio is the second state to offer a license plate supporting the library after Parton’s home state of Tennessee.
First lady Fran DeWine has focused on expanding the Imagination Library in Ohio since her husband Gov. Mike DeWine took office in 2019. She was inspired when she saw her grandchildren receive books through the program and by 2020, it had expanded to all of Ohio’s 88 counties.
“I’m excited to see Ohio as the second state to offer a specialty Dolly Parton license plate to support her program, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, in Ohio,” Fran DeWine said in a press release. “With each purchase, $25 will go back to supporting the local program, helping to ensure the program remains available to all families in Ohio.”
The plates are available to purchase online at OPlates.com or in-person at a local deputy registrar license agency.
Gov. DeWine signed House Bill 315 which included the Parton Plates on Jan. 2. The original bill, sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood, received unanimous yes votes in both chambers before the license plate language was put into the larger HB 315.
Donovan Hunt is a fellow in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism’s Statehouse News Bureau.
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