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rhunt wrote:why's this got to be an Ohio thing...there's lots to be said about people that live in Ky

I believe Lordjim already said what is "to be said" in an earlier post...

lordjim_2001 wrote:...KY is just wierd when it comes down to it.

Uh, last I checked RM, you live in KY.

Mj

I don't really think anything within 5 miles of the river bordering cincinnati is actually considered Ky....it's more a giant subburb of the city.

How does your address read again?

Mj

so is northern michigan in canadia?

Heck, we consider anything in Indiana south of Bloomington to be Kentucky!

aaron wrote:so is northern michigan in canadia?

Sure is. As a matter of fact, I'd wager the majority of the population in northern MI is actually of Canadian descent, slowly infiltrating the US as part of a grass-roots effort to over-throw the US. Look at all the actors/actresses and comedians born in Canada. TO ARMS!!!

SikMonkey wrote:How does your address read again?

Mj

Which one?

Rain Man wrote:I don't really think anything within 5 miles of the river bordering cincinnati is actually considered Ky....it's more a giant subburb of the city.

Which is why if I was to run for state office I'd introduce legislation to annex northern KY to Ohio. If people from northern KY want to be part of Ohio so bad that they say they're from Cincinnati when they really live in Erlanger then we might as well make them part of the Buckeye state.

As for the P-wall situation folks are right, change would have to occur on the state level. While there was encouragement from the RRGCC's presentation at the Tourism and Economic Development Committe meeting, there is still a long way to go. It usually take a session or two get legislation moving, but this ban on rock climbing in KY state parks isn't filled with quite the same amount of controversy as fetal homicide or tax modernization, but it would meet with some opposition from folks like the Nat Bridge park super.

A potential key to getting the ban lifted might lie in the something the Governor said in his budge adress back in January. Fletch wants all the state parks to make money, right now all but one looses money each year. One way for Natural Bridge State Park to make money might be to allow climbing, but charge a park use fee. A fee you say?! Yes a fee might work, think of it as a comprimise. We pay a fee to climb rocks, the park makes some money, the park has money to patrol climbing (something they say they can't do right now because due to lack of money), and we can again enjoy such classics as Mississippi Moon. Think about it, its just one idea to get back into the game with KY State Parks.

At any rate, as climbers we need to contact our legislators and let them know that the ban on rock climbing in KY State Parks is seriously handicapping the parks (and local communities) ability to make money.

lordjim_2001 wrote:But "climbers" die more often than your normal run of the mill touron.

Oh? Tourons are immortal? No. They fall off cliffs pretty often themselves. Though they usually get labelled as climbers.