Strickland team hits the ground running
STARK COUNTY - It’s much too early to fill out a report card for Gov. Ted Strickland’s administration, which is still counting its tenure in weeks. But who would not be pleased with the attention that Stark County has received so far?
The most high-profile notice that Stark has drawn from Columbus was the visit Friday by Chris Korleski, new director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. After only one day on the job, Korleski toured the Countywide landfill in Pike Township and declared that figuring out what is going on underground there will be his top priority.
Earlier in the week, workers at the Hoover plant in North Canton were assured by Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, who also heads the Department of Development, that he will do all he can to protect their jobs as yet another owner takes over the company.
And Treasurer Richard Cordray, eager to see how much vacant state-owned land can be put back on the tax rolls or made useful otherwise, included Stark County in the first 20 counties to be inventoried.
We expected change as a result of the near-total ousting of Republican statewide administrators in November. The determination of some of their Democratic successors to hit the ground running is impressive, even so.
