Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Charleston, Ohio - I Like the Sound of That

In one of the weirdest election results from yesterday, the town of Killington, Vermont has voted to secede from the state of Vermont and join neighboring New Hampshire. Aside from the legal problems (both state legislatures have to agree to the deal), here's a geographic one - Killington is 25 miles west of the Vermont / New Hampshire border! Look at the map in the CNN.com story - it's right in the middle of the state. What's the logic in that? Why not join New York, which appears to be about the same distance to the west? How would a city in the middle of another state be set up? Berlin during the Cold War, but with better skiing, maybe?

By this logic, I think we should solve Charleston's chronic money problems by seceding from West Virginia and joining Ohio.

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