His old coach invested in us kids. I m forever grateful, Sutton said. That man did so much for us. It was like teaching you life through basketball. It wasn t just about basketball. It was about life.
His appreciation of the game led him to coach inner-city youth basketball for years.
When his older son, Dorian, was bullied in high school, Sutton drew from that experience and his coaching background to start a youth mentoring and anti-bullying program. He held sessions in Columbus city schools and even made a few appearances on local news broadcasts, teaming up for a time with Cabot Rea, a now-retired anchor with WCMH-TV (Channel 4), who had started a Battle Against Bullying effort.
Gov. Mike DeWine: Hold my syringe.
By God, it s a stroke of genius.
DeWine unveiled his Ohio Vax-a-Million plan on Wednesday, during a news conference in which he also announced the dialing-back of pandemic restrictions that have been in place since, what, 1975?
Other states are trying similar strategies to raise their vaccination numbers, which have begun to plateau.
West Virginia announced last week that residents ages 16 to 35 would be eligible to receive a $100 savings bond. New Jersey announced a shot and a beer program for residents of legal drinking age, and Maine is offering free hunting or fishing licenses, L.L. Bean gift cards and other prizes to residents who get their shots by Memorial Day.
But I am on board with the city s public potty plan.
Promises to build restrooms are not the bedrock of successful political campaigns, and their absence does not raise the voting public s hackles in the way that an absence of snow removal equipment might. City mayors have lost elections over the latter. If a mayor has been ousted over the former, I d be surprised. I d also want to hear about it.
Columbus has enough on its plate, it may be argued, that public restrooms should be taking a back seat to more-pressing issues. Chief among them are the city s hunt for a new police chief and its search for solutions to a run of violence that may well surpass last year s record-setting homicide total.