A statue of someone from Ohio is going to Washington DC to represent the state in the Capital Hall of Statuary with James Garfield.  Each state has two statues.   It is down to 10 finalists to replace the statue of an Ohioan who is being sent home…

Legacy For Ohio lists the finalists:
01. James M. Ashley
02. Thomas Edison
03. Ulysses S. Grant
04. William McCulloch
05. Jesse Owens
06. Judith Resnik
07. Albert Sabin
08. Harriet Beecher Stowe
09. Harriet Taylor Upton
10. Orville and Wilbur Wright (counted as one)

The names on the list on their site are links just in case you don’t recognize one or two or three or four or more of the names… I thought I did NOT recognize one but I do.  From when I lived in Akron…  but need to look at… goodness, entirely too many.

The voting will start March 20, 2010.   There is a list of polling places.  The Ohio Historical Society and the State House look like it for Central Ohio…

Who should replace the racist Ohioan in DC -    August 2009 post about  the statue

Columbus goes to the Oscars…. make that the Academy Awards.

Just a quick note to let you know Columbus own Flick Chick Kelly Gingery is live blogging the Academy Awards tonight – Columbus goes to the Oscars with Chick Flick TV

Details on the FlickChick.com blog.    Watch FlickChick.tv tonight.

A play on the famous Grant Wood painting – Short North, Columbus, OH

Originally uploaded by neighborhoods.org

Short North, Columbus OH was not always known as the “Short North.”

WOSU is showing a documentary Monday evening at 8 PM about the Shorth North neighborhood in Columbus Ohio,  The Short North : A History

“FROM THE DOCUMENTARY: In a city of neighborhoods, it’s the neighborhood that connects us to the past – and to each other – the Short North. It gets backbone and grit from Harrison West, elegance from Victorian Village; it’s anchored in the traditions of Italian Village, and the vivid impressions of Flytown which now lives only in memory.”

I remember visiting the Short North before I moved to Columbus in 1990. I remember the murals, not necessarily this one.

” A play on the famous Grant Wood painting -Short North, Columbus, OH “

is a photo owned and shared via Flickr by neighborhoods.org     The photo of the Short North mural is on the neighborhood.org  ’s Flickr photostream.

The WOSU program is the first in a series about Columbus Ohio neighborhoods.

Channel 4 tweeted a story about the Ohio Historical Societies project to document historical blunders.

The “Ohio’s Top 10 Most Embarrassing Moments” on ‘Collections an Ohio Historical Society Blog’
08. Newark Board of Trade Finds a Curious Way to Save An Earthwork
09. Rhodes’ Road to Canada
10. Ohio Antiquities are Treasured … in London

Sounds like number 8 was posted and started something.    I had heard of Number 8, not so sure I had heard of the other two Embarrassing Moments in Ohio’s history!

Psychology  Today offers home pricing strategy…

I don’t know that any brokers in our Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS (multiple listing service) are currently  using the strategy a Psychology  Today blogger recommends for what ails today’s home sellers :

” Psychology is key to selling in today’s real estate market.”

In the past the psychology  of using a price range was used by some brokers in the Columbus Board of REALTORS MLS (multiple listing service.)  hmmm is anyone using it now?

Broker  Bryant Tutas in Poinciana Florida has long recommended   “Range Pricing.”  Range Pricing is sometimes called VRM for Value Range Marketing.  Tutas uses it and has written about it numerous times on ActiveRain a real estate network.

In the Psychology  Today blog called  Priceless I found home pricing advice from a physicist?

I found the Psychology Today blog post  via Google searching for news with the word Zestimates when I wrote  the post “Appraisal Institute says Zestimates suck” Darn!  Steve Shatsky a Dallas Texas short sale specialist   commented my title shoulda been “Zestimates Zuck.”  How depressing a missed opportunity!  But enough  about me…  when I came out of the depression I slipped into over my poor blog title, I went searching for news on Zillow’s Zesitmates, an AVM (Automated Valuation Model) the Appraisal Institute recently said is inaccurate (they would never say it sucked.)     Poundstone seems to believe the Zillow Zestimate on an LA home is inaccurate, but low.

Psychology  Today offers  home pricing strategies…

Who knew Psychology Today had blogs, much less blogs that offer home pricing strategy amid the Therapist Finder and all the anti depressant ads… but there it is:

Home Won’t Sell? Try Two Prices Instead of One the post by William Poundstone a physicist and author says:

“There may be a smart psychological tactic for anxious home sellers: List a house with two prices. In Australia, it’s been the custom for sellers to do that, giving a minimum and a maximum asking price.”

I don’t know if anyone in the  Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS  does Value Range Marketing now… I think at least one local Prudential franchise did Value Range Marketing in the past.  Long ago.  In the 1990s.   What price goes in?  The low price?    Is the blogger with Psychology Today recommends going with the Zestimate as your high price?   Gee the  Appraisal Institute says “Zestimates Zuck”

Image credit – Freud toys…  from onefromrom ’s Flickr photostream shared with a Creative Commons License that allows commercial use.   http://www.flickr.com/photos/onefromrome/ / CC BY 2.0