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Income Tax Hike Leads, Southwestern Schools Levy Trails

With 91% of the Franklin County precincts reporting, The Columbus Income Tax issue maintains a healthy lead. With 481 out of 528 Franklin County precincts reporting, the votes for the income tax hike totaled 42,177 (52%) while votes against the tax increase totaled 38,745 (48%).

In the small portion of Columbus that lies in Delaware County, the "no" votes totaled 267 and the "yes" votes totaled 152. A small number of Columbus voters live in Fairfield County. Those results have not been posted.

In the Southwestern City School district, votes against the levy totaled 16,055 (51%) to votes for the levy which totaled 15,344 (49%).

Mike Thompson spends much of his time correcting people who mispronounce the name of his hometown – Worcester, Massachusetts. Mike studied broadcast journalism at Syracuse University when he was not running in circles – as a distance runner on the SU track team.