Tolling inches ever closer as Jeff Gahan announces exciting new water slide.

The funniest part about yesterday's news stories about impending final approval of Ohio River bridges tolling rates can be summarized by this single sentence, in "Final Tolling Plan Released For Ohio River Bridges Project" (by Rick Howlett, WFPL):

Officials will vote on the tolling plan Wednesday.

Vote?

Think of it as the sort of election these guys used to hold.

Ah, yes; those halcyon days of 98.6% "yes," with the lone dissenter forced to relocate to luxury apartments being constructed from balsa and Elmer's.

Speaking of brand-dead regimes, over here in New Albany ...

It's going to be a long and degrading year, isn't it?