Lorain County (Ohio county government)

This is a treat.

But before I get into that one, I'm out in Lorain County where it's still natural grass.

And I'll tell you what, if you want some beautiful fairway grass, you come to Columbia High School at Southwest General Stadium.

All about the grass.

They're working to get their name right back where they were on Columbia Station.

This whole region over here is a fun one in there.

And, too, I'll rep my side of the I'm a Lorain County guy.

Yes, sir.

and you had just a groundswell of people all around the state, especially in more rural areas, there was very high turnout and they voted for Trump.

And then in areas like Youngstown, more blue collar counties, Youngstown, Mahoning County, and Lorain County, west of Cleveland, you had those counties go for Trump as well.

Now the question is whether Republicans can hold onto those votes and get those voters to turn out in a non-presidential election year.

And so it and then even if they turn out, do they vote for Houston and Ramaswamy or do they undervote? And I think that the undervote might be the story if I'm writing a postmortem on November 4th about how Governor-elect Acton and Senator-elect Brown are coming into office about that undervote about people who turned out, but they left the Senate and the governor's spaces blank when they cast a ballot.

I retired in February after 37 years with the city of Elyria, Ohio Fire.

Elyria is in northern Ohio in Lorain County, just west of Cleveland.

town's about 55,000 old rust belt town.

As I like to say, um, my fire department, three stations, um, we did not do transport EMS, but we ran a high volume.

Yeah.

You know, you're seeing your guy and your shift.

I keep thinking because around me in Lorain County, there are a few fire departments are full time.

They run squads.

1320 a.m. Much appreciated.

Listen, we love being on the radio in Lorain County.

If you're listening to our voice, thank you so much.

It is a humbling experience.

I'll just give a little bit of background about myself, I guess.

I'm originally from a cornfield in the middle of Lorain County.

I married a Parma girl, so I live in Parma now.

I've lived here since beginning of 2020.

Then the lake began giving something back.

Along the shoreline in Lorain County, west of Cleveland, two bodies washed ashore.

They were identified as Captain Ezra Wright and his brother Robert.

Whatever hope remained that the lake serpent was sitting damaged in some distant harbor disappeared with them.

Um, I went to a vocational school trade program.

Um, it's in Oberlin, Lorain County JVS.

And, um, Especially at that time, very known for, you know, their, their culinary program, which is shocking for a high school.

Um, but, uh, their, um, culinary instructor at the time to make itch was, you know, a CIA guy, you know, and just an incredible talent and would enter all kinds of culinary competitions statewide nationwide.

First, let me introduce Todd Sharkey.

Todd is the IT Director for Lorain County, Ohio.

Over the last 15 months, Todd and his team have been working on numerous projects to modernize the IT infrastructure for Lorain County Commissioners.

This includes a redesign of the network infrastructure, both wired and wireless, migrating multiple internal domains to Microsoft 365, implementing modern cybersecurity initiatives, and consolidating numerous servers to a VM platform and storage array.

Todd has over 25 years of experience in technology, covering a wide range of experience across networking, application development, web development, database development, database and software migrations, marketing, and leadership.

Before joining Lorain County, he was the director of IT at the Chapel and Acre Akron, Ohio, a large non-denominational church with seven campuses.

In the 90s, Todd was an Information Systems Analyst for the City of Akron Engineering Bureau.

Also joining us today is Khaled Tafik.