Gov. Mike DeWine has finally awakened to the decline in Ohio. State population projections forecast a fall from the seventh most populous state to ninth, supplanted by Georgia and North Carolina by 2030.

While the nation is expected to be 17 percent more populated in 2050, Ohio is projected to have 5.7 percent, or 675,000, fewer people.

People are voting with their feet, and Ohio is losing. The problem is state policy puts too much money on metro Columbus and lets the rest of the state crumble. Ohio’s own population projections prove it.

Franklin County population is expected to grow by 12.39 percent, but the counties that surround Columbus are set to boom with 53.6 percent more people in Delaware County, 25 percent more in Union County, almost 18 percent in Licking County, nearly 15 pe

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