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- Retain existing nuclear power plants
- Expand nuclear engineering programs at public universities
- Provide funding for advanced nuclear reactor research that use different fuels like thorium and different coolants like molten salt
- Deploy small modular nuclear reactors
Natural Gas
- Require safer, more efficient methods of fracking that results in less wastewater.
- Require natural gas companies prevent methane gas leaks
- Invest in developing cheaper methods of natural gas extraction, refining, and shipping.
- Begin exploring future uses for natural gas and other fossil fuels within a carbon neutral, sustainable framework
Wind and Solar
- Expand solar cell production even further
- Build rooftop solar arrays, no solar farms
- Expand wind farming in western Ohio
- Mitigate damage of wind farms
- Invest in wind turbine improvements to reduce footprint, increase efficiency
Electric Grid
- Smart grid
- Incorporate smart grid into broadband expansion
Battery Storage
- Ohio invest in variety of storage devices
- Invest in lithium battery production to help dominate electric vehicle industry
Agriculture
Crop Diversity
- Popularize more foods
- Education of preferred farming techniques, different system of crop rotation
- Develop techniques for farming greater variety of crops
- Seek out and develop new crops
- Restore eastern agricultural complex
- Prepare for a post-corn world
Precision Farming
- Develop precision farming tools/sensors/software
- Create program to incorporate precision farming techniques into Ohio farming
Genetic Modification
- GMOs good
- Reduce red tape wherever possible
- Open source GMOs
Industrial Farming and Automation
- Explore paths for more efficient, more sustainable industrial scale farming
- Invest in technologies to increase automation of harvesting
Forestry
- Cross laminated timber products
- Forestry as carbon sinks
- Government managed reforesting of disused farmland if the collapse of ethanol proves so damaging to land prices.
Unconventional Farming Techniques
- Aquaponics
- Algae Farming
- Hydroponics
- Vertical Farming
Housing and Construction
Public Works/Infrastructure
- Modular
- Better examination of cost/benefit estimations
- Don’t always settle for lowest bid, examine bids carefully
- Penalties for contracts that exceed a certain percentage of estimated costs
- More flood prevention
- Integration of Ohio’s state infrastructure bank into new Ohio government banking system
Housing
- Cross laminated timber products for taller wooden structures
- Modular
- Preservation and restoration of existing housing
- Transition from property tax to land value tax
- Rezoning to allow denser housing and mixture of residential and commercial
Healthcare
- Decouple healthcare from health insurance.
- Decouple health insurance from employment.
- Create an interstate healthcare standards compact to simplify operation of healthcare providers across state lines.
- Explore how Ohio can pursue a Direct Care model while working within the stringent requirements of federal law and the ACA.
- Transparent pricing
- Invest in new hospitals, targeting rural Ohio first, through a broad infrastructure program.
- Reduce exhaustive paperwork, tort reform
- Expand medical school openings and reduce costs.
- Repeal Ohio’s Certificate of Need laws.
- Raise awareness of the value and importance of timely vaccination
- Greater access to medicine through telemedicine
- Greater development of remote health monitoring technologies
- Greater emphasis on both preventative care and general quality of life/health improvement
Education
Post-Secondary
- Open source textbooks and course materials
- Open source online education programs created and provided jointly by Ohio’s public universities, community colleges, and high schools
- More directly linking community colleges and technical schools with local high schools for more seamless transition
- Make public universities partially liable for unpaid student loans
- Eliminate obstacles for students seeking transcripts
- Expand and modify programs of vital economic importance (nuclear engineering, medical, teaching, aerospace engineering, programming)
- Consider alternative approaches for assessing student performance beyond basic GPA (weighting courses, for instance)
Primary and Secondary Education
- Eliminate 12th grade
- Universal pre-k
- Support internal diversity and innovation in education by providing multiple styles and paths within schools (this is my compromise with pro and anti-charter school folks)
- Universal vouchers
- Centralize funding a little more (maybe with universal vouchers in a horrifying market experiment)
- More integration of web enabled and self-paced education
- Really need to eliminate lead and asbestos in school
- Good lord, we desperately need to upgrade ventilation and airflow in schools
- We’re going to teach my version of economics from now on, so Tim decrees!
Aerospace
- Space mining
- Satellites
- New propulsion and rocketry
Transportation
- Never give up on autonomous vehicles
- Ohio centric high speed rail (acceleration is much more important than max velocity here)
- Electric vehicle production
- Build out train connections from Ohio’s small cities to the tri-C route
- Why are highways so expensive to build? I blame people
- Make subways cheap by doing the opposite of whatever NYC does
Communication
- Rural broadband
- 5G
- Domestic competition in internet provision
- Link with rollout of smartgrid
- Enshrine the right of individuals to the data they produce
Resource Management
- Space mining
- Developing techniques for the harvesting of rare earth elements from disused coal mines
- Natural gas and oil sustainability
- See if we can making mining in Ohio a thing again but cheap and clean
- Cleaning up after ourselves
- Figure out something to do with carbon: nanotubes, graphene, carbon fiber
Innovation and Industrial Policy
- The importance of standard setting to market dominance
- The American system forever! Interoperability, modularity.
- Clusters
- Establish Bank of Ohio for Ohio government funds, roll in Ohio infrastructure bank
- Foster a culture of innovation and self-improvement
Ohio Investment Bank (an idea I just won’t let die)
- Large state controlled venture capital fund
- Tied into university technology transfer offices
- Small business services (paperwork, accounting)
- Export, import, and supply chain management assistance
- The means by which most technological growth and industry investment will be achieved
Government
- Experimental policy
- State government as standard setter and centralizer of information
- Local governments for implementation, tailor local policy to meet state targets
- Democracy dollars
- Eliminate state senate (maybe)
- If not, 6 at large senators
- 225 person general assembly
- salaries cut to $20,000/yr
- 3 year terms, 75 up for election per year
- Alternatively 6 year terms, 75 up every two years
- Eliminate self funding (you can contribute as much to your own campaign as anyone else can)
- Automatic voter registration
- Same day voter registration
- Lower voting age to 17
- Independent Redistricting
- Ranked Choice or Approval Voting
- Bank of Ohio to hold state’s funds
- More transparency from 501c4 or a ban on political spending
- Digital government, every interaction with the government should reasonably be done online and in a simplified format. Never stand in line!
- Eliminate the Ohio Commercial Activity Tax
- Return of the Inheritance tax
- Sales tax to value added tax
- Property tax to land value tax
- Increase taxes on incomes above $150,000 individual a year
- The Independent Commission on Taxation
Criminal Justice
- Judicial discretion, eliminate mandatory minimums on a lot of things
- Decriminalize drugs (and start trying to release drug offenders from prisons)
- Legalize marijuana and really liberalize that market, none of these state sponsored monopolies
- No private prisons
- Increases educational resources and skills training within prisons