Outsiders tend to judge your city or state on a short list of benchmarks: how many sports teams you have, number of gourmet cupcake shops, and Fortune 500 companies.
Ohio does pretty well on at least two of these fronts. (We could really use more gourmet cupcake shops, to be honest.)
Via Crain’s, the new Fortune 500 list is out and 27 companies call the Buckeye State home. Only New York , California, Texas, and Illinois have more. View the whole list here if you wish, or just grab the CliffsNotes version after the jump.
This article appears in May 4-10, 2011.
Until they get chased out but retard mayors that have NO business sense…