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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Thu Jun 11, 2015, 11:37 AM Jun 2015

Nat'l Park Service doesn't object to Mount McKinley name change

Alaska Dispatch

Obama administration doesn't object to Mount McKinley name change

The National Park Service says it won't get in the middle of the decades-long, Ohio-versus-Alaska fight over changing the name of North America’s tallest mountain to Denali.

Politics | Erica Martinson
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http://www.adn.com/article/20150610/obama-administration-doesnt-object-mount-mckinley-name-change

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Nat'l Park Service doesn't object to Mount McKinley name change (Original Post) Panich52 Jun 2015 OP

As an Ohioan, I don't mind either. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2015 #1

About time to let Denali be official. uppityperson Jun 2015 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

1. As an Ohioan, I don't mind either.

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Thu Jun 11, 2015, 11:40 AM

Jun 2015

And I bet if you polled the state, the vast majority of folks from Ohio wouldn't care either. You put people in office and suddenly they start thinking silly things are important, like keeping the name of a mountain thousands of miles away tied to a President who just happened to be born here.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

2. About time to let Denali be official.

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Thu Jun 11, 2015, 11:42 AM

Jun 2015

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