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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been fostering granular-level government for a half-century.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The month they are born, all Ohio children can be enrolled in a program that sends a book (“The Little Engine That Could”) addressed to them personally. This introduction to an indispensable ingredient of success and happiness — reading — is apublic-private collaboration with Dolly Parton’sImagination Library, embraced byGov. Mike DeWine and some other governors. The 400,000 children currently in the program will receive 59 more books, one a month, until at age 5 they receive “Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!”
