Who is responsible for removing the county from the new Ohio license plates?
Showing the county was an advantage for the traveler as well as the good (local) driver, because when you noticed an out-of-city plate, you always were more careful, as they could be unfamiliar with Cincy streets… Riding that reader’s bumper was another one, who wanted to know why Ohio requires a front license plate, while some states (Kentucky in particular) require only one in the rear. Answers: First, let’s commend the reader who excuses tentative driving by unfamiliar drivers and even offers to help them with directions. The Stupid staff suggests the same consideration for Cincinnati east-siders feeling their way through Finneytown. But on to the answers. Newer license plates in Ohio do have county stickers, but they come in the form of numbers not words. Number designations have been around since 1992, when the state started producing special plates (military, colleges, Lake Erie) that left little room for HAMILTON, let alone TUSCARAWAS. Regular plates continued to use stickers
