CBF Morning Run: Watching Florence bash my beach, toasting Ohio’s bourbon lottery and approaching Judge Wapner’s bench


Happy Friday morning, Columbus.

There is a video camera attached to a pier that pokes into the Atlantic Ocean at one of my favorite places on Earth – Emerald Isle, North Carolina.

The small island is about 630 miles from my house in Clintonville. It's a drive I've made again and again over the years. I went there with my wife and friends when we first got married 29 years ago. Jackie and I took our daughters there as infants and have returned with them as adults.

For the past 18 years, I have…

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