“If we can pull off sustainability in our little zoo, smack-dab in a non-touristy, bad- weather town like Cincinnati, you can do it at your zoos, too,” Maynard says, full of his usual swashbuckling swagger. “We’re stuck here in the belt buckle of the Tea Party when it comes to local politics—not like those lucky liberal ‘socialists’ up there in Columbus who get all kinds of tax support to run their zoo. My job is to keep the money rolling in.”

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