If you’ve followed the Dispatch (or this site) this week, you’ve no doubt seen the recent drumbeat at just how regrettable it is that labor won’t sit down and try to work out a compromise on Senate Bill 5.  I’ve called it a totally manufactured story by the Columbus Dispatch.  A story designed to present Kasich as willing to compromise but labor as unbending.  It turns out, I wasn’t too far off.

Here’s the timeline of how this all became public, as told by the Dispatch yesterday:

On Sunday, a Dispatch editorial called for proponents and opponents […]