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Location – Vern Riffe, Ohio's long-time Democratic Speaker of the House, has a building named after him. It sits across from the Statehouse and is connected by an underground walkway. – – Seats of Power vs. Box Seats – Housing all sorts of important offices for state legislators and their underlings, the Riffe Center might be mistaken for just another stuffy and pretentious downtown skyscraper. But someone had the foresight to establish the Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts. The building contains two theater/performance spaces that are utilized by local…