Every so often a rumor begins to circulate and, for whatever reason, you think: “I hope it’s true.” I had such a moment this week.

Today there is one less large thing named after a man from Ohio, and the other men from Ohio are hopping mad. “Our beloved Ohio man needs his name on the large thing,” they cry. Their cries fall on deaf ears: Alaska’s Mt. McKinley is now Denali.

President Barack Obama announced on Sunday that he is changing the name of Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, to Denali. (Can he do that? So he can.)

O, little town of Bethel, Alaska. Things were finally looking up for you.