MayDay

Hmm... is it me or is PigPen (the anime version) sort of hot, in that scruffy/edgy-drifter sort of way? ???

"Tim Hagan's lame response was, "if we responded to questions we'd be here all day." And that smug arrogance will be his (and if he doesn't shape up, the proposed sales tax) undoing.

Awwwwww :-)

From newsnet5.com: New Airline Could Land In Cleveland CLEVELAND -- A new airline could be landing in Cleveland, NewsChannel5 reported. Virgin Airlines said its new branch, Virgin America, is considering setting up a counter and gates at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. The upstart airline has been given the green light by the U.S. Department of Transportation to begin operations, and is now selling tickets to San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas. Virgin America is promising low fares and perks such as brand-new planes with cutting-edge in-flight entertainment, leather seats, massage chairs and mood lighting. The airline plans to serve 10 U.S. cities within a year of operation and up to 30 cities within five years. Cities under consideration include: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Hartford, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Nashville, Newark, New Orleans, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Providence, Portland, Ore., Raleigh-Durham, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Jose, Calif., Sarasota, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa and West Palm Beach.

Why yes, yes he was!

This was interesting :lol: From cleveland.com Councilman Polensek's letter threatens drug suspect, mother says Thursday, July 19, 2007 Susan Vinella Plain Dealer Reporter The mother of a drug-trafficking suspect accuses City Councilman Mike Polensek of threatening her son in a letter that refers to the 18-year-old as a "crack dealing piece of trash" and closes with "go to jail or the cemetery soon." Polensek sent the letter earlier this month after Arsenio T. Winston was arrested and charged with selling drugs near a convenience store in Polensek's East Side neighborhood. More at cleveland.com http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1184834117148930.xml&coll=2

Welcome to Cleveland - it looks like you'll want to check the 77/Brecksville bus line http://www.gcrta.org/pdf/77.pdf. If I'm reading the map and schedule correctly, the 77 looks like it goes right down Brecksville Road. Keep in mind the suburbs tend to have less frequent service (if you work 9 to 5, it might not be a problem), but it does look like you can pick up the 77 at several different locations in downtown. If it ends up that the 77 works for you, you'll want to consider living near Tower City Center, or near the Prospect/East 14th area since that seems to be the route the 77 will take.

Okay, I suppose 8Shades had to pull us back on topic... :roll: ;-)

At what point did I suggest Gateway shouldn't have been built? :whip: :whip: :whip: "I'm not saying it hasn't had spinoff, or that it hasn't had some great benefits to the city" "I'm not saying it hasn't had spinoff, or that it hasn't had some great benefits to the city" "I'm not saying it hasn't had spinoff, or that it hasn't had some great benefits to the city" All I'm saying is, taxpayers got (and are still getting) screwed with the f#ckups behind Gateway, many of them arranged by Tim Hagan. Now, he's behind a Medical Mart which would benefit his Kennedy family connections, and again projecting a deluge of jobs, spinoff, etc. If taxpayers are leery of the Medical Mart proposal, they aren't being whiny or cheap (okay, maybe some are), they're probably still seething at the mismanagement from earlier projects they largely funded. Average citizens may be proud of the projects from the 90s, but they certainly don't benefit as much as the ultra-wealthy have (at average citizen's expense).

Good luck, grasscat - you've earned some time off :-)

The problem isn't that it's chump change (which it is), it's that the residents of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County feel they have have been fleeced and taxed ad nauseum. Jacobs Field, Q Arena, the Rock Hall, Browns Stadium have all been touted as "for the greater good", but their projected ROI hasn't been met. We're talking about billions in taxpayer dollars that went to projects which were mismanaged, etc. One big problem is that the same person (Tim Hagan) promised back in the early 90s that Gateway would be a huge moneymaker for the city. I'm not saying it hasn't had spinoff, or that it hasn't had some great benefits to the city - but the tens of thousands of jobs, and the hundreds of thousands in revenue never materialized. In some cases, the city's lost a ton of "chump change" because of how these projects were handled. The Cavs have never paid a dime in rent to Gateway (the non-profit running the arena) because of sweetheart deals. So here's Tim Hagan again pitching a mega-project that will be what? And how will the project be built? Ah yes, there has to be millions footed by taxpayers. He doesn't have a good track record, and honestly if people put him under scrutiny, I don't blame them a bit. I can sneeze at $.25 for every $100, but I want that money managed well - and I don't see a good history here. I'm not the biggest fan of Roldo Bartimole, but he does a good job sizing up why people in Cuyahoga County have every reason to be leery of yet more tax dollars going to a project that promises the kind of spinoff the Med Mart does: Scroll to the bottom, where he has one of his earlier columns about Gund Arena (now the Q), and look at how much corporate welfare was handed out by Tim Hagan (and others): http://lakewoodbuzz.com/RoldoBartimole/RB-101806-ClevelandPlatinumWorldatQ-LakewoodOhio-RoldoBartimole.html http://lakewoodbuzz.com/RoldoBartimole/RB%2002-19-06%20Gateway%20Garages%20Cuyahoga%20Cleveland%20Lakewood%20Ohio%20Roldo%20Bartimole.html

Yeah, that's reeeeallly stretching it - I mean, I'm glad to see Detroit-Shoreway's progress but ain't no way that it will resemble this anytime soon:

"No wonder you're sympathetic towards my windex victims!" No, I'm not really affected by that kind of stuff (it's strictly pollen and weather changes that set off my sinuses). I'm not sympathetic to neurotic spazzes like that, but you really should spray on the towel first and then wipe the table. It keeps the chemicals from getting in peoples' drinks and off peoples' clothes.

I merged the Medical Mart and Convention Center threads, and removed some duplicate posts. Carry on...

"Easton isnt that far from downtown actually." 8 miles as the crow flies - not much less than Cleveland's Beachwood (9 miles from downtown, an outer-ring 'burb). That's a substantial distance if you ask me. :|

"That's gotta be healthy for the seniors. Or anyone else with respiratory/allergy issues - my allergies are a nuisance with northeast Ohio's pollen, but the dust and smog in Phoenix made me absolutely miserable.

"Cruel, self-centered heartbreaker I am." 'atta girl! :clap:

That's a woman's way of indirectly giving a signal that she's available (or soon to be), and she's putting out feelers to see if you're interested in return. You learn a lot (a lot) about women when they realize you're not ever going to hit on them.

Well, that cleared everything up for me!

^^ Thank you David - I remember the area as being sort of ranch-house middle class; I take it that's not the case anymore? :?

Is this area near the Sullivant Avenue Friends Church? Don't ask why I'm asking.

Most of the Soviet-era architecture of the time is of that stylized neo-classicism, and in fact the Terminal Tower bears a strong resemblance to NYC's Municipal Building. It's highly unlikely there was any actual "copying", though there's certainly a similarity there. Lev Rudnev, the architect of the Moscow tower also designed the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw.

Two years and nine months.