Ram23

I met the guy who designed UC's College of Law once when I was a young kid. He talked to me about architecture for a few solid hours. He also designed the Geo-Phys Building, and you can see a lot of similarities between the two. It's a shame the Law Building is only going to last 30-40 some years. What's a bigger shame is Wilson Auditorium, further down on Clifton. UC has had their eye on tearing that down for awhile, in order to build a new consolidated building for Arts & Sciences. I'd imagine it goes before Law does.

Where is the "Like" button? As a personal opinion of someone who sometimes designs web pages... I think those sites are both ugly, although Current is marginally better.

I think he seems like the leading choice at the moment. I'd imagine that basically everyone in the running is pro-streetcar, as even most Republicans I know are in favor of it. I have always had the sense that it's the fringes on either side that are against it, which is further backed up by the weird coalition that's formed. For some reason, in Cincy the fringes on the left and right sides are content with the status quo.

^ I saw New Haven, CT has already surpassed it's annual total snow average by about 8 inches.. and January isn't even over yet.

I'm always amazed at how ignorant someone can be when they call another's views ignorant. Your anecdotal evidence of being there and observing steady attendance has nothing to do with the fact that the place gets barely 100,000 visitors annually, compared to the joke that is the Creation museum, which gets well over 3 times the amount. These points have all already been made, and your quick move to dismiss them as ignorant only shows your own hypocrisy.

^ In Ohio, estates under $333,000 aren't taxed at all. That's about as large a one time gift I think should be able to exchange hands, under any circumstances, without being taxed. It's a sizable amount, and having no estate tax on large estates only encourages people to hold on to their money, rather than putting circulating it back into the economy. I think most horror stories you mention are people that probably thought they were in for inheritance, but rather ended up with debts in the form of outstanding loans or mortgages. This is the only tax you'll ever catch me defending at its current rate (if not one even higher).

^ Riverfront Transit Center should be where it's relocated. It would need a little bit of work to fit the mold of your typical greyhound station, but it'd be a perfect location. It works just fine for the charter buses during Reds/Bengals games.

Uptown Rentals do 10 month leases (September thru June, covers the UC school year) around he UC campus. Prices are a bit steeper than you would pay finding a place on Craigslist or sharing with roommates, however.

I wish we could trade Mike Brown. I'd trade for a draft pick, even cash, to the amount of tens of dollars.

Yes, please post! Looks like it's blocked. Seems they're not interested in being transparent and public, but rather secretive and sketchy. I wonder why that is? If people really don't want a streetcar, you think they'd be actively publicizing their groups and events. I don't get why they're being secretive and defensive.

Did you register with a phone number? I think you have to give them a phone number and get some code in a text message in order to post.

That's a shame. As libertarian as I consider myself to be, I like the concept of estate tax. Any time a huge chunk of money changes hands, it should be taxed quite a bit. I think my opinion has something to do with individual responsibility... I think income tax should be a lot, lot lower, and things like estate tax and sales tax should be what they are, if not a bit higher to compensate. Why should I pay taxes on something that's going to be passed on to me? Or why should my heirs pay taxes on things I bequeath to them? Why shouldn't you? My question is why should I pay income tax, on money that I've worked very hard to earn? If you receive a huge gift, under any circumstances (even a death), it should be taxed. Passing money down and keeping it in the family does nothing for the economy, whereas my disposable income will be put back into the economy directly. Taking tax dollars from income and not gifts is taking out of the wrong pot.

I think he lives in Blue Ash, if I remember correctly he says it on the show quite a bit.

You can check public voting records for free, by county. Here's the link for anyone interested: http://www2.sos.state.oh.us/pls/voter/f?p=111:1:661832202408220 Note that the larger counties end up being absolutely huge files, so don't try downloading on an old/slow computer.

That's a shame. As libertarian as I consider myself to be, I like the concept of estate tax. Any time a huge chunk of money changes hands, it should be taxed quite a bit. I think my opinion has something to do with individual responsibility... I think income tax should be a lot, lot lower, and things like estate tax and sales tax should be what they are, if not a bit higher to compensate.

They really should have just stopped at "University Square." And I know all too well that changing the name of a Facebook page is one of the most difficult things to accomplish on earth. In other words, that name is for good.

Interesting. I remember during the design charrette last year that we were told to assume those buildings were staying. It made that end of the casino really awkward. I'm glad they were ultimately able to buy them out, so long as they make for a nice streetscape along Reading, and not just a giant parking garage.

I thought the Family Dollar and the building next to it were staying?

Smitherman only cares about himself. I know most people here hated 700 WLW, but their sound bites of Smitherman are hilarious.

The decoration on the facades is okay, but I still think it would have been a lot better had it been developed as individual plots rather than the super-block it is. I have a feeling that in 20 years, we're going to look back at superblock developments like this (and University Park Apartments, for instance) as the strip malls of our generation.

edale, the stadiums being propped up by taxpayer dollars is a whole other story, and the Reds Hall of Fame is just a tiny part of that development (in fact, the freedom center is over 10 times the size of the hall of fame, 15,000GSF vs 160,000+). I'd imagine the costs are much, much lower as well, if it really is running a deficit, and I'm not sure it gets propped up by tax dollars, minus the initial construction cost of course (which also goes for the Freedom Center). I agree it could be something Cincinnatians are proud of, but it isn't. The "niche" it serves (and I'll ignore the hint you made that I'm using that in some sort of racial terms) is much smaller than any other museum in Cincy, especially when you consider how much larger and more expensive the Freedom Center really is. As ColDayMan and I were discussing, if it were reaching out to a national audience, and had some sort of national backing/funding, it could be viable at its current size and cost. As it is, just serving Cincinnati and the few tourists that are in the city anyway, it's not working.

Well, I think we can further agree on a federally funded advertising campaign then. It might work. I just think that, as of now, it's wasting money and space. If if were wasting federal money, I wouldn't be as upset. If federal funds actually made it popular, I'd be thrilled. In hindsight though, I think it should have been somewhere else, and smaller, or maybe even a traveling exhibit (that focused on and started in Cincinnati) rather than a museum in and of itself. It could have gotten its start in Union Terminal, for instance.

The marketing (now) isn't the problem. The marking reports (or lack thereof) that allowed the thing to get built in the first place were the problem. Taft and the CAC serve a relatively large niche of art culture that exists in Cincinnati, and are thus successful. There's not a big enough niche for the Freedom Center, and there's not enough draw that it can, by itself, increase tourism like the Rock and Roll hall of fame might have. You're saying- since cincinnati isn't well cultured, we should just get rid of museums that relate to our history. No, we shouldn't pour money down the drain on niche museums that aren't successful. As I said, the CAC, the Museum Center, the Taft, etc. are all successful and deserving of tax dollar support. The Freedom Center, by comparison, is way, way too large and expensive for what it is. It's almost twice the size of the CAC, (by square footage) for example. Also, I saw ColDayMan mentioned it should have been federally funded. I'd completely support it if that were the case, if it truly was a national museum.

I can understand why though, a husband killing his estranged wife is one thing, two guys walking into a restaurant in broad daylight, wearing masks, and lighting the place up is another. One makes for a good Lifetime movie, and one makes for a good newspaper headline.

To this day, I still wish the Freedom Center would be converted to a theater. Its a cool looking building, big enough, and at the center of The Banks, perfect. The subject matter in the building is definitely important but the location sucks and interest is very low. The Freedom Center should be a wing in a museum somewhere else in the city, not a standalone building on such prominent real estate. I hope you're joking, for intellectual sake. Why would that be a joke? And what do you mean "for intellectual sake?" The Freedom Center is not a successful museum, and the subject matter is far too specific to merit being a standalone establishment (at least in a city like Cincinnati that does not have a lot of tourists). I guess the only thing wrong with my prior statement is that it should be "somewhere else in the city;" it shouldn't, it should probably be in Washington, perhaps as a part of the forthcoming Smithsonian National Museum of African American History.