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I'm pretty sure the bathroom cabinet is indeed an Ikea product: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hemnes-sink-cabinet-with-2-drawers-black-brown-stain-20217659/ I don't think the kitchen cabinets are, but they might still be laminate. Even for a unit as small as this one, there are two mini splits - one in the bedroom and one in the common area. From a maintenance perspective, that is double the amount of equipment to worry about. I also think the ability to heat a space in our climate with these systems is relatively new. It's been over a decade since I've done any research on these but I remember them being viable really only as a replacement for window AC units, not heat. I know that these are all over the place in southeast Asia, and everyone goes into a panic (and people literally die) when temperatures get below 50F because the mini-splits can't provide enough (or any) heat. A quick DuckDuckGo search tells me that there are options out there to provide enough heat down to -5F. I do know some people who have installed mini-splits in liue of forced air AC in homes that have boilers/radiator heating. That seems to work much better than shoehorning ductwork into an old building that wasn't designed for it.

I remember this story and thought it was odd: https://www.wcpo.com/news/crime/mother-of-hit-and-run-suspect-charged-with-separate-homicide Your explanation makes sense of it.

The guy has a mile-long rap sheet in Hamilton County alone, including a dozen or so traffic violations and a history of license suspension. Why'd the city give someone with such a poor driving record a job driving a truck?

I think the city government wanted to increase population, but didn't have any paths to annex land from surrounding townships. The city's perimeter was all developed by about 2000 or so, and no property owners really wanted to be annexed because it would have resulted in a municipal earnings tax. They had been trying to rezone and add density for years but met opposition. Eventually they pulled it off and added a few hundred apartments in the middle of the city - right around the time the larger cultural shift from chain restaurants and malls to small shops and independent restaurants happened. Although, without the bike trail running right through the city I don't think any of this would have happened. It is a great asset and they did a good job capitalizing on it. When I was young it was a good place to ride your bike but there was not much of anything else to do along the way. That Hawaiian Ice stand opened sometime in the 90s, I think, and was the only trail facing business around - second only to the bar at the US-22 bridge that housed a beer drinking, cigarette smoking monkey.

I grew up in Loveland and we lived in the "old" part of the town that you photographed. It's crazy how much a small town like that can change over the course of a decade or so. When I was a kid, the "old" part of Loveland was considered to be the poor part of town. Unless you lived outside of town in a McMansion you were pretty much lower class. The newer buildings right by the bike trail were an active seed and feed for the entirety of my childhood. They'd still get bulk grains delivered via rail siding. The rest of the "downtown" didn't have much going on. What's now Montgomery Cyclery was a bingo hall and was by far the most popular destination. Bond Furniture has somewhat low-key existed for a very long time in the buildings right across from that - surviving through the eras of stripmalls and then the internet.

Long term, I wonder if the city will charge a fee for these spaces. If you need to block a metered spot temporarily to get a delivery or moving truck in, they make you pay a fee so I can't imagine they'll give away spots indefinitely for free. I feel bad for places that don't have the right sort of frontage to support this. There are certainly some winners and some losers here depending upon location. If these remain permanent, they will probably result in higher lease rates than places without parklets, so the real winners are probably the landlords.

I looked through some old newspapers and found some tidbits. In 1947, the building was still 6 stories: When Kroger leased the space in 1959, it was only four stories: It also looks like the Kroger was a specialty/boutique store, billed as "Kroger on Race at Shillito Place." It was opened on October 18, 1960 and was designed by Raymond Loewy. According to another article, it was a test store of sorts and was one of the very first places to implement electronic checkout scanning. The Kroger store closed after Christmas in 1969. The space was used for a few things, notably an electronics store in the 80s - which leads me to ask: were those old electronics in original boxes in the windows of The Chong only there because they were still sitting there when Chong bought the building? Did he just never bother to move them?

I still have this bookmarked for some reason:

This photo isn't as clear but is a bit older (dated 1890) - looking north from 6th. Jouvet's, The Cleveland Rubber Company, and some other interesting tidbits off in the distance :

Sixty percent of restaurants don’t make it past their first year and 80 percent go out of business within five years. Paying them to stay open for a year or even longer would be a waste since most of them would have closed regardless.

That's interesting - I'm pretty sure I was on a Delta flight when I watched the Korean movie "The Handmaiden." I was surprised at how little it was censored. If you haven't seen it, not only is it a great movie, but it is fairly explicit. Really? I'd say the exact opposite is true. I think accountability and personal responsibility are among the most important traits someone can have. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that whatever you make of your life - most of it comes down to personal responsibility. The sort of PC moves airlines are making right now spit in the face of personal responsibility in order to make the decision-makers seem holier-than-thou. "Virtue signaling" is probably the most appropriate term, but it all falls under the PC umbrella.

Anything to do with the Washington flights is overblown security theater with a dash of political correctness run amuck. It's funny to watch these things unfold - companies go out of there way trying to one-up each other in the name of appearing PC. Everyone has to make it look like they're "doing something." Next thing you know, they'll delete violent movie scenes from the in-flight infotainment systems (I flew on a Chinese airline once and noticed they did this!). But the sentiment holds true. I personally blame the "Megabuses" of the skies for the decline in the quality of airline clientele behavior. Air travel has become very cheap because of discount airlines, so people no longer treat it like a special occasion. People don't dress professional any put on their best behavior when a ticket is $65. You also get a larger, more accurate slice of the population.

Purcell Marian plans to demo an old funeral home and residential property to build a stadium on the corner of Woodburn and De Sales: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2021/01/14/cincinnati-catholic-high-school-to-build-stadium.html

"CAGIS Online-Map Explorer" under "Quick Links" takes me there. You might need to clear your cookies or cache.

There are attempts to count them, certainly, but most suspect that those are wildly off (especially this year). We might get to find out soon enough, though. I wouldn't be surprised to see Ohio's already low estimate turn out to be too high, while states in the south end up having significantly higher populations of illegals.

This should work: https://cagis.hamilton-co.org/cagisonline/

Another wildcard is that 11 million illegal immigrants may be granted citizenship in the next year or so. Ohio has a relatively small illegal immigrant population (estimates put it under 100,000) but Georgia and North Carolina each have >4X that amount. If rates hold steady, that huge influx alone would cause Ohio to fall a few spots and probably lose a couple House seats. If immigration rates increase but the pattern remains, GA and NC will see even more significant growth as additional immigrants settle there.

It's even easier than that for screenshots. In Chrome or Firefox, you can hit " ctrl + shift + i " and use the developer interface to search for the text and change it into whatever you want it to say. It takes about 20 seconds to fake a Tweet or any other online content if your deliverable is just a screenshot.

^ That appears to be the source of the screenshot, but I don't see anything indicating the "like" in question actually took place. I don't know how much I trust someone who's handle is "Defund the Police" but I am a bit of a skeptic, in general. Regardless, "MAGA Army" was a term used for years to refer to the large crowds Trump always attracted at rallies and events. It's sort of like the name "Maslow's Army." Nobody thinks the great work they do is bad just because the word "Army" is in the name.

No matter what the explanation (if we ever see one) - a journalist publishing a statement that says an event occurred 10 hours ago, when if it happened at all it would have happened 3-6 months ago is incredible irresponsible. Especially given the context here.

I reverse image searched the screenshot and it led me to that Tweet. It's the only example on the internet. A search of the Tweet text turned up an archived post from October, but I don't see Betsy's name in the "likes." Given the age of the original Tweet, the "10h" in the screenshot is either faked or incredibly misleading. I'd go so far as to call it "fake news." I see no evidence the like is legit, but even if it is - it's from October so liking it then is completely different than liking it now. It's like if you thought Tamaya Dennard was a good councilwoman at this point last year, versus thinking she's a good councilwoman now. One of those is excusable, at a minimum.

I don't think it's real. If it's real, it's very, very old and unrelated to recent events.

Is that made up? The "RealJoeMurica" account doesn't exist: https://twitter.com/RealJoeMurica

The house looks like 2270 Vine, which somehow sold for $100 in 2016.

The penthouse suite in the tower could be a pretty nifty apartment: