Ram23

Drive-thrus would tend to segregate them from the neighborhoods. I think he was advocating for fast food joints that don't have drive-thrus, like the Arby's downtown and the one in CUF, for instance. It provides a cheap, quick option as opposed to the options someone would have in some places like Mt Lookout Square. Although a lot of the NBD's do have fast food, Oakley comes to mind first with an Arby's and a Skyline. Both of them have drive-thrus but really not to any detriment at all - they're pretty compact.

^^ I've never heard 3CDC come out in support of the streetcar. Actually, from what I can tell they want to remain completely neutral.

I'm only 23, but my dad is a hardware engineer so I've been on computers since I was about 4. I was too young to remember the specifics, I just remember how excited I was when Windows 3.1 came out and I didn't have to use command lines and DOS anymore. Although having to type C:/win.exe every time to get Windows to start got annoying pretty quickly. I also remember reading message boards on Prodigy, before AOL came out.

A view over the Cincinnati basin from this abandoned 1880's era Italianate rowhouse.

If I'm not mistaken, it's back in the news because of the new level of clarity it was restored to by some professors somewhere. It's not much, much clearer than the older versions are.

http://174.36.48.69/~urbanohi/ Thanks, I wasn't sure what the subdomain was. As of right now, it's working in the place it usually doesn't. So it appears it's also a temporary problem for me. I'll keep the IP bookmarked as well, though.

Most people understand the difference, but they also understand that the two are set by the city and an amendment could easily change the percentages of tax dollars that go into each, or change it so that the percentages aren't set in stone and could rotate each year. I'm not saying it should be done, but it could be. Every dollar spent is a tax dollar, and it all comes from the same taxpayers. The city decides how to spend it, and the charter is the tool that dictates what percentage is capital and what is operating. As far as police and fire goes, the unions exist to whine and complain like this. The truth is Cincinnati has a massive police force for its size and population, and an inefficient fire department/dispatch technique. Saving jobs there is nowhere near cause enough to try and amend the charter to alter spending percentages.

^, ^^ Interesting that this problem isn't just one college campus. This is the only site on which I've run into this problem. I haven't noticed if it's consistently not working at Cincinnati or just at random times, as I don't get on my computer there to surf the internet very often. I did a bit of Googling after I checked the whois and saw Urban Ohio is registered with GoDaddy. I found this somewhat recent thread that claims the problem is actually with GoDaddy's nameservers: http://community.godaddy.com/groups/web-hosting/forum/topic/server-not-found-in-certain-areas/

When I try to access Urban Ohio from school (DAAP building at University of Cincinnati), it doesn't load at all. The site is up at the time, which I'm sure of because I'm behind a proxy and posting this from school right now. My other browser, not behind the proxy, is getting a "Server not found" error. Is the IP blocked for some reason?

^Yeah, but P&G doesn't milk the state of tax dollars and then just provide service to one city. It's not just an Ohio thing though, even on a national scale it happens. DC constantly sees growth and high wages because the rest of the country provides the bulk of the funding for their local economy. If there are 100,000 government jobs, then there are 300,000 service and manufacturing sector jobs associated with that. In Ohio, everyone employed privately pays state taxes, and the bulk of jobs directly created through those tax dollars are in Cbus. There's always going to be a disproportionate amount of tax dollars put back into local economies through direct employment from the government, though, and moving things out of the capital would be a bad idea in my opinion. It's just the way it works. Anyway, since 340,000 is taken I'll be optimistic and take 345,000.

AOL never went anywhere. Except from having about 28 million users to about 5 million. You could literally hear the sound of them careening down into oblivion for the past decade :D

I have a book about Cincinnati from the early 1980's that calls the subway a "boondoggle." Seems like it's been around awhile!

I was curious about this too. It's made me wonder if there have been some problems with the replacement chunks of subway tunnel. There's equipment stashed up at the portals at the north end of the tunnels, as well.

Why are people so against this? It's the kind of thing that could quickly become a regional (if not larger scale) attraction. It would be a one of a kind development. I think it could be pulled off quite well as a hotel/retail complex that still provided outdoor pedestrian space. As has been pointed out already, the Taylor-Southgate makes for a better bike crossing, anyway. This thread is so full of naysayers that it's starting to look like the Enquirer comments section!

You're as bad as Ram23. I'm sure tedders55 doesn't want food poisoning! Whoa, whoa, whoa. My cheap hole-in-the-wall places are at least good, cheap eats. There's always a time for the best slice of $1 pizza in town or the best place to get the greasiest sandwich at 4am. Also, I spend far more on beer than on food, so my beer bar selections are top notch.

BXL near Times Square is a nice place to grab a Belgian beer, some mussels, and pomme frites. I've never seen a tourist in there, despite its location. It gets a quick after-work crowd, then becomes pretty chill.

^Yeah, looks like a common case of PEBKAC, with a voting machine twist. I don't know how the hell he managed to use the keyboard on his iPhone if his stubby fingers can't even manage to click on the right name.

A lot of places leave the decorative lights on from sunset to midnight or 2:00 am, the Empire State Building turns off the lights at 2:00, for instance. Electricity bills are the price you have to pay if you want to build an icon.

Now, if you want your "pillows fluffed" in New York, we can get into that one as well. I refer you to the back pages of the Queens Tribune ;)

Very good! Now back to your corner! It's quite a lively corner, full of cheap eats, Belgian beer bars, and Korean places. Don't be dissin my corner. PS, my Korean girlfriend thinks Seoul Garden is the best Korean in town, but of course she wasn't paying!

There are a bunch of good Korean places in K-Town, which is essentially just 32nd Street between Harald Square and 5th Avenue. Woorijip is good if you're looking for a quick bite to eat, but if you're looking for BBQ or don't need to get in and out try Seoul Garden (hard to find because it's on a second floor, you have to look up, then find the stairs underneath the sign), Shilla, or Mandangsui (which is actually 2 blocks up on 35th). I think Mandangsui was my favorite.

What are the chances the vertical shafts are still there?

The DAAP building itself is didactic, as a design school. Remember that before the addition was there, DAA consisted of 3 buildings that had little or no public/common space. The addition does a great job of linking the three older buildings and providing critique and public space.

Carls? Lawd! God, you are so cheap. Hey, some of us don't have to splurge to impress our dates!

I'll occasionally have one if I have to pull an all nigher, because I drink coffee all day long and am almost numb to the level of caffeine it provides. Sometimes they give me pretty bad stomach aches, though.