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I ate some in an omelette this morning - with some onions and cheese. At that point, I really don't think there is much of a difference. Coincidentally, I bought this can at a nice, new-ish Kroger store that's about 1800 feet away from the "food desert" of Avondale.

I've got a half dozen cans of spinach in my pantry right now. I eat it like it's going out of style. If you look at it in terms of nutritional value per dollar, it's like 75% cheaper than fresh spinach. I remember the first time I bought a bunch of fresh spinach and then sauteed it - I was perplexed, wondering how $1.50 worth of fresh spinach ended up being about 1/4 of what you'd get in a single can. Unless you're planning to eat it raw, there's no reason to not buy it in cans - especially because everything is available in a non-BPA, "no salt added" version now:

Even with a subsidy, corner stores sell snacks, not meals, and few people will grab a banana or apple when it's about the same price as chips or a candy bar. You can get milk or eggs at a UDF in a pinch but you can't buy a few days worth of meals. The demand simply isn't there for them to stock short shelf-life items like cuts of chicken, produce, etc. Even large format Kroger stores end up throwing a significant amount of that stuff away or selling it as a "manager-special" at a loss. I think the city would be better off subsidizing clicklist delivery or a weekend grocery store shuttle than it would subsidizing corner stores.

I thought "red meat" meant the "meat" of the right-wing political platform. I don't think it's the joke that KJP and Twitter seem to think it is. What's supposed to be red about it? That doesn't even make sense.

The city gave money to "The Center for Closing the Health Gap" for a program to provide healthier options in food deserts, and it didn't work out so well: https://www.wcpo.com/news/government/local-politics/cranley-calls-for-investigation-into-health-gap-after-wcpo-reveals-questionable-spending

Remember when the city spent $750,000 doing that and the result was this?

There's no grocery store in Avondale but the Kroger in Corryville is a couple blocks outside of Avondale, the Kroger on Kenard isn't much further from Avondale, and the Kroger in Norwood isn't much further than that. Also, there was an Aldi in this same location until just a few years ago. It seems like they weren't able to be profitable.

^^ I recently listed my house on Klotter for sale and just put "Walk to UC and OTR" in the description to make it clear as mud. MLS apparently has its own neighborhood designations. I was led to believe the neighborhood shown in the listing is automatically pulled based on the street address. Much like how everyone calls everything in the vicinity of UC "Clifton," so does MLS.

For whatever reason, many people seem to think "historic architecture" means 100+ year old buildings. They have no qualms about tearing down 50-70 year old buildings. Of course, the reason we don't have more 100+ year old buildings is that 50 years ago, people had no qualms about tearing down 50-70 year old buildings. We're just repeating the same cycle. Specifically when it comes to mid-century buildings like this one, the fact that people don't care more is strange to me because mid-century modern furniture is so popular.

The OTR Community Council claims a good 1/3 of CUF as within their boundaries. I was never sure why: http://otrcommunitycouncil.org/revised-boundary/ I've always deferred to these maps as the most "official" of the various neighborhood boundaries: https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/planning/maps-and-data/census-demographics/ Per those maps, the area in question is in CUF, not OTR.

Yeah, I assume after a few months a "beach" would look like... what it looks like right now. Plus, Pre-COVID I used to walk along that path almost daily and... on a daily basis you see some pretty nasty "stuff" float by. Aside from a wall or something like the serpentine wall, I don't know how else you build something that will last there. The river routinely fluctuates between 25 and 50 feet deep. And on occasion can go significantly higher than that for short periods. Anything below a 50 foot level isn't going to last more than a season unless it's fixed.

I didn't waste the time to look up the percentage because it had no impact on the point being made - that the more conservative of the two Democrats has an advantage because he will start with all the Republican votes by default. Therefore he only needs to win a small portion of the Democrats over, he doesn't have to appeal to all or even most of them. This is true whether the number is 20% or 30% and it's a part of why someone like Cranley was able to win two elections.

On the flip side, I was able to work with ~10 of my neighbors to finally figure out who had been leaving absolutely massive piles of dog poo all over our street for years now. We wouldn't have been able to do that without those 40 extra hours at home. That said, I could easily see how such a thing could spin wildly out of control. What's next, an HOA?

People said the same exact thing about Cranley. He beat Qualls and Simpson by being the less progressive candidate. Cincinnati may be a blue city but nearly a third of the voting population are Republicans. They're going to vote for the more conservative candidate. All Mann has to do is get 2/7 of the remaining voters and he wins.

I listed my house recently and can attest to this. Anything under $300k in Cincinnati seems to be sold before the day is over: Houses selling 'in hours, not days' as local real estate market shrugs off pandemic-related slowdown https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/08/09/housing-market-rebounds-covid-pandemic-shutdown/5576752002/ If you're looking for a house in Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky, you better act quick. Houses are selling fast, propelled by a combination of strong demand, low supply and low interest rates drawing buyers into the market despite the relentless surge in new COVID-19 infections.

Yeah I've wondered for years what the deal is with that truck. I go through this intersection nearly every day, and have done so for the last 7 years. The truck seems like it was actively used because it would be in slightly different positions pretty regularly. Smithall Electronics seems to still be around, they have a website. In 7 years I've only seen people go in and out of that building a few times.

Hamilton County Parks is looking to nearly triple their budget via a huge property tax hike in November: Great Parks To Ask Voters For Additional Levy In November https://www.wvxu.org/post/great-parks-ask-voters-additional-levy-november#stream/0 The levy would cost about $63 per year for every $100,000 of home value, or $5.25 per month. It would be in addition to the current levy amount of $34.40 annually per $100,000 of home value.

Wow, it wasn't even close. Given that it's Alabama and the last guy only lost (barely) because he was a known pedophile, it's pretty likely a former UC football coach will become a Senator. You have to wonder if coming to UC thinking it'd be an easy job, but under-performing, was a wake up call. He had a pretty successful career prior to UC, and no one wants to go out on a low note.

Despite the low traffic count, traffic on Liberty routinely backs up onto Central Parkway because of long red lights at Elm. Why are the red lights so long? Because the street is so wide - pedestrians need the time. The same goes for every intersection east of Elm - traffic backs up quite a bit during long red lights. I'm guessing the city wanted to keep two travel lanes on Liberty not to handle the traffic, but for the capacity to store cars during red lights on short lengths of street between each signal. It seems like shorter red lights with a single travel lane could have resolved that problem, if it was indeed the problem.

From a geographical standpoint, one of either Cincinnati, Nashville, or Kansas City seems likely. Cincinnati's case is helped by the fact that there's no other city in the Upper Midwest. Another city in Ohio, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Indy, Milwaukee, etc. would all hurt Cincy's chances, but luckily none are in the running. There also look to be some obvious head to head matchups of cities (Dallas v. Houston, Miami v. Orland, Baltimore v. DC) that will eliminate several options. The streetcar might be a factor - but there's zero chance an extension could be built by 2026. Another glaring problem is the Millennium Hotel replacement. COVID is going to likely make replacing it - even by 2026 - a challenge.

This brings back memories - I lived on 63rd St. in Woodside for just a few months many years ago but spent a ton of time walking around and really enjoyed the neighborhood. 61 St-Woodside was the stop I'd use to take the 7 to work in Midtown. I briefly dated a girl who lived a few stops away in Sunnyside - right on Queens Blvd. Her apartment faced the 7 train and was right at about the same height - it was loud, and I think the peak headway was something like 3 minutes.

Yeah, that was my point in my post above - my costs, all in, are around $1700/year (and that assumes my car stops working right now - the cost continues to go down the longer it lasts, and with 115k miles it probably has quite a bit longer to go). You certainly can spend significantly more than I do, but that's a personal choice. The average cost is really just driven up because so many people value having a "nice" car, SUV or truck and drop $30k+ on a new one every few years. I think you're thinking of more complex work than I am, and I'd agree with that. But there's no reason to pay a mechanic to do something like change a headlight bulb or replace your air filters, yet I know plenty of people who do. In the last two years or so I've replaced things like a door lock actuator, power window switch, hatch support, O2 sensors, gas cap door (half the Celicas still on the road seem to be missing these - I can't unsee it now). These are the easy fixes I'm talking about. A shop would have charged me several hours of labor for each of those, and they would have charged 3X for their parts versus what I bought at a junkyard or off Amazon. These sorts of things are fixes that almost anyone can do, even if you've never worked on a car before. And doing them drives down the cost of ownership significantly. We're way off topic here, but the overarching point I'm making is that the "average cost of car ownership" numbers often quoted here are driven up significantly by personal decisions. You can save hundreds, or even thousands per year by doing the easy things on your own time. People in the burbs aren't spending $10,000 a year on their cars because they have to, they're doing it because they want to.

There seem to be a lot of things off about this statement. First, your rent plus utilities should be at least half, if not a third of those you're friend pays in Manhattan for anything that remotely resembles similar living conditions. And if we're talking about owning property, a ballpark comparison can't really even be made. For the price of the cheapest, entry-level studio apartments in Manhattan, you can have anything from a high-end home in a gentrifying neighborhood to a starter home in some of best school districts in Ohio. So far as the car - spending thousands of dollars per year is a choice. You can get a ~10+ year old used car for $5000, drive it for 5+ years, and spend nothing else on it but $50/month on gas and insurance plus $30 for an annual oil change. Most things that break on a car can be fixed by watching Youtube videos and/or using your library card to access the Chilton Library. Spending any more than about $1000/year on a car is a personal choice - you value something about the car that is more than just getting you from A to B reliably.

I've seen that image strip several times before – even though I somewhat agree with the sentiment, I think the girl with "perfect timing" is a bad example. You should do what the “slow and steady” girl does - consistently invest into a retirement account with a portion of every paycheck, but you can still maintain it and move money around from risky investments to bonds, accordingly, near the highs and lows. You can ignore it and do just fine, but you can pay attention and do a bit better, and you don’t even have to hit the highs and lows perfectly to come out on top. You can be a day or even a week off.

My favorite is this one: I've also seen some good arguments for keeping the "Redskins" name, but changing the mascot to a potato.