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They'll have a long way to go to match Sharonville. The big problem is that so many of the new, trendy looking restaurants have a very similar and sterile feel. No one has been able to recreate the authenticity (the atmosphere or the food) that old places like this have: https://goo.gl/maps/LTrPWTFMvhDMFiJ37

That playoff game might be the worst moment in Cincinnati sports history - at least of my lifetime. If only for the fact that the game was all but won in the closing minutes, and then so quickly went awry. It's up there with Kenyon's leg, Kimo the assassin taking out Carson Palmer's knee, the Reds managing to lose a playoff series after winning the first 2 games in San Francisco, and that Phillies no-hitter playoff game. What else am I missing? There will probably be more Browns fans than Bengals fans at that game. A lot of fans here are like myself - we don't fall for the "fair weather fan" label nonsense. I still watch pretty much every game, but I won't spend my money on something that sucks. If my favorite restaurant started to serve poop sandwiches instead of hamburgers, I wouldn't keep going because I'm a supporter.

I remember the 2 win seasons of the 90s. Those teams would rout this Bengals team. Zach Taylor looked like a deer in headlights last night in Pittsburgh. I'd be surprised if he lasts more than a couple years as a head coach - he inherited a bad team but he managed to turn it into a candidate for the worst team in the NFL. The Miami game in December will probably end up being a battle for first overall draft pick. The Bengals will probably tie Miami, but somehow lose the tiebreaker for the top pick.

I think it's been listed as the "Downtown Kroger" Great Clips since it opened, roughly 12-18 months ago. I thought it was odd that were using that name nearly a year and a half before there was actually a Kroger across the street. I don't think it's a 3CDC building - or at least, it wasn't when Great Clips first moved in.

There's a place in Jackson Heights where, presumably, a bunch of buildings have been torn down in order to get the approach landing lights built for that particular approach: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7636343,-73.8887386,3a,75y,205.06h,94.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shzf7DkfWSeWBY21aT5bTRg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 I lived a few blocks to the southwest, on the other side of the BQE, for awhile years ago. It seemed like planes landed or took off from/toward the southwest pretty rarely. That said, even at that distance from the airport, the noise was loud.

^ This happens all the time and it's mind boggling. I wouldn't be surprised if the Liberty Street "Road Diet" budget ends up seeing an unnecessary and punitive cost increase because it will result in replacing recently upgraded infrastructure (ie refunding whatever project budget paid to replaced the curb cuts - my guess is an accessibility initiative seeing that the tactile warning strips look like the only upgrades). Knowing the "Road Diet" may rework this intersection, the city could have saved several thousand dollars by simply delaying the project or, if deemed urgent, using temporary surface applied tactile warning systems.

I've only heard one example in the past couple of years, and it was further outside the city in a township area on the west side of Hamilton County.

Seemingly trivial stuff like this can kill projects. I've heard horror stories of people filling out MSD's "Request for Availability of Sewer Service" and getting a response not unlike "we're full." At that point, you're screwed.

So it turns out this has resulted in a lot of low scoring losses. The most recent 1-0 loss, however, was accomplished in a manner in which no MLB team has ever done before. The Reds allowed just one baserunner over the course of 9 innings. He scored on a sacrifice fly. No team had ever lost a 9 inning game in which they only allowed a single baserunner.

With a loud enough white noise system there's no reason an office space couldn't function while a skyscraper was being built atop it.

No - the definition of freeloading is taking goods, services, etc. without providing any sort of compensation for them. Township residents pay county property tax (including school district tax) and state income tax, and receive services from said entities. If you choose to live or work in a municipality instead of a township, you pay additional income tax for additional and/or improved services compared to what is available in unincorporated areas. So in a township, you are ultimately paying less and getting less. However, in practice municipalities vary wildly in terms of whether or not you receive more for your additional tax burden. Overall, this variety of local governments is probably a good thing. It gives people more choices. And, at least in Cincinnati, there doesn't seem to be any sort of wealth concentration in townships. There are plenty of very poor townships and plenty of very wealthy municipalities.

Speaking in a broad generalization here - I wouldn't say those who live and work in townships are freeloading so much as they're avoiding picking up the tab for those who are.

This guy hates scooters: Police: Man cut brake lines, cables on Lime scooters https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/crime-and-courts/2019/09/09/police-man-cut-brake-lines-security-cables-lime-scooters/2264324001/?fbclid=IwAR3t_K_2xlcC0mtmgB6Ij1pBe7LUZVFsSpo9moJgb7k2zgJ1DOdfANORt8k A Pendleton man was arrested Friday after police said he was cutting brake lines and security cables on Lime scooters. William Kellum, 69, is charged with felony vandalism.

Most township residents and property owners live/own where they do on purpose, and they don't want to be annexed. Kenwood Towne Center, especially, wouldn't want to be annexed by a municipality because all of their tenants would suddenly be on the hook for income tax to that municipality. A conniving municipality could even go so far as to eliminate reciprocity in order to really pave the streets with gold. All other things aside, if you can score a job in a township and find a place to live in a township (especially a centrally located one like Sycamore Township) you can essentially take home 1-2% more income than if you lived in Cincinnati or another municipality, while sacrificing next to nothing.

Imagine if the Reds were just called "Cincinnati Baseball Team." It'd be lame and everyone would be wondering why they didn't have a real name.

I think council either needs to be all districts or all at large. This plan mixes it and seemingly gives us the worst of both worlds. If we were to switch to a council made up entirely of districts, I think we'd need more than 9 council members to make the change worthwhile - I'm talking 1 council member per ~15,000 residents or so. A larger council would make it more difficult for special interests to dominate the city's policy via 5 people. Plus, with 20 council members we're likely to get at least 3 or 4 total clowns which would be entertaining.

I think this is mostly the fault of signage regulations and other zoning measures. Historically, busy urban areas have had all sorts of huge and well lit signs - be it 50 years ago or 100 years ago. These signs have the same effect on pedestrians that traffic calming measures have on drivers. You're subconsciously forced to walk slowly, read the signs, and discover your surroundings. The tiny signs that stores are forced to use in OTR have the opposite effect - you can walk down the street and not have any idea what shops are along the way. Try walking down the street pictured below and missing the fact that "Potter's Shoes" is there: I've also noticed that this seems to only happen in a handful of countries, where urban areas are treated more as a tourist attraction than a livable community. In many places, signage is an integral part of the urban fabric:

When I last had jury duty I parked on Liberty Street in an unmetered spot and walked a few minutes down Main to the courthouse. It wasn't much longer of a walk than I have every day from my monthly lot to my office in the opposite corner of downtown - but it was nice not to have to pay money out of pocket to perform my obligatory civic duty. I actually found a $20 bill on the sidewalk on Liberty as soon as I stepped out of my car - I used it to get an Adriatico's pizza. I was also let off of jury duty that day and ended up not having to come back. Talk about win-win.

It was behind the plywood. Before the plywood was protecting the stained glass, I think they had another layer of glass or plexiglass over them, at least on the 12th Street side. The window on the left side of the front facade might be new, though. You can see louvers peeking above the plywood in the "before" photo. If it isn't new, they must have taken the original out and stored it somewhere when they added the louvers.

From the photos in the listing, it looks like it's being marketed for either an auto-oriented development or an urban development. It is a bit far from the nearest I-75 exits - or, rather, difficult to get to from the exits (Hopple has the confusing and time consuming White Castle jughandle down to Central and Harrison only has access to the west), so hopefully that discourages a fast food/gas station type development.

It also helps to have a carefully constructed and funded social media campaign, along with connections to folks like those who decide what the Business Courier publishes. How many dozens of bars open around the metro every month, and how many get an article written about them in the Business Courier?

Ohio resident Dave Chapelle's new special on Netflix is hilarious.

And what is in the fireplace behind it? It looks like the same family has lived in/owned that house since 1955. That always makes for an interesting real estate listing.

Part of the problem is that OTR has too many parks, in general - but the big concern is that many are in sparsely populated parts of the neighborhood with few businesses and permanent residents, which means fewer eyes on the street. This ultimately induces, or at least enables crime. The city should close Grant and Hanna, sell the land, and use the proceeds to turn Findlay Playground into an attractive, accessible, inviting, and safe public space. It's 300 feet from Grant and around 1000 feet from Hanna, there aren't a lot of reasons to maintain all three, particularly when parks and/or park improvements are needed in other neighborhoods. Not to mention, the area in question is a 10 minute walk away from Washington and Ziegler Parks, two of the nicest parks in the city, and a short streetcar ride away from the world class Smale park.

They're too far off the beaten path. Too far from UC and too far from the portion of Walnut Hills residents that go out for coffee and beer. I always wanted to try it out but never head a reason to in that area unless I was passing through. Oddly enough, the only time I was in that building was ~15 years ago with a sick cat when it was a vet.