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^^ Just like Fifth and Race! At least with the construction fencing, visitors and other passersby see the empty site and assume something is about to be built. It's a sign of progress to the casual observer.

It was being cleared out this morning. It also looks like the city is putting up chain link fencing to close off access to the underpass.

^ This is a guess but I always assumed strange times (the Chinatown bus I've taken from Cincinnati had odd times, too) were the result of NYC's bus stop permit system. There can't be all that many spots in Manhattan to load/unload an intercity bus and there has to be at least some competition for those spots and time slots in them. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/ferrybus/intercity-bus.shtml Also, those stop locations seem to be pretty convenient for quickly getting off/on the Lincoln tunnel. Inbound it dumps you right onto 30th, and it's easy to get over to 7th Ave. Outbound, it's pretty easy to get into the tunnel from 11th Avenue at 40th.

My statement was "Warren County... has a much higher percentage of college-educated people." Maybe we're splitting hairs here, but I consider 42.9 to be much higher than 36.9 considering the spectrum. The national average is 33.4, meaning Hamilton County is only slightly above average, whereas Warren County is significantly above average. Your trying to paint OH-1 as having wealthy, educated, liberal, urban residents and a bunch of dumb country bumpkins. I get it. The reality is it's got wealthy, educated, conservative suburban residents, and liberal urban residents who are all over the spectrum when it comes to education and income level.

Warren County, the reddest part of the district, grew significantly faster than Hamilton County and has a much higher percentage of college-educated people. I suppose you'd have to look at percent level data to really get an understanding of this and I don't care enough to do that, but I think your assertion doesn't factor in the bluest parts of the district - they're mostly poor urban districts in Cincinnati, where college degrees are few and far between. There aren't really a whole lot of people in poor rural areas in the district.

It's starting to seem like the city's lack of a coherent response is encouraging people to set up camp on 3rd Street. I wouldn't be surprised if people are getting word of this camp and moving there from shelters. In other words, the camp is actively encouraging homeless people to get back on the streets rather than off them.

It's rare to have two sales tax increases on the ballot at the same time. I can't remember it happening before, off hand. We'll know by August 8 if the other tax hike will be on the ballot but the chances are good that it will be - about 38,000 signatures were turned in, only 23,629 need to be valid to get it on the ballot.

The fact that the districts in question have been voting solidly Republican for a long, long time seems to be at odds with this. I think the bigger indication of what actually matters is the fact that Aftab has been receiving tons and tons of money from all over the country. He's taking the PG Sittenfeld route - get enough money in Cincinnati and you can essentially buy a seat despite being almost completely unknown.

I don't think the delay accomplishes anything. The mobile health unit was already stationed at the camp last week and various social services have been visiting for months. There appears to have been been zero progress made on relocating/housing people since the initial eviction notice went out. If anything, the population is going up - there were more tents there on Friday night than I've ever seen before.

City Council threw a wrench into the plan to clean up the tent city: City delays evicting downtown homeless camp https://local12.com/news/local/city-delays-evicting-downtown-homeless-camp The debate over forced evictions at a downtown homeless camp took over City Hall Thursday. City leaders reached a compromise Thursday afternoon, which will delay those evictions at the camp under the bridge at Third and Plum streets. On Monday, acting city manager Patrick Duhaney ordered the site be evicted and sanitized after concerns over a hepatitis outbreak. The people living in the camp were given 72 hours to gather their belongings and move. Anything left after 6 a.m. Friday would be thrown away. On Thursday, city leaders decided to extend that deadline until Wednesday, July 25. About 50 people live in this camp. Sanitation conditions aren't good, with food and garbage littering the space and concerns over the hepatitis outbreak and drug abuse. One of my biggest questions is why this camp moved from the more remote regions underneath the Brent Spence Bridge, where homeless have camped for the last few years, to prominent locations on 3rd Street. This happened very quickly. It seems like some sort of political stunt.

The suggestion that 'if you don't like current social media networks you could start your own' is tantamount to the suggestion that 'if you don't like your ISP you could start your own.' Even Google was unable to create a successful social network, despite billions of dollars in capital. In terms of communication via the internet, the largest social media networks (and search engines, for that matter) are equally important players as the ISPs. Any content rules that apply to the latter should apply to the former.

I didn't say they were. I said they shouldn't treat content differently than common carriers. I see now that sentence can be read in two ways. IMO this topic is related to net neutrality and the growing belief that access to the internet is a "human right." If we're going to have discussions about those topics, we need to have discussions about free speech on the internet.

Social media platforms shouldn't treat their content any differently than phone companies or any other common carrier. Their job is to transmit speech from one point to another, not police the content of that speech. Hopefully we'll get there some day. Imagine the outrage if Verizon dropped your call if you used certain words.

Last weekend I forgot to pay. I bought tickets on the app for myself, my wife, and her brother and cousin who were in from out of town. I got them before we went out as we knew we were going to use the streetcar to go to Fountain Square. We got on the train mid-conversation and I completely forgot to open my phone and click the second button that actually starts the one day pass. I wonder how often that happens. There was a cop on the car, but it was a Friday night so I think he was just keeping the pace, not checking tickets. I noticed when I got home and then used the tickets out of respect because I didn't want to feel like a thief.

^ That's satire, right? It had me going until I got to the avocado toast bit - it was too obvious, too early.

This type of comment also serves as an example of what I'm talking about when I say "low road." It's something I'd expect in the Trump thread, but you guys seem to have been completely overcome by this type of hateful divisiveness. I've never voted a straight ticket before, but if this type of rhetoric is going to become the norm it might drive we towards that. Really? This is so maddening. Trump and the GOP have been taking the "low road" from square one. Trump started all the devisiveness and keeps stirring it up every chance he gets. Republicans invented the concept of calling people snowflakes and asking them if they need a safe space. But it's liberals that are overcome by hatefulness? Please. The discussion we were engaged in (read a few posts back) was about how for the most part, the "low road" tactics that permeate both sides of national politics now have not been seen much in Ohio state politics. Neither from the Republicans nor Democrats. Until now.

Crazy. As I have already noted, the temporary merge from Hopple to 75N is very dangerous. Hopefully this gets modified in some fashion as part of this project, even if the circa-1972 ramp from I-74 is not rebuilt. I've taken that ramp exactly once. I now go down to Bank Street and get on 75N there because it's such a disaster waiting to happen. I'm sure on paper it looked okay because the merge point is exactly the same spot it was when the onramp from Central Parkway was there, but the ramp from Hopple is so incredibly long that by the time people get to the merge point they're already on autopilot and going 55MPH when cars from 74 merge from their blind spot.

Duke's rebates on light bulbs actually have the opposite effect. I just got 20 or so LED bulbs for 4 cents a piece. They use a fraction of the electricity the CFL and handful of old incandescent bulbs I'm replacing used. There's got to be some reason they do this but I can't figure it out: http://www.energyfederation.org/dukeenergy_oh_res/july-promo.html

The 3rd Street Tent City is now costing downtown jobs and businesses. It's really exploded over the past month or two - it now occupies the entirety of the Plum Street underpass and several blocks of 3rd Street east from there: Downtown residents, businesses concerned about homeless camp https://local12.com/news/local/downtown-residents-businesses-concerned-about-homeless-camp According to a study for Downtown Cincinnati, Inc., two potential tenants for a nearby office tower said they were either not interested or did not return calls because of the homeless camp. Other business which are thinking of expanding down there are now also looking at Northern Kentucky. That’s about 500-700 jobs. Downtown's negative? The camp.

^ Some interesting tidbits about the last place reds: over the last 30 games, the Reds have the best record in the National League. With the win over the Indians yesterday, they've won 7 of the last 9 series - 5 of which were against first place teams. Without the dismal 3-15 start under Bryan Price, they'd have a winning record. If they keep this up they'll break out of last place (currently only 1.5 games behind the Pirates) and maybe even eclipse .500. This was supposed to be the hard part of their schedule.

The win probability graph from the Reds win over the Indians last night - the Reds scored 7 runs with 2 outs in the 9th inning to come back from a 4 run deficit and win the game:

In NYC 90%of a grocery store's delivery orders are probably within a 5 block radius, so one guy can go out once an hour, do a loop, and deliver everything. In most of the rest of the country, the drive time between destinations will make delivery a less appealing venture. The supermarket I used in Queens, Trade Fair, had free delivery. It was the 'leave your cart at the front of the store and we'll bring it around to you when we get to it' style, not the 'order online and have it shipped to you' style. . I was actually surprised how few people used it. Unless you were old or buying for a family of 8, it wasn't very popular. It's just not all that difficult to carry a few days worth of grocers for 5 minutes. It's more painful for most people to sit around for a few hours waiting for the grocery boy to show up. Plus, we all know how the first "Death Wish" movie starts.

This type of comment also serves as an example of what I'm talking about when I say "low road." It's something I'd expect in the Trump thread, but you guys seem to have been completely overcome by this type of hateful divisiveness. I've never voted a straight ticket before, but if this type of rhetoric is going to become the norm it might drive we towards that.

For as long as I can remember, the hateful and divisive political rhetoric that has now, unfortunately, become the norm on the national state has always been rare in Ohio. Ohio's Republicans and Democrats aren't all that far apart on most issues, and even when they are there's not a lot of vitriol between the two sides. Unfortunately, Cordray appears to be taking the low road. PX column: Why did Richard Cordray link some Ohio Republicans to Nazi collaborators? https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics-extra/2018/06/25/ohio-governors-race-dem-richard-cordray-makes-bizarre-nazi-reference/730717002/ In the age of Donald Trump, Nazi references are way out of control in American political discourse. How out of hand? Even some of the wonky, nice guys in politics are making them. But that doesn't excuse Ohio gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray, who made a bizarre comment likening some Republicans to Nazi collaborators while speaking in Lima before last month's primary. Politics Extra on Monday obtained a video of Cordray's speech to the Allen County Democratic Party Women's Club on March 8.

^ If the Reds can stretch their current 7 game winning streak to 20, they'll be .500. We'll have to wait and see if Bryan Price was actually the problem with the Reds. That 3-18 start is almost impossible to come back from but a little streak like this here and there is a good sign.