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An arrest was made in this case: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/23/daap-grad-former-art-academy-professor-killed-dc-corrina-mehiel-stabbing-cincinnati/99536230/

^ That amount of attention they garnered never made sense to me. I've had better dumplings at about a dozen Chinese restaurants around town. It seemed like the place was all hype.

Why don't they just try their luck on Ebay again?

Sounds like an interesting idea that has some talented and experienced people behind it but who in Cincinnati is going to pay $200 to be a member there or $650+ to have a desk there? You can get an entire apartment less than 5 minutes away for that. Or if you really want a workspace, just rent a storefront on Main for $500. Hopefully they lose that big surface lot and fence fronting Liberty.

^ There's actually two clubs on this stretch of Kellogg. I think Cameo used to be Adonis. Inner Circle, a little west/north up Kellogg used to be Annie's. If the weather is nice on a Saturday night (as it was this weekend) and you cruise by either of these places between about 1 and 4 AM, you'll see some of the most prolific parking lot pimpin in all of Cincinnati. I happened by once or twice last year on my way to Columbia Tusculum from the burbs and was caught completely by surprise - there were huge crowds with traffic backing up all into the street. It looked like the party was in the parking lot, not the club.

^ In the south the lack of a frost line of significant depth is a big factor. Foundation walls can be very shallow (like 12 inches). You can dig them with a small bobcat or other cheap piece of equipment, so the cost difference between that and a full basement excavation is more significant than in the north where you need to dig ~3 feet no matter what and likely need heavy equipment.

In Ohio the bottom of that foundation has to be at least 32" below finished grade but that looks a bit deeper. It might just be deeper for a crawl space, so that plumbing and ducts can be laid below the floor. You can put plumbing below a poured slab, of course, but then you're locked in and can't ever relocate it without the significant cost of sawcutting the slab and excavating, and re-pouring concrete indoors. This is why new McMansions with unfinished basements always have rough-ins somewhere for a future restroom. The cost to build it in is minor but the cost to try and add it later is 10X that, or sometimes even impossible depending upon the sewer slopes you might need. Though looking at that picture it looks like it might just be a garage? There are only footings on three sides, which leaves me to believe the fourth side facing us might be just a door. This is what I think is probably the primary reason for basements. You are already digging 32" down, it's not that significant of a cost to keep going. A little bit more excavation and a little bit more concrete aren't all that pricey at this scale because there's a lot of cost just getting the equipment set up and ready and that's fixed. So you can add ~1000 unfinished square feet to a house for a fraction of what it costs to build a square foot above ground. And most people seem to like basements, where else would they put all their crap?

^ I double checked that on the voter role spreadsheet I always keep handy and he has voted in every Republican primary dating back to 2000 (as far back as the digital file goes). I had always thought he was a Democrat putting on a show on the radio - that might date further back than 2000, though.

^ The CUF and OTR community council boundaries apparently overlap quite a bit. It's pretty bizarre that OTRCC would consider everything in CUF south of Warner to be in OTR. If I ever sell my house, I'll be sure to mention this.

This one is starting to look pretty bad. It reminds me of Steve Utash in Detroit a couple years ago. The victim seems to have a clean record (at least in Hamilton County) and worked right around the corner: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4348738/Ohio-police-Driver-shot-killed-hitting-boy-4.html

The Enquirer is getting all over Simpson for this: PX: Yvette Simpson dropped ball on 'pale male' comment http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics-extra/2017/03/24/politics-extra-simpson-dropped-ball-pale-male-comment/99515364/ Critics and supporters of Cincinnati mayoral candidate Yvette Simpson for weeks have been quietly questioning her campaign strategy. The campaign appears to be bumbling, and it showed this week in how she handled "campaign volunteer" Jessica Byrd's racially charged social media post about Mayor John Cranley. Simpson has refused to disavow the African-American volunteer's "stale pale male" Facebook comment about the white mayor. Heck, Simpson refused to answer any questions about the comment. “The candidate really has the option of either running from it or owning it," said David Niven, political science professor at the University of Cincinnati. "It’s a public campaign, and people are weighing who you are and what you stand for. You can’t take a middle ground on something like this, but she took the (stance) that can’t possibly do her any good – let’s pretend this didn’t happen.”

Yellow Springs resident Dave Chappelle has two new standup specials on Netflix that are hilarious. If you liked his show, you'll like these.

The 77 cents on the dollar notion is misleading because it isn't a direct comparison of men and women doing the same job for the same number of hours. It's a global average. The main reason for any difference is that male-dominated fields (engineering, science, tech) tend to be higher paying, while female-dominated fields (social work, childhood education) are low paying. Some of the lowest paying college majors like early childhood education and social work are overwhelmingly dominated by women. The interesting discussion here IMO is about the psychology behind career choice by gender.

^ I know a lot of suburban schools routinely buy way more land than they need initially because they have master plans that include additions. I have no idea if that's the case with these two schools, but it's possible they both have preliminary schematics for new wings to be added on the vacant land at some point in the future.

^ Might be related to this: http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/cityofcincinnati/news/city-to-address-accelerated-riverside-drive-hillside-movement/

The fact that this aura you speak of is so widespread that we have soccer teams in America calling themselves "Football Club" is what surprises me the most. It's funny that only some of them do this, while some call themselves"SC," so you can sort of pick out which places are pretentious.

^ When I walked by today they had a couple big lifts in the now-vacant adjacent lot and it looked like the roof is what they were replacing. It didn't look cheap so hopefully something comes of it.

118 West 3rd Street is being stabilized. The building next door to it (which was next door to 333-SEAT) was demolished a few years ago and is still an empty lot that is occasionally used for parking.

Simpson campaign team member pulls 'stale pale male' Facebook post about Cranley http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/22/simpson-campaign-team-member-pulls-stale-pale-male-facebook-post-cranley/99423254/ A national-level political strategist associated with Yvette Simpson's mayoral campaign made a racially charged comment about Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley on social media last week. Washington D.C.-based consultant Jessica Byrd, an African-American who focuses on helping minority candidates get elected, called Cranley a "stale pale male" in a Facebook post last Friday. Simpson, vying to become the city's first black female mayor, refused to disavow Byrd's comment about the white mayor when The Enquirer asked the city councilwoman about the post on Tuesday.

Office space would work well here. You'd have big floor plates with huge clear spans - office tenants love that. If the county/feds pay for the caps/foundation, a spec office building could be built with white boxed interiors very cheaply. It doesn't really need to be tall - something 4 stories or so would work perfectly. Parking isn't really a problem as most downtown office workers still walk at least a few blocks from lots/garages to their workplaces.

^ I've always called it a "Great Lakes accent." People from northern Ohio sound more like people from Michigan or Chicago than they do people from southern Ohio (who truly have no accent, aside from a few locales like Hamilton or Amelia where southern accents somehow creep above the Mason-Dixon).

^ These types of buildings are incredibly cheap to build, especially on a wide open, flat site. We're talking below $50 a square foot. I have no idea how much profit a Kroger store makes per year but it doesn't need to be much to pay off the construction costs of the building rather quickly.

The "urban" components seem to be the setting, the smaller format store (that still has most of the amenities of their new 100,000+ square foot mega-Kroger stores), and more grab and go type foods geared toward individuals instead of families. The two-story component is pretty insignificant because there's no actual shopping on the second floor (though those cart escalators can cost about $400,000 each, so I forgive them for this one). The site design is not urban at all, though it is definitely an improvement over the old store that was, perhaps, one of the worst site plans I've ever seen for a retail location.

^ Yeah I was there this weekend and it was a mad house. I'm hoping some of it was due to it being opening weekend, but we'll see. They were pretty much out of carts when I was there - I had to walk back out of the store and get one from someone who had just finished putting their groceries into their car. It did seem to have a lot of the same old problems, though, mostly trashy clientele and not enough staff to keep up with them. I noticed that someone left one of those big 3lb tubes of ground beef sitting out by the pasta - I guess they changed their mind and just left it. Who does that? Not a whole lot Kroger can due about that, aside from babysit everyone in the store at all times. I also expect some sort of locks or chaperone or a complete removal of some of the self-serve components very quickly. People were treating the nuts/trail mix/candies bins like free samples, and they're right in front of the entrance. There was a huge bouncer-looking guy manning the growler station.

^ I always try to tell the people flipping me off that if we all just learned to zipper merge, we wouldn't be in this traffic jam in the first place.