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I think I should be able to make this one.

She is a rather established politician herself, having served in Bush's cabinet (the first Asian American woman to ever hold a cabinet position) and Deputy Secretary of Transportation for H.W. Bush. It's not like she was writing huge checks to Trump's foundation in exchange for a position, like so many Democrats were doing to get on Clinton's good side. She also hasn't relied entirely upon her husband success to get where she is (as opposed to someone like Hillary) - she was Deputy Secretary of Transportation prior to marrying McConnell. Overall, I think she is a great choice, and I think Trump will be the most transit friendly Republican president we've had in a long time. He wants to see big infrastructure projects - the focus for anyone interested in transit should be to try and make as many of those projects as possible transit, instead of road.

Saw this posted elsewhere - this is going to look so dumb. By the looks of it, they aren't adding any more rows at the bottom (they probably can't do that as the first row is already at field level) - they are removing the first few rows of bleachers.

^ "Without a successor in the family, the Mallins decided to close the store permanently." It sounds like it's not closing because of a lack of business, just a lack of a family member to hand it down to.

Those south end zone corners are going to look downright horrible. What's shown in the rendering would have been okay - though a big downgrade from how Nippert looks today - but that plan seems to be more of a final image than the rendering, which is depressing.

^ I think yo could be on to something. I have a relative who lives in Spring Grove Village so I'm down there from time to time and it is packed full of small houses like that one that are move-in ready. There are actually a few corners with some vacant storefronts (like Epworth and Edgewood) that could be just enough space for a bar and/or coffee shop - not unlike what is slowly going on in Price Hill with Bloc Coffee. The difference being Spring Grove Village houses are smaller and in better shape, and the neighborhood seems to be safer. It's also got proximity to Northside for the people who like to go to Northside sometimes but aren't quite 'Northside people.' And of course the benefit a home like that one has over a tiny home is that it comes with land and utilities. Getting land and utility hookups for a tiny house would probably cost as much as that entire move-in ready house.

This was posted on Reddit - it's another example of serious crime around UC's campus that I have not seen at all in local news: Anecdotally I think crime is trending up around UC in the wake of reduced off campus patrols by UCPD, and I think there's some sort of unspoken agreement between UC and the media to not draw too much attention to it.

^ A lawmaker in Iowa has already put the ball in motion on this: http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/15/iowa-lawmaker-introduces-suck-buttercup-bill-response-election-related-protests/

My fiancee has a house in CT and this was a surprise at first, but then I saw this covers a very limited area. It's really just a measure to keep Jeff Ruby's customers from hogging all the street spots during peak times. The OTR plan was quite a bit different as it covered the entire neighborhood. Council OKs parking plan for Columbia Tusculum street http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/16/columbia-tusculum-street-could-get-parking-permit/93960494/ The permit affects 10 homes on Walworth Avenue. They would cost $30 a year. The restricted parking hours would run from 5 p.m. to midnight every day. The process to set up a residential parking permit area seems pretty straight forward so long as the neighborhood in question is predominantly residential. OTR is different in that the area covered was going to be much larger than anything currently in existence, and that area was mixed used, unlike the 2 (now 3) zones in existence that are almost entirely residential.

Is there a law or code that says streetcar drivers have to stop while traffic signals are still green if the "do not walk" counters are counting down on cross streets? It seems they do this every time. Is it just a policy? Per Ohio law I don't think it would be illegal if the tail end of the streetcar were in the intersection when a light turns red, so long as it entered it while the light was green. This seems to add a few minutes to almost every trip I've made.

Yeah Tubbs isn't going anywhere thanks to that deal and the lack of Big 12 expansion. The loss in ticket sales due to having a crappy team won't offset the hefty price tag of firing him, if I had to guess. I heard the luxury boxes as Nippert were a 3 year deal so they're all paid for next year, no matter what. The one glimmer of hope is that the team is seemingly composed of about 75% freshmen and sophomores.

The Enquirer article says the result was 8-4 in favor of conviction on the manslaughter charge. Only 3 people were willing to convict on the murder charge.

The Tensing trial just ended in a hung jury, though they've been asked by the judge to continue deliberations (Allen Charge).

There was a cop on board the car I was on yesterday around 5:00.

The intent was to make public record easily accessible to the masses but it quickly turned into one of the most vile places I've ever seen in ~20 years of being on the internet. Some of the stuff posted in the comments was downright scary and we would have to blacklist certain names and IP addresses. Our word filter was mostly composed of racial slurs I didn't even know existed. I've always wondered how Busted stayed in print but I think it's mostly the lack of that comment section.

cincymugshots appeared before Busted. I met the guy who created it on the patio on Neon's right when that place reopened around 2009, but I can't remember his name. That guy actually wrote the code that lifted the mugshots off of Hamilton County's website, and I remember him saying that he could only pull it off here because most of the other county websites either weren't posting the mugshots or their code was written in some other fashion that I couldn't lift so easily. I think that was at the rally night for the first streetcar issue. It was me and a buddy of mine that made that site, you must have been talking to him - he was the one who wrote the back end code that grabbed everything the sheriff posted (I did the easier user interface stuff). They had (and still do have) a process that posts every mugshot they take online, but they only keep them up as long as the person is in jail (which is sometimes just minutes for minor crimes or things like DUIs). We saw an opportunity there - why not make them permanent, and add the ability for the public to comment on each mugshot? So we wrote a script that would check every 15 minutes and download any new files the county uploaded. The whole site ran itself after about 2 days worth of coding (which was actually done as a class project). I have some crazy stories about how that website came to an end but I wouldn't dare type them out. The short version is you don't want to get involved in the mugshot business.

^ That makes me miss that old cincymugshots.com website. If Tensing killed Dubose in a 'fit of rage' as you guys describe, the charge should be involuntary manslaughter, not murder. IMO (which is based on a layman's understanding of the Ohio Revised Code - though so is the jury's opinion) this was reckless homicide - mainly because I don't think Tensing wanted to kill Dubose. Really, I think Deters should have never filed the 'murder' charge. If there's a not guilty verdict or a hung jury I'm sure some of the conspiracy folks out there will claim Deters filed that charge knowing he'd never actually get a conviction.

It looks like non-essential courthouse staff was sent home early, hinting that a verdict may very well be on the way tonight. I've been following this for live updates: https://twitter.com/hashtag/tensingtrial

The jury is approaching the 10 hour mark of deliberations and still no verdict. I think we could end up with a hung jury and I'm not sure what the reaction would be. Would Deters try again? Try for a lesser charge like reckless homicide? Not prosecute again at all?

Yeah, the Ohio River is a very young river on a geological timescale and its formation is a really interesting story. There was a documentary on KET at one point about it and I could very well be butchering this but this is how I remember it. The theory is it flowed north up the Mill Creak and joined the Teays River, which drained most of Ohio and WV, but was completely blocked by glaciation and caused floodwaters to erode land away west of Cincinnati to form the current route. This is why the Mill Creek Valley is seemingly much too wide for the small creek that flows through it, while the Ohio River Valley is, in places, not much wider than the river itself. The Ohio River had 2 million years to erode away the Mill Creek Valley, but only 10,000 to erode away its current valley. This is also part of the reason roadways like Columbia Parkway are constantly the victims of landslides - the valley is actively being formed and we are just helping it along by cutting big roads into it.

^ Well, Trump did double down on his infrastructure promise in his victory speech last night: We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We're going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none, and we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it. I think the question will definitely lie with Congress. I'm not so sure they'll be on board.

My problem with this is that not all of the money is going to preschool (1/3 of it is), CPS already spends an alarmingly high amount of money per pupil with little to no results (and no signs of improvement according to state assessments), and we're talking about a lot of money - several hundred dollars per year for the average homeowner. This article sums up my complaints pretty well: https://www.aei.org/publication/vote-no-on-issue-44/ I don't think we're going to see any significant results, I don't think this will improve CPS or any property values in the city or attract more families to choose to live in the city. Results will be negligible and I'll personally be out hundreds of dollars a year every year for the next 5 years.

I saw way, way more support for this tax levy than I expected, and little to no opposition. It is an absolutely massive tax hike, the type that the Enquirer would usually love to tackle and pick apart, but all of their political staff were busy blasting Trump, going to Sarah Palin rallies, etc. to actually cover local any issues or campaigns. In reality, this tax levy will have a more direct and sudden impact on Cincinnatians than whoever becomes president.

If there were a legitimate assault I really hope it would have been brought to the attention of the police. If there wasn't, I really hope that no one lost their job over a Facebook post.

I don't think Simpson can win unless a popular Republican runs in the primary (who she would then likely beat in the general). Cranley could come in third place in the primary in such a scenario, leaving him with a very, very long lame-duck period. I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans try to prevent any candidates from running for this reason.