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This is a very long, wonderful article about UC football. Worth a read if you have any interest in UC at all. https://sports.yahoo.com/1-week-with-cincinnati-reveals-bearcats-rise-as-cfp-interloper-luke-fickells-staying-power-and-why-notre-dame-game-means-so-much-014530420.html But, buried within it was this tidbit: As Fickell pulls a few blocks off campus, on the corner of McMillan and Vine streets, he points out an area where there’s talk of a potential site for a $60 million indoor football facility. It would be the caliber of facility that would allow Cincinnati to recruit at the Power Five level, as its current offices are shoehorned into the seventh floor of an eight-floor athletic department building — three of which are underground — adjacent to cozy 40,000-seat Nippert Stadium in the heart of campus. (Students frequently wander through Nippert as a cut-through while walking campus.)

I'd have to get my tape measure out to verify if that is accessible or not, but it looks close - the button can be 24" horizontally away from the inside face of the curb:

CPD's number of traffic stops in 2019 (20,741) was less than half of the number they made in 2009. Coincidentally, there was a 46% increase in pedestrians hit by vehicles from 2013 to 2019. Since COVID, traffic stops are basically nonexistent - just 8,948 in all of 2020. 7,490 so far this year. I can't find data on pedestrians hit by vehicles. "Complete Streets" will help to a point, but if nobody starts to ask CPD why they don't pull people over anymore, things are going to continue to get worse. There are really no repercussions in Cincinnati for wild and egregious driving and it is getting people killed. It's one thing to turn a blind eye to someone doing 30mph in a 25mph zone, it's another to let dangerous drivers with suspended licenses, expired tags, no insurance, etc. remain on the road.

I think the "energy vampire" is one of the funniest characters on TV right now. "When it comes to zoning ordinances, I have a few thoughts." reminded me of this place!

^ St. Bernard is a blue collar, working class neighborhood. I know a pretty big handful of tradesman who live/work out of St. Bernard, both black and white. That makes a place incredibly uncool for most "hip" young couples, who for some reason have no problem with open air drug markets on their stoop, but wouldn't dare live next to an HVAC tech or a guy who owns his own lawncare business.

Agree - scooters don't mug people, people mug people. My guess is that perpetrators used the scooters to swoop in/out. It is pretty easy to sneak up on someone on one of those things, and most successful muggings rely upon the victim being caught off guard.

Closing off 2 of the 9 north/south streets that exist between the highways seems pretty nuts. That's from a walking or driving standpoint. The break in Plum is bad enough by itself. I work down in the southwest corner of downtown and find myself walking an extra block to get around the convention center more often than one would think. However, if the convention center expanded to the north and 6th street was put in a tunnel below it - that might work. The tunnel could continue under Central and connect directly to the onramps.

There's definitely a creepy vibe, can't tell if it was intentional. The lady in blue in the back on the top image looks like she's got a knife!

That one tower in the back/center pancakes about 2-3 stories and somehow stays standing, albeit with quite a lean. You probably couldn't recreate that if you tried.

A sign that our country does not take driving violations seriously - even when they're ridiculously egregious. This guy was able to operate a car after having racked up 160 tickets, with apparently no consequences, until he killed an infant in her stroller on the sidewalk. He should have been in jail and the car should have confiscated about 150 tickets ago. Icing on the cake is that his lawyer is arguing NYC's bail reform should let him out on his own recognizance. He'll probably drive home from the courthouse. Man charged in hit-and-run that killed 3-month-old girl in Brooklyn https://nypost.com/2021/09/12/man-charged-in-hit-and-run-that-killed-baby-in-brooklyn/ A reckless driver whose car has racked up 160 traffic violations was arrested in the horrific hit-run crash that killed a 3-month-old girl in Brooklyn over the weekend, cops said Sunday. Wrong-way driver Tyrik Mott, 28 — whose vehicle has been caught speeding more than 90 times near city schools and habitually failing to stop at traffic signals — had been spotted by cops blowing through a red light before the fatal crash, an NYPD spokesman said.

The UC Bearcats are now the highest ranked college football team in Ohio: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

The Supreme Court has held that anything < 10% can be acceptable, so while 9.5% may seem high it really isn't that far out of the norm for state legislative districts, particularly when there are complex requirements in place limiting where borders can be drawn.

I think within Ohio, the municipal impacts may not be that huge because most people live in a municipality, not unincorporated areas (I am guessing, I actually couldn't find data on that stat easily). If you live in one municpality and work in another, you may not bother tracking remote days nor filing a return with both cities as you'd owe some or all of the return to another city. If you live in a township or a city with a low income tax rate, you'd be wise to track remote days and file accordingly. As for inter-state taxes, those are always tricky but will especially be so now. What I'm most curious about are some of the high paying, coastal tech jobs that are trending towards permanent remote work. If those folks choose to relocate to flyover country, and move into cities, it could be a net gain in state and local income tax dollars. But I imagine the high-tax coastal states won't let their tax base run off without a fight.

I think the hybrid model is great and allows most office workers to make the most efficient use of their time. It is going to be popular and companies that don't offer it in some form are going to miss out on the most talented, desirable workers. 60% office/40% remote is the ratio I most often hear about, as well. On the flip side, I think companies that go 100% remote will slowly suffer and wither into a cultureless enigma. From an urban environment setting, I think the hybrid model is going to be pretty tough to plan for. Some amenities like transit, parking, etc. will have to remain for peak demand, but it will be underutilized most of the time. Restaurants that catered to business lunch crowds will stay reduced in number. There may be some reduction in office space footprint, but that will be over the long term as leases expire. As someone who lives in a township but works in the city, the thing I'm looking forward to most is no local income tax. If I work from home 40% of the time, I can file for a municipal income tax refund for that time. My wife is remote full time and will recoup all of it. It's a decent amount of money to save.

Usually when somebody is up to no good, there's a pretty obvious motivation. But I have no idea what these guys were up to. If they were really trying to build a good football team for these kids - why not practice? Why go through all this trouble, break laws, bounce checks, etc. just to get trounced on the football field? Unless it's a front for something else it just doesn't add up.

Here is what the amendment proposes, in order of my favorite to least favorite: Eliminate the pocket veto. Require one-year residency in the city to serve as mayor or as a council member. (Personally, I'd make it longer than that) Eliminate the designee replacement system, Change the way vacancies are filled so the next highest election finisher would be first in line. Allow individual liability of city employees for some violations of open meetings and public records law violations. Make council salaries equal to the median household income for the city. Provide for the recall of the mayor. Require Council approval of all lawsuits filed by the city. The merits of some may be debatable, others should have widespread support (like eliminating the pocket veto) - but I don't see how any are a "republican coup" or would benefit Republicans at all. As Brinkman noted in the article, if this had been passed before the FBI rolled up to city hall with a paddy wagon, there'd be zero Republicans on council right now. Also, I think the quotes in that article about the salary cut are out of touch, Landsman's in particular. Half the city makes less than the median, and a good portion of folks would see a substantial quality of life improvement if they made that much. The claim that a working class person couldn't survive on a council salary don't make sense when half of the working class is already getting by on less, in some cases much less.

The election is shaping up like Cranley vs Simpson. I wouldn't be surprised to see similar results. Though Aftab managed to not insult Bockfest (though Oktoberfest still looms) and his campaign hasn't called Mann anything like a "stale pale male" yet so he has that going for him.

It doesn't seem like they really lied, aside from the coach fibbing a bit about his kids' collegiate career prospects, but what coach doesn't talk up his team before a big game? What's really sad is how quick the media is to blame the kids and the team instead of ESPN. ESPN was ridiculously lazy. 30 seconds on Google would have told you that this game had zero chance of being competitive and probably shouldn't be broadcast live, nationally, on ESPN's main channel. ESPN also keeps a database of any and all high school kids who are contacted by colleges. They didn't even check the teams roster against their own data.

Bishop Sycamore of Columbus was featured live on ESPN yesterday, going up against IMG Academy out of Florida (a sports focused boarding school). ESPN doesn't broadcast a lot of high school football games, and the spots they air are typically reserved for the top teams in the country. IMG is among them, however Bishop Sycamore appears to be an online-only charter school that has only existed for two years. They went 0-6 last year and were outscored 227-42. Further, they had just played a game on Friday night in Pennsylvania, meaning they traveled and only had a days rest between games. It was a 58-0 blowout, which was generous on the part of IMG, who took their foot off the gas in the first half. ESPN's announcers claimed they were scammed into covering the game. Critics say it was just laziness on the part of ESPN, who didn't do any research whatsoever on the team. Here's how ESPN got duped into airing a terrible high school football team https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/08/espn-img-academy-bishop-sycamore-high-school-football

The neighborhood was fully built out originally, in the 70s or 80s. When that runway was expanded, the airport was given a grant by the FAA to buy all the homes and tear them down. It was voluntary on the part of the property owners, and there were a couple holdouts. They may have gotten some money for sound-proofing instead of selling. Edit: ETHANS GLEN was the name of the subdivision if you want to look up some of the old articles about it.

The museum actively markets spaces like their grand hall and balcony for events and weddings. These are spaces that were designed to host events and are not solemn spaces in and of themselves (unlike places like Eisenman's Holocaust Memorial where the space is designed to be inseparable from the subject matter). It's not like they're renting out the the slave pen for a wedding.

Over the last year or so, Amazon's prices have usurped big box prices. I doubt their stores will do well when you can go to a place like Menards and find most of they Amazon sells, but for lower prices. The benifit of Amazon is being able to go to one trustworthy website to buy almost everything, and typically have it in hand in a day or two. If you have to go into a store anyway, why not just go to the cheapest one - which oftentimes is WalMart or Menards, not Amazon.

You know the finance people came up with "RedHogs." They can just order some "Hogs" patches and stickers to cover up all the "skins" and the rebranding costs would be negligible. Sort of like the Indians did with just swapping "In" with "Guar"

These Ohio billboards really remind me of the New Zealand travel posters from "Flight of the Conchords:" https://nzpocketguide.com/top-10-flight-conchords-adverts-new-zealand/