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^ Looks more like a place you rent for private tailgates than a bar. There's a pretty weird subculture that exists on Third Street only during Bengals home games. There's a few bars that I imagine do close to 50% of their business during the 10 days a year (11 if we're lucky) the Bengals are at home.

The Holland Tunnel approach in Jersey is technically an interstate, but you're basically driving on a wide city street. I really like the BQE. I lived close to it in Woodside, and while the BQE functions perfectly as a highway, its impact on the neighborhood is minimal. It has narrow lanes, no or minimal shoulders in most parts, and is sunk 20' or so below the street grid. The speed limit is lower, but everyone still manages to drive 70 or so when traffic is light. If only I-75 through the west end could have been built like this.

I'm curious what the prices are going to be. Anything over $10 for pint is going to keep me away. I think the Moerlein draft beers were $9.25 last year? The other craft beers are all around the same price point, for the most part. Maybe they could do smaller pours for the higher ABV stuff.

The cost and complexity of expanding voting means and methods is not worth it. It costs money to keep polling locations open for weeks on end, it costs money to send out ballots and have free return shipping. And of course the biggest issue is ensuring the integrity of the vote. Even if there is "no history of electoral fraud" as the NY Times erroneously states (there's no widespread pattern, but it happens every year), it could happen any year and the more expansive we allow the voting methods to be, the easier it will be to manipulate votes. It's fairly simple - show up on election day and vote. If you are truly incapable of showing up to vote, get an absentee ballot. There's really no need to make it any more complicated than that.

Retail and restaurants can go up very, very quick. Didn't 3CDC stabilize and replace the roof of that building already? With the amount of money being thrown at this place, 6-8 months should be attainable. It will be a bustling site, though.

I wonder what options the lease has for the city to cancel the salon’s lease early. It seems to me that they are going to get the amount they’re asking for if this development is going to go forward. Of course, there’s always hardball and the city could start work on demolition of the garage while the suit goes forward. Even closing the garage would probably hurt the salon’s business by quite a bit. Though those both seem like an overreaction, the amount the salon is requesting only seems to be a little bit too high. I admit I don’t know how many square feet the place is or how nice it is, but unless it’s close to 7000sf or one of the nicer salons in town, they’re asking too much. They’re nowhere near the level of the rent controlled residents in NYC asking for tens of millions for their moldy 200 square foot closets, though, so it could be worse.

It took me a minute to realize that this restaurant wasn't on Cincinnati's 5 block long, mostly student housing lined Euclid Avenue.

I have heard from some typically anti-streetcar people and most people realized that article was complete and utter BS. I think WCPO may have gone too far this time - people are starting to no longer take the anti-streetcar hysteria seriously. Trying to trick people into thinking the streetcar will kill them came off as a wee bit too desperate, I think.

You're the one who keeps going back to city's history with Saks. No one has touted that as an excellent example of how a subsidy is supposed to work. The fact remains that the owner of Mahogany's had a shaky financial history that served as a red flag (which was ignored). Now it looks like they're going out of business. I'm not sure what else there is to say. This is the post that started my responses: My point was that the risk involved in subsidizing Saks and Macy's was less than the risk of subsidizing Mahogany's, given the owner's financial history and track record. If the city government is going to be involved in the act of subsidizing businesses, I'd say a profitable international corporation is a better bet than a small business owner with bad credit and a history of backed taxes. Whether the city should be doing any of these things at all is another discussion altogether.

Didn't they hire over 30 staff just for the online/paywall venture? That seems like a massive investment, and if they weren't even able to get subscribers for the introductory price, I doubt they'll be successful in the long run. They could lose millions. Will Cincinnati have to settle for ABC out of Dayton in the near future?

I think that’s a step in the right direction. As has been discussed here before, the letter of the law reads that meter time limits double as parking time limits. Meters are supposed to be for short term parking, you shouldn’t be refilling it for 5 or 6 hours at a time, so why do we need cell phone payment? If you’re parking for that long, park in a lot or garage – some of which are cheaper than meter spots downtown, anyway.

Isn't that article supposed to be behind their paywall? Or does 10 minutes Googling crash statistics and calling Brinkman not count as in-depth enough?

They have been tearing off the awful materials that were on the front entrance and they have exposed some very nice old details. They are in rough shape from being built over for so long but hopefully they can save some of it.

Saks, Macy's, and Nordstrom are all valiant efforts though, as they are large and profitable companies. Even though Nordstrom fell through and Sak's left, most investors would agree that they're worth the risk. However, even setting aside your opinions on the validity of subsidizing diversity and multiculturalism at The Banks, Mahogany's seemed like a horrible idea from the get go.

^ That's a dream of mine, but I think I'd need to win the lottery first.

Or could that be a class thing? He prefers to take his limo and is upset that the 7 line in NYC gets from Manhattan to Flushing faster than his driver can?

A deal with Xerox via City Council would be the way to go about it. My objections to the original deal was that it used the Port Authority as a middle man, had increased hours and rates, and with the amount of cash involved would have undoubtedly led to massive fine prices, towing, etc. Increased patrols are the way to go, but not increased ticket prices. I’ve never gotten a parking ticket before, but I think it’s only $35 or so at an expired meter depending upon the location. Keep that rate, but write tickets more often. Ideally, ticket revenue shoots way up for several months, and then returns to normal rates as people learn to not park illegally because of the 90% likelihood they'd get a ticket. I don’t think it is something we should be anticipating profit off of for the next 30 years, though. We want to discourage illegal parking, not profit off of it.

32/33. It's fairly easy to "guess" the correct answer for a lot of those questions even if you really don't know much about the topic at hand. For example I know next to nothing about philosophy, but most of the answers didn't make much sense in context. It's really about reading the question and figuring out exactly what the language is asking... usually there's only one or two logical answers to questions like these. Though I just finished taking all my architecture registration exams so I've gotten pretty good at multiple choice test technique, and have thus started to doubt the results of multiple choice tests in general.

Thanks for finding and linking to that. I would think that this question is the only one that religion has a noticeable effect on: "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals." Other than that question, the US typically outperforms the other countries surveyed.

I wonder what the actual question was. “Does the earth revolve around the sun - Yes or No?” would hopefully be answered correctly by more than 75% of people, but if you asked it in any manner of open ended ways I could see it confusing people.

I don't know what they could have been doing other than scrapping what metals are left or putting up metal over the windows/welding doors shut to prevent break-ins. Since the middle portion of the building has been torn down, it seems like it'd be very tough to save the rest. Sadly, there are some really interesting spaces inside the building but it'd be tough to use some of them.

Not so much "afraid" but they have nothing to gain from it, and something to lose. If they play UC every few years and beat them, they don't gain anything, they just maintain the status quo. If they lose a few times, or even worse a few times in a row, they risk losing recruiting clout over Cincinnati's high school teams. If you're the biggest guy in the room and have to fight someone, why fight the second biggest guy when you can beat up a few of the "little guys?"

How many beers deep is this guy? Sorry, I meant little guy. So you have graduated from calling UC fans little man, to personally calling me little. Why so you quote me and ask "how many beers deep is this guy?" Would it be more appropriate to ask "how many beers deep are you". A harmless prank has you all flustered. Honestly, I think the bigger point being made here is the "prank" wasn't funny. You've been here long enough to know people will "give you a hard time" for trying to be funny...but failing. Don't take it personal and move on. The funny part is how mad some OSU fans are, not that someone spent 5 minutes walking a path that marginally resembles the letters UC on OSU's field.

I don’t think UC – Delaware St. is analogous to Ohio State – UC at all because you’re a few degrees of separation off, but I get the gist of what you’re implying (I also think that proposing that particular analogy further confirms my point above but I’ll leave it at that). UC isn’t supposed to win the game, and it’d be an upset if they did (not an Appalachian State – Michigan level upset, but an upset nevertheless – after all, UC is being paid to play in Cbus). I won’t be upset if UC loses because they’re supposed to lose, and if they win I won’t gloat or be overly happy because sports aren’t that important to me. I would find it pretty funny, though.

I think you just proved my point.