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UC had nothing to do with this. A couple of 20 year old kids did this. And the "secondary" language is silly. UC is a major top 25 public research University. Why does it seem like everyone in CIN has little man's complex? Hard to believe that a harmless prank would even register to all mighty OSU fans (maybe this demonstrates who the little guys are) The insecurity of OSU fans is what gets me, I mean take a gander at this: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2014/02/33485/uc-affiliate-broke-ohio-stadium-disgraced-sacred-sod Poking a dragon? It's also interesting the fan "broke into" the stadium. At UC, this kind of cheerful behavior would be welcomed as the stadium is always accessible to students and visitors. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see a copycat soon, there's typically giant wieners carved out of the snow every time it falls, anyway. This year will be my first visit to said stadium, as the girlfriend is an OSU grad and I'm a UC grad. I wonder if I will be met with cheerful jests as visiting fans are in Cincinnati, or vile hatred like I've been subjected to visiting Pittsburgh?

Cranley’s plan seems to combine all the negatives of Mallory’s plan (increased rates, stricter enforcement, increased hours of operation, etc.) with none of the positives (millions of dollars, efficiency of privatization).

and how many people involved in car accidents know one another? But that randomness doesn't seem tto bother anybody. I’ve never bothered to look up the exact statistics, but I’d wager a typical downtown worker who has a long commute is more likely to be injured in a car accident than a downtown worker living in the urban core is to be a victim of a random assault/shooting. Injury aside, if you’re mugged, you lose a few bucks and maybe a cell phone. If you’re driving and get into the tiniest of fender benders, you’re out at least a $500 deductible.

What a little weasel. Cranley knows there’s no money to pay for more police and fire, but he’ll still propose them and try to make council members who vote against them look bad. Meanwhile, the street I live on still hasn’t been plowed, and last week was the third time this winter my trash/recycling wasn’t picked up at all. Wasn’t doing the little things like picking up trash one of Cranley’s big campaign ideas? Combine that with the simple statistic that murder is up nearly 300% so far this year – the Enquirer and WLW should be having a field day with this guy.

I'm almost positive that those are Ikea handles on the cabinets, I just installed an ikea kitchen with those handles that is about the same size as that one. That's a nice fume hood, though.

That's a shame, I walked by that the other day and saw workers going in and out and thought in passing that they were renovating it. I recently posted this photo on my website of that block in 1927. It's tough to tell because things have changed so drastically, but those buildings are down half the block on the left. They have all lost what looked like beautiful cornices.

I see that working for the Enquirer, but not WCPO. Especially per the article above that says they have hired a full staff of 30 people to produce content for their website. They will need a lot of subscribers to pay for employees alone, let alone actually generate profit. I'd be surprised if they get more than a couple thousand subscribers, vs tens or even hundreds of thousands of hits a day they'll be giving up.

This is only related to the Enquirer on a tangent, but WCPO just headed in the same direction they did and started charging for some of their content. For only $80 a year you can read their in-depth content that has so far seemed to me like a bad rip-off of various local blogs. Paying for the Enquirer at least makes sense because they deliver a physical paper to you as well. I’m curious how many takers WCPO will get – I imagine it won’t be very many, even if their first month is on sale for 1 cent.

I've always found this dialect map to be the most comprehensive and accurate (especially the sources it links to): http://aschmann.net/AmEng/ What's interesting to me is that there are often some similarities between Cincinnati and New York accents - yet the original link above lists NYC as the least similar to Cincinnati.

I find it amusing that whatever process was needed to make that gross artificial fat is similar enough to the process that makes biodiesel. What the hell were they trying to feed us?

I hadn't seen that one, but here's one I noticed that is looking east from a few steps away from that same spot. It's almost as depressing: What sticks out most to me, aside from the obvious changes in density, is the addition of huge, gaudy street signs, signals, and pavement markings. Some parts of the city are so much uglier today because we want to be able to move our cars through them at a slightly quicker rate.

I've been putting together some "before and after" photos and Street Views, using a collection of street improvement photos from the 20s, 30s, and 40s. I find the old photos really interesting, and the current scenes pretty depressing in most cases: http://zfein.blogspot.com/2014/02/cincinnati-then-and-now-004.html Here's the source of the old photos, but beware because it's easy to lose a few hours of your day in these: http://drc.libraries.uc.edu/handle/2374.UC/702780/browse?type=series

Will I be banned from this site if I say I find Bill Cunningham's sense of humor a little bit funny? I just think it's a shame that a lot of people think they're true statements, and not comedic hyperbole. He’s like a far more subtle version of Colbert. Smitherman, Sloan, etc. are all just off their rockers, though.

Yeah, what's the deal with the #67? I remember wanting to take it once because it went from downtown to a testing center in Blue Ash that I had to go to 7 times for the architecture registration exam. The route worked perfectly, but that timetable was a head-scratcher. Needless to say, I had no choice but to drive.

Sure, but what would the automated system connect? You have to connect comething before you have a system at all. Look at the map of the existing subway tunnels and advised what you think could be automated and what they would connect to. The stops at Brighton and Linn have lots of potential for development, and the stops at Liberty and Race are pretty much in the midst of development already. I live about a 5 minute walk from the Linn St. stop, for instance. There's a ton of potential in the properties around Mohawk, for instance, that are still some of the worst areas in OTR. Unfortunately the route is probably too parallel to the streetcar to be used as a circulator like that. It would be an interesting, inexpensive (compared to using the tunnels for rail, that is), and unique option, though.

Make it 14 straight wins, and UC is now ranked 7th in the AP - their highest ranking since the days of the legendary Bob Huggins.

This link is to a list of property sales and is updated daily: http://www.hamiltoncountyauditor.org/dailysales/dailysales.html Sometimes the auditor can take a few weeks to update. But I don't see anything in OTR on Walnut Street that was sold.

I posted a link to these awhile ago on my blog, and was doing a "before and after" thing for awhile but haven't had time lately. I believe these were all taken by the City of Cincinnati. My blog: http://zfein.blogspot.com/2013/10/cincinnati-then-and-now.html The source (a bit cumbersome to search): http://drc.libraries.uc.edu/handle/2374.UC/702780/browse?type=series

I think hipster girl clothing was trending toward FOB fashion for a while, but has since diverged paths. There was a brief period where I think it was unintentionally sexualized; at least it was by me.

Is that document available online? It'd be interesting if the city made some form of basic drawings available online, sort of like the I-75 Mill Creek Expressway website. Those drawings are very basic but illustrate exactly what is being built pretty clearly. Edit: Just found it, Appendix C here: http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/streetcar/documents-references/environmental-documents/?startRow=11&nextNID=E58A1F73-B7C8-4475-86CF4E604718E07C

That was a pretty close game with an awful team. A W is a W, but it doesn't give me confidence. It was kind of a sleeper game, on the road, against a bad team, with Louisville coming up later this week. Plus, that one guy from Temple was on fire and made 7 of 8 three pointers in the second half.

$1 beers on Wednesday nights, and $2 24oz beers on Tuesday nights. I think they do family/kids stuff on Friday and Saturday nights.

"Facadism" at its worst. There’s a storm brewing in NYC because DS+R have proposed to tear down the Folk Art Museum as part of the MOMA expansion. Their logic is that they have to redo the interior to such an extent that the only thing left would be the façade, and it’d be essentially fake – tacked on to the exterior of a completely different building, and thus meaningless and insulting to the original. While people are angry it is likely coming down, everyone agrees sticking the façade onto a different building is an even worse idea. On a smaller scale, that’s what we have going on here. We’ll probably see more faux pas like this as 3CDC seems content on following the uptown model of building nothing but completely out of scale superblocks. What’s even worse in this case is that they’re trying to dress it up like it isn’t a superblock. At least be honest about it.

"After that, the team is entitled to an upfront payment from any naming rights deal of $16.67 million – an amount that goes up 6 percent a year. Whatever is left over is then split 70/30 in the Bengals’ favor. " Every time I read about the finer points of the Hamilton County/Bengals agreements I almost can’t help but laugh. It’s like a comedy skit or cartoon where some dimwit doesn’t know how to barter, and ends up paying more than the original asking price. In this case, I can picture the Bengals wanting their $16.67 million and the county jumping in and saying “okay, but only if we get 30% of whatever else is left over,” instead of trying to barter the $16.67 million down.

I lived half a block south of these properties on Walnut and never once wasn’t able to find a spot to park on the street. Although it’s a sketchy looking street, 15th is always empty (and has a police camera aimed down it, anyway). The only time it was hard to find parking was when the Free Store gave away Thanksgiving turkeys, but 10 spots isn’t going to alleviate that, anyway. I’m not a fan of the director’s rhetoric, either. It’s a good point that every $1 they spend on a building is $1 worth of food that could go to someone, however providing food is only their primary mission; it doesn’t alleviate them of their other responsibilities. In this case, they have a responsibility to be respectful of their neighbors and community.