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You were fine until you got to the fedora part. Unfortunately, that’s a fatal flaw and makes you automatically qualify. Also, the tightness of the modern fit pants is another issue. If they are a slim cut, that’s fine, but “skinny” and beyond is another fatal flaw.

Yeah, I really don't think he is a long term threat to Cincy. I think his financial backers are prepping him for the state or national level - he comes from a very wealthy family with very wealthy friends, and they were his biggest campaign donors.

A block away at 4th and race “Reserve” just opened and is almost entirely sold out. I could see the condo market being a different story, but rentals seem to fly off the shelves anywhere downtown. Maybe a new building can't quite make rentals profitable?

The primary will be interesting for sure. Brad Wenstrup had a surprisingly strong showing in 2009, and I wouldn't be surprised to see anyone with an R next to their name take the most votes in the Primary, with the D and C splitting the liberal vote.

Christ Emmanuel is one of the partners involved in CityLink, so as much as they are closing this particular community outreach center, it would seem the people and money involved would still find a place in CityLink, but I could be mistaken.

Under this theory, representation is apportioned by livestock. Under the one man / one vote principle, 50k people living in a city should have just as many representatives as 50k people spread across 4 counties. I think what he is getting at is that you’d have to gerrymander districts to get them to be anywhere near an even political split. Of course districts in urban Cleveland are going to be 70% democrat, whereas suburban districts may be split near 50/50, while rural districts are likely 55-60% republican on average. Every district has the same population, it’s just that democrats live densely with other democrats in cities, and there is no republican counter to that. It makes perfect sense, geographically, that Ohio would end up with a few heavily democratic districts, and a plethora of slightly republican leaning districts.

If anything there is a pretty clear cut bigotry edge FOR the winner of the election: black turnout has been at record highs the past two presidential elections and Obama secured some 98% of black votes. Not to mention the few thousand people in the entire country that may vote against someone because he is black probably wouldn’t vote for a white democrat either, so the effect is nil.

Do you think they wouldn't have had the same pole had the election gone the other way?

Didn't the city just spend a ton of money installing new meters all over downtown? Wouldn't it have made more sense to lease the spots first, and let whomever leased them install new meters? With the new meters, street spots are already nearing non-event prices for parking garages and lots downtown, so I don't know how much more money there is to be made. Although, 6000 spots seems like it covers a lot more than just downtown.

This is because Donovan had an "R" next to his name and way, way too many people show up at the polls to vote for president and vote a straight ticket on everything else without doing any amount of research. The guy who was naturally next in line, the clearly better candidate, and (on the topic of this thread) lives downtown near the streetcar route, is out because of a letter next to his name on the ballot.

At some point, this Smitherman/COAST Coalition will dissolve badly and publicly. Just Too many egomaniacs to co-exist peacefully. Why is everyone so intent on voting early? I live in the middle of OTR and have never waited in line on election day. Even during the 2008 election there were maybe 2 or 3 other people voting the entire time I was.

I have no dishwasher in my otherwise great apartment and it is absolutely terrible. I’m just lucky to have a girlfriend who can’t cook, so she automatically gets stuck with dish duty. Also, I have an architect friend that just renovated his house in Northside and is renting the brand new apartment. I think it is closer to $700 a month, though, but that includes heat.

Yeah, it is starting to come together and isn't as bad as I expected, which isn't saying a whole lot, but it could be worse. The view from Eggleston almost made me sick, though. Hopefully there will be some landscaping with fast growing trees there. The parking garage is massive.

Todd Portune is Republican? And hated 3C? No. I was stating that this project hasn't had opposition from Republicans that most rail projects unfortunately seem to have. The fact that it serves heavily republican suburbs may have something to do with that. The ridership is small but not insignificant. I think the Wasson line is a fine alternative, or even supplement, that could be built at a later date. However I think the amount of undevelopable land along the Oasis is being exaggerated. There are several areas of the East End, Columbia Tusculum, etc. that could undergo densification. My stance is that the highway is likely going to be built no matter what, we might as well take what we can get on the rail portion. This rail money could be better spent on a line elsewhere, but I have absolutely no faith it would be should this project be stopped.

This project has support from a lot of Republicans (which is secretly why I think so many here hate it, but that's a debate for another day) who were anti 3C. Wihle I agree it would make more sense to invest in alternate routes, or routes through other parts of the city, I'm not going to stand in the way of a project like this that is ultimately a compromise. The argument against the streetcar being too small and serving too few areas is that the city has to start somewhere small, and build up to something bigger in light of the MetroMoves failure at the polls. I view the eastern corridor as another piece of that small start.

Look at the route. It serves probably the lowest density area possible for a line heading out of Downtown. To the south is the river for most of the way, to the north is a hill which is a pedestrian obstacle. Much of the land it would serve is in a floodplain, and therefore undevelopable. It doesn't have the characteristics of a successful commuter rail route, which should be built to serve as many people as possible and serve areas which are transit-oriented development-ready. Have you ever been on Columbia Parkway or 471 during rush hour? People hate on this project all the time, but I'm pretty sure thousands of commuters from the far out east suburbs will park and ride in a heartbeat. It will be a good way to warm up the average anti-rail crowd to how nice rail transit can be.

Oh really... ? PM me a link please? Is this Delta SkyMiles? I'm guessing it's this: http://www.onlyong.com/delta/

Was that a Texas Roadhouse maybe? It was in an odd location by itself and never seemed to have anyone in it. I think I went there once when I lived in Oakley. It was in an odd location all by itself. It's funny that a couple dozen of the same caliber chain places will be going in across the street now. As for Logan's, it's basically the same thing, I actually thought they all had the same parent company until now. I travel for work to some small towns in the south and have been to more Logan's than I'd care to admit.

^ Donovan lives downtown and is quite an urbanist, so he has that going for him. From what I've seen/heard of him he'd probably fit in well enough here.

It’s a clever, quite cynical critique of society, and I like it. Everyone can agree suicide is a problem, but how many people get pissed when trains shutdown for 2 hours at rush hour.

After watching the Reds win despite Cueto's injury, the NLDS should be over quickly.

There are certain streets that have no permanent residents (15th in places, for example) and it isn’t a good idea to walk down them, even in groups. It probably wasn’t a problem this weekend as everything was so crowded it’d be tough to hide anywhere, but on a regular night at 1:30AM, there absolutely are streets you shouldn’t walk down.

I've always thought that 5/3 was extremely sleek without the signage on top. It's so monolithic and meets the sky in such a clean way. Now the giant horizontal sign that it has throws the aesthetic of whole building off.

It's such an early, crude rendering that I doubt even the intern that put it together knows that.

They seemingly shouldn't have been, pavers are difficult to do right in general, but UC has pulled it off all over their campus. I wonder why they haven't created a lawsuit, they are absolutely terrible and have settled a good 8 inches in some spots. Someone goofed up either designing or building them.