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The food truck issue needs to be solved and has taken, so far, a year. I don't think it's solved even now. Committees and committees and committees. Meanwhile, this controversial and frivolous measure sails right through. Embarassingly misplaced priorities. New hubcaps for a car with a broken axle.

At best, this is an incredible waste of City Council's time.

There's been radio talk of the Browns trading with the Vikings to acquire another 1st round pick. Not clear why or at what cost. Could be total BS.

Seems like nearby residential reduces our Greyhound station's safety, rather than the other way around.

Not a Wheel of Time fan myself, although Martin credits Robert Jordan's endorsement for helping Game of Thrones initially catch on. It's funny how polarizing those series can be. People usually love one and hate the other.

Same here, all I can think of are "the periscopes" and "the pastels." Not sure what ether is officially called. Given the paucity of housing in that area, those alone could skew a mean value, but it is hard to believe they could throw off a median by this much. Funky indeed.

Good point, not sure what the split really is. The stuff to the east of 65th does seem higher-end though.

That's where the new construction is concentrated.

I'm glad that series is working out. Just curious, have you guys read the books? I've been worried that the show would be all expostion-as-dialogue and come off clunky.

Exactly. A lot of positive trends are developing and hopefully that continues.

Maybe we need Ari Maron to do some motivational speaking. He seems to be the only one who gets it.

My go to question re: privatizations... why should we expect the same task to be done more cheaply with a profit margin added to the costs? I know profit isn't typically viewed as a cost, but it's money that must somehow flow out of the system. Where does that margin come from? In many cases it's come from substandard books, equipment and staffing. I don't see how taking money out of education and funneling it toward ownership helps students in any way. If there were a non-profit requirement for charter schools I might find the concept a lot more appealing.

We've seen too many "take the money & run" charter schools for me to support expanding their role.

The linear model is ideal for transit usage. High Street-- plus a trolley-- could compete with nearly anywhere. Sans transit it doesn't work so well.

Of course not. The owner would probably want some rent and there are also liability issues to deal wth.

I'm on record here as skeptical of sports team involvement on the mall commission... but if their involvement can lead to large-scale development we wouldn't otherwise see, I'm all for it.

I wonder why they left open the NW corner of the area, north of the "youth athletics" field.

Downtown Indy has a department store and all the satelliite retail that comes with, so I'd say it's considerably healthier. One can actually go shopping there. As such it draws a broader cross-section of its metro population than downtown Cleveland does.

Slyman's is one that could really benefit from a truck. Its physical location is kinda obsolete, not nearly as much employment around there anymore.

Around here, two counties out could be a completely different metro.

I'm not sure it matters that Clifton wouldn't involve silver bendy buses with stations down the center. The similarities are many, and they're significant to most people in evaluating the proposal. There would still be something down the middle, at the cost of less roadway capacity. In this case that something would be landscaping, which was also a major component of the Euclid Corridor, and not one that turned out particularly well. The revised Clifton proposal also involved a new signal timing system, which has been problematic thus far on Euclid. It also promised new bus shelters, yet another less than popular aspect of the Health Line. What reason did anyone have to believe that these problems would somehow spare Clifton when they still persist on Euclid, three years and counting after Mission Accomplished?

This is why we're so far behind on so many things. Market schmarket, there's poverty but there's still plenty of money around here too. It's just difficult for any community to overcome leadership of this caliber. Last month it was the apartments in University Circle and now this. I'll grant that there's some gray area on this issue, but for it to still be stuck in committee(s)(!) is an absolute outrage.

That doesn't seem to have been the result of other recent city-county consolidations. What's so unique about our county, as compared to those?

If he's an a-hole in person then I guess he is, but I don't find his on-air persona abrasive. He generally seems more respectful of others than his colleagues do. And I detect at least some irony in that "jiggy" tone. Although this one time, at a CSU basketball game, my buddy noticed that Regghi's intern was working like mad on a computer while Regghi kinda just lounged there, which we thought was funny. He was several sections over and way out of earshot, but he saw us giggling in his direction, and he gave us a pretty foul glare for a while. Nails on chalkboard? Goldhammer. And the worst homer at KNR is Rizzo by a mile. His purpose seems to be making Hammer and Fedor sound brilliant, by balking whenever they state the obvious.

He wouldn't have won without significant moderate support, and he won't have that next time.