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If we lose the entirety of our steel industry, how do we make tanks? I know we don't need tanks right now but what if we do. "Hello, we see you've landed some tanks here. We'd like to order 200 for ourselves. Could you put those on the next boat please? Thanks."

Without going into too much detail here, there is a growing progressive faction in area politics.

There are many bright stories however. Numerous rental duplexes in Lakewood are being rebuilt as single family homes for sale. And the asking prices for them are quite high (like $400,000+). Two sides to that story, as it may qualify as a bubble and/or gentrification worth worrying about. The latter issue has already been raised by local leadership and may become a flashpoint going forward.

Average year of construction of a home in Lakewood is 1938. The city is trying to change by encouraging new housing construction wherever there's a vacant or underutilized lot. Have to have that to maintain the competitiveness of its housing stock and to maintain its population base and average income levels. Unfortunately, both are falling. That's interesting because home prices and rents have been going up like crazy.

Had a resident in his early 20s tell me that the lot for Church and State being left empty would be better for the neighborhood than it being developed. Mind you, this young man works at a retail boutique shop that opened BECAUSE of Hingetown's gentrification. I would like to better understand that person's line of thought. It seems goofy to me.

Yes, probably so. Lots of people avoid the trip down 55th and cause backups near downtown while trying to get elsewhere. This project solves that. Plus, it connects UC with I-77. That's another win.

And yet we're seeing major population changes, of the negative sort. I'm glad we have some hot neighborhoods to talk about but most of the city is still in absolute free fall.

Chester's function is not remotely the same. It connects UC with downtown, while the idea here is to connect UC with 490. There's nothing morally wrong with that, and there's no moral value in forcing people out of route. Herding cars through a grid for a purely diagonal trip does not cause neighborhoods to blossom.

It was a thing for students in the 90s too. We thought we were so cool. And Roy G Biv wasn't alone back then, there was a handful. Short North was otherwise underdeveloped and a little rough but the art scene was a big deal. It was even highlighted in OSU's promotional stuff.

Plans can always be refined, but default plans could look at which roads are most important and which have already been resurfaced. Not having any plan at all is ridiculous.

https://www.theonion.com/cleveland-finishes-construction-on-new-elevated-sewer-s-1823332951 "The one-of-a-kind open-air wastewater transportation system, which stands three stories above the street and runs a total length of more than 60 miles throughout the metropolitan area, will reportedly move an estimated 90 billion gallons of raw sewage across the city each year, carrying urine and feces from the suburbs to downtown, and from University Circle to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."

Should I read these sentences as if you're screaming? It's fun so I think I will.

The ad makes it look like you're buying what's in the rendering.

City Stars games were aired at midnight on Saturdays. OK for me but not good for building a fanbase. And with no spectator seating where they played, it looked like you were watching CSU practice.

Who invented the car? Somebody less famous than Henry Ford.

What? That show was awesome. It revolved around a liberal and a conservative trying to understand each other in the early Reagan era. This one will be good too if they get the Robert Culp character right.

I imagine OhioHealth is better. Call me naive but I'd much rather go to an academic, non-profit, faith-based, or research hospital than a Wall Street-owned hospital any day, I'm glad we have strong nonprofit health systems in Ohio. As for our rural/community hospitals, better they are gobbled up by the Clinic and OhioHealth than HCA. I agree, but many of those rural/community hospitals are going to close regardless of who buys them.

I had just bought something at a store in East Cleveland and I'm in the parking lot about to leave. This older lady walks up to the car and asks me "can you spend twenty?" I'm like "on what" but she just kept repeating it. Then I realized what she meant and I took off in a hurry.

Ford

Without its massive automotive sector, Nashville is still a bump in the road.

Can't blame Trump or anyone else in DC if Cleveland isn't proposing to do it. The only official proposals I've seen are for footbridges whose construction could make a rail station impossible. When we built the new convention center, not one local official asked them to give it a north facing door. Not one local official wanted to connect this massive investment to the lakefront or RTA or Amtrak.

What if Ingenuity Fest became the norm rather than the exception, we just do it every weekend in NCH spring thru fall?

You are concentrating on what it's like now instead of what it can and should be. I'm asking what it should be. And I'm seeking rationale for specific investments, like this bridge, whenever "access to the lake" is the only reason given. Access for whom to do what? Drink the water? Bathe? Fish? Mine some salt, build a tugboat? Ride a pony? What problems does the project solve and in what way? Connection between the end and the means of these projects often seems weak and it's not always clear what the end entails. Personally, for the area we're talking about, I would focus on the rail facility the Group Plan originally included (or some lesser version thereof). The Malls and the lakefront near them are dead zones because we forgot to build the one building that was supposed to connect those two areas and bring a steady stream of people through. That's not a design failure, it's a failure to consider logistical consequences before changing the design. Recall our recent Public Square fiasco: "Your vibrancy is impeded by all these streets and buses and people! Forget the hows and the whys-- vibrancy is just on the other side of this invoice! Did we mention families? That's right, families need better access to vibrancy. You guys are so much smarter than the Shelbyville crowd."

People keep saying lakefront access. What do they mean specifically? Voinovich Park? That's at the end of 9th street, so yes, 9th street seems like a reasonable way to get there. It could be better but do we honestly believe Voinovich Park is a hotspot in waiting, as soon as it gets this bridge? I believe there's also an area behind GLSC where you can hang out. But I'm sorry, no footbridge is going to transform that into Santa Monica Pier.

I've never heard anyone complain that they were standing on Mall C and unable to bathe behind the Rock Hall within 5 minutes. For whom is that a priority? Then again I haven't seen anyone standing on Mall C since the Cavs parade.