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Neither is the place I work. Kids are there sometimes, including my daughter. I think you misunderstood me. I meant solicitors. Most places aren't going to let their customers be solicited inside the establishment. I've never seen it in a respectable restaurant either. There's no bouncer on staff, it's not that kinda joint. And that's why they use kids for this, it greases the wheels. The whole crew was in and out pretty fast. Long ago I did that kind of sales work and rarely was I kicked out of a bar. More often they wanted me to hang out! I didn't bring kids though. And yes, sleazy bars are a better market for it. The kind where you have to get buzzed in the door.

Very respectable. You can even get cans of wine.

Technically, you're describing slave labor plus torture. And technically children can't give consent, so there is a voluntary servitude problem. Last week I was at a bar and kids came through selling candy... at their chaperone's direction, each kid made at least one attempt on each person there. Every failure made the kids wince. I'm not sure that's the best way for children to spend their evenings. They've got the rest of their lives to feel desperate about job performance and commissions.

I'd bet the return on investment per city dollar is much higher on the river than it would be at the stadium-E9th-Burke lakefront. It's not too late to increase the density in FEB. If true, this is only because the Cleveland lakefront is a bizarro world. By all means it should be incredibly attractive real estate with developers climbing all over themselves. Yet the city can't or won't summon the willpower to provide enough enough access. It's frustrating. If the city did nothing but simply provide access and something of a subdivided plan with a grid layout and public easements to the water, I believe we would then see real, organic growth. Sounds good, but where would this new grid go? And what kind of access would be needed, that we don't have now?

I started thinking about this. What cities don't feature their waterfront? Detroit? Philly? Buffalo? The list is pretty small even for cold weather cities. Or are we counting cities in Russia? Hell, even St. Pete has a nice waterfront. Baltimore is building 30-story apartment buildings on it's waterfront while the city of Cleveland plans an outlet mall. I think there are reasons for concern. St. Petersburg has considerable density on its waterfront. We've got mismatched attractions spaced out in a suburban format, limiting our options. And we can't do towers in that area because of Burke. We could have done towers or mixed-use density in FEB, chose to do something else. We still have a lot of riverfront where we could do towers, or we could do St. Petersburg. Or we can move Burke, move the port, move the stadium and GLSC and RRHOF, try again with the downtown lakefront. But whether we're talking about that or just a $6 million dollar footbridge, I would sooner rehab Glenville.

Downtown has two regular museums and two museums that are also boats. All of these are located on the lakefront. Plus the stadium, for what that's worth. What more do we think should be done to make the downtown lakefront into a destination? Maybe those efforts could be better leveraged in other ways, in other parts of town. The lake happens to be frozen for a good portion of the year, which limits the allure of hanging out right next to it. There are plenty of cold-weather port cities that don't necessarily feature their immediate waterfront area. I think we beat ourselves up too much over this.

We don't need a $6 million dollar drawbridge here. Serves no purpose. Half the city is in turmoil from poverty but somehow there's fortunes available to blow on crud like this.

At 40 hours a week that's around $20 per hour, at 50 hours a week it's more like $15. And this is after wages have "come up considerably." And median means half of them are making less. And we're talking about a job that involves living in a truck. But the driver shortage is caused by insufficient awareness of how generous the pay is?

Of course, that "correction" might also happen through automation in the not-too-distant future. Even if self-driving hype has probably gotten a little ahead of itself overall, have to think the long haul portion of trucking will be the easiest kind of driving to automate. Much more likely. Again, the trucker shortage has persisted for decades. Same question I ask any time supply-siders say favorable conditions are imminent-- when? Pick a date. People have waited their whole lives and it just never happens. No correction, no balance, no change. At some point we have to admit that the theory, at least as so applied, is hogwash. Where. Are. The. Wages.

It's interesting when you read about worker shortages in certain segments that higher wages are never considered as the solution. Supply and demand would tell us that higher wages are necessary. That's the story of supply, demand, and wealth. Wealth is the controlling factor. Wealth claims supply and demand are independent, but wealth is lying. To the extent you own the resources, their price is whatever you say it is. Back to the trucker example, the drivers were told leasing the trucks as contractors made them into big-shot businessmen. But the lease and fuel payments are more than the pay for using the trucks, and the real owners take the trucks back as soon as this becomes apparent. Sorry, there just wasn't enough demand for trucking services! But that only affects wages, not the value of trucks. Both of which are determined by us. That's why we're rich, because we understand economics and you don't.

The trucker shortage has persisted forever. Better wages seem like a good solution but nobody ever wants to try that. USA Today did a big investigation last year and found some truckers actually making negative wages.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/stealing-from-self-checkout/550940/ Eliminating cashiers has led to widespread theft, and people feel justified doing it.

Seems like a there's disconnect between celebrating diversity and giving Asia the melting-pot treatment. I can't help but wonder why the term is so rare. Google found one other American example, which came up in search results as Asiatown Houston. The wiki article it links to doesn't use that term but notes a controversy over calling it Chinatown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Houston Another link muddies the waters further, using both terms and suggesting in the header that there's a separate South Asian district. http://southwestmanagementdistrict.org/10-great-places-to-eat-in-houston-s-asiatown

That's much better. Someone tell Mapquest and Bing. Asian is not a culture and the term Asiatown sounds as racist as Chief Wahoo.

It doesn't have to be either/or. We have room!

This is stupid.

Kamm's Corners is the largest contiguous nice area in the city, and it's the neighborhood furthest west. Tremont has been building units at $300k and up for at least a decade. No surprise there. But Central is an odd arrangement, since it is (and always has been) the city's epicenter of poverty. We just built hundreds of new single-family homes there, with setbacks and garages and everything, just like it's a suburb. Block after block of nothing but that. There's a plaza with a grocery on 40th, so at least the area right by that plaza isn't a food desert, but Central's commercial corridors are otherwise barren and walkability is minimal. Most of Central's residents are still living in public housing without cars. Is this development pattern supposed to help them? And how long are all those houses expected to remain above $100k?

But that's where we're at in 2018: American Oppression Olympics. Maybe kinda. But there's nuance to it, there's multiple events. It's not the 2 weeks of televised arm wrestling you're making it out to be.

There are legitimate arguments that the Indians name was originally meant in admiration, as with Notre Dame's. But there are no arguments that the people choosing the Indians name were pretty much talking about themselves. And if we're going to hold an American Oppression Olympics (let's not), the Irish could field a team but would not win a lot of medals. There are structural-level problems in comparing Notre Dame with Chief Wahoo. The similarities are superficial.

It was past time to do this, but people are still gonna flip out. Shocking to me how much support that logo receives.

Aw crap. It's hard to imagine Coventry without Big Fun. I love that place.

Amazing how they got the audience to accept Sgt. Slaughter as a face again, after his stint as an Iraqi sympathizer.

The timing is weird, since arena football just flopped. Maybe he sees that as an opening. I don't.

I agree with your hunch. Cities that still have downtown retail scenes are subsidizing them. That's how it's done. Foot traffic is created by drawing people in-- the market for downtown retail is more than just downtown. Always has been, always will be. TC collapsed after its anchor stores left and the Galleria (inexplicably) never had anchors. Not enough draw. Our systemic problems are self-inflicted. Cleveland has already invested a fortune in downtown retail subsidies but unfortunately the result is Steelyard Commons, which contains all the anchor stores Tower City would ever need.

I went to an OSU game in Cleveland not long ago. The Buckeyes seem overwhelmingly popular here, even with some ND and UM people mixed in. If the Browns got good again, it might abate somewhat but not much.