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LOL... Oh God. Yeah, Cleveland State sounds like a CC similar to Columbus State or Cincinnati State. Cleveland University or University of Cleveland would be a much better name. Agreed, but people get defensive about it so nothing happens. Same thing when Akron tried to become "Polytechnic," the alumni flipped out and they dropped it right away. Cleveland State sounds like a fictional school from a Criminal Minds episode.

Yes it's an important fact, and yes that is sad.

There are factions in this neighborhood, all around town really, who fight against density at every turn. They have more power than they should.

Phrasing isn't ideal but it's nice to see an article point out how these numbers are affected by the way these metros are arranged. Sometimes they don't, which usually makes Cleveland look worse. Then again, Cleveland could eliminate this problem by consolidating its metro the way others have, so I'm not sure we deserve any helpful asterisks.

I've never quite understood that point of view. I mean sure, ok, but hospitals in NYC are able to help people despite the urban density nearby. Right? Or do they fail on some level that rural hospitals don't? Maybe a sea of green is helpful somehow, all else being equal, but all else isn't equal. Metro is funded by tax revenues so it has a direct stake in the success of the city around it. And we've seen what this type of planning has done for the east side. Little old ladies walking past blocks and blocks and blocks of useless barren snowscape just to get to a store.

There was excitement for Bill O'Neill but not anymore. DeWine has made some moves toward the center, suing the opiate companies and such. He might be able to coast in on name recognition. It will take some work for Cordray to counter that. DeWine is nothing like Trump so tying them together isn't likely to help.

Not entirely true, though. For several decades before the Justice Center was built, the criminal courts (and police HQ) were on East 21s Street: https://www.urbanohio.com/forum/index.php/topic,9853.msg115520.html#msg115520 That's about as far away as it should go.

Presumably there isn't as much work to be done on this. The building is almost brand new.

Services exist but not to the extent they're needed.

Coal is the only industry she made a campaign promise to shut down. Any electoral map will show you how catastrophic that was. Most of the people offended by the idea were labor leaders in our region of the country. Talk to any one of them, right now. They're still saying the same thing with the same desperation behind it. 2018 and 2020 are hanging in the balance. We cannot continue treating our own core voters with such contempt. The attitude has to change now. Anyone who lives in SE Ohio is in some way affected by the fate of the regional mining industry. Many of them work in power plants rather than mines. Even if their job is in another sector entirely, it disappears as soon as mining does. Democrats are the party of workers. If we intend to regain power, it is necessary to stand with workers when they are in trouble. That is our job.

She promised to shut down all the mines like Margaret Thatcher. Could not have screwed up worse. Those are union voters and we need to stand with them, if we expect them to stand with us.

Hillary attacked those voters, beat them away with a stick. I can't emphasize enough how crucial it is for Democrats to revise their stance on coal and their attitude toward rural people.

Gerrymandering has nothing to do with Ohio's statewide offices. Republicans hold all but two, and one of those is Bill O'Neill. Our side needs to admit it has screwed up in every possible way. Serious changes are needed. If I hear one more Democrat make fun of coal miners, I'm gonna flip out. You're not kidding there. That's not only how we get Republican supermajorities, but the worst kind of Roy Moore type wannabe theocrats. They need to back off on guns too. That's settled law for the remotely foreseeable future. I imagine a lot of what mu2 heard in that meeting had a lot to do with that. Bill's cantankerous, but he's a guy that can work with Republicans. He actually may be more electable than the others. Cantankerous is not the problem there. I agree about the rest. At least the race for governor should be competitive this time. On your original question, local turnout might have improved with the old machine intact. Tim Ryan offered plenty of strategy advice and she blew it off.

I don't think it's possible to reduce downtown bus traffic without compromising the system's ability to function. The whole point is that everything drops off within a block or two of everything else. Take that away and crosstown trips could increase by hours, which is likely to increase the number of desperate people one encounters in the square. If we had more crosstown routes, like we used to, that might solve a lot of it at a reasonable cost. But there will still be people whose home and job are not conveniently located along one crosstown route.

Gerrymandering has nothing to do with Ohio's statewide offices. Republicans hold all but two, and one of those is Bill O'Neill. Our side needs to admit it has screwed up in every possible way. Serious changes are needed. If I hear one more Democrat make fun of coal miners, I'm gonna flip out.

The accents have never been consistent. Leia had several accents, Palpatine and Padme should have sounded more similar, Anakin became African-American.

Lol! This is perhaps the least sound argument you've presented on here. Charlotte is a straight shot South. Richmond and Pittsburgh are to the East, Columbus to the West. All of these cities - for the moment - have more employment opportunities. Immigration to Cleveland happened because labor was in demand. Not because people were laid off elsewhere and decided to rush here en masse. And to KJP[/member]'s point... the absolute worst case scenario would only implicate 6-8,000 coal miners. Coal has been dead since before the VCR, but only one industry drags and stomps their feet. I was trying to pull us back on topic. Note the blatant use of keywords. Yes, Columbus would probably get more of them than we would. It always has. "Reading, writing, and Route 23" was the joke. Then again, Columbus also has less capacity to absorb a sudden mass exodus. The Pittsburgh area seems to be sending people our way already, more of a trickle than an exodus right now. Coal jobs continue to shrivel while oil and gas didn't produce the kind of sustainable employment anyone was hoping for. I think you've grossly underestimated the exodus effect of losing those coal jobs. Each one carries several other jobs on its back. All of them have to leave if the kingpin is pulled. Nobody will be staying behind to man the K-Mart.

My personal theory is that the Force is us. We the viewers demand that these people fight for our amusement. Whenever one side gets too dominant, some new power must emerge to restore balance. Thus the cycle churns, endless variations on a theme of perpetual strife.

Messaging like "Don't attack what you hate, support what you love." Also the notion seemingly shared by Luke and Kylo that this whole Jedi/Sith dichotomy is too reductive. And maybe all that training was a bit overblown, a bit self-serving all along. Oh look how important we are, the masters. But young Luke was able to precisely direct a missile after almost no training, and that was in the first movie. I don't understand the political backdrop of the new series either. Supposedly the New Republic wasn't allowed to have a military because of what the last one did. That's why the Resistance was unofficial. OK then what is the First Order, who do they represent, how did they relate to the government they blew up? Was anybody unclear on their purpose? Not much nuance, no good cover story. How did they construct a planet sized death star in secret? Was the New Republic just a lame shadow government while the bad guys kept chuggung along on Coruscant as if ROTJ changed nothing? At least the prequels gave us a plausible explanation for how the empire came to be.

Nothing can keep a determined individual from destroying themselves. But we can eliminate the rationale that there's no hope. There are plenty of self-destructive addicts whose inherited wealth is the only reason they're not freezing on that same corner. Nobody suggests those people deserve the torture of homelessness, but only because someone else took care of it and we don't have to see it. Either the mentally ill deserve torture or they don't. Shouldn't matter whose kids they are.

I liked it a lot. Loved the overall messaging and so glad the story is no longer about lineages. Regarding Luke, plenty of great performances have come from actors who hated what the director was asking for, like George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove. Hamill has since walked back some of his criticism, since making Luke a perfect father figure would have been dull and trite. And I like how they've made Kylo a unique villain. Snoke was generic but Kylo has layers.

Universal basic income

This is getting ridiculous with the "socialist reality" stuff. The city bends over backwards for corporations and its development strategy focuses on attracting wealthy residents into downtown. Krumholz opposed the public square redo but it happened anyway because it was a core part of that strategy. Meanwhile the rough parts of town are worse than ever, and growing. Say what you will about the "socialist reality" Krumholz wanted but don't try to tell me he got it. Any pretense of that was given up long ago.

If you really want to see an influx of unskilled workers to Cleveland, go ahead and shut down all the coal mines. It's a straight shot up 77 from Charleston to here. And how might that population trend affect future elections in Ohio? Not they way Democrats would prefer, not after turning our backs on all those unionized workers.

It doesn't make much sense to employ a planning director and not give them any planning authority. I'm not saying that isn't how we do it here, just saying it doesn't make much sense. The buck has to stop somewhere. I still don't feel like I fully understand the impact of Krumholz. On the whole it's unclear how much influence he had. As to direct criticisms, it can be hard to separate the ideological from the technical. I'm definitely getting a sense of knee-jerk myopia, which seems problematic regardless of your worldview.