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Who specifically would be on the receiving end of these donations? Call them.

^ Yes. He should get a magic DeLorean and do it last year.

Not every team hits like Texas at home. But Texas has terrible pitching and the Indians can't score against it. At least this year I won't spend 2-3 weeks getting invested and only then realize "they're sh*tty."

Interesting. Gangs typically form, and are tolerated in the communities where they form, because the dominant system of authority has neglected or marginalized that community.

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We once had tons of them, that's the problem. Nicholson as Joker: This town needs an enema!

Were they saying that the gang problem is less than it's made out to be, or were they saying the gangs themselves aren't so bad?

No earth shattering suggestions there, but I agree with what Morris is saying. The good guys should be as armed as the bad guys. This is assuming we cannot marshall any more police resources, like all the "mobile speed camera" units for example. I'd prefer to have Glenville sufficiently patrolled than to have everybody armed to the teeth. But anything is better than gangs running the show. We've already been through the snitching issue on here. I would only add that if it looks like the gangs are winning and the cops are losing, why would informants side with the cops? I haven't heard anyone talk about adding significant numbers to urban police forces since Clinton in the mid 90s.

I absolutely love this idea.

Regarding MMPI's obligation to sign people up before groundbreaking, I thought they already had that in the bag. They aren't new to the field and have been working these contacts for a while. I don't expect it to be a big problem... and I saw nothing else in the article to justify breaking ground in fall 2010 as opposed to fall 2009. Why are we waiting? What more could we possibly need to fix after years of planning? Let's go!

I agree, this demo represents all that is wrong here. We don't value the right things and we don't seem to have a cohesive plan.

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We still insist on hitting Grady 1st and Hafner 4th. I do not understand. I feel like this team is build backwards or upside down. Hopefully Choo or Francisco can hit like a legitimate corner outfielder and we can bring up some of the farm guys for the infield.

Me too. I'm about to disappear for a few months. I look forward to hanging out after. The UO happy hour at bar cento was tons o fun.

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I am not sure I follow, at least the word "overall." There are a finite amount of jobs. Thus, if you take the jobs from A and put them in B, A is going to suffer. Am I oversimplifying your conclusion? I think he means "overall" in the sense that more people would be able to earn a living. The people in the suburbs have more access to get to the city to work more than the people in the city have access to the suburbs, so the jobs should be in the city. Pretty much. There's also a societal benefit in concentrating jobs in cities and near people. You get increased transit efficiency, which saves man-hours and fuel, plus you get each acre of land providing maximum output. It's just plain better. People have spent 10,000 years urbanizing for a host of reasons. We're already seeing the unintended consequences of last century's experiment in taking society the other way-- it's unhealthy, it's alienating, and economically it's one giant pyramid scheme.

This is my favorite part of downtown too. It's the definition of hidden gem. Interesting buildings and angles surround you 360 degrees. When I worked in the Detroit suburbs, it seemed like everyone had heard of Harmony park but nobody had heard of this place. I remember a little building tucked away here with strange multi-colored windows, marked Jewish Community Federation or something like that. Deserted of course. Is that still there? Has anything been done with it? I don't remember it having great architecture, but I was fascinated by it for some reason.

Happy to hear this. I don't mind the current building but its setback is outrageous. Therefore it must go. I love the idea of bringing another facet to playhouse square. Although when I first saw this story I was hoping they would build new on the open lots by the Hanna building. Oh well. Still good. Besides, now the Playhouse will be at Playhouse Square. This helps tourists a lot. One day I was walking past the Palace theater and a foreign family, who seemed to be late already, came up and asked me which one was the Cleveland Playhouse. I so felt bad for them, and I felt stupid explaining that the Playhouse is the one major theater that's not at Playhouse Square.

Right, and the new ones only allow you to write off the sale price, when and if it sells. Previously you got the write-off as soon as you made the donation. I have been driving donated cars for most of this decade. Job sprawl: if reversing it transfers wealth inward, isn't that a good thing overall?

That is fine, but it does cost money to run and maintain a car. Another difficulty is that they recently reduced the tax write-off available to the donor, plus there's a growing push to get "dirty" older cars off the road and destroyed. Add in high metal prices, and you have a dramatic drop in the number and quality of donated cars in Ohio over the past several years. This is bad for rich and poor. I would reverse this change and maybe even increase the incentives to donate cars.

Great points.

I think the issue is that the underemployed aren't able to follow these jobs into the suburbs. There's a mobility gap. The solution lies in fixing that gap, whether it involves bringing the jobs back in, or making the underemployed more mobile, or both.

This wasn't from a dog... and that's all I have to say about that.

Oh yeah, I got robbed in Cleveland Heights too, around 2003. Ransacked my apartment... only took my new radio. Also there was a turd in the foyer one day, same building. If that's not a crime I don't know what is.

Sorry, this confounds me quite a bit that anyone would think this. I'm confounded as to what confounds you, because I can't find one item in your post that I disagree with. I think we're on the same page. I wasn't commenting so much on the quality as on the quantity of greenspace downtown and along the lake. As for lakefront greenspace there's Wendy Park, Edgewater, and the park at the end of MLK. If Burke is ever developed I'm sure there will be some there too. I agree that downtown itself doesn't have many good parks, but it has several, including the large mall right in the middle. I know it doesn't work as a park, but it's still there taking up space. The idea of having a small quad at CSU (note that I specifically don't want that to be open grass) is because that's what college campuses typically have, and because it's on the fringe of downtown. Contrary to Stark's belief, I don't consider the flats or port area to be fringe at all. And I never said don't put a park there. I just don't want them to go overboard with the park and have it dominate what I'd like to see as a dense urban area. I want something like the Pesht picture, where there's greenspace but no more than is needed.