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I thought that's what the WFL was for. I can understand wanting it to be a one-seat trip though. Doesn't seem like a huge deal. It may even make our train system seem more robust to outsiders.

DocBroc made a good point in the article about how this situation hurts Matrix too. They can do that all they want, sounds like they may not be fit for survival based on the way they approach things. I still can't figure out why Cimperman would be so lilly-livered about dealing with this. It's not like NYC is in Russia. We can do what they can.

Sadly, I've got to agree with this. I'm hoping that can change in the near term. I don't want the US becoming France. And I'm not speaking of socialism, I'm speaking of guillotines followed by Napoleon.

I'm convinced the split should be less goofy for OB. Certainly not the proposal in that map. But I really cringe when I hear "God put the river there for a reason." That almost changes my mind, because it sounds like the same old east-west crapola. God may have put the river there for a reason, but that reason had nothing to do with the people living in Slavic Village.

The picture they ran was the design with all those vinyl banners, and we know how I feel about those. I didn't realize that was the final design. While I assume the actual student art will be better than these Warhol-esque samples they used... this is looking yucko.

We should already have an ordinance against random wreckage laying around... since 1796 this has to have come up once or twice before. Something this obvious shouldn't make the paper before the city starts busting heads.

Maybe you should delete that then. It's pretty good. Do some character sketches and a treatment for it.

I agree, every one of those things does suck, except the restaurants. I love a big buffet. But I also love the no eateries inside idea. That's a perfect compromise.

That's about the best new library I've seen anywhere.

I meant that they had misrepresented the arrangement to the employer, not to me the worker. They made it seem like a placement/headhunter service when they actually intended (and contracted) to continue the middleman relationship for several years before any placement could happen. For the client, it's like hiring two people to do the work of one. Nobody would knowingly agree to that. They thought they were paying for an employee search with a trial period. I never had experiences like yours. That robot layoff sounds nasty. The worst they did me is I once told them "downtown or west side," so they sent me to E69th and Quincy, which is neither. Actually it's a place many people simply won't go, not even in broad daylight. People did not walk by this place unless they had a stolen shopping cart full of stolen scrap metal. Of course, part of my job was to chase those people out of the dumpster.

Very cohesive. Vehicles pass through haltingly because of all the crosswalks. The tracks become more of a problem going west from the square, toward downtown, because they drop below grade and it's just a big chasm. That end of the neighborhood suffers for it.

Skills. In my case both are job skills.

There would be no immediate expectations of winning any football games. But even a terrible program still gives people something to rally around in large throngs. Football fires people up in a way basketball doesn't, plus its season conincides with the beginning of the school year. CSU has moved strongly toward becoming a residential campus with competitive student life options. Football could be a huge part of that. Right now, all we're doing is building a base of support so we can let the incoming president know people really want it.

It would appear you are correct, not much will come of all this... Cornerstone developer Joanne Schneider sentenced to three years Posted by Patrick O'Donnell/Plain Dealer March 12, 2009 12:01PM http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/03/joanne_schneider_sentenced_to.html CLEVELAND — Joanne Schneider, who ran what prosecutor's call the second largest security fraud ring in state history, was sentenced to three years in prison this morning after pleading guilty to a series of fraud charges. The three-year sentence was the minimum allowed for the crimes she plead to. Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court Judge Eileen A. Gallagher -- who earlier sentenced Schneider's husband, Alan, to probation instead of jail for his participation in the ring -- could have given her a much longer sentence. Assistant County Prosecutor Dan Kasaris said he was very disappointed in the sentencing, echoing the sentiment of several defrauded investors who attended the hearing. ...

My experience with agencies has been not so good. They have found me work when I needed it, but they typically seize almost half of what you make. Prime example: one employer was paying $12 to have me, but I was getting $7. That led to us having very different takes on the scope of the position. As per usual, the employer was not allowed to hire me directly without paying an exorbitant and prohibitive contract fee. In another case, the fee that kept me from getting a full-time job I needed very badly was $12,000. In each case, the arrangement had been misrepresented to the employer/client, who ended up very angry at the agency when they found out they'd been sent an employee they were forbidden to hire. Bottom line, many of these desparation suggestions are just that, and they aren't considered serious paths to success. True success selling door to door or through temp work is rare enough that they shouldn't be viewed as anything other than band-aids. It is also unwise to ignore the adverse consequences of pursuing them. In several cases, I would have been better off NOT taking agency job offers because they precluded my being able to locate serious work. And yet I did take those offers, because I was absolutely desparate for cash. Sometimes those facing immediate poverty are forced to harm their long-term careers just to get a couple meals. That should not be, at least it should not be for some while not for others. Maybe the practices of temp agencies should be reviewed, or maybe we should try to develop a better system for doing what they do.

Thanks. That map is pretty absurd, so I hope cooler heads prevail.

How much street crime is there in established casino towns? They aren't known for it. Detroit's original casinos were practically IN the projects, and I don't recall them having significant security problems. Several Canadian examples seem to bolster the idea that casino towns are considered safe and clean, but for all I know that could be a Canadian thing. I'm not familiar with any other large-scale urban casino examples. But I only hear about casino-crime linkages from anti-casino sources. It doesn't seem to play out that way at all when they're built.

I know the one you mean. The law school is great for historical pictures. The collection of old post cards has some great shots in it. My favorite one depicts what used to be where NCB HQ is now. Also they have pictures of all the different buildings that once housed the law school. All of them cool looking, all of them gone.

Yes this is an op-ed... but it really gets at the heart of the issue, in my view. You can't simultaneously claim to have both billion-dollar brilliance AND no clue what was going on. A Tsunami of Excuses WILLIAM D. COHAN Published: March 11, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/opinion/12cohan.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper IT’S been a year since Bear Stearns collapsed, kicking off Wall Street’s meltdown, and it’s more than time to debunk the myths that many Wall Street executives have perpetrated about what has happened and why. These tall tales — which tend to take the form of how their firms were the “victims” of a “once-in-a-lifetime tsunami” that nothing could have prevented — not only insult our collective intelligence but also do nothing to restore the confidence in the banking system that these executives’ actions helped to destroy. Take, for example, the myth that Alan Schwartz, the former chief executive of Bear Stearns, unleashed on the Senate Banking Committee last April after he was asked about what he could have done differently. “I can guarantee you it’s a subject I’ve thought about a lot,” he replied. “Looking backwards and with hindsight, saying, ‘If I’d have known exactly the forces that were coming, what actions could we have taken beforehand to have avoided this situation?’ And I just simply have not been able to come up with anything ... that would have made a difference to the situation that we faced.” ... Could these Wall Street executives have made other, less risky choices? Of course they could have, if they had been motivated by something other than absolute greed. Many smaller firms — including Evercore Partners, Greenhill and Lazard — took one look at those risky securities and decided to steer clear. When I worked at Lazard in the 1990s, people tried to convince the firm’s patriarchs — André Meyer, Michel David-Weill and Felix Rohatyn — that they must expand into riskier lines of business to keep pace with the big boys. The answer was always a firm no. ...

What given date? Is it a factor here?

Have any maps been released?

That's an interesting angle. Cleveland has (owns?) two convention centers. Has there been any interest in having shows downtown, has the city steered everything to the IX center? Or is that simply where the demand has been? Who benefits, in either case? And what hasn't gotten much talk so far: what becomes of the IX center now? I was just there; it looks practically new.

Neighborhood integrity is important, but isn't OB larger and more populous than most?

All the empty spaces where large and glorious apartment buildings used to be. Their eyesore value increases when you see old pictures.

RTA is doing a "traffic survey" on public square today, how does that work? What type of traffic are they measuring?