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Closing Ontario St. doesn't exactly help with downtown Cleveland's evacuation plan either. There is an extent to which efficient traffic flow must always be a priority. It's not a city vs suburb or cars vs people scenario. The benefit of physically choking off roads like this is not worth the cost, especially when the risk analysis includes no longer having a real road to use.

The lack of hills in Cleveland, compared with Pittsburgh, requires us to install additional fences and barriers. Our hands are tied.

This is the worst news since the 70s. Devastating. Those bailouts 10 years ago should have come with more strings attached.

China has been subsidizing its industries and putting prohibitive tariffs on our exports for a long time. It might be the most successful economic policy ever devised. They keep eating our lunch and sticking us with the tab.

Detroit is about to get a new tallest building, and the renderings look pretty nice. Gotta keep pace!

I think Haslam realized he was wrong to fire Chud, so he swore an oath to keep his next coach longer than two years, even if all the evidence in the world says don't. Hue Jackson lasted this long just to burnish Haslam's personal reputation. Dorsey should never have been forced to work with him. We needed a full reboot after last year.

Word is Haley had been working backchannels to get Hue fired. Paying more attention to his career than his job.

The article points out that a lot current Case students are new to the US. Classic gritty Americana might not be what they're into. The Happy Dog folks thought it might be a timing problem, with Uptown still figuring out what it wants to be. Ten years ago Case had a decent party scene on Hessler. I was a CSU student and we had no parties at all, because we had nowhere to do it. Every college needs a Hessler Street.

Ronayne's quotes suggest that nightlife is a hard sell to the area's current residents. He hopes that bringing in more residents will help, and I tend to agree. But I also agree with a point Erocc made a while back, that concert clubs aren't as popular as they once were. I still go sometimes and it's not uncommon for me to be the only audience member who's not in one of the bands, even on a Friday or Saturday night.

That's too bad. At this point, it really does look and feel like a holdover from a different time. I wish all the new construction had taken its design cues from the Euclid Tavern rather than going "minimalist" as the article calls it. Good to hear that UCI will keep it going in some form or another.

It's really not though. I'm glad when anyone is saying that, even if it's Trump.

Seems like Dorsey got impatient with the lack of reps for those behind him.

That's a nice looking park. The bear slide is just awesome.

PD invested in that huge printing facility at the worst possible time.

I wouldn't say it snuck up, I think it arrived at a time when taxes were out of vogue and both parties were unwilling to pursue the issue.

Ohio's been in the shitter for a while, that's not news. But this map says Buffalo is "more vital" than Houston or Miami.

This is hilarious. Why would someone sit on the corner of a busy intersection? A busy intersection in the boonies, as depicted. Welcome to the only "Development Strategy" whose goal is no development at all.

They keep saying density but this is all setbacks and driveways and lawns. The mixed-use aspect is insignificant but there's lots of text about walking trails and open plazas. The parking lots are hidden, I do like that part. But walkability in an urban context has nothing to do with tiny ornamental trails. It's about not needing a car for daily living. That means walking down the actual street with purpose because you have a nearby destination. This kind of planning fails to get us there. We need more raw density than this to make a good business case for neighborhood business. And we don't need any more brand new 1970s suburban tract housing. Somehow it's become Cleveland's dominant style and wow is it awful. Is this really what we want to look like?

If we're talking global generations, that's a whole different set of ballgames. China's millennials are immeasurably better off than China's boomer-equivalents. America's boomer generation has a strange way of showing gratitude politically. They're rolling up the sidewalks as fast as they can. America's current era of economic conservatism is radical by 20th century standards. That's one of those historical perspectives I'd like to keep visible. We already know what unfettered capitalism and nationalism can lead to. We already know what unions and usury laws are good for-- though some would prefer we forgot.

I agree that the generation in charge now, the boomers, doesn't realize how many freebies they got compared to those who came after. They could use some honest perspective on what they've done to the world. As an X person, the only complaint I have against millennials isn't really their fault. At some point around 2000, media consolidation and internet proliferation resulted in kids getting a lot less exposure to older material. When I was growing up, half the stuff I watched was ancient by modern standards, including a good helping from the WWII era and earlier. Now you have to seek that stuff out, and why bother when there's an endless supply of Blippy and Fortnite available? Perspective is important for everyone. Millennials and post-millennials also need to understand what boomers have done to the world-- and what technology has done to the world-- and that's hard to do when you can only see a couple blocks down the road of time. We need to maintain our collective memory of world wars, depressions, racism, sexism, etc, so that we can see the cycles from above and we don't repeat the same mistakes.

Perhaps. But there were legitimate problems with that movie. Why did the bad guys have to chase after the rebel fleet, why couldn't they just warp their way in front? "Our ships are bigger and slower." No they're not, you have the advantage of using hyperspace without caring about fuel or worrying that the rebels will track you. Those limitations only applied to the rebels. Also, why couldn't Leia call back the bombers herself, if she thought the attack was such a bad idea? Why was Poe kept in the dark? Why has nobody tried hyperspace ramming before, and why couldn't it be automated? Why did people keep saying "Master Codebreaker" for so long, they couldn't give the guy a name? I mean call him McGuffin or something. Why did Finn have such horrible dialogue for his big battle? The original moves were campy but they weren't poorly written. Couldn't we throw Brienne of Tarth a bone at some point, let her do something cool? And Hux is portrayed as such a blithering idiot that his rank isn't plausible. Vader used to murder captains for minor screwups, but this guy cowers and blunders his way to the top of an even bigger empire. Not buying it. Mind you, I didn't hate the movie. I liked a lot of the thematic directions it took, they just needed to workshop the script a bit longer. And make the final cut a bit shorter.

The issue with the high school isn't the water, it's the street frontage. I agree that Burke should be a park.

They still called it Short Vincent then.

Cleveland's side is mostly retail, Lakewood's side is mostly residential. That's why you see different foot traffic. There's a gas station on the Cleveland side too, a couple blocks down. Who cares. Plenty of other stuff to draw pedestrians. It is strange there's no mixed-use in this corner of Lakewood, but that goes back 100 years.

From that angle it looks like part of a Burger King promotion.