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^^were there actually any related closings in Cleve Hts after Walmart entered the market? I know Seitz recently closed but that's mostly due to people not buying hardware and tools any more rather than big chains outpricing. And it seems like the commercial areas in Coventry, Lee, and Taylor are no worse off now than pre W.

Of course we should be concerned.

I can just imagine Ms Theron waiting for the bus at public square with the locals. I could see a funny, albeit mean-spirited tv show there.

I don't see the benefit of forcing employees to join a union, forcing them to slash their salaries for virtually nothing. This isn't a hundred years ago, and rules like that do not make Ohio particularly attractive to businesses and therefore population. Right-to-work just make sense in today's world.

I've known Graham for 15 or 16 years. He's a great person and beats those two on character alone.

Oh no, I asked a question that's only tangentially related to the topic, and probably can be answered with a link. Whatever will we do.

^I'd be interested if that's true or not. There must be studies on citywide projects across the US; I wonder where Cleveland would be.

Wow, Paige Cramer. Nice girl, have a lot of mutual friends. Good for her!

^^so long as my insurance premiums are unaffected by your decision, I say do what you want

^ Uch

Can someone explain why the dreamcast failed. It's one of the great video game mysteries. Great games, online play, good price and ads, and it had a huge start on the xbox (overrated), game cube, and the ps2 If halo sells xboxes alone, why not soul caliber or marvel v capcom. They were flawless ports

Jaguar was a cool system (alien vs predator and doom rocked) but its alleged 64 bit system was a complete lie. None of the games could reach that quality and how they calculated the bits was purposefully inaccurate, plus the system had serious design defects . Bang for your buck, nothing can top the snes. Most revolutionary games for its time (ie Mario cart, donkey kong, starfox, nba jam) and imo the best games (Mario world, castlevania, super star wars series, link, FF, and megaman follow ups, and arguably the top 2 greatest games ever made - supermetroid and street fighter 2 turbo). A flawless system with a high great game/crap game ratio.

I have an Odyssey 2 and Atari 7800

Oh I agree. But you take what you can get sometimes, and here we have some positive direction

8.3% No holiday seasonal employment increases to blame/credit Despite overt Republican obstruction, our country is on its way.

Very nice points. I don't agree with them exactly but it's a very interesting, optimistic approach. My one main hangup, okay, I have a lot, on the issue is just that I still don't see how sending middle/wealthy class kids to schools with a remarkably high percentage of 'troubled' youths benefits anyone. These schools are awful because of unruly kids and terrible home environments. An influx of more stable kids with more stable home environments wouldn't change that on any real scale. Not to mention I would have legitimate concerns of what kind of education the new students could possibly get, and how it could ever match or surpass suburban educations, at least in the foreseeable future. Why would I as a parent ever do that do my child when I have much better options? Your responsibility as a parent is your child, not fixing a broken system

I guess my question is why would it matter if more middle class/wealthy families start attending Cleveland public schools. How would that impact the students who are already there? Realistically, I seriously doubt it would make the kids there already, at least the "troubled" ones, want to learn now that new kids previously from the suburbs are attending. What, are they going to be less disruptive now? Have their home environments gotten any better as a result? I get that white flight has been blamed for public schools turning to $hit (and I've never agreed with that cop-out excuse anyhow), but I don't see how the inverse would be true. If rock's kid goes to Option Complex or Patrick Henry, who benefits? I mean let's not kid ourselves.

Looks cool to me either way

So far I haven't seen any Cleveland bashing. Just honest dialogue on a touchy subject. If you don't mind sacrificing your kids to the Cleveland "school" system for some vague principle, then that's your prerogative but you shouldn't challenge people who want better for their kids. Some things in their current and realistically near future incarnations are just broken.

It isn't about football. It's about paying $300 million plus maintenance for something that sits empty 350+ days a year.

I think it also has something to do with the stress of the last ten years or so; there's probably a much deeper issue here than you think. Think about the ludicrous price of cars, the even worse costs of maintenance, the fluctuating and scary leaps and drops of oil that affect everything and are blaring headlines everywhere, the growing perception of oil companies being seen as bad guys, the quiet anger towards Big Auto and their crappy cars and selfish unions, the growing likelihood of wars between Middle Eastern counties who can use oil as leverage/blackmail. Teens have gone through since the millineium - hell, we just (somewhat) exited a war which was primarily about oil, or at least it was an indirect component. Add in a $hitty economy where disposal income is hard to come by, and it's no surprise that teens, really anyone who isn't rich, would want to buy cars. It's just been too stigmatized on some level.

Hell, I'm 30 and my roommate is 28, and neither us of drive. Just thinking about investing in a car and all its headaches...yech.

That's silly and insensitive.

There are a million things we, the city, the f'ing owners of the property, could do with that empty stadium and its property, especially in the Spring and Summer. Nightly festivals. Huge parties. Protests/rallies. Movie nights. Club team sports. Beer or wine tastings. Light shows. Amusement park. Roller rink. Christ, turn it into a homeless shelter like in Florida. Just do something, anything with this property when it's not in use.

Tangentially related to this topic, Netflix beat expectations last quarter and the stock jumped 15% or so after hours. Apparently it's reclaimed 75% of the lost subscribers and, after a catastrophic Fall and Winter, is slowly becoming a stock and fanboy darling. Internet (Netflix + Hulu + Megavideo) + Redbox = my roommate and I don't see any value with cable. It's much cheaper this way.