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8.5

The guy just wanted more dollars, and Lerner has it. No matter how rich you are - cough Mr. Pujols - a lot of these guys feel they deserve more and are fine with destroying or hurting their legacies grabbing at every penny. Based on these conferences, in which he's often hostile to the reporters asking legitimate questions, along his virtual absense during Concussiongate, along with his highly questionable hiring decisions, along with his own 'I'm only here for five years, gang' comments, along with his confrontational and condescending attitude towards the media, along with his routine nonanswers, (and so on and so forth), I would say Holmgren really doesn't care all that much. He certainly comes across as bored. Is he even a fan of the Browns? Has he ever?

God I love DuPont Circle

Mein Gott, They are working at UNIVERSITY CIRCLE speeds

I read the report on cleveland.com The man is full of complete $hit, and is clearly uninterested in maintaining his legacy and dignity. That's all I have.

"Unfortunately non-students often enter the campus and assault and rob students. Perhaps a more functional design would be in order; such as a metal detector or a barb wire fence." This one did make me chuckle.

Looks like someone didn't get his campaign contribution this month.

I never even knew this place existed. It sure is beautiful

Hmm, too bad. I just had dinner there with the family on Christmas; they had a really good buffet that evening for $30 a head. Pretty crowded that night too.

As long as there's nipping, im happy :)

^^Fair enough. Subject: "Some negative customer feedback" "Not from me, as I've never been to your store, but a number of posters on urbanohio.com are talking about some very poor experiences with your staff, and I figure you guys would want to nip this in the butt early on. You can find the complaints here, or just go to urbanohio.com and look for Cleveland Retail. http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,9505.1620/topicseen.html Good luck guys! Hope things work out."

Seems like a nice enough guy. Quick response too. "Thank you for the heads up. These issues are very disconcerting and we are fully aware of them and fixing them. We don't like to make excuses, but December was definitely a crash course for us. Construction that was supposed to be completed in October, didn't actually get completed until the day before Thanksgiving, which is the day we received all of our approvals to move in at 5:30pm. We still did not have internet and wouldn't have it for 1.5 weeks after that. We had to run all transactions via the iPhone app Square® which was a life saver or we would have missed all that business. When we finally got our network up and running but our credit card processing merchant and POS (that the bank set up) were actually not compatible, and so again we could not process credit cards, but opened up anyway because the phone was ringing off the hook and people knocking on the door. We had to close to catch up on inventory counts and accounting and we would figure people would understand. We underestimated the demand and sold out of sizes and so did American Apparel our blank t-shirt provider, which pushed back delivery dates on re-stocking orders. We corrected most inventory troubles by ordering from our online store in our store and shipping to the customer for free. I don't want to go too much into our troubles from December, it was a crash-course and definitely a learning experience....only positives can come out of it. So I thank you again for the heads up and concern and hope to see you in the store in 2012. Mike Co-Owner, CLE Clothing Co."

How come I never learned this in school? I'd much rather have classes on content like this than the crap I had to take (like building a car for physics, who are you kidding!). Thanks for the info, KJP, you certainly know your Cleveland!

I miss me some Deweys Coffee

Just not much to say about this team. Sports are supposed to be fun distractions from the real world; these guys, the coaches, the medical staff, the president, and the absentee owner fail at that on every level. But I'm mostly apathetic at this point. Not even angry or frustrated.

^Don't take this the wrong way, but I disagree with everything you say here.

I've never heard of it actually.

Nuts, and I was gunning for a checks cashed store.

Nothing drives me more crazy than when my wealthy friends complain about their lives. Whining about their raises not being high enough, their bosses being on their a$$es, their not being appreciated at work, stuff like that. I have a close who friend who was making 6 figures at Microsoft in Seattle working 35 hours a week, and he still found room to complain about not working at facebook and google. Obviously people like to complain; there's some therapuetic aspect to it, and it's probably healthy to get it out of your system here and there. But when someone making a living wage - in fact, one far higher than the average - is complaining about his financial circumstances to someone who isn't, I can't think of anything tackier or more infuriating. And how did this forum go this direction anyhow ... the hell? Back to the topic, oh yeah, I'm also very content in Cleveland and will return full time in a few years. Great city, glad to be part of its success, lots of faith in downtown becoming a residential magnet unique from other cities, in that I can see the jobs being in the suburbs and people living downtown as the new standard in a generation or two. I would love to live in Chagrin Falls someday. There, I tied it in non-sequitorlicious form.

Man, why do I feel the Warehouse District Project is more likely to happen than anything being redone to Public Square.

well said, AJ

Gotta be related to the Browns.

Trust me, the less money, the even mo' problems.

Every dollar I make (two full time jobs, folks) goes to rent, utilities, school debt, food, cell phone bills, and health insurance. On good months I have some cash left for some savings and a little recreation i.e. eating out once in a while or enjoying a cigar. And I still come short some months, and have to ask the parents for a little help on rare occasion. It's not that money is the root of happiness but rather money is the root of existence, of independence, of survival. It's 2011 and you read about stories where communities fight to keep $9/hr jobs in their cities. You know how far that gets you today? I don't care where you live, that's unbelievable. The only things going down in price are housing and salaries; everything else, especially health care, is going up and we have no ways of affording it without money. It is absolutely the root of survival and with that comes happiness because without money, we have nothing. No means to providing for our families, no means to take care of ourselves, certainly no way of paying for fun, and oddly no sympathy for the radically enlarging poor. Blaming people for being unemployed has been a Republican mantra for a while, but Dems aren't much better either. It isn't laziness; it's just life isn't fair. C-dawg is right; this depression is more than an aberration. It is a complete alteration from how we used to live, from the comfort we once had, from the ability to provide for you children on some level, from the existence of a strong middle class. Not one politician has really gotten into the longterm economic viability of our country because they're scared to and everyone knows the truth: we're screwed. There is a national-level desperation I don't think fully employed people realize. You can't appreciate money's importance to simply living unless you don't have it.

That's damn exciting.