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Sure, that would help a great deal. But why can't we also have at least one luxury/safe/quiet car per train with security, right by the conductor. Maybe it would require reservations or have higher fees to be practical -- but that should be manageable. We went to the moon 60+ years ago and build giant bridges 60+ years before that; certainly this can't be insurmountable in the US. Just one quiet place where passengers can have safe passage and not deal with the constant tensions and abuses of contrarians and derelicts. The one-size-fits-all model just isn't working in a post-COVID world otherwise.

The red line from the airport to Little Italy was ROUGH for long stretches on Wednesday evening. While I doubt other cities have something similar, our trains really need safe cars, quiet cars, luxury cars, whatever you want to call it, in which homeless, junkies, smokers, hustlers, and thugs are prohibited from accessing. Just one per train, I'm not asking for the moon. That was not a fun trip, not a good impression of the city. Certainly not a problem unique to Cleveland, but it was a tense 40+ minutes.

Google offers on-campus hotel 'special' to lure workers back in (cnbc.com) https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/04/google-offers-on-campus-hotel-special-to-lure-workers-back-in.html "Since the promotion is for unapproved business travel, the company will not reimburse their stays, but will require employees to use their personal credit cards, the special’s description states." If only there were another arrangement that worked quite well from 2020-2022 in which employees didn't have to commute for hours, have an incomprehensible COLA, or spend a $100/day on an unecessary hotel. But to be fair it is much harder sexually harassing or assaulting someone virtually than in person, so I get why Sundar and middle management are so insistent on dragging people into the office.

It's always fun going on redfin and seeing how SFH/multi-unit/townhomes are selling. I keep close tabs on Euclid (61 sales in the last month), South Euclid (38) and University Heights (24) in particular. For some reason those three I root for most of all.

At the end of the day, Governor DeWine can't/won't do anything save for a semi-permanent National Guard presence with checkpoints in the more dangerous areas. Which of course city "leaders" would decry and never permit. The issue, as it is everywhere else in the country that has seen decades of varying chaos in cities, neighborhoods, inner ring suburbs, and now some outer ring 'burbs, is s**tty kids with their s**tty parent(s) and constant enablers. State and local leadership can't fix those mentalities and emboldeness in the short or long term. A better economy, changing demographics, and draconian punisments to juveniles and their families for terrorizing communities are the cure, but those measures are well beyond the mayor or governor's control. We just need better people in these communities. Solves a lot of the chaos.

Wait... the Blue AND Green lines are shut down for 6 weeks? For the entire east sides? F that S.

Waves and waves of immigrants moved into the US for decades, centuries, without established communities and limited ties. Jews started coming to Cleveland in 1839, Catholics a decade letter, Irish and Welsh in the 1850s and 60s, Slovs, Romanians and Czechs in the 1880s. Certainly there were some factory and steel mill jobs, perhaps limited pre-existing communities, but the Europeans and their offspring also started their own businesses, expanded communities, created functional working class neighborhoods and economies, utilized public transportation, etc, and made the city extraordinary for decades. If continental Europeans could do it, why not continental Asians, provided relaxing (hell, abandoning) immigration requirements? There are so many unfufilled jobs in Greater Cleveland that, for a variety of reasons, will remain unfulfilled by current residents. If Chinese, Indian, and Arabs would come here to work those jobs or start their own businesses, then bring 'em all here. Neighborhoods revitalized. Schools rebalanced with higher quality students. More tax revenue. Fewer blighted areas. Crime drops. Neighborhoods get fireworks and street fairs again. Diversity saves the day! How to make it attractive to would-be immigrants? Give everyone a green card or some equivalency or a long term visa that converts to a green card/citizenship, provided they achieve certain criteria i.e. staying out of trouble, finding work or starting their own businesses, sending kids to public schools, staying in the area for x number of years. It would require some outside-the-box thinking, but, hell, what exactly are city, state, and federal leaders doing otherwise.

All the more reason why employers may prefer to keep people at home, or at least hybrid. It makes cutting costs, aka cutting labor, that more easy. A mass zoom firing is much more efficient than HR going from room to room to room to room throughout a company and dealing with the fallout directly and in person.

Seems like they're dramatically reducing space due to such a small number of in-person workers. Do you think they would want to spend 100s of millions of dollars on a new, shiny downtown building that would be 90 percent empty like their suburb offices? Salesforce is going through something similar in Chicago and they are desperately trying and failing to find sublet tenants in their big new building. Apparently layoffs are on the horizon too. I'd imagine Progressive would want to avoid the headache and stay put until the commercial real estate market gets healthier.

It definitely contributes to their criminal emboldness. Gang beefs and bad behavioral bravado proliferate online much like high school bullying. The s**t really brings out the worst in people, and it goes 24/7.

I get the fascination with UFOs relates to Cold War pathologies. But it's all crap. These ships just started appearing coincidentally after World War 2? And only in the US? That evidence of atomic power control is what drew ET's attention? There is probably intelligent life out there, though more in the vein of higher and lower realities rather than within different star systems. But those entities sure as s**t aren't flying around Nevada and Mississipi. Military industrial complex is what's moving those advanced vessels, that, and overactive imaginations of people becoming more isolated and religiously agnostic with every generation. It is scary being alone out there, and there's a comfort believing some big brother alien species will swoop in and cure cancer and heart disease any time now.

He had a few good seasons in New York. This should be interesting.

I don't know. There are just so many empty small, mid and large commercial properties in the city and suburbs alike. Everywhere really. Look at all the dead malls nationwide as an example. With their centralized locations you'd think they'd all be ripe for residential conversion, yet most sit empty endlessly or get bulldozed. Maybe the occasional collection of bulls**t churchs like in pre-demolition Euclid Mall or a half-ass repurpose like Parmatown and Severance. My hunch is Progressive will just wait for another tenant and the property will blight. Guess I'm a bit bearish tonight.

MAGA strikes again.

Netflix, Tesla and Microsoft disappoint Google and Meta do not. Apple and Amazon coming up soon folks!

Does it make a real difference? I, along with undoubtedly many folks, don't really discriminate between the two, and use the terms interchangibly often. But fair is fair: The county is paying a king's ransom for incompetence, not just the city.

It is mind boggling. The height of laziness and bad financial decisions. Meanwhile, some grocery store prices aren't that bad, at least for what I buy (I don't eat meat or sweets, so I'm a bit ignorant to those prices). Dozen eggs for $2.00. Gallon of milk is $2.50. 42 oz of oatmeal is $5.50. 10 lbs of potatoes for $5. 3 lbs of onions for $2.00. 10 oz of hummus for $3.00. 10 lbs of carrots for $10.00. 12 oz frozen veggies are $1.50. Bananas $.79. Sure the prices are somewhat up (except for eggs and milk), but they aren't dramatic. But fast food prices. My god. The average Big Mac is over $5.00. Burger King is advertising 2 Whopper Jrs for $5.00 (the days of them for $1.00 at Richmond Mall are long gone). FIve Guys' cheapest burger is $7.00. Subway 6-inch subs are $5.00, which used to be the price of some footlongs). It just doesn't seem sustainable.

Jesus... maybe that should be discussed in the Cleveland: Crime & Safe Discussion because the city just got robbed. $335,000 with incredible benefits. Somewhere Jimmy Dimora woke up with a stirring. Dorval Carter at the CTA makes $350,000 with benefits. Guess our systems are comparable after all. Richard Davey of MTA makes $300,000 with benefits. Who knew the RTA was so much more work.

Is it just me, or is that kind of stupid and lame actually.

Well, at least they'll have somewhere to discuss how blacks benefited from the slavery, Jews the Holocaust, children Sandy Hook, etc.

Kensington makes the Tenderloin look like paradise. Mass institutionalization - if it costs billions, then it costs billions - is needed for these ill people. They're dangers to themselves and others.

I've been watching the ErictheElectric videos. Holy god the guy puts an impossible amount of food away.

I can't blame a suburb for wanting to avoid the generational chaos that has raped so many cities and inner ring suburbs. Even if it is an overreaction.

Is Put-In-Bay considered a suburb because the riots on Saturday sounded just horrific. I guess cancelling Christmas in July hadn't fixed the problem. Not the same fun place I remember as a kid.

Yes and no. It is technically bundled with my HOA Internet plan, but I don't have a television or stream it onto my computer/phone.