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It's like ChatGPT wrote most of the article, and the author just moved a few sentences around here and there. And unless I'm having deja vu, I feel I've read this, certainly the negative parts, nearly verbatim before. “Downtown Cleveland’s regeneration is really tied to making it a residential neighborhood,” Yablonsky says. “It’s nascent now, but what Bedrock is proposing will take it from small scale to big scale.” Jesus wept. Maybe the author used Bing Chat for those sentences. Good seeing Higbees again. We miss you!

Too big to fail = too big to be privately held.

Which is about $19,000 after taxes. It might as well be $7.25.

I certainly agree with your last sentence. Either we're a first world country or we're not, and that means minimum wage must be enough to account for a reasonable living standard. It sure as hell isn't $7.25 national.

Well, I'm sure businesses didn't want to hire Jews, women, black or gay people for a very long time: it's a good thing laws and regs evolve. As for small companies, who knows. Obamacare exempts small businesses -- perhaps something similar for mom & pops? Or not, and all businesses must have the infrastructure for childcare even if unused. These are all details, and there is middle ground beyond no no no no no no no.

It was a bit later, 2014-2017, when they closed most of their Eagle's Nest centers. Wegman's did the same a few years later, 2019 I believe, with Wkids. Their announced reasons: more people were gravitating to Instacart and curbside pickups. My thoughts: they could make more money with those systems, and no one was compelling them to have childcare. So an employee and her average $30,000 pre-tax salary, plus customers who used the service, were on their own.

If a business won't offer appropriate wages or benefits, including childcare, to support families, then let them close shop. We limited child labor, created labor protections, imposed minimum wages - all the while the usual supsects screamed about Jesus and how big Government is ruining everything - yet somehow the economy and country survived for generations. I doubt the Googles, Ernst & Youngs and Wal-Marts would rather close operations rather than incur compulsory additional cost for childcare. I think it's worth taking that risk.

Here's a thought: any company that mandates return-to-work MUST provide full free childcare on location. I don't give a flying fart if it's retail, medical, corporate, sewage, Jacob's Field, Independence brothel, Apple's spaceship, Soldier Field's spaceship, Government, Area 51, Xavier's Mansion, hollowed moon, Cardassian military, Bajor, Oz, Narnia, planet on Expanse season 3, etc. We have all these half-full buildings in cities. Fast track child care licenses/training, impose draconinan sanctions on abusive employees/admin but otherwise pay them damn well. David Solomon can find some extra nightly gigs to pay for it -- so can other business "leaders". And boom: at least we've mitigated one of the many issues of 2023. Frankly, I think social media/texting/Internet/obesity are far bigger reasons for slowing birth rates. But one mitigating solution at a time.

Nationalize those bastards.

I would say no chance at all. Tower City/the Avenue was a once-in-a-lifetime shot.

Well, Google Maps is accurate, though I don't know if the times are in real-time or approximations

This criticism is not limted to Cleveland, but I find it absolutely mind-boggling that a project of this relatively limited size would take 15-20+ years. There is something fundamentally broken about our country with the time, expense and ultimately lack of vision and leadership required for these projects. Think about all the larger developments witin towns and cities, local, nationwide, globally, that have been developed in fractions of fractions of the time and expense. Fiften-twenty years for a few dozen acres of cosmetic improvements and a few new buildings? Get the f out of here! And people in Ohio City are worrying about more trucks driving through? This isn't working. Development shouldn't be this slow, certainly not for projects such as these. I'm not saying Arab countries and Chinese regions using slave labor to fast track new cities is the right approach, but we did build the Empre State Building in less than a year. Certainly there has got to be a middle ground.

One week folks! Gotta find a bar that'll be showing pre-season.

Wasn't Dr. Sbaitso doing this 30 years ago? AND it had text-voice?

I've been playing around with ChatGPT. Whatever its future application is, currently the program is a bit dull. Maybe I'm treating it too much like Wikpedia or Google and not asking the kinds of questions that really demonstrate its potential.

I could have sworn some rail workers and unions were saying s**t like this had and will happen again. And yet that awful contract was still ratified via executive decree due to the usual "too big to fail" talking point. At least the 9/11 first responders have been healthy with their medical care well funded for 20+ years. We can certainly trust the same will happen here too.

And they, more than anyone, earned the right to live wherever the f they want. So many of these posts are just pure ignorance, and holier-than-thou types proselytizing suburban sprawl was purely racism, racism, racism -- nothing else. Bollocks. My maternal grandparents didn't want to leave Buckeye in the 60s, but they sure as hell had to when the neighborhood and schools collapsed/shifted. Same thing with my paternal grandparents 10 years before at E.123rd/Superior. It's so much easier to blame the people leaving than those arriving. But if you lived then and experienced the collapse in real time, you'd have a completely different perspective.

Those kids walk by the MIckey's building in East Cleveland. Clearly it's vacant, but there were talks last year about it becoming biotech or life sciences buidling. Across the street is the Circle East townhomes. Still, a pretty desolate area. The filmers were definitely heading southwest quickly.

In the last two weeks, I rewatched the 6 original cast Star Trek movies. 1: Amazing first half, booooooooring second half, almost unwatchable. If I never hear the word "V-GR", I'll die a happy man. 2: Very good movie. A bit overrated though. I thought Kahn's revenge story was a bit underdeveloped. 3: I watched Star Trek 3. I enjoyed them stealing the ship. I liked Christopher Lloyd. And I can't remember a thing about the movie otherwise. 4: Very funny movie. It looked like the cast was having fun filming. The giant space sausage was a great visual. 5: Underrated. I was surprised how entertaining and touching it was, even with the goofy Wizard of Oz nonsense near the end. 6: The best in the series. The best villain, the best ending, the best line "We SURRENDER"... it really was a perfect sendoff. Yesterday I started Generations and got bored after 15 minutes and turned it off. Couldn't even make it to Kirk's initial death scene. It's a shame we only saw Kirk, Scotty, and Walter Koenig. Bones and Spock were pivotal to the film and tv series - and did Nichols and Takei really hate Shatner so much they couldn't play nice for a few days of filming?

16 days to game one. Reds going downnnnn.

Well, one could argue that if you can't afford to live downtown, maybe you shouldn't. But if there's tax money/subsidy involved, which I'm sure this project has, then it's fine to reserve some affordable housing units.

You're right. A lot of introverts, shy and anxious people, and transplants need work as a place for some socialization. At least as a starting off point. Not everyone has a hobby or can just go to a bar to meet people. And look at the s**tshow and damage of online dating: Full and hybrid WFH is just making things worse. I don't know the answer or if there even is one.

My god, I didn't even know the Cleveland Crunch were still around. I wonder if the Lumberjacks are playing as well?

It's certainly different now, but wasn't the Cleveland Warehouse District in the 90s (even 80s?) a bit of a gay neighborhood?

The trailer for Picard Season 3... Jesus wept