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It seems it can have an opposite effect too. There is a lot of controversy in Chicago about putting in 16 miles of BRT down Ashland, with many detractors worrying about how much commercial businesses will get hit (much of Ashland is highly developed). Two less lanes and a prohibition on left turms will make an impact on what's generally a very, very busy street. Different topic for a different day, but it's definitely a big controversy here with the naysayers making some valid points.

It is somewhat eye-rolling/frustrating to read how much cleveland.com is reporting the Browns' (la dee da) win compared to the Indians'. Thousands of comments on multiple articles. You'd think the Browns won the Superbowl. Hell, if that team won 6 games this year, they'd be dancing in the streets. 6 and 10 - WOO WOO!! Meanwhile 2/3 of the Indians' articles and comments have been about attendance. Because that's clearly a bigger story than the Tribe being in the wildcard seat with 6 games to go.

Wildcard!!!!!

The 32 and 9 used to take me from the east side suburbs to Public Square, one fare, and I was considered one rider. Great. Now the 32 or 9 take me to the Health Line at Euclid/105th or Adelbert, respectively, in which I count as two riders upon transfering. Fine. Fair enough. But for the RTA to cheer and promote this increase is in poor taste because nothing has changed pragmatically, especially when comparing the 6 to the Healthline. Before, riders on the 32 and 9 didn't have to transfer to the 6; now they have to transfer to the Healthline, so of course the Healthline will have more people on it. But that doesn't mean anything, not really. Why not just add a third mandatory transfer, after which I would count as three riders and the numbers would go even higher. As though that's something to celebrate. Whether it's industry standard or not, it's cooking the books. Probably that's an indictment on the industry as a whole, so be it, but it still calls into question the Healthline numbers and if ridership has actually risen pragmatically on the east side.

The fact that so much focus has been on attendance rather than the actual wildcard race, stories about this season, and the impact of the team's new guys tells me the whole topic is ultimately just indirect anti-Cleveland jargon. Tampa and Oakland don't get a fraction of the crap we get with attendance despite being superior teams in healthier regions. All this talk on attendance - which has utterly dominated cleveland.com, talk radio, these boards, yahoo articles, espn, even Forbes - is just the newest Carson Monologue/Burning River/Mistake on the Lake/Perk's hair on fire/ Perk's wife bowling/Kucinich/Cleveland Tourism Videos/Factory of Sadness that gets passed around. It's just noise. Sure some criticism is valid, but the sheer amount of discussion and innuendos ("the city can't support three teams," "all the fortune 500s leaving hurt season ticket sales," "demographic changes are responsible," "Cleveland doesn't deserve the Indians") are ultimately "Cleveland sucks." Same insults, different rhetoric.

What drives me nuts is that transfers to the HL from buses (some of which used to go all the way downtown) count as new rides, and are recorded as such. I find that distasteful, disingenous and unethical on multiple levels.

I think I aged ten years when Perez was pitching. Can you imagine this guy in a post season nail-biter? Oy.

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Don't be like Severance Don't be like Severance Don't be like Severance Don't be like Severance Don't be like Severance Don't be like Severance

If that isn't gaybashing, I don't know what is. The thugs are well aware what kind of club it is and I'm sure they were calling the victims 'f-ggots' over and over. And in terms of the racial aspect, well, I suspect that if white trash threw rocks and attacked black patrons at a black club, we'd have CNN and the usual suspects screaming racist this and racist that. It goes both ways.

And how about one more article from 4 years ago: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/03/chris_kennedy_of_merchandise_m.html Chris Kennedy of Merchandise Mart Properties says Cleveland lacks strong leaders "Cleveland lacks strong leaders and is attracting no business investment, says Chris Kennedy, the Chicago executive leading the charge to build a $425 million medical mart and convention center downtown. "Without us, you would have no one," Kennedy said in an interview last week. He said he has been struck by how negative people and the media are in Cleveland. "If the mentality of the town is people shouldn't be successful, I don't want to do business there," he said. "The hope of success has to be greater than the fear of failure." Don't read that as a sign Kennedy is losing interest. He stressed that his company, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., is committed to the project. County Administrator James McCafferty said Friday that the county and MMPI could finalize their development agreement this week."

Jaysus H. I'm sure there are some silver linings, but I'm not seeing too many so far. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/09/mechandise_mart_properties_inc.html Mechandise Mart Properties Inc. involvement with The Global Center for Health Innovation: Timeline "Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald announced that Cuyahoga County is in advanced negotiations to replace Merchandise Mart Properties Incorporated as the manager of the Center for Global Health Innovation. MMPI first breached the idea of placing a medical mart in Cleveland in 2005. Below is a brief timeline of MMPI's involvement with the The Global Center for Health Innovation and key moments in the development process." And I'm sorry, Breached or Broached??? Or is this some Freudian slip? The thing was their idea. What the F! edit: Better article here: http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga-county/index.ssf/2013/09/ed_fitzgerald_mmpi_to_be_out.html#incart_river_default#incart_m-rpt-2 Ed FitzGerald: MMPI to be out as convention center, medical mart operator "Two months into the life of Cuahoga County's new convention center, county officials plan to part ways with its operator." The good ol' Cuahoga. I know it well.

I feel ill saying this. Let's go....uggg........boston. I feel dirty

A variation of this is probably the vision: http://blog.chicagoarchitecture.info/2012/11/20/first-look-flagship-walgreens-inside-historic-noel-state-bank-building/ First Look: Flagship Walgreens Inside Historic Noel State Building

There should be nightly wine tastings, beer tastings, cooking classes, match.com meetups, speed dating, celebrity chef lectures, sushi bar, actual bar, coffee shop....and you've got a huge weekend destination unlike anything else downtown. I don't know how parking will work, but this is a rare moment when near street parking/lots will be extraordinarily beneficial to the city, both for daytime shoppers and especially night outings/dates. Perhaps the Heinens boys can buy some nearby lots or arrange a deal where the store will validate parking (say an hour on weekdays, 2 hours on weekends?).

BOOM, you guys feel free to go back a page or two and peer into my clairvoyance:) http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/09/heinens_plans_downtown_clevela.html#incart_flyout_news Heinen's plans downtown Cleveland grocery store, staking out corner of former Ameritrust complex "Developer Greg Geis confirmed that he is finalizing a 15-year lease with Heinen's and hopes to open the market, and the rest of the rehabbed complex, in fall 2014. That will make Heinen's downtown's first -- and likely only, in the near term -- major grocer, as the local company bets on continued residential growth in the center city. The store will fill the first two floors of the historic Rotunda and the first floor of the neighboring Swetland Building, at 1010 Euclid Ave." Mark my words: they will emulate the Walgreens in Wicker Park, Chicago, to some degree and watch the store become a tourist attraction in the same way.

That Krouse article about manufacturing is just a rewrite of a PD article from either last year or 2011. They even include the same quotes from Steris. When I find some time, I'll try to pull up its earlier version. A few changes here and there and bammm, a "new" article. This isn't as embarassing as the "Is Sharon Reed Lebron's Baby's Momma" or "Black People Can't Be Racist" classics, but it's still pathetic. As to the article itself, the cleveland.com commenters are hitting the right issues.

The Red Ivy in Wrigleyville gets pretty nuts too.

Not a good week at all. http://www.shakerite.com/campus-and-city/2013/09/11/shaker-student-arrested-for-rape/ Student Arrested For Rape at School: Griffith Says No Threat to Students and Staff Exists, Urges Restraint in Social Media Discussion And the website reads that there were three other rapes/sexual assaults since 2008 in the school (so much for no threat). According to a 2012 article at http://www.shakerite.com/investigations/2012/05/30/hostile-hallways/ 15%-20% of all Shaker female students have been sexually assaulted to varying degree. Again, so much for no threat. Man, if this stuff was happening during the 90s, I certainly wasn't aware of it.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/09/cleveland_heights_doctor_attac.html#comments This story takes the cake. My brother-in-law is a doctor at UH and knows Alan well. Just shocking and bizarre. What's also sad is he, the victim, lost his first wife to ovarian cancer. Oh, and the would-be murderer was released on bond. That's some judicial system we have.

It's been years since they announced something shiny and new, whereas other companies are at least attempting to evolve and try new things. Samsung has the watch, Google the glasses and driver-free cars, Nintendo the Wii U remote, HP 3d printers, Microsoft Windows 8. At least they're trying different things rather than making mild alterations to existing technology. These companies are thinking outside the box while Apple is nestled comfortably in the box...which is a complete flip of how Apple became so dominant in the first place.

Not for the average consumer. They're just extras that don't really change the product all that much. Compare that to say a dedicated electronic reader running on electronic paper or the fabled iTV. Now THAT would have the Internet and consumers go crazy.

I don't know man. Parking at Eton pre-Apple seemed awful regardless of the hour.

No discussion of new, innovative hardware. Not a drop. I understand October is when the new Ipads will be discussed, among other things, but they should have offered something today. Give us ANYTHING on the iwatch, itv, ireader, iglasses, icar...I don't care. Anything. Instead we got boring, boring, boring.

Well, that press conference was a downer. Yet again a lot of hype for basically nothing new. Apple keeps spoiling all of the goodwill it earned under Jobs.