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I sent the video to some of my friends in Marketing/Advertising here in Chicago to see what their take on it is. Honestly, Cleveland gets no love here...so I wanted to see what they thought, I will report back.

I have to agree It does get annoying when the codes get obscure, there is a difference between saying there is a new flight from CLE to a well known city code (or Ohio city code) and using a code for Green Bay WI or Grand Forks ND...etc as if people should know it. Even if you fly a ton for work, you wouldn't know some of these city codes being tossed around here. If you do fly for work a lot, you probably use one airline...how would you know that the Southwest airline code is WN?? I never fly Southwest and had no idea what that was.

Yes, condesa similar to Williamsburg is what I thought actually, a maturing/gentrifying hipster area

How long did it take to get there from the DF? I got so many different projections, and I wanted to go on my last day, but needed to be at the airport by 6pm so I decided not to go. Heard anything from 45 minutes to 4 hours with traffic. Went to the Basilica de Santa Maria de Guadalupe instead.

Excellent set of a great neighborhood, I'm pretty sure I had lunch outside at one of the places you show. It's kind of a semi-upscale Hipster neighborhood similar to parts of Brooklyn, wouldn't you say? That's the vibe I got.

The treasures that lie within the city borders. Awesome quote, which I feel embodies the attitude in Cleveland: "The Cleveland Public Library is a library, not a museum, so you actually could come here and sit with it if you wanted to," Brown told Cleveland's Fox 8. The Cleveland Public Library Found a Lost First Edition Copy of 'A Christmas Carol' http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/12/cleveland-public-library-found-lost-first-edition-copy-christmas-carol/7957/

I went to a Canton (ohio) Central Catholic in the 80's, and sex ed was pretty liberal, although I do not recall veggies and condoms. I seem to recall a wooden teaching device though

^Definitely an improvement

I think they had a booth at North Halsted Market Days and a float in the Chicago Pride Parade this summer IIRC.

^^I'd say it's more a matter of the plow going way too fast for the surroundings, not a problem with the design of the street. So are you saying you'd be ok with a plow hauling ass like that down your suburban street...because it has adequate setbacks to allow that sort of thing??

Good news for Toledo, but there must be a better way to supply parking than building a parking structure on Promenade Park. Its a nice (although somewhat neglected) waterfront park, and it sounds like they are halfway through a project to spruce it up. Am I missing something here? The article seems light on those parking details. I know it looked like a "boondoggle" in it's day due to the quick demise of Portside Festival Market (and bankrupting Toledo Trust bank if I recall), but the waterfront park legacy is cool IMO.

Ok, sorry for these stories...but it is too funny. I texted a friend of mine on Friday that flies over 300 days a year for work to snag me a copy of that Cleveland Dossier Hemispheres Magazine. He just texted me back "I'm an American flier, not United. Yuk..LOL!". Does anyone like United??

Terrible news

At a Super Bowl party today, I ran into a friend that I haven't seen in a while that travels a lot for work. I asked him if he used United (partly because I wanted to see if he thought the closing of CLE would impact congestion at O'Hare). He laughed and said "who uses United, I fly American". There is really no love for United, even in it's HQ city (I'm in Chicago btw).

Goth-esque vs Douchey-ish? It seems more a difference of genre than generational

United doesn't even have a good rep in Chicago IMO. Most of my friends that fly a lot for work try to use American. United is a mess, I knew they would bring down Continental which had high customer ratings before the merger. United is always last. The building I live in has a lot of United Flight Attendants...they are a bitchy and catty breed. I listen to their stories while sitting by pool about how bad they treat people and take pride in it. I used to fly them probably 6 - 8 times a year, they could give a crap even though I should be at least somehwhat in their target demo...Chicago professional, fly for leisure and work, single...etc. Unless you are the highest level, they don't care about you at all.

^Maybe Memphis I think Actually I found this quote in a article, and it sounds almost exactly like what is happening at CLE "Delta's Memphis schedule will shrink to about 60 flights a day – down from the current 96. Delta offered nearly 150 daily flights at Memphis as recently as April 2012, the Memphis Business Journal reports." And from the PD: "Hopkins has about 245 average daily departures, with 165 of them on United planes, putting the projected number of lost flights at 100." http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/02/united_airlines_says_it_will_d.html#incart_river

A few pages back I commented on my experience with fare paying from E 9th WFL to TC to Red Line to go to the WSM. The driver acted as if I should know what to do and got really irked when I started asking questions while feeding $5 for 2 people into the fare box for the short trip to TC. I asked what I needed to do to get out of the TC station and onto the Red. He barked there were no transfers, then reluctantly gave me 2 "passes" he said would work. Well the passes were only for getting out of the WFL station...duh, shouldn't I have gotten those anyway??? It's a mess, and the drivers I had were no help. You end up feeling ripped off. The drivers should be sensitive to the fact that the fare paying system is weird and try to explain. We were the only 2 people on the train btw, it's not like he was overwhelmed. They seem unusually bitter. And relying on workers at TC to just "wave you through"...um ok sure! The guy on the WFL on the way back, was just as bad...I accidentally pulled the stop for Browns Stadium, then stood up and told him I was sorry, I wanted E 9th. He was pissed and yelled at me to sit back down. Again, the only 2 people on the train. All said and done, we paid $5 on the WFL and $10 more for 2 all day passes at TC. From the Doubletree Lakeside to WSM and back, I felt like I would have been better off taking a cab both ways and probably wouldn't have spent much more money and had way less hassle...it was raining and cold.

Try this link, it's not there yet though, but check back because it looks like this is the place where they post them: http://www.hemispheresmagazine.com/dossier/

This is really cool MayDay, thanks for capturing the fun spirit of that run..could be Cleveland's version of "Bay to Breakers".

Andrew's Top 5 for Cleveland Andrew Zimmern's Top 5: Andrew Zimmern counts his favorite things from his trip to Cleveland. Bizarre Foods http://www.travelchannel.com/video/andrews-top-5-for-cleveland

Sears to close flagship Loop location in April http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-sears-close-loop-flagship-20140121,0,6152367.story Sears Holdings said Tuesday it plans to close its flagship location in the Loop this spring. The troubled Hoffman Estates-based retailer will start its liquidation sale at the location at 2 N. State St. on Jan. 26 and shut its doors in April. "The store has lost millions of dollars since opening and we can no longer continue to support the store’s operating losses," a spokesman said in an email.....

. He does have a point. You forgot to add the link http://www.cleveland.com/naymik/index.ssf/2014/01/clevelands_failed_bicentennial.html That said...a bridge lighting plan from 1996 that has somewhat faded is not "failed". It happened in 1996 as the flats bars were fading , it was cool at the time but was there a guarantee that it would be lighted forever? Times change, weather happens, and it is almost 20 years later. It was done at one point, and maybe it can be done again (better). Same goes with the Playhouse Chandelier...it might be a blip or a it might be there 100 years from now. Cities change...trying new things should not be considered a failure. It should be a learning experience, which I applaud hometown GE lighting for trying something that may be the best thing ever, or it may fail. I have faith that GE Lighting is not betting it's rep on failure. And maybe in the process they will learn from it and find a better way to re-light the bridges that will withstand the elements....and make their hometown a spectacle of what they can achieve.

Although, it looks like legacy United are getting the cuts, not legacy Continental so this may not effect workers based at CLE United Flight Attendants Cry Foul Over Layoffs http://savvystews.com/2014/01/16/united-flight-attendants-cry-foul-over-layoffs/ "The airlines have not integrated operations due in part to the fact that there are still labor agreements to be worked out— including that of the flight attendants. If the layoffs announced by United go through as planned, flight attendants that are senior to those working at the Continental operation would be laid off; a violation of seniority."

United Continental to furlough 685 flight attendants http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/sns-united-continental-flight-attendants-20140116,0,5985481.story United Continental will furlough about 685 flight attendants, as the U.S. airline company looks to prune its expenses as part of a $2 billion annual cost-cutting plan announced last year. United said it failed to attract enough takers for its voluntary furloughs and a job share-partnership program, leading it to undertake involuntary furloughs....