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My old AN600 gets 60 mpg combined, and it was built over 35 years ago.. :lol:

Cool this is a great time to buy a Hummer H2 now!!

Hopefully $7/Gallon gas will kill the outlet malls. :evil:

Dumb and Dumber.

Bartlett building is sweet I hope they don't destroy it's character though.

Are there still groups from cincy meeting in Portland?

NSFW http://consumerist.com/consumer/audio/devoted-customer-upset-jimmy-dean-downsized-sausage-16oz-to-12oz-but-charges-same-price-322223.php :lol: Instant Classic

Idiot's in the media need a map. Since when is Forest Park a Cincinnati neighborhood?? LaRosa's Driver Seriously Injured During Attack Last Update: 9:49 am (Google Images) Reported by: Lance Barry Web produced by: Ian Preuth Two teenagers are facing charges after police say they seriously injured a LaRosa's Pizza delivery driver in a Cincinnati neighborhood Monday night. Forest Park police arrested 19-year-old Marcus Hooper and 18-year-old Jon Harris. Investigators believe juveniles were also involved in the incident.

Walk score for Prospect Hill (milton and Broadway) http://www.walkscore.com/get-score.php?street=milton+and+broadway%2C+cincinnati+oh+45202&go=Go Walk score for Mariemont http://www.walkscore.com/get-score.php?street=mariemont+oh Walk score for Newport (Eastside) 6th and Overton http://www.walkscore.com/get-score.php?street=6th+and+overton+newport+KY Walk score for OTR (Gateway quarter) http://www.walkscore.com/get-score.php?street=1109+Vine+Street%2C+Cincinnati+OH++45202&go=Go

I never liked those skywalks. There should be an underground tunnel for the jail, in fact put the whole jail underground. Cool pics Jmeck! I have never been inside that garage.

Prospect Hill, OTR and Newport are nice.

Chipotle will rule the square! I am not a big fan of chains but Chipotle is my fave for fast food.

. I have been going to Mr Bubbles car wash on 13th st in Pendleton for years. Check them out. Great news!!

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Thanks KI and West Chester and people who are against Public transportation! American Dream Taken for a Ride King's Island WISE Work Program Reported by: Hagit Limor Every summer more than 100 international students scrape together up to $3,000 to come to America, to work one summer at a spectacle unlike they've seen before - the great American amusement park. But some of those students who've come to King's Island north of Cincinnati, Ohio, say their experience hasn't been so great. On a sumptuous, sunny summer's day, thousands of people have come to enjoy the swinging good time, stuff-your-face, buckle-up-the-kids Screamfest that is King's Island. And there to greet them at the front gate are Ghenadii and Vasili from Moldova. Mederer from Kyrgyzstan is selling soft drinks drinks. Daniel from Colombia is serving Skyline coneys. And Melissa from the Dominican Republic is selling trinkets at a store geared for little girls. They're some of 138 international students who spent thousands of dollars each to come here for the summer to work at King's Island. Read full article here: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=76b7df73-2080-4380-a42a-f8b5321418d1

What a nightmare!! If only these kids had light rail to downtown.. Now they are probably going to go back to their home country and say how much Cincinnati sucks. -Team: American Dream Taken For A Ride Reported by: Hagit Limor Web produced by: Neil Relyea Every summer more than 100 international students scrape together up to $3,000 to come to America, to work one summer at a spectacle unlike they've seen before - the great American amusement park. But some of those students who've come to King's Island north of Cincinnati, Ohio, say their experience hasn't been so great. On a sumptuous, sunny summer's day, thousands of people have come to enjoy the swinging good time, stuff-your-face, buckle-up-the-kids Screamfest that is King's Island. And there to greet them at the front gate are Ghenadii and Vasili from Moldova. Mederer from Kyrgyzstan is selling soft drinks drinks. Daniel from Colombia is serving Skyline coneys. And Melissa from the Dominican Republic is selling trinkets at a store geared for little girls. They're some of 138 international students who spent thousands of dollars each to come here for the summer to work at King's Island. The park's public information officer calls the jobs a great opportunity. He says he's certain they're having a good experience and enjoying themselves. But some of the students tell a different story. Jorge from the Dominican Republic says, "They told us really nice things 'til we get here." The students are living for three or more months in an apartment complex under extreme renovation. To get to their apartments they have to walk past missing ceilings, dangling doors, exposed wires, and sticky sub-floors. Some of the apartments have mold, bugs, and sliding doors that won't lock. Miguel walks down a hallway with exposed ceilings and ripped-up carpeting and mutters: "In my country we don't live like this." Frank, also from the Dominican Republic, says "It's terrible. I feel very, very bad here." Jorge adds, "We're humans." The only furniture in the bare apartments: air mattresses on the floor. Some of the students have improvised. A cardboard box becomes a dining room table. A shoebox makes a nightstand. And then there are the sofas or mattresses some have been lucky enough to scrounge from a dumpster. Jorge is a hotel management student and calls the situation unfair. "We come to a developed country that we admire a lot over there, and then we got this minimum living conditions." Jorge says it wouldn't be so bad if the students could just sleep here, and leave to explore the area. But, they can't. The complex is in West Chester, miles from public transportation, which is limited in this far north suburb, 21 miles from Cincinnati and more than eight miles from King's Island. They're so far from the city and its sights, the students say they may as well be a world away. Their only transportation is a van King's Island uses to shuttle them only to work. It doesn't run on their days off, so they feel stranded. And on their work days, it's often full. The I-Team watched as students couldn't find seats and had to wait for the next van. They say they've each wasted dozens of hours of their only time in America, waiting for limited rides to work and home. For Jorge, it's been a huge disappointment. "We are stuck here," he says. "We almost think we're in jail." He says his entire cultural experience in America has consisted of rides from his apartment to King's Island and back. Frank says he came here to immerse in the culture, to "Meet the people, meet the city, but I can't. I can't go. I don't have transportation." That's not the deal the students say they signed. Their journeys began with a trip to a glitzy website for Worldwide International Student Exchange. WISE places students at stores and resorts all over the United States, including King's Island, promising students will, "Experience another culture while earning money to support their stay." The students signed job offers with Kings Island's Human Resources manager. The offer required them to sign a housing agreement with a hostel, "less than a mile", "within walking distance" to the Park, near public transportation. There would be "free bicycles available to borrow" and "assistance with finding second jobs" to help pay back their expenses for coming here. The Kings Island Travel and Employment Information packet even boasts that the housing includes "computer/internet" and "telephone" access. Engineering student Miguel says it sounded like a great experience. But he and the others say they found none of those promises once they arrived. No bikes, internet or phone at home. So limited by the van schedule, they couldn't get to any second jobs, they say, much less anywhere else. "We got nothing here, almost nothing," says Miguel. He says his one job sweeping at King's Island won't pay back the nearly $3,000 he spent coming here. He can barely cover food and what he pays King's Island for rent. He and three others spend $1,200 a month for each two-bedroom apartment. A neighbor in the same building as some students told the I-Team her 2-bedroom costs $680. King's Island wouldn't tell us how much it's paying per unit. Jorge says he feels misled about this experience. "We are frustrated here. Why they didn't find [a] nearby apartment, I don't know. Why they didn't get another place in Cincinnati, a place with public transportation, I don't know." But the amusement park's public information officer promises, "It's certainly not something that we go into trying to mislead anybody. We want it to be the best experience for anybody." Don Helbig says he'd never heard any of these complaints until the I-Team brought them to his attention. The students say they've tried repeatedly to talk to the woman who hired them here but could never get in to see her. Helbig says he knows these aren't the accommodations the students expected, but that King's Island will address the problems. He says other housing the park had arranged fell through at the last minute and this was the only option King's Island could find to keep about 50 students together. "The rooms that they [the apartment complex] showed us were in good condition. We knew there were some renovations going on, but we were not shown all of the rooms." Helbig says with 31 students already on the way, there was no way to notify them of the change. He says "There's no intent at all to mislead or misrepresent or anything like that at all." And Helbig promises there was no attempt to make money on the living accommodations. After our initial interview, King's Island sent an employee to visit every apartment to list its problems. Then Helbig called us back to say they were doing more, that the park had bought a bus that would be available to the students even on their days off, so they could visit the sites of Cincinnati. The students who spoke to us know they took a chance. King's Island sponsored their visas. If they lose their jobs, they could be deported. When the I-Team asked if the students would be fired for making their living conditions public, Helbig said, "That's an answer that I can't give you. I'm not their immediate supervisor. I'm not the person that would be in charge of the associates here." But he added that the park would, "look into the situation and try to help them and make it be the situation that they were looking to have when they came over." Some of the students aren't waiting to find out. Miguel decided to leave King's Island, striking out for his own American adventure. Summer is waning for some of the students already here six weeks, and yet to see any of the land they once revered, but now think of as Third World compared to their homes. For Jorge, the experience has changed his opinion of the United States. "I'm really frustrated." He says when he goes back home and his father asks, "How was Cincinnati?," he'll have to answer, "West Chester, you mean?" And when his father asks, "How was the museum? How were the Reds?," he'll have to say he never got to see them or the city he thought he'd experience this summer. Helbig says King's Island now has made it a point to talk to as many international students as possible and find out their needs. The park also is planning outings to take the students to Reds games, the Museum Center and the zoo. And King's Island is looking ahead to to next year, to accommodations more in line with what the park AND the students expect. http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=76b7df73-2080-4380-a42a-f8b5321418d1

:clap: Yay! Today is the last working day that people can park in the Western-Southern Garage downtown. The garage, with its 1500 parking spots, officially closes on Sunday, and demolition is slated for Monday. It's all to make room for Great American Building of Queen City Square at Third and Sycamore. The 41-story tower includes office, retail and parking space. American Financial signed a lease to occupy two- thirds of the building. It will be the tallest building in Cincinnati's skyline.

Almost there! Keep up the momentum. I can't wait to have a pleasant drama free stroll to krogers! I can write a book about what I have heard and seen in that block.

HAHA! Police: Woman Traded Sex For $100 In Gasoline UPDATED: 9:47 am EDT July 2, 2008 FORT WRIGHT, Ky. -- Police said a woman they arrested last week in a prostitution sting traded sex for gasoline. Police in Fort Wright set up the undercover operation and said one of the suspects they arrested engaged in sex for a $100 gasoline card and other gifts. Angela Eversole, 34, of Fort Wright, was charged with prostitution and doing business without an occupational license. She pleaded not guilty at a Tuesday arraignment. http://www.wlwt.com/news/16768006/detail.html

yes your right 7th and vine!

Death to all surface lots!!! Especially the ones at Central pkwy and Walnut and 6th and vine.

Union Terminal??? Hall of Justice???? Nope it's a freaking outlet mall in Monroe next to Butter jesus. ]http://www.wcpo.com/media/news/c/c/a/cca69074-5c3a-47fd-9ff4-3405b084e96b/Original.jpg Groundbreaking Today For New High End Outlet Mall Last Update: 11:43 am Web produced by: Ian Preuth Ground will be broken Wednesday on Cincinnati Premium Outlets, a $100 million project that is supposed to bring high end outlet stores to the Tri-State. The new outlet mall will be located southeast of I-75 and Ohio 63 on a 117-acre site in Monroe. ... http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Groundbreaking-Today-For-New-High-End-Outlet-Mall/OgiZv4Ngk02nuCpgYJk_zg.cspx

The buildings used to go all the way back to the Alley. The first pic is at Mercer and vine.

The back half of a few buildings on vine at 14th are being demo'd. I always liked the density in that back alley.