natininja

Doom! Gloom!

The cost of a smartphone is nothing compared to the monthly fee, so you might as well get whatever hardware you like if you're going to get one. I haven't had one since around 2007. They seem to have degraded in value-for-money since, from what I can tell (every plan had unlimited data back then). I'm happy with a $10/month flip phone. I have a nice laptop for home use and a cheap refurbished tablet for carrying around, neither of which have monthly fees (other than home internet). Too many "must-have" gadgets these days, all designed to be obsolete within a year, two max. All with restrictions created not by the hardware specs but the software/firmware. With a subscription model for anything they can get away with. I used to like to keep up with gadgets, but nowadays I'm content to hold back. No sense in encouraging these greedy behaviors; manufacturers used to make things with the goal of making the best product so people would buy it, and now they make things with the goal of intentionally crippling them in as many ways as are profitable.

Am I crazy to think 4 travel lanes and a turn lane is excessive? Reduction by one lane would be enough to make a 4-6 ft. buffered bike lane on each side. Take another lane and you can have significantly bigger sidewalks or bigger lots on the south side of the street (ignoring utility relocation for a moment, or assuming a developer(s) would pay for that to get the land).

I wasn't asking if there were specific plans for what to put in the parcels, but whether there is any plan to make the parcels more useful (say by reclaiming some of the right-of-way on the south side of Liberty to make the parcels bigger and more ripe for development).

Maybe do that with the words Dis ney and Ring ling?

It would be a mistake not to try to make those corner lots usable again. Are they part of the lots next to them? I'd say give them to 3CDC in exchange for the money to extend the curb out, but I'm guessing it wouldn't be so simple. Is there a solution to that piss-poor streetwall in the Brewery District Master Plan?

First streetcar tracks to be placed mid-October The tracks are expected to arrive in early October, with the first tracks being laid on the east side of Elm on or around Oct. 15. That date is about a month ahead of a previous projected schedule.

Well there is your hail mary miracle.

There is so much opposition to tolling, which is the only reasonable way it gets paid for, short of some hail mary miracle.I don't think it will be canceled, but it might be 2 decades before funding actually shows up.

Hahaha Pass the dic---I mean bong

Keep in mind, nationally, Cranley is a Democrat. Some people are probably pro-Moroski not because he's pro-urbanism but because he took a firm stance for gay marriage. On this forum, we may see through a prism others wouldn't recognize. Murray got a Charterite endorsement, for whatever that's worth. Must mean something to someone.

Hey, that Village Voice article links to cincinnati.com

What jim uber says makes sense to me. There needs to be a way for the city to get these buildings out of the hands of chronically negligent owners, and non-negligent owners should not be punished. RestorationConsultant, is taking neglected properties one of the functions of the "housing court" you advocate? I'm not familiar with the term.

Wish they hadn't given up that 16-inning game to the Cards, but hey the Reds are Red Hot right now. Can't really complain. What a pennant race this is -- amazing. Great baseball!

The refs didn't help. My hope for the season all but evaporated during the span of about 5 minutes. Might have to chalk this up to a year of rebuilding. We did have a coach change, after all. Butch Jones's first season was a disaster, but it was bookmarked by successful seasons. We have another B1G game against Rutgers, so we'll see how that goes.

^ So it's like Avon for sex toys, lube, etc.?

I think going negative is risky for Qualls. She has built up a reputation over many years by playing clean and being above the fray. Yeah, that's why I am surprised by it. I though she'd rely on proxies to make the case against Cranley, and keep her own hands clean and focused on the case for Qualls. The Cranley stand-in LITERALLY steals money out of a baby's hand. That is hardcore. It's obviously a joke, but it definitely is a powerful image. I'm sure some people will just think it's funny, light-hearted, and entertaining, while others will be left going "oh no she didn't!" Part of why, as JSkinner said, it's risky. Could this be the start of a rough-and-tumble battle? Cranley's been negative from day 1, but now that Qualls stepped into the mud pit things could get pretty ugly.

Only Applebee's in the country which doubles as a subway station. Best mozzarella sticks ever.

I thought she would be taking the high road the whole campaign. Guess not. Well, there's plenty of ammunition for her to draw from.

The definition of "associated law firm" might get a bit murky, but in principle it's a good idea. There really should be a progressive group with a petition engine like COAST has. Progressives of the city should go on the offensive and get positive things on the ballot on a regular basis.

That sounds like an awesome show. Though I'm not big on STP.

Wow, that's a terrible article. You can't access schools or affordable groceries from Downtown without driving?

Seems like a reasonable strategy. She's staying positive, while debunking Cranley's charges that she doesn't care about the neighborhoods outside Greater Downtown. She won't be winning any parochial-school-attending west side families with her emphasis on preschool programs, but they're in Cranley's column regardless.

You really think that Trader Joes has high quality food? Trader Joes specializes in microwave meals, canned foods and prepacked meats. They have a very small produce section with poor quality fruit and veggies. Relative to other grocery stores TJ's is packed with cheap "non-fresh" foods like ramen, pizza rolls, cereal, and similar products. I think it is a perfect fit for college students. So it's not just the TJ's I went to, then. I was expecting a lower-tier Whole Foods, and got a convenience-grocery store hybrid that didn't seem to live up to the hype at all.