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What those do, especially with conventions more than sports teams is spur additional and new business and it brings capital into an area. With conventions, the money spent is new money that enriches the area because people earn it somewhere else and spend it in Cincy. It increases the area's overall wealth. That is the big benefit of conventions. With the Reds or Bengals or FC, the majority of money spent is local and does not increase the overall wealth of the region. Cincinnatians need to hire the most qualified people, not just some guy because he went to the same 3000-student high school 17 years apart from them. That would attract more outsiders. Columbus doesn't do that... hell if you ask someone what high school they want to in Columbus you probably haven't heard of it. Guy 1: "So what high school did you go to?" Guy 2: "Northwest Local" Guy 1: "Never hear of it! I went to Dublin Scioto" Guy 2:"Never heard of it!" I would not say that is the most accurate statement. Yes, Cincnnatians are parochial and love their hometown, but Columbus benefits a lot from people coming from other parts of Ohio not so much Chicago or the coasts, etc. As NE Ohio has struggled, many people have pushed south to Columbus. If you look at the top companies in the region, they are hiring the top talent. P&G, Kroger, 5/3, GE; these companies all recruit nationally and hire the top talent available. Same with the law firms in town. It is really no different than any other big city. In fact, most of the leaders of businesses in town are not native Cincinnatians.

Jake, if Indy and Columbus had that mindset, they would never land the convention traffic they have had over the last 30 years. Those cities don't offer half of what Cincy has to offer yet they succeed in bringing in higher scale events on a more frequent basis.

If you are going to expand over a city block, I would try and go North over 6th street and take up that block of garages and parking lots. That is a dead area of downtown anyway so you do not lose anything if you expand that direction.

I'm skeptical. This could easily lead to companies simply laying off workers. Such a policy would certainly have unintended consequences of laying off workers and automating more jobs. Turn it around, is it better to have low wage jobs subsidizing the benefits of those in unskilled labor jobs or is it better to have a lot more unemployed people altogether who need a larger benefit because they don't have a job who can offset the government subsidy required.

I can see them operating at both. Remember they also operated at CVG for a while too. In order to operate in the way they do, they can only have a certain amount of flights a week to a destination. This way, they can serve places more frequently flying some to Lunken and others to CVG

Brown is pretty popular and Renacci is not well known throughout most of the state. It is not a great year for an upstart. If the Gov race was not going to be competitive, it may have helped Renacci but really cant see him winning this race.

PPP tends to skew a little high toward the Dem candidate. I would anticipate Cordray is leading at this point, but since Ohio has been skewing rightward of late, I doubt it would be that high, especially since neither candidate carries much external baggage in this race nor are either candidates overly charismatic.

Anytime you have people involved in the process you will have bias creep through. There is no way to truly remove the people from the process. Even designing a computer program is going to have some level of bias

The old saying "too many cooks spoil the broth" applies here. When everyone has an equal voice, chaos reigns.

If the Community Council cant agree on what they want to ask for as a group, then they don't deserve a seat at the table.

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Sports betting is an investment. Have you listened to the investing show on 1530 Saturday mornings that explain this to you. There are a bunch of Long Island guys who live in Vegas who can explain to you that you can be making much higher returns investing in sports wagering than you can in the market.

I think the cat is out of the bag too much to take sports betting away. There is too much money at stake for states who are financially hurting and leagues who see a huge revenue source to ban it altogether. I saw something a while back that the rise in 24/7 cable sports has a lot to do with the rise in sports books and gambling. I think the NBA did something on this. They realized that the average fan does not care to watch a Wednesday game between Minnesota and Memphis but with sports gambling, it can generate an audience.

The interesting thing is that 2 of the parties who were on the side against expanded gambling have been actively lobbying and making arrangements for it to become legal (MLB and NBA) plus there have been some college conferences (namely the BIG) who have been working out plans behind the scenes to hit the ground running once this was overturned.

Even in a 9-0 decision, each justice's views are taken into account and reconciled into the decision. That is the reason why there are concurring opinions and majority opinions and even en banc opinions. There is a lot of debate back and forth during the writing of the decision. So Gorsuch's viewpoint played an important role. Also, my point about him was that prior to him taking the court, there was more support for the State's position. It was seen at the very least that he would be a swing vote if it came down to it. In this case, that was not needed.

^ Good news. That was expected once Gorsuch got on the court. He was pretty much known as strongly in favor of striking it down.

The enquirer had the headline today "Sanity Returns to Ohio"

Would love to see him reunite with Fickell at Cincy. Wishful thinking of course

When you have something with zero opposition, it is pretty safe it will pass

Cordray v Dewine will definitely be a rather boring election

I think the bigger issue is that city council still has to sign off on a few items before things can be cemented and locked down completely and even though there were 5 votes to pass the main resolution, it does not mean that someone like Mann or Sittenfield could waffle and throw a wrench in the entire plan at the 11th hour.

I think what he is saying is that they plan to disrupt things by stonewalling all areas of approval that would need to come before council.

which plan would have been more effective?

Bigger in what? Size and scope or just cost?

Not surprised. Nashville is in TN after all. THis looked like the Cincymoves plan from 2002 that went down in similar fashion