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"Green" is overrated. It may not be the prettiest thing but it beats the parking lot Why is green overrated? I dont care what they choose to build it out of, so long as they improve the land from an empty parking lot. If they want to use "green" materials because they are efficient, and cheaper, great. I just think building "green" for the sake of calling yourself "green" is overrated and pandering to the politcal correct class. In my opinion of course.

Jake, the high school sold the lot about a year or two ago, the church now owns the lot.

"Green" is overrated. It may not be the prettiest thing but it beats the parking lot

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Actually, I heard it was going to be an Aldi going in at 5th and Race

Dont you think it would be more the height of the Hilton, Millenium or Lytle Place. All those places are 30 stories. This is going to be a residential tower so the floor plates are not going to be as high right? 30 stories in office is much different than hotel, apartment

the question is whether Duke would play hardball with Charlotte the same way it is doing in Cincinnati.

I will say that local municipalities do an extremely $hitty job at collecting municipal income taxes. It is the height of inefficiency

He has done a good job of creating jobs in Ohio, stemming the tide from recent years. Besides the SB-5 debacle, he has been one of our better governors in recent history.

In #30, it is no longer teh Chemed Center - Now the First Financial Center

I guess we want to see mass layoffs instead of shared pain, since it looks like that is the direction we are going. Hopefully, we can pass something similar to SB5 with the carve outs for emergency responders.

This is a very good way to sum it up. Neither option is ideal, but we need changes to the system. By Keeping SB5 we are making progress and reforms at a time our state desparately needs them. When the economy recovers, people's incomes naturally improve. This bill is about jobs. If we keep SB5 we can save a lot of jobs of hard working middle class people. If we vote no on Issue 2, the union leaders win but many of their members suffer because it will mean layoffs and cuts in services. If it were about protecting the middle class, then we should be trying to save as many jobs as possible. unfortunately, the only people who will benefit are the union leaders and a few people at the top of the union heirarchy. I am voting to keep SB5 in place because I want to preserve middle class jobs.

Personally, it is a little demeaning that the repeal issue 5 campaign thinks that by voting for it you feel that teachers, firefighters and other public service providers are lazy and do not work hard. That has never been the point of SB5 and if you ask most people who are in favor of the bill, they will probably agree that these individuals are probably should be compensated much more if we lived in that ideal world. Problem is, in the real world we do have to make tough choices, and have limited resources. As much as we value these individuals, the money is no longer there to pay them. That means, we can offer them less money and hope they take it, or have fewer people in the position and have a harder time filling the positions. This is the tradeoff. Now many of these individuals will likely grin and bear the cuts because their short term options are limited but long term EVERYONE has options. 1) Even though I have family that would personally be affected by SB5, I am voting to keep it because it will force us to get creative and come up with better options than the simple "pass a levy" method we have used in the past. IT is too easy to always ask the taxpayers to pay more. 2) Secondly, repealling SB5 does not accomplish anything but delay the inevitable. We live in a global economy now and down the line, economic pressures will likely force many of the economic changes that legislation is trying to stop. Essentially, you are sticking your finger in a dam to stop a leak only to have 3 other leaks spring up around you.

Look at the competition as a good thing. Better to have the decision come down between Cincinnati an Covington as opposed to Cincinnati and Charlotte. It is no big gain of jobs but no loss either. Even though the cities area playing off each other for the same jobs, a company like Omnicare is also doing its due dilligence and soliciting offers from other cities in the US, especially ones where they have an operational base already.

Also, this uniquely positions the Cincinnati area to hold on to corporate HQ's. Yes, it sucks that the company plays two states minutes from each other off one another but it keeps the jobs in the region. It is a much harder pill to swallow when you leave the region altogether. The Ohio Kentucky border war is actually a good hedge for the community.

Cut the governor a break here. He may bring some jobs and residences to Ohio from this (a few people may deceide to move across the river), more importantly, he succeeeded broadening the tax base to Cincinnati with a premier company and kept them in the region instead of relocating to Atlanta or some other city that would have salivated over them. At the end of the day a win is a win. Lets celebrate that. As far as a border war, Kentucky started this war many years ago. Back in the 90's they raided Cincinnati of many corporate HQ's. From Omnicare (used to be based in the 5/3 center), Jacor, Castellini companies, US Playing Card, etc - It was not that long ago that Kentucky was cleaning Ohio's clock by poaching many companies and moving them across the bridge. Turnabout now is fair play. So do not worry about Ohio starting a border war, Kentucky has been doing this for years.

Low lying fruit is always a good place to start, for the last 20 years we were not even getting that in OH. We were the ones being cherrypicked. Now I would love a BF Goodrich, Meineke, B of A to come here from Charlotte but right now lets celebrate this as a win.

Agreed, it has no effect on the Cincinnati region, The city of Cincinnati will get a few payroll dollars and OHio will collect more in tax revenue but does not do anything for the region. Kentucky is going to be struggling to attract new businesses with their new calculation for taxes. I know that there are several other big companies looking at a corporate move for that reason.

How bout the big win he secured yesterday getting OHio another Fortune 500 HQ

It will not be the same bill but a more watered down version that would get passed. The unions will still hate it which is why it is in their interest to negotiate now.

Sounds like this is an issue both progressives and fiscal conservatives seem to be in agreement on.

Too bad, even if this is defeated at the ballot box, they will just put a new one in next year that accomplishes much of the same thing and the fight will start all over again. This was the union's chance to put politics aside and achieve some meaningful reforms (albeit they would still give up a lot), they ultimately are fighting a losing battle anyway. Time to negotiate, a win in November is nothing more than a phyrric victory.

I dont care who runs, as long as we get rid of that idiot Sherrod Brown. He was lucky to win 6 years ago but has no business as a US Senator. If its Brown, flush it down. (Can be true about a number of people with that name)

Even though I am for the streetcar, I cant stomach a vote for Laurie Quniliven, she is a waste of space.

I think the development will be along Reading (although probably not too much) I agree the Jail and government buildings cut off some potential development in and around the area. I hope the new hotel on 7th can have an impact as it will create some walk up traffic to the casino from downtown. Also maybe some development South along Eggleston.