Brutus_buckeye

Due process is the most important part of it. The problem is you have traffic camera that does not determine driver of the vehicle and only serves to determine who the vehicle belongs too. This sets up issue where the driver gets a ticket and fine and could lose their property when they were not the one who committed the offense. In addition, it is expensive and time consuming for the individual to question the calibration of the equipment and ensure it is correct without the physical officer there to testify. while the person may have the ability to contest in court, without a physical witness there to testify on behalf of the police, it creates due process issues (which should ALWAYS take precedence over any potential safety issues that could be gained from such a scheme). Safety is important but not at the expense of Due Process.

Let's keep speed cameras and red light cameras out of the city. They are highly problematic and pose due process challenges. They do not serve a purpose other than to line cities pockets with ticket revenue most often from lower income residents. Jeffre is wrong, they should not be revisited. There are better ways to control speeds without infringing on due process rights

More important than it being a tire shop. HE IS A RENTER on a MONTH TO MONTH Lease. He is at the will of the property owner. THis is why most businesses do not like month to month leases because they can be cancelled anytime and one of the most important things to a business like that is consistency of location. When he was not offered a longer lease, he should have realized that it was time to start looking for a new location because he could be shut down pretty quickly at the will of the property owner. (or have his rent jacked). I do not see where he has any rights here. He is a commercial business so he does not get the same sympathy a residential renter who has their lease terminated would have.

That is the one argument overlooked by the mass transit proponents. When you have a vehicle with 4-5 people in it, it is actually cheaper to operate in many cases than taking mass transit. We were in Atlanta a few months back for the peach bowl and took the subway to the game. It costs $20 round trip for my family and I. Whereas driving would have cost about $4.00 in gas. $10 to park (and walk a few blocks to the stadium at a more moderate priced garage/street parking) plus $3-$4 in possible additional wear and tear.

I think when you have 5 kids by 23 you probably are not in position to get a large enough car nor leave your local area too often. I had an employee at one time who was in that situation and their kids pretty much never left their little corner at all either.

You are right, ALL is probably too all encompassing and certainly it is not "All". Also, to your point, when we only had one child, it was quite convenient to drive our Honda Accord and Saturn that we had at the time. With 3 kids and hauling friends around the minivan is certainly a good option. Also, I do not necessarily look at choosing between a Honda Accord/Civic/Nissan Maxima/Camry etc. vs minivan as the decision that most people are deciding with. I think what you see is that most people want to get the "family car" and are choosing between some type of SUV or minivan. I do not see people debate between the sedan vs minivan route as much.

I am probably confusing Indiana with other things they have worked with Cincinnati on (I think it was probably the World Cup bid maybe), but you have to figure that with Ohio and Kentucky working together to provide financial incentives to CVG, it gives them an advantage over say Cleveland, Columbus, Indy and Louisville as peer airports in attracting more routes.

I wonder if this gives CVG a competitive advantage over other airports in Ohio/Kentucky and Indiana given their ability to draw from 2 and possibly 3 states for grants and funding. I know for the British Airways route, OhioJobs kicked in a bunch and so did Kentucky. I thought I also heard that Indiana played a role too in helping facilitate the route. https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/04/05/jobsohio-provides-incentives-for-cvgs-new-flights.html

I may live in a bubble. The parking lots of both my youngest kid's daycare and my older kids' school look like minivan showroom lots. And those sliding doors are amazingly useful. All 30-40 year old moms say they will never drive a minivan when they become a mom but in 3-4 years they all want one because they are practical and easy to haul kids. My wife said the same thing but when we had multiple kids she wanted to join the legions of minivan owners so we have an Odyssey which i refer to as her dream car.

But the car companies have to have their fleets meet certain fuel standards. It means less ability to produce some of the mid-sized trucks that average say 20-25mpg because there is more demand for the larger (yes even less fuel efficient car) truck that has a higher margin. Furthermore, they need to offset that profit center by selling EV's and other more expensive to produce cars that may not have as high of demand so that they can meet the fuel efficiency requirements for their overall production. So the area of the market that would cater to middle income or lower income drivers can no longer be effectively served because of many of the government's restrictiosn.

Cars are more expensive because of the new fuel economy standards and rules. Either makers make all electric vehicles which would be a disaster for the economy because the infrastructure is not there (and personally I think electric is a poor model to move towards as those batteries are awful for the environment) or the gas engines have more stringent fuel economy rules that makers cannot manufacture affordable low end vehicles that get moderate fuel economy. So in order to justify the cost of the higher fuel economy, you need to manufacture vehicles with luxury features on them since you cant make a base model anymore and cover your costs.

Not trolling at all. Just pointing out that some areas of the country are easier to get around with a car while others like the East coast you can use public transportation much easier. Personally, I would have no problem exploring Washington, Boston and NYC without stepping foot in a car but to explore Columbus or Indianapolis effectively, you probably need a car.

It is not too hard to get around if you have a car, just sayin

I did not love Allegiant. With Frontier, I probably still remember the days when they were a more full service carrier so I guess I give them the benefit of the doubt sometimes. I have never had a bad experience flying them stateside, but from what I have heard, everyone who has had a bad experience has had one when they fly them to Mexico or the Caribbean

I have not had an issue flying Frontier. The seats are not that bad with the exception that they do not recline at all. The one thing I hate are the tray tables being so small unless you sit up near the front of the plane and can get a regular sized tray table.

No, they are using that as a scapegoat for their own failure to launch. You need to care for others, but you also need to care for yourself. If you cant be a functional adult on your own, you cant help others. This fact is often lost on many in Gen Z

What a defeatist and lazy attitude. I know I did not come from an elite background with a silver spoon in my mouth and neither did @Lazarus. I certainly know a number of kids who did, and I do not begrudge them for it. If you do not like your lot in life, you can change it but it does require hard work and sacrifice. Sometimes the cost may not be worth it to some people. It is not buying into Horatio Alger tales and it is not that the younger generation has more "empathy," it is more so that many in the younger generation refuse to do what they need to do in order to better themselves and sit there and complain that life is unfair. It is not empathy, but more that the Gen z needs to toughen up a bit and realize it is not about them anymore.

I get that. One thing often spouted by the socialist crowd is how we should be more like Europe. BUt Europe has a much wider gap between the elites (who are fewer but much better off) than in the US. Also, the US system allows for the most upward mobility due to the fact that the US does a good job at promoting innovation. If you look at the millionaires in the US, or if you want to take it to $10 millionaires + the vast majority are first generation. Typically, by the 3rd generation most of the wealth in families is gone.

The world will always be unfair. There will be those born into much better situations and you have to do your best with the hand you had dealt. That does not mean you should quit trying and merely accept your lot in life. It also means you should not begrudge those who have more than you or may have won the birth lottery. That just makes you bitter and keeps you from realizing your potential. If you say the deck is stacked against me so why try, then you have already lost.

Yes, but they can recover if they are young. Much better than have 3 crap jobs in your teens and 20s and keep trying than do the same job for 30 years and then lose it unexpectedly. The person you feel for is the steelworker or autoworker who lost their job in the great recession and had no other marketable skills because they did their job diligently for 25 years. They could barely type an email and had zero computer skills. They are of an age where it is difficult to be retrained to do something viable in the modern economy. These are the workers to feel sorry for, the ones who are in their prime and have the only way of life they understood snatched out from them. The young worker can adapt and should if they are not lazy.

Nashville also was able to lock their stadium financing in place before interest rates went haywire. Now, bonds are much more expensive to issue and it may not make the same economic sense to issue them today as it did a year or two ago.

I wonder if there is pressure from the state or county on renovation given that 1) Progressive has undergone a number of renovations in its history, and 2) They are doing the renovation route in Cincinnati at Paycor rather than replacement.

There is, but you find opportunity through your trials and errors. If you try something it may not succeed but it may open the door to another opportunity. Supply and demand may not care about your bootstraps but your bootstraps are what allows you to find the next opportunity

You are right, there are no guarantees in life. Luck does play a role, but 90% of the time you need to make your own luck. Sure there are things like cancer, stroke, major accidents etc you cannot control, but the odds are in your favor that if you put in the work you will achieve your goal or get closer to achieving such goal and less likely to end up in poverty. Yes, in life nothing is guaranteed, but I like the odds of working hard better than the odds of not. I remember a few years ago, I was at a ski resort and there was a reunion of Stanford MBA's there. A lot of them were budding entrepreneurs. One individual I was speaking with had been working for 2 years on a product to revolutionize the healthcare billing industry. He had passionately put 2 years into building this database for his dream job. The problem was, within 5 minutes of talking with him, it was obvious his "dream" product was a giant failure as he completely misread who is actual customer was. I made friends with this guy and have loosely kept in touch with him over the years and even after that "dream" business never took launch, he did not let it get him down and he went to work with a few partners on another healthcare startup to which he found better success. Chasing his dream and putting in a ton of hard work may have resulted in 2 years of failure but he still ended closer to achieving his dream, he just could not see that opportunity at the time being so far away from it. As a society, it feels like a lot of people have completely given up on all hope which is a shame.

How is this a lie? If you work hard good things will come. If you do not work hard, then good things do not come. Yes, it is true that if you bust your a$$ at McDonalds for 30 years flipping burgers 60 hours a week, you are likely not going to make multi-millions. There is more to it than pure hard labor, it is about thinking and acting strategically, but that also takes work and effort. If you work toward a lofty goal, and work hard toward it, while there is no guarantee you will achieve that goal, at some point you will be much closer to achieving the goal than if you did not put the effort in from the start.