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Garrett has 3-4 more years left in his prime and then he becomes a situational player. This year was wasted. Clowney is coming to the end of his prime. Running backs have a short shelf life in general so you have to wonder how many more good years Chubb will have. They have a good O'line and the receiver room and QB room certainly will be functional for a few more years, but they certainly squandered a year to compete and make the playoffs (even if they were like the Titans missing a franchise QB, they would still have had a fighting chance). They squandared that this year and now lost a ton of draft capital to rebuild when some of their current stars age out.

I dont doubt there will continue to be gains. Although batteries have limitations and they also get weaker over time and do not hold a charge as long. Locally, an electric CAN make sense, but even then, not always, depending on how much you need to drive during the day. We are such a spread out country as is right now, electric just does not seem like a great solution. It takes 6-8 hours for a charge now and a DC fast charger can charge in 30-60 minutes but these chargers are bad for the battery life of your vehicle. Not great to be travelling long distances and every time I need a charge, it will slowly destroy my battery life (as the salesman who was trying to sell me a DC charger for my business told me last week). Exactly. I think alternative energy is important, but we should not force it upon people, let the market determine when we change over. When battery life is superior, then make the switch. Banning combustion engines on arbitrary deadlines before the infrastructure is capable of handling it is a recipe for disaster.

^ we drove to Chicago last weekend and a relative tried to follow us who had an EV. it took them around 7 hours to get there where we got there in 5 because they had to stop to charge up. I do not want to get an EV anytime soon and I think it is a mistake to push the country toward EV's before we are ready. personally, I think EV's are not the future and there are better energy sources out there than a battery that will deteriorate over time and will be too expensive to fix and cant be recycled very well.

I was hearing they may move the game to Detroit? Do you think they will still play it in Buffalo?

I had never seen so much snow in my life before that storm. I know Chardon had snow drifts of like 12-14 feet at the highest point. Fortunately, the Browns weren't around in those days to worry about playing in those conditions. I always remember walking on the sidewalk and the snow banks were taller than I was.

I did not mean to doubt you on this. I do not know their business model, but it just seems like the planes are sitting idle more often than not between MLS games and passenger service.

I cant see that though. The crew play one game a week and it is not always the same day/night of each week (unlike football). The profitability of the low cost carriers are to pretty much have a short turn around and keep the flights in the sky as much as possible. It seems as if an MLS team using Sun Country to travel to Columbus would not allow significant opportunities each year to reposition the flight back to MSP. I just do not see the schedules working out to make it profitable.

Not sure I want to spend my vacation in Minneapolis, Not overly exciting if you ask me. Lakes are still a bit cold for much of the summer (outside july and August). It generally is too cold there most of the year for my liking. Been there in May numerous times and early October and have seen snow. Summer is nice though, but still would prefer Lake michigan or Cleveland over MSP that time of the year.

I have to say, they could do better than the Keep Calm slogan. It got overused back in 2012

I am betting it going to be mostly Eagle flights you will see. American Eagle already has a local pilot base in Cincy so it would not be too difficult to grow it from there.

I think the future of CVG passenger growth is going to come on American instead of Delta. Delta will keep a decent presence but you have to think American will likely have a similar route network as Delta in the future, IMO

Honestly, I dont see a flight to either anytime soon. If any, would point to Alaska over Hawaii given its status as a shipping hub, but could nto see that happening without hub status. What I would love to see is flights to STL, Kansas City, Nashville, Cleveland, San Fran, Buffalo, Rochester all restored as part of the network Maybe getting greedy, a flight to Germany too.

At one time there were nonstops to Paris, London, Frankfurt and Rome from CVG. I am sure this wont scare Delta away

American and Alaska are both OneWorld members, I would not be surprised to see some expansion from those carriers in the near future. Hopefully an AA flight to St. Louis is in the works soon and maybe another Alaska flight to California (or maybe Hawaii or Anchorage) or something. Or maybe American would consider making CVG a focus city and funneling more regional flights here to increase the international demand. Personally, I do not know why AA wants to compete at O'Hare with United. From a route standpoint, they could funnel many of those routes through CVG, have a lot less congestion, fewer delays, cheaper gate fees (because of Amazon), and better weather resulting in fewer weather delays than Chicago. Flying out of O-Hare sucks, from a connection standpoint, a different Midwest hub could be a competitive advantage for AA, even if it is only a smaller hub/focus city.

The thing is, in the past, something this big has leaked out before the announcement and people are expecting it a week or two before the official announcement. When Southwest came to town, it was pretty much known or talked about for a couple weeks. When Alaska started service, people pretty much knew about it days ahead of time. This announcement, which I have heard as described as a huge deal, much bigger than Breeze coming to town, could indicate a British Airways flight but given past precedent, you would figure that the airport would have leaked stories about potentially trying to get more European destinations to CVG soon or that BA was starting to actively consider expanding to the Midwest again. There just have not been the whispers on this yet (or at least not very loud whispers). If anything, the CVG board is doing a much better job at keeping their big press announcements under wraps.

That would be huge. They have been teasing that it is a much bigger deal than the Breeze announcement a few weeks back and would have many more flights. That made me skeptical that it would be another low cost carrier who would have 2-3 flights a week out of the airport. Jet Blue would have been a nice addition but BA is huge. Also, you have to figure that with a BA flight to London, American will likely be growing their presence here locally with additional domestic flights to help funnel more domestic demand to the flight.

It fascinates me the SUn Country strategy. I know they are super low cost but all things being equal, who would want to connect through Minneapolis on their trip when you could fly Frontier or Allegiant directly to your Florida destination for pretty much the same price. Its not like you get the business crowd on a twice weekly route to Minneapolis of all places.

I wished they had kept the Omni flag on the hotel, although it did not fit as much with the other Omni hotels at the time.

The rooftop bar is very nice and has a good vibe. Subito is a great restaurant too. They did a great job with those amenities.

Residential tower of some sort. Not sure how tall it will be but it will likely be a residential tower. Cant see anyone doing office in this environment right now.

I dont know what they could have done with the building though since it is in a historical district and was not going to be able to be torn down.

Compared to most successful countries, the US system is incredibly fair. There are certainly those who disagree and certainly those who may have been left behind in the past but the way the system is set up, everyone has an opportunity to partake and better themselves from their previous generation. While the system is not perfect, there are naturally going to be tradeoffs to enable the majority to succeed. Medical Care and divorce are certainly the #1 causes of bankruptcy, but remember what bankruptcy is, it is an opportunity to reset and have relief. Your debts die there and you have a chance to reset. Also, keep in mind the cost hospitals incur to provide good care. I think most people here would prefer US hospitals to what they have in England any day. Yes, you can have free basic healthcare over there, just don't get really sick and need specialty care for anything and you will be fine. And there are currently the systems in place to help all people achieve. The challenge is making sure that they can be delivered in an efficient manner.

While I disagree with your opinion on that matter, we certainly have differing opinions on the issue, and that is fine. What I take exception to is the fact that you are trying to argue that this opinion is based on the conclusions you have drawn from the data you present above and you really can't realistically draw those conclusions based on your data (Note, I am not saying you are wrong, you may be right, which I do doubt but it is possible, but what I am saying is that the data does not support your conclusions). It is important to recognize some of the flaws in your assumptions. Again that point is debatable and you are drawing conclusions based on assumptions based on data that does not provide such answers. These assumptions are based on certain inherent bias. Let's unpack that a bit. Over the last 2 years, the city that was the biggest boom town in the Covid era was Boise Idaho. So people are moving to Idaho. In 2010-2015 North Dakota was a boomtown because of oil jobs. People are moving to areas because of economic growth (even if it is short lived) politics is secondary in most cases. You are solely trying to equate the growth of cities and the desire of people and companies to locate there to politics and that rural areas struggle because conservative politics hurts them. You are trying to blend differing issues together to draw your conclusion and it does not work. You are essentially trying to say that people would rather live in Columbus and companies would rather be in Columbus over Lima, Ohio because of the progressive poltiics in Columbus vs Lima while ignoring the inherent advantages Columbus had in geography and infrastructure as well as size to put itself in the position to grow at the expense of the smaller cities and rural towns. While I certainly disagree with your opinion on the matter, my main point is that trying to hide behind the data you cite as evidence that the data supports your opinion is also flawed as the data would not allow someone to logically draw the opinion that you cite.

Right, which makes the seat Even harder to flip during a presidential cycle unless Landsman’s suburban support collapses completely. Even if he goes back to 2018 levels in Warren county, it does not account for the increased votes coming from the city. It would take close to 75% of the Warren county vote to probably flip the seat

per wetterich , landsman was 16000 votes short in the city than candidates in prior elections https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/11/09/analysis-greg-landsman-victory.html