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It certainly depends. For example, if Ohio state goes to Michigan State for a football or basketball game, they fly charter. If the soccer team or field hockey team goes, they ride charter. I think in some cases, it will be a mix. Some of the non-revenue sports like swimming, golf, gymnastics, etc. may fly a combo of charter/commercial when they have an alumni plane to hop on. The big difference is that when the USC football team goes to Ohio State, they will fly home the next day. When the golf team or swimming team play at Ohio State, they then drive to IU and then Purdue and then Northwestern (for example) and then fly home after a long weekend on the road. If I would be a betting person, they would likely schedule these trips to fly into Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago or DC and then travel around the regional pod and then fly back out of a hub airport in the region.

Builders build what the population wants. Right now, people buying in that area want land or more single family. Once it is operational and they have more urban talent, then more denser centers make sense, but right now, you build to what the public wants and what you can recoup your costs and profit from. While it may be cool to build a city out of cornfield with mix use buildings and mid level density, if it sits for 10 years before filling up no builder will touch it, no bank will lend on it, and no one will be happy with the project. This is not China where you can build entire cities that are ghost towns

But typically, that is easier to control in a city/village development vs township. Certainly a developer who controls a large enough tract of land could do something like that but if the land is held by a bunch of individual parties, it is pretty difficult to accomplish something like that and you will most likely end of with the sprawl. Especially since it would be hard to bring an eminent domain action for undeveloped land in a rural area just to hold for future development. This was done years ago until the Supreme Court shot that down and vastly limited it.

You may get that in a limited area, but given that there are likely many jurisdictions involved it would really not be feasible. You could have Johnstown, as an established muni have higher standards but it would be pretty hard to do with the unincorporated areas near the plant.

But that is what you get when you build in a cornfield. Higher density, planned housing will not come until decades later when it is built out.

When it was introduced, I would say it was imaginative, it has since been copied by a few others so it is not original much more. Although to your point, I always felt it similar (or at least the next step in the evolution) to the Superman coaster at the old Geauga Lake. The nice thing about that ride is that it sat in a relatively small/narrow footprint. It would be interesting to find something as eye catching that could take its place. Although, I will say what they did with the old Mean Streak was incredible and Steel Vengeance is a phenomenal ride.

Remember the BIG had 11 teams for 20 years before it added Nebraska. The new world of College football is markets and brands. USC has a brand, UCLA has a market. Bringing all the cable/streaming subscribers in the LA market into play is a huge thing. Also, it is important to recognize, that outside of Chicago, New York, and DC, LA is the next largest city for BIG alumni in the country. if you think about it, there are a ton of Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, and even Penn State alums in LA who may be working in some capacity in the entertainment business. Capturing this market share in LA (not just USC and UCLA fans) is a huge untapped potential for the BIG.

c'mon, people do not care about the environment when there is hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. That is someone else's problem.

The BIG was talking with USC in April. There was always talk about bringing on 4 PAC teams with USC being the primary driver of the bus (plus its biggest brand). Oregon and Washington and USC were the 3 most profitable brands with UCLA a close 4th because of the LA market. All 4 were the preferred candidates. USC obviously liked UCLA because of the traditional rivalry but there was always the fear that UCLA would have trouble leaving without CAL. Stanford is the preferred school in the bay area (although I have heard CAL is an option, just not as high as the others). UCLA reached out to the BIG separately from USC. Oregon and Washington did not reach out back in the Spring. This is the main reason why UCLA joined with USC instead of Oregon and Washington. Ultimately, it comes down to the sheer fact that UCLA (and USC) asked whereas the other schools did not.

UCLA has not been drawing well for years. Most of it has been due to the poor product on the field, but they have never had the same passionate fans as USC. USC is the team in SoCal. UCLA has always been little brother in that regard. USC is the big get for the Big 10. UCLA was the afterthought to claim the entire LA market for college football. UCLA would not be going to the BIG without USC but USC would have gone to the BIG without UCLA.

I can see that, I thought it was 2 way at some intersections already? Is that not the case?

I dont know, Vine street can be a parking lot sometimes, especially with people parking at the meters. Maybe if they could add a couple more lanes of traffic, but I think the streets are too narrow to do that in Cincy. If you are going to go 2 way, I would start on the outside and work in. Plum, Broadway, Elm maybe before you get closer to the center. Even then, I think the streets are too tight. It would have to be an either/or. 2 way traffic or street parking. I think I would rather have street parking.

I would love to have them put buildings on the ends at least overlooking the highway with park space in the middle. This will help buffer the highway noise on the ends of the tunnels IMO

Its very impressive but Toronto had many things going for it that Cleveland never had. Namely it is the financial center of Canada and also the main English speaking city in Canada. As the manufacturing economy stagnated in the 70s and 80s jobs and graduates from universities migrated to the service sector, Toronto, given its place in Canada was well positioned to capitalize on this. Cleveland was not. Larger, more established financial centers in the states existed, like Chicago, New York, San Fran, etc. and were better positioned to take advantage of the new economy. What impressed me about Toronto was how it usurped Montreal as Canada's largest financial center. However, I get it, given that most of the Western part of Canada did not really relate well with the French speaking provinces.

since you seem to want me to clarify. It is typical of you to misread the post and attribute something to it that does not exist, just so it better fits your world view. I have always said that loan forgiveness is bad. That has not been disproven and most economists on both sides of the aisle share that assessment. What I said is that if you give it to Pell grant recipients, it is less bad, but still not good policy. I also said that there are a lot of people with student loans who did not ever finish college. These people are where we should focus the initial attention on. My point has not been disproven, which is loan forgiveness is not good policy.

How did I move the goalposts? 1) I said loan forgiveness period is bad policy for everyone. 2) If you want to justify it, you could do so for Pell grant recipients but it is still bad policy 3) The way it has been done allows wealthy borrowers the chance to get forgiveness of $10k 4) Ryan is right to oppose this because it does not help many of his key constituents in NE and SE Ohio, and that is the key to him winning the election.

I can see you like Ryan. I do not know why you seem to think I am attacking Ryan. I think he is running a great campaign and could very well win. I think Vance has been a disappointing candidate so far and is an example of why people should not look to Donald Trump to choose their candidates. I am not knocking Ryan, however, based on the polls, he is still running behind. He may run the perfect campaign and lose to a candidate who is not as good as him. That happens sometimes. I do not think I have praised Vance (since he got the nomination, I was initially intrigued by him 2 years ago but have been disappointed since). I personally think Vance is running a horrible campaign. That being said, I think come November Vance is likely to win. Nothing against Ryan and not necessarily praising Vance, but it reflects more about where Ohio is politically now than the actual candidates themselves.

Ryan is out in front of the issue on Vance. But I really do not think anyone dem or Republican is talking seriously about student loans and cost of college. Other than forgiveness which is bad policy for many reasons, the politicians are really not focusing much on it. And who can blame them to some extent. Most college kids and recent grads do not vote, or vote consistently, so politicians really do not have to take them seriously yet. It’s why a plan for loan forgiveness can be proposed that will let’s millionaires receive some benefit from it. regarding the discharge in bankruptcy, you should be able to discharge them in any chapter 7 filing. It should not take an extra petition that many filers do not want to do not have the money to handle. For the tens of thousands with student loan debt and no degree to show for it, an easy discharge through the bankruptcy process would go a long way to clearing their debt, and allowing them an opportunity to build positive credit again.

The Pell grant part was good, but again, it did not really address those who will never go to college. Of course there are always a few millionaires who will slip through the cracks too and be eligible for loan forgiveness. But there are always loopholes. I would have much preferred making loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. this way it avoids some of the moral hazard while at the same time providing relief to those who are truly never going to complete a degree and needing to restart their lives upon mistakenly taking student loan debt. I think Ryan understands this part quite well.

I think there is just too large of a block in the SE Ohio region, Mahoning Valley, more of the rust belt areas, where voters who were traditional Dem voters up until 2016 felt abandoned by the Dem party, and you cant really blame them either. There just are not enough urban voters to overcome that, especially if there is a very popular candidate on the right. I doubt JD would fit that description of a popular candidate for the right, which helps Ryan's chances too. Ryan is also doing a good job of speaking directly to the people of SE Ohio who left the Dem party over the last decade. You need them to win Ohio. Whaley does not seem to understand this. She never really has. during my conversations with her in the past (now it has been about 15 years now) she never felt comfortable with that portion of the electorate. Cranley understood it much better than she did. Which is why Ryan will run a competitive race and the governors race will not be close.

The only way for a Dem to win statewide in Ohio now is to go after the SE Ohio voter. Ryan gets this and is running that campaign. He may not win, but it will be close. Whaley, does not get this, which is one of the reasons why she will lose by double digits (Now in Whaley's defense, she does not have the name recognition either and is running against an incumbent with a strong brand), but her campaigning is not really addressing the themes of Ryan. He has the playbook for a successful (win or lose it is still a successful campaign) Dem campaign in Ohio.

Thanks for the clarification.

As much as I think Dayton would make the most sense, I think Wilmington also has a good draw to it. The Airfield there is still pretty active and Amazon has a secondary hub there to augment their CVG hub too from what i understand. This will help with shipping and could be a prime location in that regard. I found it interesting that Dewine choose to go on WLW to talk about the project yesterday. Needless to say, he did not go on a Cincy station when the Intel news broke for obvious reasons. Hence it further leads that the plant will be more in SW Ohio than Columbus.

not to avoid your question, but I always thought the hotel proposed on Liberty and Elm was more of a boutique hotel catering to the soccer crowd and visitor traffic whereas the hotel that was proposed by FC was going to be more of a corporate style hotel and cater to the office complex they are developing next door (of course it will cater to soccer travelers too but there are plenty of them to go around)?

Ryan is certainly in front on that issue. There are probably a lot of people who went started school in the area but never finished. Personally, loan forgiveness should have focused first on this group of people vs college graduates because they were the ones suffering the most. They paid for a degree they would never get and could not discharge it in bankruptcy. I see these people every day and I feel bad for them because they really do not have much hope of pulling themselves out of their debt.