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How many flights could be expected daily from Amazon, once fully operational? How many cargo flights does DHL have each day? Same with Fedex? at CVG of course

Buffalo and Oakland were the only 2 visiting stadiums I would be scared to attend a game if I was a visiting fan.

Back when DHL was in Wilmington, they had a workers comp hearing office in Springfield. About 2/3 of the cases in the office came from DHL employees and there were about 6-8 attorneys who filled their docket on DHL work (both plaintiff and defense). There were other employees there that offered support roles to the office (such as hearing officers, etc.). When DHL pulled out and went to Kentucky, they closed the office in Springfield. So, yes, there will be a lot of cases. It is just one small example.

I get that, but there are other developments going on that are going to employ those people. I know a group building a large apartment project there. Now, it may only have 2-3 people on permanent payroll with maybe $150k in annual employee payments on site, but it would provide more work to local attorneys and accountants and possibly allow them to add to their staffs. For example, there are 2000 employees working on a location. This will create certain opportunities for companies like health clinics to provide a corporate "doc in a box clinic" or law firms to get a number of Amazon legal work that has to be done locally (things like workers comp, local real estate issues, local benefits matters) There will be other work too. While are right, the vast majority of the 2000 Amazon jobs are going to be in the $15-$20 /hr range. there will be a number (albeit on the smaller end) in the $30-$45/hr range which are good middle class jobs. You have to figure that will be a small local HR team, some other manger level and professional staff to handle all the employees. If only 10% are decent paying jobs that is still 200 new jobs that pay in the $60k-$120k range. If say 84.51 said it was creating 200 new jobs that pay in that range, people would be very excited about that. The 2000 jobs are nice, but I think the bigger impact is the additional development and growth it will spur in other companies that want to be close to the hub and the additional auxillery work that many of the professional services firms will realize from those projects, amongst others.

There are a lot of spinoffs for these jobs. It creates legal jobs, accounting jobs, architectual and enginnering jobs, and other third party management jobs for the region that will pay much higher rates. There is additional development that is created from this from apartments and housing to other commercial investment. Having the hub here will spur a lot of additional growth in a number of different sectors because they have a way to get their goods to the customer much quicker. It is not just fulfillment but there will be a wide number of jobs in other businesses created and there will be many jobs (not necessarily Amazon related) that will pay much higher than $15/hr.

I hate Bama, but this was the most complete team in the country this year. They dominated everyone. There is no team that could have held it close. A&M looked pedestrian against them and in their bowl game against an ok UNC. Clemson was boat raced by OSU. ND was stomped by Clemson and Bama. Florida gave them a game, but also had 3 losses including an embarassment against OU also UF had no Defense. OU is not championship caliber either. So props to Bama who was a top notch team. D was good enough but that Offense was unstoppable. They had OSU on their heels all night and were just a couple steps faster than the Buckeyes D. Their discipline was what stood out too. They just dont make mistakes. they dont have bad penalties, they dont miss blocks or their holes. Harris was so elusive, it make the good tackling line and linebackers look bad.

Kevin Stefanski just lost coach of the year last night and should be due a paycut. He barely beat the Steelers last week at home when they played their reserves. His assistant took them to the woodshed last night when Cleveland was down their starters. FIRE STEFANSKI!!! :) :) (yes, i am kidding of course)

or help wiht the new convention center hotel

They have a bunch of old photos hanging inside the building. It is quite interesting how the wrap around took place. You would never have realized it until you were told about it, and then it made sense as to why things were laid out the way they were inside. The old building was tiny. The wrap a.round was still a small building, but obviously made it usable. Almost the entirty of the old building became offices and the library and physical plant. The classrooms were all inthe wrap around area that was added later.

But that still involves tearing the building down I would believe. The building really cant be configured too well into much else. The original building has very thick walls and are like a bunker making it hard to really do much retrofitting. It is cheaper to tear down and rebuild.

I like the stairs. I think it brings the entrance plaza closer to the street and connects it better. it is better IMO of a bunch of smaller entryways and catwalks.

It was quite interesting how many different corridors and paths there are inside that building when you get inside the old part. The floor plan is very disjointed and uneven too. sometimes, you do not even realize what floor you are on when you are in certain parts of the building.

I think the original plan was to tear it down. It is a bit of a fortress inside and it is hard to recongfigure to something else and use it effectively. It really struggled with Wi-Fi connection in there (they had it, but was never great) because of how the building was set up. I just cant see how they can effectively use it for anything else.

Real estate is expensive. you gotta justify that expense somehow.

Did Baker already have Covid? Any chance he would have been exposed?

Personally, I hated when I worked at home for a couple years. It was too monotonous for me. I often ended up spending too much money at Panera just to get a change of scenery many days.

Back office workers will almost certainly be in the office. There may be some ability for flextime and more work from home opportunities develop, but there still needs to be a place for team collaboration (sorry Zoom does not cut it) and a hub for sensitive materials and such. More importantly, as companies move to cross functional teams, it will be important to be able to look across the table to your co-worker and teammate to loop them in (again slack does not do a great job at this) or be able to get that immediate feedback/body language of the co-worker sitting next to you. Front office positions can be more and more remote as they are essentially that way now. Also, you have to figure that companies will still need to improve their HQ office space necessitating more building. W&S is a Fortune 500. .Their HQ looks like a dump. For talent retention and attraction, it would behoove them to build a new one. Look at what Sherwin is doing in Cleveland or PNC did recently in Pittsburgh. There will still be a demand for those types of upgrades.

I alwayst thought these buildings were condos. Who knew.

It is just hard to believe that she really represents the true interests of her ward. It seems as if she is propped up by a ton of outside money that comes in to her ward to give her an outsized influence.

You almost never hear of standard transmissions anymore. Especially with electric cars. I wonder if there may be a desire for them to comeback at sometime in the future. Also, with the electric cars, is it truly a standard transmission or is it more of a simulated shifting experience

I understand and respect that point, but when you have 5 power conferences plus a good G5 team, and in most years you have very few common opponents, is that really something you can truly evaluate. Otherwise, just go on recruiting rankings. Some teams get mulligans for losses while other's do not. While I want the Best teams, I also do not want 1) Rematches (or especially 3 rematches) 2) If you lose the CCG, you are or should be out. This game is a de-facto playoff. 3) Teams that are playing well at the end of the year, win their conference should always have priority. What I hated about the BCS was that it was too computer and poll reliant and that did not take the flexibility of teams who evolved during the season. It overly rewarded SEC schools who played big rivals early in the year who happened to be overranked and did not diminish the value of the win when that top 5 preseason SEC school fell flat on their face and finished 500 at the end of the year (See Texas A&M most years). I appreciate the committee on that end. However, there has to be an element of deserving in the mix. OU was not deserving of #6. ND was not deserving of an opportunity for a 3rd rematch with Clemson. We have already seen A&M get curbed stomped by Bama so we know how that story ends. Why not let some new blood and new opportunities.

I do not hold any preconceptions that UC would beat, Nd, OSU, Bama, Clem or even A&M, or Florida, or even Oklahaoma. However, if there is a year to find out, why not this year where COVID ruined everything. Why not let a new team have a shot. I mean, the title really is illegtimate this year anyway given that there was not a good way to truly measure the best teams. They should have given UC the shot this year .

I get that. I do think there are a lot of pro-development people left still especially given the OTR corridor for the rest of this council term. I would probably characterize Cranley as pro-development but in the mayor's chair he does not have the power that council did (in some regards) in that role, and if you think about it PG was not going to be on council next year regardless (he was going to be mayor or somewhere else) so it will be interesting to see what the Fall of 2021 slate looks like. The one thing about PG (love him or hate him), is that he defintiely was a very big proponent of economic development in this town at he carried a lot of influence when it came to the soccer stadium and Children's hospital getting done along with a number of other Uptown projects.

The vast majority of UC fans dont think UC was going to be in the playoff and were not upset about the snub. Where I think there is anger is the fact that Oklahoma jumped UC for number 6. The thing about it, they did not need to do this and it served no purpose. Beyond #4 nothing else matters. TAM may as well be number 12, it really does not matter. BUT what the commitee could and should have done was list UC 5 or 6 (because it does not really matter) but for a school like UC, it represents a moral victory of sorts for their fans and supprters. they get recognized on TV as one of the schools that had a legit claim to a final playoff spot (even if it was a longshot). What really did the committee have to lose by giving UC that recognition. Listing them below 2 loss Oklahoma and 3 loss Florida is a slap in the face. Yes, I believe that both schools are better than UC in most contensts, but why not recognize them for their accomplishment.

PG pretty much controlled 5 votes on council and could always get a majority for any issue he wanted. Dennard, Seelbach, Landsman and Young pretty much fell in line with PG. If any of them wanted to get their legislation passed, they would work through PG to muster the support.