cramer

This is pretty clever. You follow the story as it progresses on a satellite view map. Fun stuff. http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/

I could be wrong... but I don't think that the Census uses revisions to estimates, or probably even annual estimates when conducting the decennial census. So that bump we got thanks to Mssrs Saggar and Mallory is not going to stand. My hope is that we're at least in the 320s, which is down from 2000, but up from 2003 estimate, but down from 2006 estimate. Who knows?

Wait for the decimal census, which, for all it's shortcomings, is far superior to these estimates that seem very nearly worthless. This forum is going to lose it when the 2010 census comes out and it looks nothing like the revised estimates that showed Cincinnati leveling off or gaining slightly.

^Where the gravel pad is now, Max? Or are they going to tear down one of those 1 story buildings?

Yeah, I had some issues with some songs purchased on my phone not transferring correctly to my Mac. I simply followed the process and Apple resolved it in less than a day. I wish Bluetooth contact and calendar syncing was possible, but it's not like it was a secret that you couldn't do that before you bought the phone.

Speaking personally, I'm not a huge fan of the oval stickers. To me, they scream snobbery. Let's leave them to Europe, ski destinations, the Outer Banks, and Martha's Vineyard.

^12th St. near Reading Rd.

I don't think that's available any longer. The possibility for the station would hinge on the plans for a new parking structure to the north of Union Terminal, it seems to me. There are drawings available in another thread that show the layout.

Clinton's campaign darkened Obama in a campaign ad. Where's the resignation from that?

You keep harping on this as though you're owed an explanation. I thought I'd give you some reading material. http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/thinking.pdf

^the same data is on the NY Times site, but has some more interesting presentation. http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/OH.html Click on the Margin of Victory tab to really get a good representation of the county by county results. Now if someone would just do the same thing for congressional districts.

What put Clinton over the top was NE Ohio outside of Cuyahoga County.

There's no rail transit in Ann Arbor. A nice restaurant in the old rail depot, though. And an Amtrak station on the Wolverine line, offering thrice daily service to Chicago and Detroit.

Bortz has brought it back up and is making the case that we need this investment to create new markets and improve Cincinnati's competitiveness. He's talking about investment, risk and reward, rather than defending the status quo.

Bortz had a compelling counter to Cranley's strawman argument that if subsidies are still required post-streetcar that it makes sense to just put even more money into subsidies instead. Sort of a buy everyone a Lexus anti transit argument. Bortz didn't really bring it home for the audience, unless his primary audience was Cranley.

Qualls wants to know what we do if Fed funding not immediately available.

Cranley tactic seems to be to bring up any concern that spring to mind. For instance, might Parsons Brinkerhoff not be objective in their study since they hope to be awarded a contract on the project? Qualls up now. Wants a schedule of future study.

Cranley is now essentially claiming that projects that are not using TIFs will in fact need them. He feels it in his gut, I guess. He keeps stating that he does not mean to insinuate aything negative. He is.

Cranley raises the point that the Banks will need that south TIF money... Deftly counters by Mr Gray. Now questions use of Uptown TIF. Clearly, this is his main argument, that we are bleeding TIFs to pay for this. Crowd was good. No room downstairs, maybe 20 people upstairs at peak.

Everyone is adopting this strange "The Uptown" phrase. The attorney in Cranley is loving this cross.

I missed a bit to feed a meter, barely dodging a ticket. Nice. Cranley is getting a bit hardnosed in asking some questions, each framed so that Dohoney has to first say no, before he can elaborate.

Jmeck points out that Cole has been texting for about 45 minutes. I think she's done now. Crowley adopts an intent reading strategy to these meetings. Berding looks like he's taking notes. Qualls nods and smiles quite a bit. Lot's of forward leans and thoughtful, I'm listening poses. Hey, Ghiz is back, after about 30 minutes.

Civic constipation is today's phrase that pays.

So far, all the commenters are positive. Really nice job by mcmicken and the guy from Mercy Housing. Here's our first opponent, questioning operating costs, ridership, and overruns. Nice job, Brad. You should move to OTR before the streetcar. Now the owner of of Kroeger and Sons at Findlay gives us the family argument. Pols eat that up. Interesting to note that Cranley said "interesting" when the critic spoke, rather than his usual "thank you." Real estate agent attests that his transplant clients want a streetcar, even if they don't live in the neighborhoods it serves. More comment encouraging a doable first step and no delay.

Now public input time.