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It has to do with the nature of purchasing clothes. Comparison shopping vs convenience shopping. Nobody is going to come downtown to purchase clothing unless there were many options to do so. Clothing stores rely on shoppers from a far larger radius than do grocery stores.

I adore the RTA logo! I honestly think it'd be iconic if we were more of a major city. It's very clever, and instantly recognizable. The New York MTA logo is the only other one I know of where the letters form a silhouette of a train like that, and hell the NYMTA might have stole the idea from Cleveland because I think their current logo is only from the 90s or so whereas RTA's is from the 70s I think. I hope they never, ever change it.

A semi-retired (but still teaching) Miami professor drove by a protest in Oxford this week and started calling people "monkeys" - https://local12.com/news/local/local-schools-dealing-with-instances-of-hate-speech-cincinnati https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/06/05/miami-university-professor-accused-racist-remarks-following-protests/3159056001/

Yeah, I mean I can't say I care too much he said this. It's not a lie. Should a Mayor say butthole, I guess not, whatever.

Yeah, I used to live over there, would normally take the bus downtown but I remember one morning a few years ago in the winter I had to drive in for whatever reason and the 29th at onramp to get downtown, yikes, almost got in a bad wreck. I don't think the off ramps are too bad though, especially the eastbound one. They could probably just close the eastbound onramp and make people get on at 49th, it's not far at all. Or just take Detroit.

I think I'm far from the majority here, but I like that bridge more than the Detroit or Lorain bridges. I like the blue color, and, something elegant about the structure. Cool history too being a WPA project.

It is true that there is only capacity for one or two projects at a time and sometimes it takes a good while for projects to get to the front of the queue. I do think this one is on the radar, hopefully it can happen someday.

Armed COVID protestors banging on the doors of Ohio statehouse... No tear gas. Unarmed protestors banging on doors of cuyahoga county justice center.... Tear gas...

The temporary cancellation of the first amendment came right at the moment people really wanted to use the first amendment.

It is sad to compare what is going on here to what is going on in Cbus. They have had 4 or 5 days of protest. They have a 'curfew' that is an actual curfew meaning... at night. Their mayor defended his officers but also is setting up a public email address for protestors to report excessive force and a civilian board to investigate cases. He is out in public. Meanwhile Frank just decided the city is cancelled after 1 day, ridiculous.

What the hell is Frank Jackson doing. It's ridiculous.

Of course we should do that. The issue is, it isn't where cities in Ohio get their revenue. It is employment based. This is why Shaker Heights has such drastically high taxes and why Beachwood has low taxes. Schools get most of the property tax, counties get the sales tax, cities get income tax. City of employment gets dibs on income tax before city of residence, unless the city in question makes a law like Lakewood has, where you don't get full credit for taxes paid to employment city.

Easiest place to start- Schools anchor suburban communities. There's no reason we should have 4 different city governments for one school district, when the people living in those communities often already view it as one community.

The Jacksonville argument is certainly notable, but, probably wouldn't play out that way here. In all likelihood, the first cities to be annexed would have significant black populations. As opposed to a countywide merger.

I don't think there's a lot of true compliance with the letter of the law. I used to travel all over the state to clients in a previous job, and we only paid tax to the home office city. I know plenty of people working from home (even before the pandemic) that just allow the payroll deduction to go through and pay tax to the city of the office. I believe that technically you are supposed to pay tax by physical location but very few are doing this. They make pro athletes do it, as some of the highest paid traveling salaried employees, haha. Now, if WFH truly changes things to such a large extent that we start to see wider enforcement or even reform, I think things could get... interesting, as @NYC Boomerang suggested.

Ohio's municipal income tax system is screwed up, to be sure, when compared to other states, our cities rely on taxing employees far more. This is what drives a lot of the "poaching" you see when Westlake "steals" American Greetings, etc. It needs reform.

Do you really believe that to be possible? Annexations like that seem to be as monumental of tasks as are constitutional amendments. The fact that EC has lasted so long in its current state has driven that point home. Regionalism is so, so, sorely needed in this area, and I hope you're right.

No prob. Also for what it's worth, CCPL's New York Times subscription is even better, you get basically unlimited access to the NYT website, with the only downside being you have to renew your access through the library website every couple days.

For you and everyone else, it's a pain in the butt, but you can access current WSJ articles through the newspaper database if you have a Cuyahoga County Public Library card (probably CPL as well, not sure). I use it for the occasional article I really want to read on WSJ, this one included. https://cuyahogalibrary.org/Research/Resources.aspx - click newspapers and scroll to WSJ

See: the guy who owns key tower

That is strange, I think crain's is quite good, and most offices around town seem to have a subscription. Given the decline of the plain dealer, the more local coverage the better.

Bummer but as expected. Hopefully once we start moving into economic recovery mode, there will be $ allocated for good urban projects, either through this credit or some other means.

Went to a company party there last year, very cool space and all the flags are still up like in this pic. Hyde Park, which is right next door, catered the event... so I believe you can rent it through them. Definitely will be curious to see what happens to this after SHW moves out.

I had a friend who lived in the Nat City building (above Marble Room, same building as the Holiday Inn Express, but the apartment/hotel piece wasn't owned by Sinito, it was Maron I believe) and the apartment was oddly shaped and nearly windowless. Bedroom and bathroom were windowless, one window in the living room looked out into the light well. I thought it was kind of cool because they had a crane working on the Garfield Building at the time and I would watch it, but I could see how you might think that. People will pay for it though - or at least they would have 2 months ago.

@KJP, was just reading your article from March 16: So, I'm assuming that never happened. Any word on the future of this bill since the pandemic hit? State budget cuts now coming, doesn't make me feel great about it... apologies if this has already been discussed on another thread.