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What's the first assignment? Will we start with Plato/Socrates/Aristotle?

It is a bit cumbersome, but I think that bus rapid transit vehicle has long since left the station. ;D

Despite not being a circle, University Circle has been called that for a long time, and houses a university. I don't really know where you're coming from on that one.

Waterloo and Gordon Square definitely also use the Collinwood and Detroit-Shoreway brands. That's my point. I'm not worried, and I love the investment, but I would understand if some might be upset that the minute a part of Glenville improves, it all of a sudden ceases to be Glenville. I think that's a perfectly legitimate concern, especially considering it's a neighborhood with a rich history and proud residents.

Thanks - I've been curious about this for a while.

Yes, RTA has plans for their replacement. Thankfully, there's actually some state funds (from the Volkswagon emissions case) that can be used for transit and some new federal funds for bus replacements. Do you have insight into the timeframe for replacement?

I think there's a possibility for a middle ground where they brand the southern part of the neighborhood for its proximity to UC while still acknowledging that it's Glenville. Developers and Realtors can refer to it as Circle North while banners and signage in the actual neighborhood say "Circle North: A Glenville Neighborhood" or something like that. "Welcome to Glenville" when you cross Wade Park Ave.

Does RTA have any plans for replacement of the HealthLine buses? The line is turning 10 this year, after all. I was just talking to a friend about it and I've never seen it discussed on here so I wanted to raise the issue. Those things are getting old, dirty, and worn out, and are some of the worst vehicles in the entire transit system. They make very loud fan noises, some seats right by the heaters are hotter than hell in the winter while others are cold. We all know the RTA is running things on a shoestring, but in spite of that many of the vehicles are in a nice condition and they seem to have good long term plans in place for their capital investment. But if this is our marquee transit line through a marquee area where we are trying to gain investment, nice buses would make a good impression. Maybe the Clinic and UH should pony up some more cash.

I'd definitely be interested in meeting up but it'd be tough for me in April.

That is a bummer. Bad 401(k) plans with high fees and lack of options are a big problem - they basically provide mediocre products and get away with it because of general public ignorance on investing.

The range is bonds, equities, currencies, futures, options, mutual funds, and partnerships I am opinionated on the subject (though my opinion is by no means obscure) so I'll give you my opinion and you can seek out other opinions, but my opinion is that the only thing we should be investing in at our age is stock market index funds. I appreciate the simplicity of it and the low fees and I feel that financial managers over-complicate things, increasing their earnings but not earning the investor much more than average market returns. So if I were you I would opt to manage it myself if your 401(k) gives you the choice, and just put everything into an S&P index fund or total stock market index fund. If you want to read a little bit, this finance blogger's "stock series" is one of the best things I've read on the subject for lay investors. It's maybe a couple hours of reading. http://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/ Also a little Warren Buffett advice: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/why-warren-buffett-says-index-funds-are-the-best-investment.html

At 27 with a potential for high income, you should probably go aggressive and I'd assume "aggressive" isn't as aggressive as it sounds. What are the actual investments that make up "moderate" and "conservative?" Are they proposing to manage everything for you? If "aggressive" just means they are going to put you into stock market mutual funds, that's probably where you want to be. I'm a very risk averse person myself, age 29, but I can tolerate the risk of the stock market at this age... so yeah, tell us more.

It only makes sense if the transit is the fastest option from point a to point b. If COTA had some kind of dedicated right of way to zoom downtown past traffic, be it a rail line, bus lane, busway, or something, then it'd be worth it to Uber to the transit. But nobody is going to Uber to the bus stop so that they can then crawl down High St at 15 miles an hour.

They have also, over the weekend, taken down the fixed traffic lights at 17th and Euclid and put up a temporary thing hanging from a cable stretched diagonally across the intersection.

I'm guessing it's a rate on a credit card and they are advertising it for being low. The stock market only averages around 10% over the past 100 years, 14.75% doesn't sound possible for a federally insured cash deposit besides in a period of extreme inflation.

My opinion is that those comment sections on news sites are all cesspools and should be done away with entirely. I don't feel they add anything, anything at all, to the discussion and serve no productive purpose whatsoever. Are you sure your and your friends' comments are being deleted? And not just stuck in some kind of moderation purgatory? And the disgruntled guy's comments are never deleted?

I will tell you guys as much as I love all the construction I am sick to death of the lane closures on Euclid. You have to cross the street at The Beacon and then back to the other side when you get to the Athletic Club. Looks like a third crossing is now happening. Ok, enough raining on the parade, good riddance parking lot.

Oh most definitely, I have lived in Cleveland and Columbus in "walkable areas" and most of my friends and acquaintances seem to be surprised when I actually want to walk places. Especially if it takes more than, gasp, ten minutes.

I wouldn't say it's irrelevant. It can become skewed if you have lots of rural areas like you mention with Hamilton County, but it's certainly relevant if the entire county is a contiguous urban area like Cuyahoga is and like Franklin is getting very close to being. I wonder if you took the inner 75% of Franklin County, what the population density would be compared to Cuyahoga. (Excluding mainly the areas on the western and southern edges of the county)

Do you just mean Court St? Athens has Ruby Tuesday's and a bunch of other casual dining stuff out on E. State, in Oxford we don't even have so much as an Applebee's. ;D I remember discussion in Oxford and I assume in other college towns about counting the students in the population for census data and if that would benefit the towns, but really they are probably better off without it.

Council-manager seems to work well in suburban cities with far less highly contested political issues, lower stakes, etc. Because if you have an executive mayor in those places you often get people who don't know what they're doing, work part time, etc, and it's better to just have professionals managing the day-to-day services. Perhaps there is just too much of a lack of a central, accountable political figure for it to work in a larger city. I also wonder if Cincinnati's at-large council system would impact things vs. council-manager if you had a ward system. Seems like at least half of Cincy City Council is jockeying to be future mayor at any given time.

If you guys have ever read Jane Jacobs she talked about when neighborhood became a victim of its own success, rents went up too much, and only "banks" and other corporate establishments could afford to be there. Then all the funky fun stuff that made the neighborhood popular in the first place all goes away. She also talked about old buildings as essential for a diverse neighborhood. It's amazing she predicted this stuff in 1960s New York, because it has played out almost exactly like she said it would across many cities, decades later. OSU's student body at least will guarantee the neighborhood will continue to have some level of socioeconomic diversity in its residents, which is disappearing in Manhattan and other highly gentrified places. Yes, the area would do well to develop other retail corridors besides High Street, 4th being the most promising. Old North is great too.

I was looking up old articles from the early 2000s trying to figure out exactly why Cincinnati went for "stronger mayor" in the first place and didn't just stick with a council-manager form of government (which I tend to favor). Seems like a lack of clear political leadership was the main reasoning used back then. Curious about your opinions for those of you who lived through it. And how you think the "stronger mayor" form has fared over the past almost two decades.

Interesting Opinion Piece in OSU's Student Newspaper. I have mixed feelings, I really love the density building up along High Street, it is turning into an urban corridor that is unrivaled anywhere in the Midwest except for Chicago. But the high rents for the new construction is destroying any chance for a thriving neighborhood of independent businesses and it will take decades for these buildings to age enough, be paid off, and become more affordable. They need to have some kind of plan to save at least some of the older buildings. I don't live in the area anymore so I haven't yet seen the extent of the changes of the past 2-3 years with my own eyes and how much has really been lost. I was in town a couple weeks ago but didn't make it North of Fifth Ave. All Jokes Aside: Ohio State is turning High Street into a suburban shopping plaza By Ricky Mulvey and Seth Shanley | March 19, 2018 You might have noticed a sprinkle of intensive construction and small-business closures on High Street in the past few years. Well that’s no coincidence, a lot of it is the doing of Campus Partners, the “urban revitalization” fist of The Ohio State University. Campus Partners aims to create “distinct sense of place” across Ohio State’s campus by gutting student favorites like The O Patio & Pub and Too’s Spirits Under High to make room for a number of expensive apartments, parking garages and chain stores. Ohio State is basically claiming that another Chipotle, Starbucks and a White Castle will give High Street a “distinct sense of place.” That’s like claiming that “The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift,” “Fast & Furious” and “Fast & Furious 6” have distinct senses of cinema. These are just a few of the establishments that will make Ohio State’s campus Columbus’ next Tuttle Mall. MORE: https://www.thelantern.com/2018/03/all-jokes-aside-ohio-state-is-turning-high-street-into-a-suburban-shopping-plaza/

Great news - I have missed Graeter's ever since I moved back to Cleveland from Cbus... Mitchell's is pretty good though I guess.