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Have you guys noticed people from rural and Central Ohio pronouncing the word "cash" like "caish?" I've also heard it in some people pronouncing Ashland, Ohio as Aishland, Ohio.

As far as I know, there aren't many (any?) outlet malls in cities either, with most of them being in outlying counties of major cities, all across the country - Tower City Outlets could be a unique thing.

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I can confirm that I had no idea who this guy was til like three days ago when a friend of mine started talking about some UFC guy from Cleveland.

Columbus has done it right by focusing on mixed use midrises all around town.

^That's fantastic. I sometimes facetiously refer to it as such, but I thought I was the only one.

It's definitely a good idea but I think they decided against it pretty much because it'd be expensive and a lot of work. I do hope they do pick up the idea again some day - Berkman is retiring and they are looking for a new president, so maybe whoever they hire will be into the idea. The Columbus and Cincinnati metros are exactly where they should be looking if they want to expand their base of potential students, and it makes no sense to call yourself "Cleveland State" since that makes it basically synonymous with "community college" to people who grow up in either of those metros.

I was a bit too young for 90s rap but looking back it seems there was some good stuff around. But then I got to high school and the mainstream rap was horrible (2003-2006). It then got better when I was in college when Lil Wayne and Kanye were popular... I enjoyed their stuff. Kanye is obviously crazy but I think he was one of the best ever and changed the genre for the better. Now it's just gotten horrible again. I'm sure there is good underground-ish stuff out there but I'm too oblivious to know what it is. I think people like Chance the Rapper are probably pretty good but I'm not really inclined to even try it.

Yeah, in my building the poor security staff basically spend half their time processing packages and distributing them when everybody gets home at 6:00. It's always busy, but at Christmastime, wow - you'd wait 10 minutes to pick up your package. The problem actually isn't hauling the stuff up elevators, but hauling down the street, when even people with cars often park sometimes a few blocks away or whatever. When I moved in I bought flat-box furniture online.

Ohio State has also done this more or less. I am sure their percentage of Ohioan students has dropped drastically. While I am happy to see the increase in prestige for both OSU and Miami, I worry what happens to Ohio students when they are unwanted by their own state schools.

Do you guys think the Tower City mall peaked too soon? I was there yesterday thinking about this. It opened long before the downtown residential boom and hasn't been viewed as a top shopping destination for some time. Imagine if the mall would have opened with the full support of retailers it once had - but in 2014 instead of 1990. Today downtown is hot but TC is not - why? It's a perception thing.

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvxwm3/hitler-is-a-rock-star-in-south-asia bizarre

That's how it always works. Look at all the companies that have moved to Atlanta from Ohio. It's all about momentum.

Yeah, I guess my anecdotes are just the opposite but still just anecdotes. I had a German friend I met while abroad really want to come visit the US and check out Detroit (it's getting international press, and the Europeans are fascinated by the whole rust belt ruin porn thing). My brother's fiance moved up there and is living downtown and they've been talking about how great it is. I've been the voice of reason, thinking "OK let's calm down they still have lots of problems up there" haha. I imagine among much of the Ohio "scared suburbanite" crowd the reputation hasn't changed much, lol.

See, I actually feel like Detroit's comeback has become such a meme in popular culture the past few years that now all of a sudden the press and everybody has been overhyping it. It has been a remarkable couple of years for them after their bankruptcy, with a tremendous mayor and lots of recent investment and development including a streetcar. But they are a long way from attracting something like HQ2, and it seemed every national article I read about it kept hyping Detroit as a contender anyways. Actually as a city geek, I find the place was designed to be so incredibly car-oriented (for obvious reasons) from the start that it's just too spread out for my tastes, even though I enjoy visiting for the history, culture, and to see what their planners and developers are up to. Cleveland and Detroit's comebacks over the past decade are really just the groundwork. Both places need to work to attract new, modern basic industries to replace old school manufacturing. Cleveland is ahead of Detroit in this area with the focus on health care and biotech, not sure Detroit has anything like it in the pipeline.

I think Detroit is another noteworthy elimination. I like Detroit and am glad they have some momentum, but I think they've been strangely overestimated during this whole circus, probably thanks to Dan Gilbert doing a good job hyping it up. I reiterate that I don't think there's anything they have that any of the 3C's don't. OK, their airport is better, I guess, but we have things they don't as well.

Assuming Columbus doesn't get it, hopefully a near miss can bolster support for rail transit among the local business/political community who has been waffling on the issue for years. Amazon's been clear about wanting good transit. Maybe even the state government might start to take a hint about it.

They are also the type of 'hip' employer who would install a rooftop basketball court. Maybe they just did it recently so it's not showing up on any photos.

Just looking at images of both of them right now... I think it's Trinity. (I've not been familiar with Peter's before right now) It'd be a lot easier to explain if I knew the architectural terms, but basically the proportion of the part perpendicular to the ground from which the spires come up out off to the actual length of the spires seems to look more like Trinity. Trinity is actually the one with four spires and Peter's with two, but Trinity's two smaller spires are much more narrow as well and I could see them not showing up in this pic. The known location of the Hotcards building is also perfect for it to be Trinity... take another look.

The actual Hotcards building is at superior and 23rd-ish... Could be their own roof. Looks to be north of campus because you can see Trinity Church's spires to the left of CSU's tower.

http://www.wkyc.com/mobile/article/news/local/cleveland/cleveland-ranked-among-top-hygge-cities-in-america/95-508765246 We're hygge!

It's been a while since I've been down there but I was there regularly from about 2010-2015. I think they did most of this. They definitely did the welcome signs.

They should have another term for "off duty" work because we are left with no words to describe when an officer is simply not working. "Sidework?" The "off duty" officers I've experienced working at Giant Eagle stores were in uniform and representing the police department... off duty is just a dumb way to describe what they are doing. A cop in street clothes who happens to be shopping at the store and intervenes when something happens... that's off duty.

I admittedly thought that "Trump that b##@h" t-shirts being sold outside progressive field after a playoff game in October of '16 were inappropriate, but it seems different to me when you're quoting a guy and criticising vulgarity rather than simply being vulgar. The t-shirts did not censor the word like I did (or the developer did).