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Playoffs in general are a big trade-off. Obviously the regular season is a larger sample size to tell you who the better team is, but playoffs are exciting and "clutch." But the more teams get into playoffs, the more the regular season turns into exhibition. See:NBA

Yeah it was doing that to me recently on Android... I had to request the desktop site to log in, and then it's hard to get it to go back to mobile site without clearing cookies, which then logs you out and you're back at square one. Somehow I got it now.

Yes I sincerely hope that "giving them Burke" is just some goofy internet meme and not the actual proposal.

I can't believe they are playing NFL games in a stadium that holds less than 30,000, even temporarily. The Rams are playing across town in the LA Coliseum which holds way more than that.

I've been going by the new Marc's and it makes me sad. The Mayfield corridor in South Euclid has a lot of nice old commercial buildings right on the street, and I think it is quite walkable for postwar suburbia. The old Marc's was nothing special but about as ideal a suburban supermarket could be, right on the street with a big parking lot in the back. That new one is so far back and behind a hill such that you can barely even see it from the street. A bummer to see a suburb with an actual relatively nice urban corridor embrace enormous parking lots and setbacks. There also used to be, years ago, a wonderful old multi story mixed use building right on the Southeast corner of Green and Mayfield that was replaced by a CVS with a parking lot. PoshSteve if you are working for the city I wish you lots of luck in preventing this type of development going forward. I know the city council also has a CSU-trained urban planner on it.

I was there last weekend and walked by the arena and was I struck by the design, it was awesome. It was like any other mixed-use building on the street, and IIRC some of the bars/restaurants were open even though nothing was going on in the arena that (Saturday) night. Paul McCartney played Sunday.

Maybe a dumb question but you live in Ohio? Because we are prohibited from doing Lending Club and Prosper here, I am surprised this isn't considered the same thing.

We would need overhauls of the zoning codes in order for that to happen on a large enough and dense enough scale.

I'm in general not a big fan of the yelling-and-screaming management style (and I haven't followed his tenure in Chicago), but in spite of that, yeah, I think Rahmbo is smart and effective.

Just from following this board over the years, Cranley seems horribly ignorant on urbanism at best, and at worst to have an active grudge against it. And he seems to exploit neighborhood divisions for political gain on the regular (i.e., pitting long-time bus riders against the streetcar). Not sure how he is on other issues, maybe he is the type of pro-business Dem I'd be attracted to otherwise. I'll be pulling for Simpson - but I hope she isn't too naive.

I did not realize that. Maybe we have a better shot than I thought.

I am not looking forward to the day when, here in Cleveland, somebody wants to take down the statue of Columbus that sits in the park in Little Italy. Not because I necessarily care about Columbus one way or the other (haven't done the research on him tbh. Obviously he did a lot of bad stuff with natives but is he not being singled out? What about Indian slayer Mad Anthony Wayne whose name is all over Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan?), but because I know that many of my fellow Italian-Americans do view him as something like our founding father, and there will be an ugly debate that will frankly split my loyalties. I don't care about honoring the man Columbus but I do appreciate a day to honor our heritage and contribution to the country and so forth and that was the original idea of it. Filippo Mazzei Day anybody? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Mazzei A Columbus day debate happened at Akron city council several weeks ago, very ugly. Meanwhile I'm surprised that they don't yet want to rename our state capital.

^For us non-Cincinnatians trying to follow along, the white Hyde Park types are for Cranley? I'm assuming the urbanists are Simpson and also assuming white West Side is for Cranley.

In Italy and I assume many other countries they have all kinds of private bus operators. Urban, city buses are run by transit agencies but there are many longer haul routes out to suburbs, satellite cities, and far-flung rural towns that are run for-profit by small operators. They usually have some kind of sticker or seal on the side of the bus with the regional government or the local transit agency's logo on it, suggesting they cooperated in some way with the government or the government helped develop the routes or maybe is even subsidizing it. Seems to work well. Granted, demand is much higher there for public transport especially in outlying areas.

The Republican Party is an organization that is openly hostile towards cities. Take a look at their debates last year when Ted Cruz used "New York values" as an insult. The reason they don't control any cities is that they haven't invested any resources of any kind into thinking about the problems cities face in any meaningful way. It is not voters' faults or Democratic politicians' faults that there are no Republicans in cities... It's Republicans' fault that there are no Republicans in cities. That being said "one party rule" isn't all it's cracked up to be and urban Dems find plenty to disagree on. In local politics turf considerations seem to matter more than ideology anyways. Ideology is set at federal and state levels, local politicians just argue on how to implement and manage. I do think that "the way we've always done it" mentality is very bad in city administration, and new blood is very good, but it doesn't matter which party that new blood comes from. Perhaps if Republicans got serious about cities, they could be better positioned to provide new blood and new ideas, but unfortunately thinking about cities would alienate their base and their donors.

Suburbs that share a school district should be first to merge.

Unfortunately distressed and impoverished swaths of a city are pretty much par for the course in the USA. I personally think regional fragmentation is up there in the list of things that hurt Cleveland and perhaps made our decline worse than other cities. Too many suburbs, too many wards. No at large districts for anything. Today they just try to undercut each other rather than work for true growth.

Hue and the current regime are doing a good job keeping fans from turning on them, so far... I hope it continues because they need time to build this team from the ground up. The Browns cannot continue their dysfunctional pattern of blowing it all up every two years.

Fantastic news, I've often wished LI and Coventry were just a tiny bit closer to each other, hopefully this can bridge that gap. Also better rapid connectivity for CH residents.

^ That is on the right track but the real question is how they are doing in terms of five years ago or ten years ago (not just one year ago) and how that compares to the decline of other forms of media. I would suspect that the NFL still garners more of a share of the American public than almost anything else that's out there.

If ratings are down over 5 yrs it's most likely just due to the same thing killing all mass media and fragmenting our culture - the existence of far more options than ever before.

Healthline to Tower City would work just as well - maybe a few improvements to the HL like signal priority, and they'd probably need to run more buses since they're already crowded.

The NFL is a television program. People in the stadiums are a bonus that kind of help the atmosphere, like the live studio audience on sitcoms or game shows. Are ratings actually down? I know Trump said they were but he's not the most reliable source and I haven't fact-checked him.

So, I'd have to go back to irs codes, but if playhouse square inc. gets into the rental business, wouldn't that be taxable unrelated business income? https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/unrelated-business-income-tax I guess they could make the argument that the rentals are related to their charitable purpose, which they are, but still sounds like a stretch. I wonder if there is precedent in the area.

Technically it's Fairfax but those are just lines on a map at the end of the day.