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Thanks for your post, very good points. I agree with you that Coleman has been great and I have always liked him. Unfortunately this RedFlex stuff and the soft bribe added to price when he sold his house have left a sour taste in my mouth over the past few months, and I was thinking of voting for the Sheriff as a referendum on that. You are probably right that there is too much to lose. Maybe I'll just hold my nose and vote Ginther. Looks like the Dispatch endoresed him the other day. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2015/10/04/1-for-mayor.html

Do you mean John Cranley as in he'll be anti-urban or John Cranley as in he'll just be a jerk?

Who are you guys voting for? I think I'm going with the sheriff. I don't trust Ginther.

Check out Boehner on CBS today: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/full-interview-john-boehner-september-27/ Best part is at 3:10, it goes along with what I was saying a few posts upthread. You can hear the frustration in his voice. He goes on to essentially call Ted Cruz (never by name but it's obvious) a "false prophet" who misleads Republicans into believing unrealistic ideas about what can be accomplished. Anyways, thank you John Boehner especially for that bit about our system of government. That long slow process is why our democracy has been one of the most stable in the world for all its problems. That is something I try to explain to frustrated friends and family all the time, and it applies just as much to impatient Tea Partiers as it does to all the impatient liberals who were jumping on the anti-Obama bandwagon a few years ago (though he now seems to have won most of them back).

The tea partiers truly live in a different reality. They somehow believe that the "American people" are with them, and they just need to run all these phonies out of town and they'll be able to enact everything they want. Their views are shared by 20-30% of the electorate, tops. They aren't going to get what they want. They need to learn to cut deals. That's all politics is. There are no ideologies that represent a majority of Americans. As a politician, your job is to cut deals on behalf of your constituency. Boehner and the RINOs are way better at enacting conservative policy, at the end of the day, than any of these idiots.

This is shocking. I have never been a huge fan of Boehner but I kind of feel bad for him now. I think it's because he's starting to rely too much on Democrats to get anything done. He has no control over his members. And that's not his fault, it's the members'. He's going to join with Dems next week to fund the government. The Dems will get what they want because they have all the leverage right now. (Boehner and McConnell desperately want to avoid shutdown in order to protect the GOP brand for the coming Presidential election.) Conservatives will be ticked off because of the ideological impurity of whatever deal is made, and they'll try to oust him. He's resigning to avoid the internal fight and getting forced out by the tea partiers. Really it's a selfless decision, he's saving conservatives from themselves and they are too dense to realize it. The far right crowd of the GOP are truly their own worst enemies.

Yes, if you look at the comments from the article above from the Miami Student, there is a comment from a member of the planning commission who described what happened. They got backed into a corner... I pasted the final paragraph of the comment below. I just hope this project doesn't completely mess up the rental market in that town. 668 beds is a lot. Something like 3-4% of the total undergrads at Miami. On the bright side, maybe it will drive rents down and encourage other landlords to update their properties.

Bummer news in Oxford. A new sprawling apartment complex has been approved South of town on US 27. Historical Oxford, known as the "mile square," has traditionally been where students live once they move off campus. It has a tight, urban street grid. However, suburbanization affected this small college town just as much as it affected larger cities. Large apartment complexes were built outside of town. You can't walk to them - they operate shuttle busses to and from campus. On US 27 particularly, a steep hill separates the apartment complexes from campus. When I was at Miami from 2006-2010, we started to see an urban renaissance, as mixed use high rises were built along High Street in Uptown Oxford (seen upthread) and also along Spring and Church Sts, and the sprawling complexes fell out of fashion. Now they are building a new one, reversing the positive trend of the past few years. I weep for my alma mater. :cry: The last thing Oxford needs is a new development By Kyle Hayden, Design Editor Recently, Trinitas Ventures LLC, a developer from Lafayette, IN, pushed a proposal for a 192-unit, 668-bed development on Southpointe Parkway (right across the street from Level 27) through the Planning Commission to City Council. More: http://miamistudent.net/?p=17011954

Fun facts for those interested. There were several distinct Italian settlements in Cleveland, so this can explain the roots of the two festas that Dumbledore attended. "Big Italy" was a neighborhood in the area around Woodland and Orange Avenues South of Downtown that no longer exists and today consists of the innerbelt and the main post office. The Italians who settled in this area were mostly from Sicily (and therefore would have resented the fact that I just referred to them as Italians). When they first got here, many worked in the produce business at the Central Market. They eventually migrated to areas on the Southeast Side of Cleveland, around Woodland and 116th, and later to suburbs like Bedford, Garfield, Maple Warrensville, eventually Solon. Frank Russo and Jimmy Dimora would fall under this umbrella. The Little Italy/Murray Hill, East Side Italians came mostly from the Campobasso region in South Central Italy. They later migrated further East to Collinwood and then to the East Suburbs including Euclid, Mayfield Heights, South Euclid/Lyndhurst, and Lake County. Their churches were Holy Rosary in Murray Hill and Holy Redeemer in Collinwood. The Feast of the Assumption, the second group of pictures in Dumbledore's post, was created by this group. The Detroit & W.65th, Fulton and W. 33rd, West Side Italians came as I understand it, mostly from Bari in Southeastern Italy, and Sicily. Their church was St. Rocco's. When suburbanization happened, many of them went South to Parma. The St. Rocco's Festival in the first group of pictures from Dumbledore comes from this group. I don't know much about this group and I really need to check out the St. Rocco's feast one year. The first time I went around Gordon Sq. I was surprised at the Italian flags painted on the telephone poles. I am painting in broad strokes here and there certainly was some mixing around especially in more recent years, however, I think this a relatively accurate model of the migration patterns. Sources: 1. http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=I7 2. http://www.clevelandmemory.org/italians/table.html 3. http://cplorg.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p128201coll0/id/2496 4. Private genealogical research and conversations with a lot of people

Did you all see we are going to have a ballot issue on redistricting this November? Unfortunately, it doesn't affect the US House, just districts for the state legislature. The commission would be composed of the governor, auditor, secretary of state, and two legislators from each party. It's not perfect but I think it's a step in the right direction and maybe set some precedent for further reform. The current system is a large reason for the polarized political environment we have today. http://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Bipartisan_Redistricting_Commission_Amendment,_Issue_1_(2015)

The mozzarella used on true Neapolitan pizza is called fresh mozzarella or buffalo mozzarella. It's got a different consistency and taste than your run of the mill mozzarella because it's stored in water or oil and it is oh so good. Then with the basil, oh that pizza is fantastic. For you Clevelanders visit Crostatas in Highland Heights. In Columbus visit Natalie's Coal Fired Pizza and Live Music in Worthington or Pizza Cucinova (a new, delicious concept that interestingly is from Sbarro) in Easton or Grandview. Not sure about Pizza Fire just from the pic, in addition to what was already discussed I don't think the Neapolitan style goes well with a ton of meat. And while the mozzarella is placed in 'globs' it looks like regular cheap mozzarella placed that way for effect, as opposed to being actual fresh mozzarella. Most Cleveland pizza joints, at least from my youth on the east side, appear to be derived from more of a Sicilian style pizza. Rectangular with a thicker crust. Cleveland had Sicilian immigrants and immigrants from south central Italy, inland from Naples, particularly the Molise region. From my experience, it seems the Sicilian influence won out in the pizza department.

I try to say something along the lines of "sorry man can't help you today but have a good one" and don't stop walking, they usually appreciate the acknowledgement. Often times I get a "thank you" from them. I'm not saying this to try to sound holier-than-thou, just something I adapted because I was also uncomfortable with ignoring them. What is bad nowadays is the freeway ramp panhandlers... you can't walk away when you're behind the wheel of a 1,500 lb automobile stopped at a red light.

http://www.ohio.com/blogs/cleveland-browns/cleveland-browns-1.270107/comments-from-browns-coach-mike-pettine-after-saturday-s-practice-in-berea-1.616559

Interesting, I wonder how much the charter cost them.

That is just about the greatest thing I've ever read in my life.

And look at that waterfront line train providing convenient service to the Amtrak station! What is the train doing there in daylight?

I feel a bit guilty about it given the subject matter, but I laughed out loud at the Kroger pic. There really is nothing much to Whitehall except for strip malls along Broad and Main. So really, the Kroger is quintessential Whitehall. Defense Supply Center Columbus is actually in Whitehall, and probably is the most unique thing about Whitehall, but in light of the heavily armed military police, I don't think that's really the dangerous section of the city. :wink:

Ya win some, ya lose some. Good for them for taking a risk in expanding to those areas, and also good for them for making a tough decision when it wasn't working.

I agree with you about the "Big 3" skyscrapers. I don't like views of just those three skyscrapers because to me it makes the city look less dense and less significant. That's why I've always liked Cincinnati's skyline - much denser looking even if the buildings are a little less tall.

As a dyed in the wool east-sider, I had no idea you could see the skyline from Bay Village. Let alone see it that well.

My roommate and I cut the cord two years ago. I have a cheap ($20) antenna from Target that gets all terrestrial stations in glorious HD. I am in Columbus near all the towers, so perhaps if you live further out you'd need a more expensive antenna. It's great except for sports. No Indians or Cavs. I don't have time to watch all regular season games, but it'd be nice to watch one once in a while. The price they charge for their streaming services, I might as well add TV to my Time Warner subscription.

I didn't realize the entrance was going to be underneath the underpass. I dig that. I do hope people will walk to/from Uptown/UC to use this station.

Good video, and interesting you posted it today because I had an experience myself this morning. I was walking along Buttles Ave to get to the Neil Ave Giant Eagle. A homeless gentleman who was sitting in the grass by the store asked if he could use my cell phone. I told him "sorry but I can't help you " and he told me he just had to "call the church so they could come and pick him up." Obviously I had the time, a phone, and would be willing to help... if I wasn't afraid he'd try to run off with it. I've been feeling kind of down about it. It sucks how we're afraid to help people. Then again, why not go into Giant Eagle or BP and ask to use their phone? Something was a bit fishy. Did you ever meet any of the people at the Hayden Run camp?

Residents are in mild freakout mode about the sale of the Battelle property: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/07/24/harrison-west-fears-development-on-battelle-land.html I hope the city is able to acquire the greenspace at 3rd Ave, but I think people are letting their fears get the best of him. The majority of the property is a sprawling parking lot and redevelopment of it is great news for the neighborhood.

Very true. And while we're all SIM City dreaming, I'd love to see the strip mall across the street torn down and replaced with a nice 5 story mixed use building. It's probably one of the best sites for TOD in the entire city currently....and we have a suburban strip there. There is a proposal for that on here somewhere, in the last year. Actually it might even have been a cleveland.com article.