Quimbob

I was under the impression Portland closed a block at a time to build their initial system & it didn't take much time at all. Cincinnati is going to keep the streets open while doing construction. That should take more time I would imagine. Still, I think they are being conservative in their estimates. KJP - there was an effort to shut down news boxes awhile ago that didn't go well. The weekly City Beat would be affected. Dunno who else.

Earliest I heard of her, it was in regards to work she did in Northside to make it the community it is today. Though this is just vague memories and rumor, can anyone confirm that? Not sure of the timeline anymore. The neighborhood got 'facelift' funding from the city. The north end of the business district got cleaned up but the second half of the funding didn't come through so the southern half kept limping along. There was the decades long battle to stop the "Colerain Connector" I forget if she was involved in those issues in Northside. She started an environmental organization. I forget the name.

Now the headline reads 'Derailed' I also get the impression the city is making a promise that is a 'worst case' sorta thing. They missed this: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/blog/2013/01/bond-issue-raises-55m-for-cincinnati.html

I long for the days when I could post a swear word in a status or video with some crude content and not picture the look of disappointment on my aunt's face or worry about some HR person seeing it. kinda goes the other way, too. On a community group some chick in her 70s posted a comment about banging some guy in the offices over a bar back in her 20s (and yes, she did name names) The next post was something about, "gramma, NO!"

Somewhere in there, guess I should have posted the time, Quinlivan interviews the pres of Kroger about the store.

FWIW, the entire year end Kiplinger Letter (needs subscription) is about the rise of robots & discusses how they will interact with people more & more & how people will soon be working side by side with them as they, the inanimates, take more and more jobs from the fleshbags. I can only imagine how this will affect personal work relationships. http://www.kiplinger.com/

looks like the old Camp Washington Kroger was smaller than OTR with about 8,272 sq ft

Is it the average size store for when it was built? Anyway, this is old - back when Councilwoman Quinlivan had a real job.....

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FaceBook's mapping crap is placing Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood in Clifton Ohio - about 75 miles off to the north. Their "Your year in review" thing is pretty nuts, too. It's kinda fun just sitting back & watching the site descend into madness.

His fingers must be bleeding on the keyboard http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2012/12/28/readers-say-the-top-political-story-is-what/

^and that's down. Probably mostly due to better safety junk in cars, but I would imagine fewer miles traveled, electronic surveillance & increased mass transit ridership had a role in that.

Did COA T get laid off? Blog's been daggone hyperactive of late.

There's something wrong with that location. Haunted, cursed, I dunno. Looks like a great location but there's got to be some sort of inter-dimensional malfeasance going on there, at least in the kitchen.

A cute little boy-like robot in 9 months? 9 months? heck, Skynet would be impressed. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-12/robot-boy-be-born-nine-months-and-programmed-do-all-his-chores

there is already a pet food store and if you expand hours, the businesses will need to hire new employees & then you don't get the service you get from an owner operated store.

Given the space for stores to provide all the products of a supermarket, what's the point? Isn't a supermarket pretty much anathema to an urban community?

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Take the 17 from Northside to Clifton & then there's a bus that goes up Ludlow, snakes through Walnut Hills, Norwood, Hyde Park & Oakley. Forget the number, tho. It passes HP square, HP Plaza, Surrey Square & Rookwood. It'd be a shoppers dream but it runs infrequently. Metro could market themselves a lot better if they teamed up with businesses on their routes & told people where they can go on the buses. Isn't there a Metro thread on this board?

I never win anything I went to Las Vegas & my buddy proclaimed I was the losingest SOB he'd ever seen. I got a 2 night stay in a hotel in Hawaii at a pots & pans party once. No airfare.

I would say it's a poor & uneducated class issue. In some places that might be black & in other places white or whatever. From what I've gathered, for some groups of people, getting a job, apartment & car is kinda like getting a diploma. It's a sign of adulthood & responsibility. Bikes are toys & adults who ride are considered privileged rich jerks playing in the street (which is for serious folks in cars). my 2 cents of social analysis.....

Old English - or was it Olde Englishe? Zima was a scary clear fizzy alcoholic beverage. Never tried it. I don;t think it was brewed or fermented or anything, just isopropyl & seltzer. The old(e) WC & Camp Washington Chili in Camp were insane. Do college kids crave dives - real dives nowadays?

^This seems like a money/power grab by SORTA. Makes me wonder if Metro should be in charge of the streetcar.

John "Class" Cranley exploits Connecticut tragedy for his mayoral campaign http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2012/12/17/cranley-keep-guns-away-from-the-mentally-ill/ Nate Livingston calls him out.....