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Biased Barry Horstman will go to any length to include a jab at the Streetcar in one of his hackneyed articles.

^^Better question: Does the lying deadbeat have any statitics to prove his tweets? Of course he doesn't. Mark Miller is a proven liar.

Of course COAST has no problem with the City or County paying Frivolous Finney $200,000 in attornies fees, do they.

On Twitter and the Toast blog just now, Broke unemployed Toast treasurer Mark Miller is crying HARD about the $10 tax increase again, and he is proclaiming that the Streetcar is dead. And in the grandest of ironies says that streetcar supporters "can't let it go". This from the OCD freaks trying to overturn the results of two elections.

Which west side are you talking about? The west side of Mount Adams? Cincinnati's west side is by far the most isolated and insular part of the city. Geographically, it's separated from downtown by Mill Creek and the massive rail yards that are spanned by a few viaducts that are longer than the Ohio River bridges into Kentucky. (And Northern Kentucky at least has a couple of expressways that connect it to the urban core; most of the west side doesn't even have that until you make your way up to I-74.) It's separated from the rest of the metro area by the river, hilly topography, I-74, and Mount Airy Forest. Culturally, the west side is Cincinnati's counterpart to South Boston, Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, or a small town in West Virginia. Just try standing between two strangers at a party who just discovered they both went to Elder High School. :clap:

On the TOAST website, Mark Miller made the following claim: I don't believe this for a moment. Mark Mallory is one of the most politically savvy individuals in the region. I cannot believe that Mayor Mallory would go hat in hand to Chabot seeking his support for Streetcar funding. Frankly the story lacks credibility, particularly considering it's source is pathological liar Mark Miller. Miller further claims in that post that TOAST will sue to stop funds from the sale of the Blue Ash Airport from being used for the Streetcar. I have to believe that Mallory and the City Solicitor have prepared for this very predictable development and have a plan prepared. At this point the battle to stop the streetcar by Finney, who doesn't even live in the City, is entirely personal and has nothing to do with so-called 'fiscal conservatism'. It's all about Finney's massive ego-and Mark Miller's lack of sanity.

Cincinnati selling additional bonds and paying for it ourselves is the best hope for completion of Phase II. Chabot isn't going anywhere, redistricting ensured that.

If passed and enacted, Chabot's amendment would only ban funds from this appropriations from being used for a rail project in Cincinnati. It does not effect any prior or future appropriations.

Ha! You guys mock this idea, but it used to be the norm. Before 1850, only men who owned property and paid taxes could vote in many places. http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/voting.html Is 8th & State also for poll taxes, literacy test, property-ownership tests, and barring women and blacks from voting too? Those were all the norm before 1850 as well.

There is NO BUSINESS along the route. Wow. Dan Brady is an unemployed former real estate agent who lives within smelling distance of Mt Rumpke. I think that the stench has gotten to Dan, along with long term unemployment; he's one bitter suburbanite. He spews his bitterness all over any Downtown related article in the Enquirer.

Between Council passing the $10 tax increase, COAST's failure to kill the streetcar & Music Hall renovations, and now the Supreme Court's approval of HCR, word is that Mark Miller has been placed on suicide watch.

WOW, Mark Miller just used the shooting of a 13 year old in Price Hill tonight to attack the Streetcar: What a desperate, classless assclown Mark and the rest of his COASTer ilk are.

I was out working with a client ll morning so missed the fireworks, but there must have been some horrible comments made on this article: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/27/council-talking-about-raising-taxes-by-10/ It's the first time that I've seen the Enquirer close comments on any article since they went to Facebook comments last year. I'll wager they were comments by the COAST/anti-streetcar crowd.

Who would have guessed that Dan Monk was such a thin-skinned crybaby? And as to his disingenuous claims that the Courier routinely questions the financing costs of public works projects, when might we expect to see the Courier's reports on the financing costs of the $2 Billion Brent Spence replacement, or the $55 million Waldvogel Viaduct project? Or for that matter when is Dan going to report on the finance costs on the millions of dollars in City Taxpayer financing that John Cranley's Incline Village development has received? I expect to see these stories about the 12th of never.

I've missed your posts too. Here's hoping you return to Twitter soon!

John Cranley's hypocrisy is galling. His Price Hill Incline Square development is being funded with a massive influx of City Taxpayer funds: $3.3 Million from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2, $1.8 Million from the Cincinnati Community Reinvestment Area LEED tax exception, as well as $1.7M City HOME loan among other sources. Also, Cranley's Price Hill Square development is directly benefiting from the $55 Million Waldvogel Viaduct Project, courtesy of Cincinnati Taxpayers. Mr. Cranley is as responsible for the proposed tax increase as other person or project in the City of Cincinnati.

I disagree. Cranley has called out the mayor, the manager and the council majority - essentially saying they've cooked the books to finance the streetcar. I think it's important that this group in particular know all the arguments to counter what he's saying. I mean, it's nice to talk about water mains being moved, fare policy, vehicle design, but right now this discussion is much more important in the scheme of things. I'd keep in going. I know for a fact that a lot of people now follow this site as an accurate source of information. Right now, for example, there are five lurkers following this exchange. HEAR HEAR! Fully agree. BTW, Cranley is at it again, this time in the Business Courier: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2012/06/14/is-cincinnatis-property-tax-hike-a.html

Where will COAST's howls of protests and threats of lawsuits for conflict of interests be when Cranley The developer runs for Mayor?

Great news John!

Here's the problem with Gannett's plan; in Cincinnati as in most cities we have four TV stations all of whom cover local news at least as well as the Fishwrap Enquirer does. Those stations do not and likely will not setup pay walls for their websites, thus there are plenty of options for free local news and sports info. Because of those other free news options, plus thousands of sites for national/int'l news, plus blogs that are devoted to local news, dining & entertainment etc, there's little incentive to pay for access to the Enquirer's website. Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised if the TV stations didn't take advantage of the situation and improve their own websites in order to draw those who are unwilling to pay to access the Enquirer's website.

This will mark an end of the Enquirer's usefulness as a tool to pander to the exburbs. Who is going to pay to read the Enquirer's awful 'journalism' online? Fewer and fewer people are willing to pay to read the Enquirer in print, as evidenced by their declining subscription rates.

FYI, almost every city in Northern Kentucky has an earnings tax that's higher than Cincinnati's, yet somehow NKY is always held up by the Cincinnati-haters as some kind of paragon of economic development.

Now that's the first honest statement that you've made in this entire thread,

Playing lawyer again, are we? It does NOT take "a year before the case is scheduled". Stop trying to pretend that you are an authority on legal issues, because you are not.