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Heck, I get distracted enough as it is even working in a cube farm. I'd hate an open office. With Skype/Slack, it's just as easy to message a team member when you have an idea, you don't need to be literally staring at them.

Online tests are awful, especially in STEM related courses, in my opinion. There's no opportunity to "show your work" which ultimately hinders their value as a teaching tool, since the professor can't show you where you went wrong.

It looks like the SORTA ballot issue barely squeaked by... are the results final?

Are they burying the power lines?

Do they have a lot of people commuting to Campbell County? I bet Campbell and Kenton are counted as "core counties" since they're basically the southern extension of downtown.

"A county qualifies as an outlying county of a CBSA if it meets the following commuting requirements: (a) At least 25 percent of the workers living in the county work in the central county or counties of the CBSA; or (b) At least 25 percent of the employment in the county is accounted for by workers who reside in the central county or counties of the CBSA." https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2010-06-28/pdf/2010-15605.pdf

A relevant quote from an old article from when Springfield left the Dayton MSA: https://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2005/02/28/story7.html Doesn't sound like the federal government gives much of a crap about MSAs, anyway.

Time to install that mythical aerial tramway from the casino to the art museum.

There's always a racial undertone to those anti-gentrification arguments, and obviously I'm for building strong communities for all and not just those with deep pockets, but I think a lot of folks don't understand how bad OTR actually was. It wasn't some stable-ish working class neighborhood like the Mission, it was actively and rapidly being abandoned even by the African American community post-riots. If you could get out, you did. We're talking illegal tenements and severely unsafe living conditions. These are places that people shouldn't have been forced to live in anyway, and it's shameful that we let that happen, but people shouldn't pretend that it was a bunch of happy factory workers or whatever that got forced out by greedy hipsters.

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/national-govt--politics/officials-cincinnati-dayton-metroplex-not-close-happening/3KlKVmqFmOn5DRe5KWENjO/

I doubt it. At the end of the day Cleveland and Cincinnati will still have the same legacy issues they've had with attracting businesses, regardless of whether their MSA numbers get inflated by 1,000,000 or so. Austin is the fastest growing city in the country despite being the smallest MSA in the Texas Triangle, and I wouldn't anticipate Columbus suddenly slowing down because of a purely paper-based population change.

I wouldn't call New Orleans a thriving city that's re-invented itself. Of course its home values are going to be inflated in some areas, it's an international tourist destination, but move away from the river and there's still a lot of the city that feels like a swampy Detroit. It's arguably worse off from a living perspective since you're sinking so much into your house and job prospects aren't that great in Louisiana.

Still not enough parking spaces for Auditor Rhodes.

Dayton seems to be doing a decent job at getting outside investors currently. Much of downtown's redevelopment is being driven by folks from Columbus, but there is also a large presence from Louisville, and Cross Street Partners out of Baltimore is a stakeholder in the Arcade. Curiously, there doesn't appear to be much coming online from Cincinnati developers up here.

It's going to be interesting to see how Dayton fares in all of this. A fairly large portion of jobs are with the federal government or medical services, and money is still flowing freely through those two industries.

Make ? it ? free. You eliminate issues with the app and the fare machines right off the bat, and probably speed up boarding too since the streetcar doesn't have to wait for people to fiddle around with the dumb machines. Of course it's a political nonstarter, but if it happened it would probably do double-duty as fixing a lot of the user experience and giving Jason Williams a brain aneurysm.

I feel like the east-west divide plays a role in whether or not you view some of the Summit no-mans-land as part of Cleveland or Akron. Sam with Kent and Ravenna... definitely more Akron-y than Cleveland-y from my perspective growing up in NEO. I grew up practically on the Lorain County border and Akron was a world apart despite a relatively direct connection on the Turnpike. Hudson and Twinsburg feel a lot closer when you live in Beachwood than when you live in North Olmsted.

There's an unreasonable number of people from Putman County living in Dayton, and I think I know all of them.

That's just how border regions work and there's no point in fussing about it unless the Census bureau switched to Census tracts or something to define MSAs. Especially with Portage County, we're talking about 162,000 people, and probably only half of that could realistically be considered "greater Cleveland". Is someone in Atwater Township really a "Clevelander"? Same with Summit County - I guess you can argue that Boston Township is reasonably part of the MSA, but as soon as you get to Cuyahoga Falls, you're in "Akron". Certainly nobody claims that Barberton is a Cleveland suburb. Hell, I bet most Clevelanders haven't even heard of Barberton style chicken.

Dayton gets screwed over by not having Clark County or northern Warren County in our numbers but we don't cry about it. And I'd argue Springboro is more of a Dayton suburb than Hudson is a Cleveland suburb.

At this point, with Smitherman out of the race, maybe this should just wait until after the Mayoral election in two years. Have there really been any developers champing at the bit to build on the expanded south-of-Liberty lots?

Trying to open in the middle of a global pandemic seems like the appropriate way to cap off this ridiculous disaster of a project: Marriott transforms historic Anna Louise Inn and Earls Building into The Lytle Park Hotel https://www.cincinnati.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/03/13/marriott-transforms-historic-anna-louise-inn-and-earls-building-into-lytle-park-hotel/5046042002/?UTM_Source=Digital&UTM_Medium=Keywee&UTM_Campaign=Prospecting&gps-source=ADKWCIP&UTM_Content=P3&kwp_0=1606156&kwp_4=4792276&kwp_1=2031568&fbclid=IwAR3f0-kigg94wB-bC6E01KvyGXMB6DSRcYD5Dp_faMLg5CqMj21icWs4Hgw

That’s my favorite house in Cincinnati just because of how weird and isolated it is. Do they still have that army truck sitting on the hillside?

Finally! JUST IN: Dayton restaurant transforming into tropical oasis with new name, tiki theme and menu Emily Mendenhall, the co-owner of Lily’s Bistro at 329 E. Fifth St. in Dayton’s Oregon District, said her family’s 7-year-old business is evolving into a “tiki-ish” themed eatery with mid-priced options on the menu. More below: https://www.dayton.com/news/local/just-dayton-restaurant-transforming-into-tropical-oasis-with-new-name-tiki-theme-and-menu/tkkUeyw6Orjan4RvQtqedK/?fbclid=IwAR16LUvuLpJZCKaTMnogaGrfnIcFlkTF6kxtAOxI6zAHs1jhLdXwc6MwiIg

Sometimes you just have to call American multiple times to get stuff done. I had to change flights during Harvey and I talked to like 3 different reps before I got a satisfactory answer and got my flights changed.