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I think they will get an extension, and then some kind of people stepping in to buy tickets.

Really interesting right now. Indy is 6000 away from a sellout, and Green Bay--which has what otherwise appaers to be a rabid fan base--is 11,000 away from a sellout. Tickets are expensive. I think it's almost 90 bucks for the cheapest ticket or whatever.

I hope I remember that clip when the streetcar is successful and call in and play it for Gary Jeff Walker.

I'm okay with the Chargers in the first round. I mostly didn't want the Steelers to make it, quite honestly. I hope it's cold and snowy next Sunday for the game. Chargers have a good offense and a defense that has played some inspired games the second half of the season (especially against Denver), but overall it's a defense the Bengals should be able to score against. Also, allow me to sing the praises of Marvin Lewis, second longest-tenured coach in the league (behind Belichick). Overall leader in wins as a coach, five playoff appearances, and three (or is that two?) division titles. Now just go get a playoff win, or preferably four.

You guys are taking the old dry cleaner space, right? I miss that dry cleaner. They were doing well but apparently had a job transfer in the family that forced the sudden closure.

Of course. Tell me, when we approved the money for the MLK interchange, did the operating costs for its useful life get included in the "project costs"? Of course not.

How so? It's essentially the same cost to complete it as to cancel it, in net terms (because the city gets the benefit of the money from the feds if they continue). $53-68 million cost to the city to finish it, vs. $50-80 million cost to the city to cancel it.

According to Twitter, cost to terminate: 50 to 80 million. Cost to complete: 104-105 million.

Sure, but they are not really in a position to take back that funding. The people voted that a portion of the earnings tax operate SORTA. It's not like they can just change that. The city has its say in its appointees to the SORTA board.

Well, the SORTA offer includes a stipulation that existing METRO service cannot be negatively affected. If the path to this last week was that it has to be off the city's books, what is the excuse going to be this time? He wanted a path, and SORTA has provided that path (in public private partnership with the business and philantrhopic community).

Presumably the next tack will be that this will negatively affect SORTA's bus service? Of course, this could be along the lines of "we're okay with it so long as it doesn't impair SORTA's bus service...".

That sounds ominous.

I've thought for years that the Times-Star building would be an awesome place for condos or a hotel.

I agree with kjbrill. Between Liberty Square, Bridgewater, and Union Centre, the handwriting seems to be on the wall for Tri-County. I'm really interested to see what the Liberty development ends up looking like. It's going to be, what, 10 minutes (at most) away from Union Centre and Bridgewater? And ten minutes south of the outlet malls?

Does anyone else find it ironic that all of these projects are covered by Dayton media, but all of the projects themselves do everything they can to associate with Cincinnati? "Cin City Sea and Steak"? I guess it's just following the lead of Cincinnati Premium Outlets.

I think Whittaker touched the onsides kick, but that doesn't make the PI call any less bad.

A close win and we might get passed up. OSU's strength of schedule isn't as high as the SEC teams so even going undefeated might not be enough if the Buckeyes can't convincingly beat a good opponent. Mathematically it will be very very difficult for Auburn to pass OSU if both win. That would mean that both teams beat 11-1 teams, and OSU is already ahead of them in the computer rankings. Mizzou is not going to put them over it; it would need the voters to change their minds, essentially. Honestly, Mizzou really has a better case than Auburn to argue that they should be the team getting in. They have one loss, in overtime, to a better team (South Carolina, IIRC) than Auburn (which lost to LSU)--and their wins have all been fairly convincing, unlike Auburn (I think even Auburn fans would admit that their wins over Georgia and Alabama were of the miraculous variety).

He said he would vote to cancel, not to pause? Crud.

I know the call you are talking about. I think that the officials who would normally call that blow to the head of the QB (the Referree and the Umpire) didn't see it, basically (they looked like they were kind of screened from it IIRC).

Hopefully this answers your questions (though I may be wrong about some of this--a lot of it comes from the whole parking lease thing last year): My understanding is that under the charter, when council passes an ordinance, it does not take effect for 30 days UNLESS it is passed as an "emergency" measure. To pass as an emergency measure, 6 council members must vote for the "emergency" part of it. (So, for example, you will see votes that are 5-4, but one of the dissenters will vote for the emergency part of the measure so it takes effect immediately.) If there is a 5-4 vote to pause/cancel/etc. the streetcar and it does not get passed as an emergency measure, then the ordinance won't take effect for 30 days. That is when the 30 days clock for a referendum kicks in. My understanding on that is that, if enough signatures are collected for a referendum, the ordinance challenged by the referendum cannot take effect until the referendum occurs. I also understand that the referendum has to take place at a general election (in November) rather than in a special or primary election. All of this may be wrong, but that's my understanding.

Still trying to figure out how the Bearcats lost to Illinois. That's a head-scratcher.

This. Also, no drive-throughs in Downtowns, which of course is a big moneymaker. Nowadays, fast-food joints simply aren't profitable unless they can go full-steam ahead with all aspects of their business including breakfast, coffee and late-night. Columbus used to have all kinds of fast food Downtown in the '80s too. Now there's just a bunch of Subways and one McDs off to the side with a drive-through which is 100% suburban in design. So even with all the open space in DT Columbus the fast-food thing is over. Other factors to consider is the changing tastes of urban dwellers and the demise of the one-hour lunch. Very high foot traffic locations in 24-hour areas like seen in NYC can still be profitable. Is there no longer a Wendy's in downtown Columbus?

Moving the Drop Inn Center is going to really change things, I think.

Yeah, whatever AAC team goes this year will certainly be better than some of the old Big East automatic qualifiers--like the UConn team that got in.

In the old Bartlett Building.