jonoh81

I like how you think minorities should not take it personally when they have their rights and choices taken away. The level of flippant, unempathetic arrogance on display is on par with Trump's "get over it" after another elementary school child is gunned down. Just sickening stuff. Modern conservatism in all its horror.

And yet intentionally harming kids and people simply for being born differently is unquestionably and inherently bad and evil.

Some good news- the Trumbull County grand jury decided not to indict the lady who had a miscarriage in her toilet.

What is the actual plan for where the addition is? The article doesn't specifically say. I hope it won't just be shifting parking in some way from the current lot to the back.

There's plenty of room on that site to build structured parking in back, restore the warehouse building into event/restaurant/bar space and have a multi-story mixed-use building lining High.

Clearly a lot of fanatics within the Ohio legislature who actually believe children are getting walk-in sex change surgeries, but this also obviously plays very well with the base. Which says a lot about the base.

I think that's highly subjective for people who feel they are in the wrong body. Also, I think you just made a very compelling argument in line with what I'm saying. These people are against a biologically urgent procedure for women even if it threatens their lives, and are willing to go so far as to prosecute women who have miscarriages. So do you really think it would be all that much of a stretch that they would have any issue increasingly interfering with trans care if they don't believe it's biologically urgent or even ever necessary? No one is saying they should be fast-tracked. The standards for receiving any kind of permanent transitional care in the US are already very high across the board. These decisions are not made lightly or without due consideration for all options and circumstances. That's one of the reasons something like puberty blockers are important, as they allow younger people to explore how they feel under the guidance of medical and psychological professionals without any permanent risk. The things you think should happen have already always been happening. Okay, but again, psychological evaluations already happen. The rate of regret and detransition is exceedingly low, lower than almost any kind of normal surgery, and studies have shown most of those who detransition do so because of severe negative environments and social outcasting, not necessarily because they are unhappy with the results. The current process does exceptionally well at screening people before anything permanent. And again, the current system isn't broken, so any additional roadblocks put up by politicians who have no idea what they're talking about only serve to harm the well-established process and the people in question. The fact that your cousin didn't transition is actually an example of the system working as intended.

It's meant to create hoops for them to jump through, which will ultimately create hardship for adults too. It's similar in function to how abortion access was chipped away over time while technically remaining legal.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/05/mike-dewine-talks-transgender-health-care-after-house-bill-68-veto/72118289007/ I'm old enough to remember...*checks notes*... Monday when a bunch of people were saying DeWine was a reasonable guy because he vetoed HB68, and how I was chastized from some MAGAs about thinking Republicans will always eventually default to cruelty, bigotry, fear-mongering and anti-science BS. Didn't take quite as long as I thought it would. Let's be clear, while this particular order would affect relatively few people given that children are not receiving transition surgeries as a rule to begin with, DeWine made it clear he intends to also go after adult transition as well, which is what the real headline should be. I have no idea why he vetoed 68 if he was just going to go after it all anyway.

I'd be curious to know how much looking is translating into actual buying.

Nope. If you want to continue making baseless accusations, you can do it in private. How about you try to defend Republican legislation that actively harms LGBTQ+ kids instead. I don't think you can and why this is just a terribly obvious attempt at derailing the discussion. I gave DeWine credit for the veto, but I'm not going to simply ignore that the rest of the party wanted this to happen and will likely try to overturn the veto if they get a chance. Nor am I going to look the other way at all the rank and file who are clamoring for this and other extremism in their culture war.

Oh man, trotting out a blatant and gross lie from years ago about something I never said and you were warned about is pretty low, even for you. Maybe one of your resolutions for 2024 should be trying to debate the arguments presented, and not the endless straw men, fantasies and falsehoods you create. Just a thought.

And another, 18 units for 1598-1614 Greenway Avenue.

And another small infill.

I know 200 E. 5th has gotten a few different proposals, but I think this one may be new. 7-stories with 186 units.

Small infill project for Ida Avenue.

Another?

Perhaps a new proposal for 897 E. Mound Street. It's a vacant lot now.

I have no issue giving credit where it's due, and as I said, I am absolutely happy with his decision on this. I just don't think it means as much for DeWine's leadership overall, or hope for the Republican Party. This to me is a situation of the broken clock being right twice a day. Even Trump managed to do one or two things right. I do agree, though, that we have to take the wins we get and do as much as we can to do more to wrestle control away from the extremists at the local, state and national levels. I wish the Left in general were more united on this than they are.

Doing the bare minimum right thing once in a blue moon does not absolve DeWine anymore than it does any other Republican. We're still talking about the guy who enthusiastically signed the Heartbeat bill. I'm glad this happened, but he's still objectively terrible on like 95% of issues. The bar is so low with Republicans, that anytime they stumble onto doing the right thing, you all expect medals to be handed out. Not actively supporting legislation that would cause trans kids to kill themselves shouldn't be a difficult choice.

If I'm going to be wrong about something, I definitely like being wrong on something like this.

MSAs are based on 2 things only, commuting patterns as you mentioned, and whether the two counties agree to be combined. Density isn't a consideration. People compare cities all the time, too, though. I think what this whole thing comes down to is that people don't always like what the results are, so we have to constantly move the goal posts when it comes to statistical data. People just want to use the measurement that makes their location look the best, and will change their own standards about what makes for a good comparison based on that. Not saying you do this, specifically, but clearly that's part of the disagreement for others. And I would argue a good geographer or demographer would compare and contrast all types of boundaries, not just one. They all show something a little different, so using just one presents an incomplete picture. Using MSA only, for example, cannot really show the breakdown of demographics between the city, core county and outer areas, just as using city boundary cannot show anything outside of it or at the smaller neighborhood level. They all have their their advantages and disadvantages. And just for the record in case anyone might take issue, I don't always just post city boundaries. I've posted data on metros, census tracts, city boundaries, counties, etc. I've never favored one over the other because I think they're all useful.

Thanks, and I honestly just wanted to share the data. There was no hidden agenda, otherwise. I'm controversial on a lot of other issues, but on census data, I am just a nerd who wants to share.

Louisville and Indianapolis are both like 120-140 square miles larger than Columbus. Columbus is not intergrated with Franklin County and barely takes up 40% of the county's land to begin with, so those places are not good comparisons if you are arguing that you cannot directly compare places with different area sizes. County sizes are also different, as are MSAs. So isn't it contradictory to say that it's only equitable to compare cities of equal sizes, but not counties or metros of equal size? So glad I'm getting insulted for providing some population figures, though. Fun. Since someone mentioned census tracts earlier, here are the foreign-born figures if all of the 3-Cs were about 75-77 square miles, the long-standing area size of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Cincinnati: 19,633 Cleveland: 18,636 Columbus: 27,522 And if you don't like that, here's county. Cuyahoga: 93,863 Hamilton: 49,129 Franklin: 166,436 And if you don't like that, here's metro. Cincinnati: 125,075 Cleveland: 121,491 Columbus: 211,452 Take them as you will, I couldn't care less at this point.

How, though? MSA sizes are also very different from one another. Cincinnati's MSA area is more almost 1,700 square miles larger than Columbus and almost 2,100 square miles larger than Cleveland's, even with the recent addition of Ashtabula County. They're of somewhat similar populations, but people have been telling me you can't compare two places with very different area sizes to be fair.