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Berding has repeated this bluff before. I recall when Oakley had to cave or the entire MLS bid was said to be lost. I see this as a strategy to keep the other side (in this case CPS) from having adequate time to consider the deal and obtain input. Its why negotiators often ignore all artificial deadlines driven by others in the deal. Even if the urgency isn't false, it is manufactured. All of this negotiation should have started over a year ago. It's absurd to blame CPS for passing on a deal, the terms of which were proposed ~24 hours in advance. If FCC is legitimately struggling to get things done before a deadline, rather than bluffing, the fault lies squarely on FCC for sitting on its hands and negotiating only in back rooms for a year.

What on earth. I thought the idea was to slow down cars and improve pedestrian safety?

The only parking garage I've ever seen full in OTR is the Washington Park garage; and it's only a block from the WCET garage, two from Gateway and Mercer garages. Never had a problem parking on the street within a couple blocks of a non-Findlay Market destination north of Liberty (the market has its own parking lots). If anything, there is already more parking than necessary in OTR. On top of that, it's extremely hard to see what parking requirements have to do with Historic Conservation. Parking infrastructure tends to detract from a historic vibe, to say the least.

Sharon Coolidge ‏Verified account @SharonCoolidge .@JeffBerding stopped by @enquirer editorial board with this @fccincinnati news today: Stadium site selection must be complete, with government approval by March 31. @jwilliamscincy @PBrennanENQ 1:21 PM - 12 Mar 2018 from Cincinnati, OH

I can sometimes pick out someone from Iowa because I hear a mix of a northern nasal accent and midland drawl. Chuck Grassley is an example. Every time I notice this mixture, it always turns out the person is from Iowa.

I hate how the shadiness of this whole episode has damaged my enthusiasm as a fan. I don't know the extent to which it will affect my attendance, but the team sure feels dirty right now.

Good insight and all the more reason to FOIA.

Remember how random it was when they jumped from Oakley to the West End? It wasn't random at all. They initially announced three potential sites: Oakley, West End, and Newport. From the beginning the West End has been in consideration. They had to get a site nailed down for the MLS bid, so all of their focus was on Oakley, which was the easiest in Cincinnati to get done in time. Then, they switched their attention to the West End, which is a more complicated project. Can you imagine if they tried to get the West End deal done in a single month with a hard deadline? They would never have gotten that done. I can imagine them spending the year-plus they had knowing the deadline (which apparently wasn't so hard anyway) in order to get the West End deal done. You guys are using post-hoc reasoning for the switch to the West End site, like it was known all along that they were going to do that after securing the Oakley funding. The projected appearance at the time was that they were leaning hard towards the Oakley site. We speculated that they could switch, but that was just speculation. I don't recall seeing any solid info on real estate dealings in the West End prior to the focus switching off of Oakley. Until after the election, the most solid indication of their intentions was the release of the Newport site rendering. I think it's clear they prefer the West End site, but if the neighborhood and/or CPS somehow thwart the money machine, it's not at all obvious Newport won't come up again.

Remember how random it was when they jumped from Oakley to the West End?

The context of this discussion is the urban core of Cincinnati, so when I said "No Ohio city is very diverse," I was implicitly talking about cities that have at least loosely comparably sized urban cores to Cincinnati. And, yes, to increase the percentage of "gays, Asians, Latinos" (diversity as defined by troeros's post, which I was replying to), you need to "draw people in." The rest of the discussion boils down to opinions of 1) what the threshold is for "very diverse" and 2) whether diversity of one small municipality in a non-diverse metro is significant in the present context. YMMV on those so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The reason I say it's easier for a smaller city is because a smaller number of people constitutes a larger percentage. A diverse population of a small city can easily be assembled from the existing population within a metro area (if a sizable chunk of a metro's Latinos, for example, groups into one municipality in a region (which is fairly normal), even in a region with primarily black & white residents, then that municipality gets a moderately high diversity rating). Whereas to boost the rating for a large city, you have to draw people from outside the metro to shift the percentages significantly.

^ "diversity is not necessarily found only in large cities" In fact, it's easier to obtain in smaller cities, as your list indicates. I know 'city' has a specific definition, which includes Springdale and Painesville, but I wasn't intending to include anything in the state that isn't the primary municipality in its own MSA. Regardless, the 200th most-diverse city in CA and the 59th most-diverse city in NJ score higher than the 1st most-diverse city in OH, which I think illustrates my point. If we rule out non-MSA-center cities, it looks worse. I wouldn't call the 60s (or even 70s) on that index "very high."

Attracting immigrants is the most realistic way to substantially boost diversity. Perhaps the only realistic way. UC bringing in more foreign students, and becoming a more global university generally, would help a little. Any Ohio city is at a disadvantage, given the state's geographical position. But Columbus and Dayton seem to be doing better at attracting immigrants than Cincinnati, so maybe there are some lessons those cities can teach. Still, no Ohio city is very diverse.

Seems like the next step should be renewal through the mail.

Hamilton is an example of overlap between Cincy and Dayton, sort of like New Brunswick NJ is to NYC and Philly. Anecdotally, it seems like I can't go to a bar or restaurant in Dayton without overhearing someone talk about Cincinnati. That's probably not true in Sidney or Piqua, but it's true in Dayton-proper. MSAs (and CSAs) exist in order to approximate apples-to-apples comparisons. They're the most objective tool available to do that. Of course they miss local context, but to have comparison conversations like in this thread, the easiest & most fair common-ground is sticking to those boundaries. (I would argue this is a must in this type of conversation when using words like 'metro'.) Otherwise, it's all too fuzzy. Which is why speculation about a CinDay CSA isn't useful until it happens (except in a conversation explicitly about hypotheticals).

^^^ He did say "projected CSA," whereas some Cleveland posters are referring to Akron as being part of Cleveland's metro (currently, not "projected"), which is strictly false. I agree that it's not worth talking about Cin-Day until it happens. Though I think they meet the commuting criteria to become one. The rules for CSA formation have been changing, so it may be a musical chairs thing until one census year when the policy and stats match up. Or it may never happen, especially if Dayton doesn't want it.

I don't like the idea of turning the parking lots into park space. I'd rather see them built on. The fountain area would still make a nice plaza and preserve room for taking photographs and getting a full view of the facade. Making a giant park would sacrifice the opportunity for transit-oriented development at what is naturally a transit hub. Union Terminal isn't placed very well for a downtown train station, given how far it is from the city center, and giving it a park setting only exacerbates the problem. Here's an archived version of that Post article: https://web.archive.org/web/20070825032524/http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070726/NEWS01/707260384

Deep Stage State Ohio Forget buckeyes; OSU/Columbus can have them. Ohio is now the Deep State. Watch out, bots!

If MLS wants FCC and is cool with the Oakley site, what is the hold-up?

With the way things have been going lately, it looks like this and the governor's race may becomes proxies for not just Trump's approval, but also the gun control fight. How that would change things is, I suppose, up to what the candidates say on the issue. It seems some gun control measures are very popular, so Chabot taking a hard line could cost him. Then again, Pureval's words could boost turnout in Warren County.

I imagine the $2k fine is because you may be putting your and your potential rescuer's lives at risk.

^ The reason Cincy got the cover photo: They put a lot of effort into analyzing 2015-2016 change. I guess it's interesting, but too short-term to draw many conclusions. You can toy with the interactive graphs toward the bottom to see longer-term (5- and 10-year) changes (and rankings) by MSA. To me, these graphs help show an overall unpredictability regarding trends currently. The Great Recession has thrown a curveball into this data, and perhaps the most concrete conclusions that can be drawn are just how well each metro has recovered, and in what amount of time, from the recession. For Ohio, Toledo is the real oddball. It appears to be performing quite well in the one-year snaphsot, aside from the Inclusion measures. On the longer-term measures, Toledo doesn't look as hot; Columbus (as would be predicted) is the state's highest performer, but only a modestly high-performer countrywide. Cincinnati is middling a bit behind Columbus (especially in Growth -- surprise!), Dayton is performing poorly except on Inclusion, and Cleveland is lagging across the board. Akron stands out for Productivity and, especially, Standard of Living.

When everything is networked, cybersecurity and physical security come closer to being the same thing. If you think Russian bots are bad on Twitter, wait until they've hijacked your autonomous Uber. Beware the IoT. Or is it the IoS? https://twitter.com/internetofshit

With all the 5G boxes being installed (and likely 6G or 7G or higher before CAVs really take off), as well as supplemental networked infrastructure, sensors may become a small part of what the cars need for driving. Even with the rare weak signal, the cars will "know" where they've moved to in their internal map, as they record movements of the wheels. Networked infrastructure will be able to update maps on-the-fly to account for not just construction but also streets closed due to crashes or other emergencies. Changes in traffic lights anticipated beforehand as the signals will communicate their timing. Networked infrastructure is going to be a big part of all this, especially in urban areas.

I would expect a lot more resources going into making sure GPS maps are accurate and up-to-date when CAVs start operating in significant numbers "in the wild."