UrbanSurfin

I hope to be there.

On crowded L trains in Chicago in the 1980s, when I had to stand, I tried to do so without holding onto anything. I called it urban surfing.

OSU has been in close contact with the University Area Commission throughout this process. UAC members like the idea of keeping it as a public school, as the number of families with kids in Weinland Park and Italian Village continues to rise. School-age urban demographics are changing -- though the school district and city officials don't seem to be aware.

The info in the summary appears to be up to date. In addition to meeting on April 9 with Chad Ketler of Community Properties, the housing committee of the Weinland Park Civic Association released a Weinland Park Commercial Study a few months ago (conducted by the Neighborhood Design Center).

Scrapped. The five houses will remain, but in a different form, likely without the party porches. The additional units at the rear will be built though.

Minneapolis and St. Paul have about 10 miles of shared border half of it in the river and half of it no more than an imaginary surveyor's line. They not only have separate and distinct downtowns, but also separate and distinct vibes, personalities and civic cultures. They take great pride in being from Minneapolis OR St. Paul, often disparaging the other. They tend not to think of being from The Cities -- its only called The Cities in the Outstate communities.

Michael (who's my next-door neighbor) moved to the Weinland Park because organizations he worked for were trying to fix it, and he didn't want to be an outsider telling people what their neighborhood should be like. He wanted to be part of the neighborhood, listen to his neighbors, and roll up his sleeves. He's a good man.

No formal design, but initial renderings presented to UAC-Zoning show a handsome building that will be a great addition.

What/where is the arcade? I didn't know San Francisco had one.

With the straightened cars and the buildings seemingly at at 45-degree slope, you might call San Francisco the City of Angles.

Nope. No storefront. This project had near-unanimous condemnation from the University Area Commission, but (naturally) it was approved anyway. Basically a giant rooming house. The concept of micro-apartments is fantastic, but cramming 274 of them into a single ugly box behind other ugly boxes is ridiculous. Micro apartments should have been scattered among all the other new buildings up and down High Street. Micro-apartments as affordable housing should be required in new residential buildings around campus -- and the rest of the city.

The number of wins isn't so important unless you factor in the number of games. The Indians have two of the five highest winning percentages in AL history -- including No. 1: In 1954 they were 111-43 for a .721 percentage. In 1995, they were 100-44 and .694. The Yankees won 114 in 1998 for a .704 percentage (lower than their .709 when they won 110 games in 1927). And Seattle's 116 wins in 2001 with a .614 percentage, while impressive, still falls below the Tribe's win rate in 1954 -- and far below the 1906 Cubs' incredible 116-36 record and .763 winning percentage.

I may be available!

The Rust Belt is also the Freshwater Belt.

Toledo and Dayton are two classic examples of this. Also, much of this is chronicled by Donald Barlett and James Steele in their 1991 book America: What Went Wrong. http://americawhatwentwrong.org/Barlett-and-Steele/ It grew out of a series they did for the Philadelphia Inquirer.