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The Taste of Belgium owner said it best when he pleaded for the city to live up to their obligation. Business owners have located along the route because of the streetcar. They rely on it to bring customers. And this is also a good time to point out that a huge number of comments that OKI received on the 2050 plan were along the lines of "improve the streetcar" "make it more frequent" "extend it to Clifton and NKY" and so on. There were not very many people who wanted to abandon the streetcar but there were a ton who wanted to make it better!

The problem I have with the Amazon stuff in Boone County is that we're making hundreds of millions of dollars in investments to open up new land for development and the leadership in NKY is billing it as this amazing thing that is going to bring so many jobs and so much growth to NKY. Well, there will be jobs in the short term for sure. But they are going to mostly be low-paying warehouse jobs. And in 10 years or so they'll all be replaced with robots. Then we're going to have a real crisis on our hands. It's like taking a second mortgage out on your house, handing the money to Jeff Bezos, and asking him to please be gentle when he punches you in the face.

Unfortunately it is Cam Hardy pushing this line.

Dusty has defended Donald Trump's behavior during the Central Park Five fiasco and his history of not renting to black people. He has retweeted white supremacist accounts. He called institutional racism a myth. He retweeted someone calling peaceful protesters the "enemy of the United States." He liked a tweet suggesting that people should take it upon themselves to shoot BLM protesters. He relentlessly promoted the Obama birther conspiracy. A search of his Twitter feed would undoubtedly produce countless more examples. This is just what I remember off the top of my head. Is "Dusty is not a racist" really the hill you want to die on?

What? Are you actually arguing that you cannot deem somebody racist for saying racist things on the internet? Or am I misunderstanding you? Does someone have to put on a KKK robe and burn a cross before you deem it okay to call them racist?

This is an idiotic point. He is a high profile figure. He is a politician. He is a Republican. Just because he doesn't hold an office doesn't mean he's impervious to criticism. He is a thought leader in the local GOP. But regardless, there are countless other examples so the Dan Hils point is pedantic anyway.

I think you are being left behind by an evolving Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

He is a racist and his twitter account demonstrates it. This is a pattern with him. I know many conservatives who are not racist. Disagreeing on policy issues does not make you racist. But that's not what we're talking about with Dusty.

Lol you're a riot.

Dan Hils was a Republican candidate for county commissioner. Dusty has been expressing his anti-abortion views for years without a peep from the party. Denise Driehaus is also anti-abortion. The HamCo Democratic Party, unfortunately, embraces that stance. Dusty is a racist POS and has no place in the Democratic Party. He disagrees with basically every plank of the party platform and actively supports GOP politicians and priorities. If you go to his Twitter account the "similar accounts" suggestions are Donald Trump, Triantifilou, Bill Cunningham, Brad Parscale, Rush Limbaugh, etc. That's telling.

It's funny that you think McFarlin's tone is divisive when Dusty has been the king of divisiveness for YEARS. Republicans do this all the time now. They spew hate and stupidity into the ether and then when they get called out on it they scream about how divisive Democrats are. They constantly call Dems snowflakes and then they melt down over being asked to wear a mask. It's really quite funny. And McFarlin is the one taking county politics to a level of partisanship that shouldn't exist? Have you ever looked at Alex Triantaifilou's tweets? Or Dan Hils? Or the Hamilton County GOP's official account? Give me a break man, you're becoming a parody of yourself. Also, Dusty didn't get called out for being anti-abortion. He got called out for using abortion as a cudgel to criticize the BLM movement and for his constant stream of classless, ignorant comments. He's made hundreds of public statements that should've gotten him kicked out a of the party, but they've been maddeningly patient with him.

All university and health system employees are eligible: https://cms.business-services.upenn.edu/homeownership/phos-programs.html

The University of Pennsylvania provides assistance to employees to buy homes in West Philly and it is wildly successful. Some would even argue TOO successful, as it has rapidly increased housing costs and overwhelmed the elementary schools. But I don't think we'd be facing an issue like that.

Give me a break. No one said anything about quotas. But it is not a coincidence that Cincinnati is 49% white and has a police dept that is 66% white.

Just to emphasize the last point about police demographics: Only 12% of officers nationwide are black. Only 12% are Hispanic. Only 4% are non-white "other." Only 12% are female. 75% are white. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/01/11/inside-americas-police-departments/

What??

I said 84% of police officers, not 84% of black police officers. That includes every police officer in America. Not just the biggest cities. And the average police officer is a white man. Also, it isn't even true that "most big city police depts are close to half minority." Cincinnati is 66% white, despite the city being majority minority. LAPD is only 12% black. NYPD is only 16% black. Plus, non-white police officers are much more likely to vote Republican than other non-white people.

LOL 84% of police voted for Trump in 2020. The FOP may endorse Dems (they actually endorsed Trump in 2016 btw), but the rank and file have been reliably Republican for years.

I've been to many, many public meetings. The speakers had a much better command of municipal budgets than 99% of people that show up to these things. The idea they wished to convey was this: Spend less on cops, more on social services, parks, recreation, mental health, education, etc. And I'm going to beat you to the punch before you say "ah ha! The city doesn't fund education!" Education is more than just CPS. Education includes after school programs at rec centers and libraries. Education includes adult programs as well. Education is an umbrella term for lots of things. We could spend much more on education. As for whether the citizens overreacted to the guy? I wouldn't have booed him. But it was extremely mild. Mann made it very clear he had zero desire or ability to calm people down and continue the meeting. I've been at meetings where old racist white people trying to keep "those people" out of their neighborhoods actually started throwing things at the chair and he regained control and continued the meeting.

I don't think so. The party realignment is accelerating. Folks in Hyde Park are putting up BLM signs and showing up at protests. Those upper class and upper middle class liberals (a category which I guess I fall into) are moving sharply left. They're tired of the respectability politics stuff. They want elected officials that will actually listen to their constituents. And I'm not even sure that the few right wingers left in the city would sympathize with him much. Even Jason Williams tweeted that it was shameful. I think any reasonable person (and in Jason's case, even unreasonable ones) would agree that the response a leader should take in that situation is to regain control of the meeting and keep it going. Not get up like a baby and run away.

It was shameful. I've been to a lot of public meetings, and I've seen the crowd get very angry. I've never seen a chairperson handle it so badly. You bang your gavel. You ask for order. You wait until everyone calms down. And then you continue the meeting. People are understandably angry. As an elected official it is your duty to listen, not to decide that you've had enough. He looked every bit his age up there. He repeatedly mispronounced names, even when politely corrected. He looked completely disinterested in being there, making it perfectly clear that he has already made up his mind. He just tanked any chance he had at being mayor.

They've also temporarily closed their Liberty Center and Short North locations. It's just because of COVID. They have plans to reopen all of the stores soon.

Oakland or East Liberty? And PGH has rail transportation. Or do you just mean to the neighborhood? If that's the case, there are dozens of Philly neighborhoods that are denser and don't have rail.

This is less about changing his mind than it is about letting everyone else see how disingenuous he is. I know it's borderline insanity on my part, but I'm a sucker for punishment.

This is literally the first time you've made this argument. Either of you. In any of your posts. You haven't even hinted at this angle. Do you have any sources for this claim? Or are you just making it up? Any contemporary writings that show that Cincinnatians of the era felt this way? Any documentation that the statue was erected because of this? Because it sounds like bullsh*t. The statue wasn't erected until 1896, so we know it was not erected by Cincinnatians during his lifetime. They weren't scrambling to honor him in 1841 out of pride for their city. We do know that a lot of downtown residents have expressed that they would support removing it. Again, I'm pretty indifferent on it. I actually buy the argument that we should just put up a plaque. Or, even better, add a statue of Tecumseh. But you guys drive me crazy because you just keep making sh*t up as you go along.