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from cleveland.com RTA police shoot man 5:11 p.m. Transit police shot a man this afternoon near a bus shelter at West 140th Street and Puritas Avenue in Cleveland.

I don't know. If I were a border patrol officer and I saw this face looking back at me, I'd be suspicious. Looks like your planning something... :-)

Summer's are really nice. June will usually hang out in the upper seventies, lower eighties. July and August are pretty reliably in the mid eighties with at least one stretch of four or five consecutive days in the ninties. Every now and then, we flirt with a hundred. Usually not too much rain, but when it comes through on a hot afternoon, the thunderstorms can be pretty impressive and we'll get our fair share of tornadoes-but that's everywhere in the Midwest, pretty much. Although I've never done it myself, I hear the scuba diving in Lake Erie by the islands is actually pretty good. Something to do with the shallowness of the lake or something. Just an idea if it gets too hot and you want to check out America's "North Coast."

Clinic sets $1.25 billion goal 2 big gifts help jump-start public campaign Tuesday, May 09, 2006 Sarah Treffinger Plain Dealer Reporter Cleveland Clinic leaders on Monday unveiled a new goal to raise $1.25 billion by 2010, while simultaneously jump-starting it with two gifts totaling $82 million.

I saw a Frontline special about Meth a couple weeks back and the most fascinating part about it is how quickly it seems this epidemic could be stopped. They interviewed the guy who helped stop quaaludes by stopping phamaceutical companies from producing drugs with the active ingredient used to make quaaludes-a ingredient so complex, it could only be created in a porfessional pharmaceutical factory. For anyone who doesn't know, ephedrine (active ingredient in Sudafed) is another type of very complex chemical compound that can only be produced in nine parmaceutical labs in the world. The Frontline special showed peaks in Meth use when large shipments of ephedrine were re-routed, stolen or simply just sold to drug cartels. This same guy who worked to stop quaaludes wants to do the same thing for ephedrine, except (surprise! surprise!) there is resistance from the pharmaceutical companies, who feel it would put an undue burden on the public to suffer without their popular medication until they can come up with another. Now, I know having a cold sucks and everyone wants to get rid of it ASAP, but if this keeps some dirtball living next to me from playing Beakman's World in his basement and blowing up my neighborhood, I'll buy more kleenex. :-D Anyway, you can watch the entire episode online if you have an hour to kill: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/view/

It's great to see the proliferation of this fiber optic network! This is the kind of image difference that business people across the country will respond to. I just hope re-investment continues to happen in Cleveland's digital infrastructure. At the pace of technology, today's forward thinking city loses it's edge without perpetual re-investment.

As this turbine at the GLSC grows closer to completion, has anyone heard what the public art component of this project might be? I know that Cleveland Public Art had a competition (mentioned earlier in this thread, I think), but I never heard about a selection or saw any renderings from the winner. Just wondering...

Actually, I've never been called a Buckeye, only an Ohioan. Maybe I'm just hanging around with an uncouth crowd. Regardless, using one term or the other will likely draw as much attention as using the wrong fork for your salad. :wink: Welcome!

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Anyone got a picture yet? Too bad MayDay's on vacation-his office seems like it'd have the primo view. :-)

The innerbelt is 59 aka the Martin Luther King Freeway. For more info on the innerbelt check here: http://www.akroninnerbelt.org/noflash/resources.php ...this was from a thread somewhere in UrbanOhio.

^It is very close to the heart of downtown. The best way I can describe its location is if you follow Main north, it lays just past rt. 57 on the hill to the valley that the Y Bridge crosses over to Cuyahoga Falls. Another way to describe it would be just to the north of Luigi's off of Furnace Street. I just tried the website and it worked for me, so you might want to give it another try. Check out this link for some idea of its origins. I'm sure there's more out there, but this is what a quick Google search found. http://www.ci.akron.oh.us/News_Releases/2005/0425.html

I don't think I read about this one anywhere else and I frankly can't believe I missed hearing about this until now, but here is the North Side Lofts in Akron (located next to the venerable Luigi's among others). http://www.northsidelofts.com And here are a few images from the site. If you're on the Innerbelt going into Akron and have been wondering what that big yellow crane is, it's the North Side Lofts. Cheers to Akron for getting this one under way!

Clean and safe' program comes to downtown Workers to clean area, help visitors; mounted police return Thursday, April 27, 2006 Christopher Montgomery Plain Dealer Reporter Wednesday marked the launch of something new in downtown Cleveland -- "clean and safe" patrols -- and the return of something old -- the Cleveland Police Department's horse-mounted unit, on hiatus since city layoffs in 2004.

For a second there, I thought they made a monopoly game for the Lebanese capital. :-P

I saw this yesterday on channel 3. I know everytime I go past that vacant beast on the lakefront, my stomach sinks with what could have been done. Bob Corna has a plan. If only they could find the money... http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=22249&bw=

Although I agree it would have been "brutal" if they actually built this, I kind of admire it. It's an unapologetic open-armed embrace of a Jetsons inspired vision of the future. There's something very optimistic about that, like flying cars and robot maids were literally just around the corner, so let's build a city to reflect our future. Thank God they never built it though, since I still don't have a flying car and the closest thing to a robot maid is the Roomba.

Sounds like someone had a "crappy" day at work....sorry-horrible pun.

So, if the proposed schedule shows eight trips each way (16 total "crossings") a day, how does that really disrupt traffic flow to an unpalatable level? I could see his point if these were 250 car freight trains that would shut down intersections for five minutes at a stretch, but I imagine these trains wouldn't be any longer (initially, I suppose) than four or five cars. That would only disrupt traffic flow for a matter of seconds, not to mention giving Rocky River a new mode of intercity transit. For something whose "negative" impact on a city would be negligible, it's surprising to him use such strong language as "dead-set against" this idea.

LOL! Here's your sign for the extension: Really though, I've always hoped for some kind of unique transit connector from downtown to the zoo. If I remember, I read somewhere that the bridge over the zoo is going to be either revamped or radically redesigned. With that and the whisperings of transit investment, I wonder how soon potential urban building investors will start sizing up properties on West 25th.

I love when these giants go down the river during a concert at the Plain Dealer (formerly Scene) Pavilion at Nautica. I saw Modest Mouse there a few years back when one went past. Issac (the singer) watched it "Float On" as he played. Welcome to Cleveland! :-D

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Short Takes: Ingenuity fest seeks drummers Wednesday, April 12, 2006 ARTS Ingenuity fest seeks drummers Drumming up drummers: Ingenuity, Cleveland's arts and technology festival, is looking for drummers to take part in its Thursday, July 13, opening event. Called "Symphony for 1,000 Drums" and created by internationally known composer and Northeast Ohio resident Halim El-Dabh, the piece honors diversity by calling for a range of drumming styles, from ethnic to rock to martial. The huge work will be performed at Public Square; afterward, performers will form a procession. Those interested in participating can e-mail Grant Marquit at [email protected].

I always liked the one about "W" Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot.

Whoops! Megabus' Titanic miscalculation Runs out of gas on maiden trip to Chicago Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Henry J. Gomez Plain Dealer Reporter Megabus.com's maiden voyage from Cleveland to Chicago seemed doomed from the start, at least in the eyes of passenger Jim O'Hare. MORE: http://www.cleveland.com