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All great ideas. The space is ripe for an outdoor plant, flower and landscaping expo there, perhaps even on a weekly basis. Invite the full spectrum, small florists, organic famer types and Home Depot/Lowes/ etc. as vendors.

There's enough in this article to make everyone angry. Will Los Angeles Vote to Raise Rents on Tuesday? By Henry Grabar Last month, the owners of Pssst, a nonprofit art space in the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights, announced they would close their space in the face of “constant attacks” and “persistent targeting,” both online and in person, from anti-gentrification activists. A pair of neighborhood groups, Defend Boyle Heights and the Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement, celebrated the shutdown. It was a victory in a long campaign waged by tenants groups in the predominantly Latino, working-class neighborhood against art galleries, which they see as the “shock troops of gentrification.” More broadly, it was a sign of just how high tensions over housing run in Los Angeles, which has by some measures the worst affordable housing crisis in the country. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/03/07/los_angles_votes_on_measure_s_today_which_could_raise_rents.html

At this point I'd be really surprised if they stay in OAK.

No worries. I expect the nostalgia for drop ceilings to come back in full force any day now!

This fiasco is an example why a large segment of voters is in perpetual knee-jerk opposition to spending tax dollars on the public good. I'm not saying you should join in their complete negativity, not at all. But in your frustration you can at least now understand where they're coming from.

^ I hope they propose that best use includes an amusement park. Free of charge on a pay-by-ride basis

Yup! I had a buddy that used to stalk Rush and Van Halen there. One time he had a David Lee Roth shirt on and the band, fronted by Sammy Hagar at the time, gave him a some hilarious good natured abuse. Also he once asked Geddy Lee if he ever received the picture that he drew of the band. Lee said yes, it was the most inspirational art he ever saw. And that they keep all the art from their fans in a big warehouse

Replacements are the natural progression from Alex Chilton, I suppose! Oh, remember Bruce did mention getting hit by a battery from a "fan" in Cleveland haha oh, i love the box tops and of course big star -- so now i have to read the chilton book - thanks lol! of course he makes an appearance in trouble boys, too. bruce was hit near his eye by a firecracker at a new years eve show at richfield. it became a famous bootleg called, naturally, the firecracker incident. great boot - epic show! speaking of bootlegs, imo the very best cle rock boot is the famous led zeppelin destroyer, one of the best boots of their ratty 1977 tour and also from a richfield coliseum show. robert plant says, "i'm so glad to beee.... .... here." it's the funniest thing i have ever heard. totally inspired spinal tap. otherwise, they were on that night though, its a good one. Firecracker...not a battery! I'm halfway through the Chilton book. It's funny, the Box Tops outside of Alex were so expendable that the author really doesn't even get into who the heck they were. Speaking of Richfield, I recently had a really hard time remembering the bar where all the bands hung out after the show. Google was no help. Neither were my idiot friends who kept saying "Tavern of Richfield." NO IT WASN'T TAVERN OF RICHFIELD. It was Barney Googles!

Replacements are the natural progression from Alex Chilton, I suppose! Oh, remember Bruce did mention getting hit by a battery from a "fan" in Cleveland haha

Careful. Jackson is the lesser of six evils.

Mix in John Gorman's "Buzzard" if you haven't read it yet. Will do. Interesting aside, I always heard that Cleveland radio was instrumental in breaking the E Street Band. But in Bruce's book there is no special mention regarding Cleveland. I was surprised, the book is very detailed and probably the best one I've read so far, maybe just ahead of Neil Young. Both excellent.

In my spare time I've been reading every rock music biography I can get my hands on. One thing they all seem to have in common is special mention for playing pivotal shows and generally having a great time in Cleveland, OH. Swingos Celebrity Inn is usually at the center of these stories, it's really hard to believe some of them...just wild. That place needs to be put on the National Register. Anyhow, here's an excerpt from the latest book, "A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton." The first stop was Cleveland, where the Box Tops were set to appear on Upbeat, a teen show that aired on Cleveland's WEWS-TV, Channel 5. Started in 1964, the groundbreaking program featured as many as fourteen artists during its hour-long time slot on Saturdays at 5 p.m. The show featured touring acts ranging from the Cowsills to Johnny Cash, The Velvet Underground to James Brown, as well as locals like Eric Carmen (whole band the Raspberries would begin its string of hits around the time of Big Star's formation). Syndicated in more than one hundred markets, Upbeat helped promote acts' records nationally. "We would tape it on Saturday afternoon, rehearsal started at nine, took a break at noon, came back at one thirty and shot the show and hopefully it was done by five o'clock when you had to see it," recalled Dave Spero, son of the program's creator, Ray Spero. "The videotape of each one-hour Upbeat episode would be copied nine times, sent to a station in each of the top ten markets, played, then that station would send it to a station in the next lower market size, shipped or 'bicycled' from market to market. An artist like Tommy James and the Shondells, they put out a song like 'Mony Mony,' well, all of a sudden they're on in ten cities. Next week they're on in ten more. They could follow the show with live performances and get hit records, which a lot of them really give Upbeat credit for." In the days before MTV, shows like Upbeat promoted records to an eager audience of teenagers.

I'll never forgive Cedar Fair for that. Companies that pull that kind of move need to be shamed publicly.

Short Northing, I think that's what it's called. So glad to see the original building retained. This is the right kind of development.

Antelope Island looks like the northern cousin of the Salton Sea. Surreal!

Ken Carmen is now doing a national show for CBS Sports. Pretty good so far. I'm kinda mixed on his show for on 92.3 The Fan. So that makes two 92.3 personalities with a nationwide audience. Adam "The Bull" has a nationally syndicated baseball show, also on CBS Radio. I'm sure both guys are happy to not have to talk Browns, at least for a day.

I am shocked. In a good way.

To clarify, by "means" I'm not referring to financial position, but whether parents have the capability to foster good study habits, provide a comfortable, safe home environment and to inspire curiosity.

I saw this article this morning and my first reaction was the same one conservatives utter to persons on welfare -- what are you (cities) doing to better your own situation? Why should anyone invest in you (cities) if you aren't willing to help yourself first? I thought the same thing. The heartland continues to elect backwards politicians stuck on trying to keep America in the 50's. Meanwhile their brightest young minds leave for Chicago, New York and LA. Great point. It comes to mind that education should play a much larger role from a practical standpoint. The heartland schools should have the resources, the ability to do more. But I'm not sure what options exist, especially when curriculum is becoming more homogenized across the U.S. Then again, if your parents don't have the means to set your course in life, you're statistically hopeless. One of the comments was from a European who said "American schools don't train their students for the scenario of Youngstown. They graduate and are set adrift in the American economy without any guidance or support. Sink or swim."

So these would be overhead signs, correct? Any normal size vehicle that's behind a bus is potentially going to have a hard time seeing these. Painting the streets as bus only could work, but when there's city traffic you can't generally see what's on the roadway.

I saw this article this morning and my first reaction was the same one conservatives utter to persons on welfare -- what are you (cities) doing to better your own situation? Why should anyone invest in you (cities) if you aren't willing to help yourself first? I know Youngstown has been a cesspool of corruption. It's a legacy that lives on in many forms, as apathy and dysfunction still plagues the local government. And then there's the violent crime...it took my friend getting shot twice before he finally left his lifelong home for greener pastures. I suppose a longer article could have delved deeper into what's obviously a very complex problem. I've read the comment section and it's always interesting to see what people all over the world think of Ohio, and the U.S. in general. Constant warfare is behind most of the other problems. Ds and Rs don't want to fund schools that teach science and math, don't want to fund roads and infrastructure. But they always find money to invade Viet Nam or Iraq or Somalia. ... I live in one of these dying little towns where most of the downtown is boarded up. The town is about 95% white. I'm tired of hearing excuses why people stay in places like this and why they are unemployed...The government will help pay for it, but nobody wants to learn job skills. There are two colleges within thirty miles, but people here don't trust college educated people. ... America is a hollowed-out husk of its former self, thanks to Reagan et al. Just like many places in The UK. See the amount of red in the electoral map? That's how many places have a significant proportion of the population without any hope. But who cares, eh? Wall St and the City are doing great! ... So not everyone benefited from globalization? Who would have thought.

I'm not sure how they can accomplish this without a lot of visible signage. Put yourself in the shoes of an unfamiliar driver...I'm thinking overhead signs would be the safest (and ugliest) option. What about gates which open from an overhead sensor? Or is that even uglier? Ha, or how about a rusted medieval drawbridge. It could be an ODOT/Larping Society joint venture.

Outside coastal bubbles, to say 'America is already great' rings hollow Beyond successful neighborhoods in DC, New York City and elite college campuses is an America that has been on a downward trajectory for decades. Anthony Rice’s house in Youngstown, Ohio is a mile away from a river valley once filled with factories offering jobs. Many of those left in the 1980s, and with them, many residents. His home is one of the few occupied on the street. Empty lots or boarded-up homes make up most of the block. He points to those remaining, listing his neighbors and their age. They are all over 70. “This neighborhood is okie-dokie, although not much goes down here”, he says. “Stores used to be all around here, but they mostly gone. The people left are either too old to move or waiting for someone to buy them out.” The road itself is a patchwork of potholes. “This street hasn’t been paved in like forever. They just don’t care about us. But we used to that.” Youngstown is the largest city in Mahoning County, Ohio, where Donald Trump narrowly lost a county Barack Obama won twice easily. That was partly because turnout in Youngstown – which is lower income, younger, and close to half African American – dropped by roughly 15%. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/21/outside-coastal-bubbles-to-say-america-is-already-great-rings-hollow

I'm not sure how they can accomplish this without a lot of visible signage. Put yourself in the shoes of an unfamiliar driver...I'm thinking overhead signs would be the safest (and ugliest) option.

Fascinating article in yesterday's LA Times. A Tale of Two Cities: What happened when factory jobs moved from Warren, Ohio, to Juarez, Mexico By KATE LINTHICUM Chris Wade reached into the darkness to silence his blaring alarm clock. It was 4:30 on a frigid winter morning in Warren, Ohio, and outside a fresh layer of snow blanketed the yard. Thank God, Wade thought to himself. He would be able to get out his plow and make some quick cash. Money never used to be a problem for Wade, 47, who owned a house with a pool back when he worked at Delphi Automotive, a parts manufacturer that for years was one of the biggest employers in this wooded stretch of northeastern Ohio. But 10 years after taking a buyout as part of Delphi’s ongoing shift of production out of the United States and into Mexico and China, the house and the pool were gone. Berta Alicia Lopez, 54, is the new face of Delphi. On a recent chilly morning, she woke before sunrise on the outskirts of Juarez, Mexico, and caught an unheated bus that dropped her an hour away at the Delphi plant. http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-us-factories-20170217-htmlstory.html