jamiec

i think the line is pretty clearly defined.

Well, I believe I read somewhere that CVNP is the only "big" national park in an urban area. There are National Park "sites" in urban areas, of course, but those are more like historic sites, I thought.

^ Ah, I see, you're being very specific. Nothing wrong with that, but I now understand the difficulty you're having. Are you willing to work for any city in the state? It seems like there'd have to be some opportunities out there! I don't know if you'd want to work in a small town in the middle of nowhere, though. I wouldn't, haha. Good luck!

What field are you in? The thing I've noticed in Ohio (and everywhere else) is it helps if you know someone who can give you a heads up. I moved back to NE Ohio last November, and I was getting interviews but no jobs, and I was SUPER frustrated. In March, I got a job coach and he got me started networking, and I was speaking to professionals in Cleveland, Columbus, Washington DC and NYC. I was actually getting called for interviews on jobs I never heard of! Turns out, I got a job in Cleveland that was the very best fit, and it helped that I networked. I just can't believe that there isn't ONE job for you in one of the three C's. Don't give up, just change tactics!

^^ Don't forget a National Park! The only one located in an urban area!

OH, good. Plenty of time for me to get old.

MOCA made the Times! London Architects Chosen For Cleveland Museum http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/arts/27arts.html?_r=1&oref=slogin A new, larger home for MOCA Cleveland (the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland) will be designed by the London-based firm Foreign Office Architects, the museum is to announce today. The building will be in the University Circle, the city’s cultural center, anchoring a planned arts and retail corridor adjacent to Case Western Reserve University. Since 1991, MOCA Cleveland has occupied galleries on the second floor of the Cleveland Playhouse complex on Carnegie Avenue. After founding Foreign Office Architects in 1992, Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo, designed the Yokohama International Port Terminal in Japan in 2002, which led to their selection for the British Pavilion for the 2002 Venice Architectural Biennale. They have also designed a seaside park in Barcelona (2004); the Municipal Auditorium in Torrevieja, Spain (2006); and a publishing headquarters in Paju, South Korea (2005). The firm was shortlisted in the 2002 competition to design a memorial at ground zero. MOCA Cleveland will be its first major American project, and its first museum. ROBIN POGREBIN

It's a dramatic bridge, but because it's bridge an international border you can't walk across it and admire the view. I almost crashed my car over the side many times as I gazed like a dope into the distance ;) edit: Actually, now that I think of it, there are two bridges. One has a pedestrian walkway, which you could technically walk over from the USA to Canada. However, the bridge from Canada to USA does not have a pedestrian walkway, so I think they made some sort of executive decision and said no walking or riding bikes over the bridge. I think that sometimes they'll ferry you over with your bike on the back of a truck. But it depends.

^^ Port Huron is .... an experience, at the very least. Gotribe, if you have a few free minutes, I suggest you go to the Brass Rail on Main Street, an old-timey bar that is like walking into a time machine. Then go to The Raven Coffeehouse on the other side of the Black River. It's the best coffeeshop I've ever been to. St. Clair County, Michigan is probably the most surreal place I've ever lived in. It's only an hour from a giant metropolitan area, but it's remarkably detached. And then Sanilac County above it. WOW. I would never, ever, ever want to live there again, but it provided life experience that is unmatched.

Well, I'm just talking about investment. I don't think he's going to uproot Quicken Loans. But maybe he can seed something here and we ALL can get a piece of the pie. That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

I see none of you said Port Huron! Try living there for a year with this across the river. Canada will give you cancer. I like Ann Arbor and that's it, lol.

You dick. That's pretty funny, though. hahaha. Jack White lived in Mexicantown, didn't he? My co-worker when I worked in Michigan went to a show at the Magic Stick downtown, and he saw him hanging out in the crowd. Detroit has the best local rock scene around, in my opinion. There's just something way more exciting and interesting about a band from Detroit that looks like they just pulled themselves out of the gutter than those weenies from Williamsburg.

^^^ Paging Dan Gilbert to Public Square; Mr. Gilbert, you are wanted in Public Square. ;)

What is the point of this question? Bait? I'll take the bait. I don't think it'd make a lick of difference. OK! =)

That old picture of E.55 ruined my day, lol. Seeing stuff like that really takes the wind out of your sails.

lol. my sister is a fashion student, and twice in one week, girls in her class have pronounced "faux" as "fox." One even that the word "faux" meant fox, the animal, and made a presentation on fox fur clothing. Oh boy.

WTF. What's with you people bashing Kent? God damn that pisses me off.

I grew up in Cuyahoga Falls, and I never knew Silver Lake had a mayor. It's a nice little neighborhood, but I wouldn't say it's Eden. It seems to me that a commuter rail route from Akron to Cleveland would be a lot more productive and useful than going through the national park -- but that's just me. I want to go down to all the development around the park and fight it off with a pitchfork, lol. It'd be nice to connect the two cities more directly. Thanks for clearing it up, KJP!

IMO, the park boosters would probably freak out about erecting anything down there. But who knows.

Are you talking about the Silver Lake neighborhood of Cuyahoga Falls? What say do they have about a train route through Hudson? Was it going to continue south into Stow and Silver Lake? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that train route cut over from Portgage County, or does it also cut over to Stow/Silver Lake somewhere? It'd be strange if the people in Hudson opposed more trains. That rail crossing downtown is BUMPIN'. My parents live a few blocks from downtown, and you can hear the trains at all hours of the night. Lucky for them, it doesn't cross through traffic, so they don't whistle like they do in Lakewood at every street. This sort of fits into at least 2 other threads, lol.

My family has never been into sports. I think it goes back to my grandpa. I remember being at his house on a Sunday afternoon, and Bernie Kosar threw an incomplete pass into the ground. "What a bunch of bums!" He crowed. I think he watched a play a week.

Wouldn't this encourage sprawl? The CVSR has its major station in Peninsula, and that area, while growing rapidly, is much less developed than the areas near Hudson, Stow, Aurora, etc. I would assume they' do it in Peninsula because there is tons of parking for the park and the train there.

I was reading the community newspaper in Hudson this weekend, and I saw the old train depot on 303 in the downtown area will be moved for around $200,000. It will preserved somewhere else. So, if commuter rail ever comes down to that area, they'll need a new loading area! I think it'd be really awesome to have it, though. It'd be fun taking the train home on a Friday night to visit the family =) Sorry no link to the article; they don't post all of them online :P.

I studied in Boston a few years back for like six weeks, and while it's a lot bigger than Cleveland, it reminded me of home because it is, for the most part, a bunch of neighborhoods like Cleveland. University Circle could be like Cleveland's own Harvard Square. But Cleveland should just be Cleveland.

This is such a great idea! I say, let's do it!! edit: ALSO. I work in the Halle Building, and when we go out to lunch, we walk by that little design cluster on Huron, and it's my favorite little section of downtown. Those storefronts are exactly what I think a city should be like. And when you cross 9th, you walk past Medical Mutual, and I really like their space, too.