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mmmm, window A/Cs

I remember that one. I used to set up at the yearly Atari swap meet held there.

And now it's a Colossal Whale!

If I wanted to live in a garage, I'd become a drummer! 😆

A lot of the smaller towns have developed some "vibrancy" in their main part of their cores as compared to 2012. It's not the Short North or anything but at least they don't have only a funeral home, flower shop and antiques store in them like they used to. Not much employment-wise has changed in them as the public sector usually remains a very outsize portion of the economy in them. The white-collar portion of the public sector has enlarged somewhat in these areas as money for things like mental health counselors and school administrators/support has become more available. And WFH (not just post-COVID outbreak) enables others to live in them.

I take it that was a Big Bear at one point? In those days companies were better at small format stores and not just because they were pre-ADA.

Old churches are hard to sell. One way megachurches have an advantage I suppose is that they can just be turned into warehouses when people stop coming or the pastor goes to jail

They can drop you for that.

It's interesting to me how far bike lane design has come in the past 15 years. Bike lanes that old -- in Ohio at least -- seem ancient.

You might take a look at the just-released Columbus Bike Plus draft document: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/fa0d7f19855a46f5a67ad741da665439?cover=false&header=false&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

^Few things suck more than having to go to Kroger for everything.

Bike Plus draft plan has been released: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/fa0d7f19855a46f5a67ad741da665439?cover=false&header=false&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery Lots of information contained within!

I actually kind of like the "No operating in standalone buildings" rule but would apply it to all businesses rather than just the ones listed.

You generate you own heat on a bike. It's not like riding a motorcycle where you just freeze if you go too fast.

Yeah this isn't like the "make every church a school" school voucher bill where Appalachian Ohio is fully on board. It's mostly just the west of I-75 Bible Belt and the Amish that really want legal weed gone.

Just as I suspected. Transparency is not the goal of this bill. Neither is improving curriculum. Instead it will prop up small rural churches struggling to make ends meet due to low population in the vicinity or take the load off the one insurance agent self-funding these small congregations. They will be able to add schools to all of them. And they'll be able to tell tales about snakes and wine all day using your tax dollars since state standardized testing won't be required. They won't have to show where the money went so they don't have to spend it on education and can rather just fund ordinary church operations and pastor salaries with it. Ohio House panel guts bill requiring private schools to show voucher spending, give same standardized tests as public schools COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio House committee has gutted a bill that would have required more transparency for private schools that accept taxpayer-funded scholarships, allowing for parents to have more information when deciding where to send their children to school. An amendment adopted in the Ohio House Primary and Secondary Education Committee on Wednesday eliminated several of the key provisions in House Bill 407: Requiring private schools to submit to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce an annual report, which is to be posted online, stating how voucher funds were spent. Also eliminated from the bill Wednesday is a requirement that scholarship students take the same state standardized tests that public school students take. Without that requirement, private schools can choose to administer to voucher students either the state test or one of nearly 40 alternative assessments, which is the current law. More: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/11/ohio-house-panel-guts-bill-requiring-private-schools-to-show-voucher-spending-give-same-standardized-tests-as-public-schools.html

A lot of that beach business worldwide was drummed up by rich guys in the 1800s and 1900s buying up super cheap land in destitute poverty areas then putting up hotels and such for much cheaper than could be done in a wealthy city. Then use slick marketing to get people from areas with actual money to come down to this thing they built. L.A., NYC, Chicago and Cleveland all have beaches but somehow they don't measure up to one on some island where the average resident makes $212 a year.

It can have a little waterpark called Shamu Splash

Far more pervasive is the "Donut Tour" that only does the coasts, any combination of Detroit/Chicago/Minneapolis, Phoenix and Texas.

Damn that is a lot for a Great Clips.

Republicans do that at all levels of government. They won't sign off on government assistance programs unless they are hard to use and result in low participation rates.

Most people don't hook up their rabbit ears or take the paper. They might listen to the radio because it's on at work. But once you are actually at work you're way more likely to hear Another One Bites the Dust than traffic updates due to the time of day. Joe Rogan can't help with that either.

Ignored you right back, pal! 😉

I remember going past there a couple weeks back thinking "I thought this building was newer?" Even the concrete looks aged. Maybe time is catching up with me

As a business owner I don't like it when people try to judge my business activity on a Tuesday. Salesmen would always come around on Tuesdays and Wednesdays near Halloween and blame the fact that my stores were slow at that time on the fact that I wasn't doing business with them hahaha