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Yes, I have a Master's in finance but almost everything I know about public finance I had to learn here. So even if someone claims to be good with business matters you have to ask them if they know anything about public finance (besides basic bond math) because chances are they don't if they haven't studied or worked with it specifically.

Do they have a shuttle bus that constantly circulates seniors from the old folks "campus" around the corner to and from it?

Says Henry Winkler in 1982.

trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy

I liked that McDonald's. Every rose has it's thorn, though. That dumb '50s one in the outlot is still there. Man I hate the '50s.

Which means L.A. isn't scared that their city would be "ruined" if a bunch of Cincinnatians showed up.

Yeah Cranley, piss those guys off and see how things go for you.

No. Not boring enough for here. You ever watched our TV news? SOOO boring compared to yours. Our weather is far more violent, yet you guys have 5 dramatic sweeps on Channel 5. Cincinnati news is like Robocop news.

That caller is SOOOOO fake. She sounds like Boss Hogg's sister-in-law or something.

It's true. What's better TV, Greco-Roman wrestling or WWE? Or how about people watching auto racing just for the crashes? The problem lies in not understanding that pro wrestling is fake, talk radio is fake and that racing doesn't take place just so that you can see someone die.

I wouldn't expect anything locally. here's the Columbus Dispatch take (complete with rail puns) http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/12/05/council-stops-spending-on-cincinnati-streetcar.html Reporting on the streetcar debacle, now with way less myopia. Dispatch giving Cincinnati a spanking, really. Perhaps if the Enquirer invested in the city as much as the Dispatch has here (real estate projects, hockey team) they wouldn't have been against the streetcar for so long.

Looks like we aren't the only ones who have watched some Damon Zex.

I feel that there are many strong people on the case, including yourself. But if the mayor and council spend all their time trying to make people in other counties happy you get what we had here this week -- inability to spot opportunity due to belief systems. This might be why the F500s and 1000s stayed out. They don't respect the inability of crappy businesspeople such as Cranley to spot opportunity like people at the big companies all know how to do. Whereas businesspeople in C-bus can see the Short North as a place to make lots of money, Cranley & Co. see OTR and Northside as hellholes that should be bulldozed. The mere fact that people like COAST, Cranley, Finney etc. were even given a second thought made the whole thing a joke to the F500s. We don't hesitate to make moves in core Columbus out of fear of what someone all the way out in Lewis Center thinks.

This might sound like a doofus question, but does Cincinnati have term limits for mayors then? I haven't seen on this site why Mallory didn't run again so I am assuming term limits. We don't have them up here for mayor or else Sensenbrenner and Coleman wouldn't have been able to make careers out of it.

My old roommate in Cincinnati is bisexual and he'd bring over gay and bisexual friends from time to time yet the fact that the mayor of this high profile, conservative city was gay was never even mentioned. I find this strange.

Somehow I didn't know about Mallory's sexuality. Knowing that Mayor Coleman up here and Mallory are pals I thought they went out looking for women after Coleman's divorce when they visited each other's cities.

They don't want "streetcar people" moving in. They want a blue-collar West Side, an old money East Side and people on public assistance in the middle. They don't like educated people, non-DINOs, hipsters, musicians, artists ect. in "their" city.

Mama always said Cincinnati was kinda funny. Obviously not people on this board, but every once in a while you can see it. Now is one of those times.

So a bankrupt city can do it but Ohio can't.

Why do so many of these right-wing sites look like they're going to give me a virus? They also look like the junk mail my grandma used to get in the '80s and '90s.

#1 rule of college football: Don't lose. Ever.

Ford Motor Company?

A lot those people have irrational fears that if someone else rides a train then the rail-hater themselves will be rounded up, forced to live in a 100 story condo and that their cars will be crushed.

1/3 to 1/2 half of the world lives in places with rail transit. Are they cultists too?

"The unmitigated gall!"