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I don't think his perception of the word "forced" is the same as yours, no. Both things you pointed out are generational differences.

I always thought Columbus had some awkwardly placed gas stations. Like this one and the old Short North Shell. Like people couldn't go another mile to get gas. Oh well, market forces have fixed it. And there's a long history of gas stations Downtown, too.

Here's a Grantland article that examines the sprawl angle closely: "As someone who no longer lives in Atlanta but fully plans on returning, today is a tough day. Because, yet again, the city has been outfoxed by its northern counterparts. In the 1970s, MARTA, Atlanta's directionally challenged, last-place-science-fair-project transportation system was expanding. Two Atlanta northside suburbs, Cobb and Gwinnett Counties, opted out of the expansion, thus denying the Authority the sales-tax revenue it sorely needed to become a real transportation alternative for an ever-growing city. The commonly held belief: With transit expansion comes an easy way for people to access the destination. All types of people. You know, city people." http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/82022/saying-good-bye-as-the-braves-leave-atlanta-for-atlanta

The Cure might make more sense on the Coasts where men don't have to act like Stone Cold Steve Austin all the time for good things to happen to them.

^^And appeared on old media that is broadcast all over the region and only requires hitting a button to see and hear. Obviously several people here have done that, but how many others have?

Maybe of it was the '60s and before.

You'd think Michigan would be worse considering its reputation.

It's like "Who's this guy?" He got to lip sync in a stadium though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la1mYqpELUg

I didn't have enough character at that age to work like that. And I don't now, either.

not showing up for me

I suppose if you live in Atlanta you're used to this sort of thing. Buildings only lasting 20 years make me think they want to demolish me too if I get too old. Too bad people can't leave because there's double digit unemployment for hundreds of miles in each direction. These "new" cities with unemployment surrounding them on all sides really hold their citizens hostage.

Is that real? I can see a too much trash ticket, but too little recycling? What if you go on vacation or buy lots of things without packaging?

Especially in states with much higher education subsidies than ours.

And that's why I never moved there. When compared to actual urban areas, it's still more like one of those far-flung 'burbs people who work in NYC have to settle for because they can't afford anything closer. The kind where you have to commute 90 minutes in each direction -- except there's no rail transit.

And that's where schools part of a major city such as UC and OSU win again because if you can get away from these controlled student-only situations and rent in the general community you don't get whacked. Of course, doing that can increase the isolation level to the quitting point for some people. The worst thing that can happen is somebody's parents demanding they live in one of those $1200/mo Supermax-level security buildings that are big today and stick their kid with the bill.

It's the Portsmouth way!

That church sanctuary should be interesting to watch.

Schedules set 7 years in advance is another college football tradition that has worn out its welcome and is no longer part of the charm. That's like back when you'd get late in the NFL season and MNF would suck because they made the schedule before the season started. Now with the two-game MNF it's not as much of a risk.

People who are good at math? BORING. People who flip out in the media and get caught up in wreckless rhetoric? LEADERS.

Perhaps they want to get him in a room so that they can have his full attention when they explain how grant money works. Isolating him from from the influence of his peers (COAST and Smitherman) may be the only way to get through to him. He probably already knows how grants work but was just BSing everybody.

"Yez, I zee zat even your Left politizians are againzt your zitiez. What iz zee matter with zee politizians in your country? It iz a real shame."

I've never heard that. They had too much hard rock attitude and made a punk record right in the middle of their career.

Haha, yes. I don't know if many Cincinnatians know who that is, but he would have fit perfectly in the time slot after Smitherman's show. They don't need to... they'd find out soon enough.

Damon Zex should have moved down there when Columbus lost public access. He would have goaded people into thinking.

Of course 610, Channel 4 and the Marshall college station never produced the kind of toxic rhetoric that WLW does.