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Yeah now it's the white-collar jobs laying people off all the time and the trades aren't. So a lot of young people started to decline going to college. You saw that starting in the late 2010s.

Swiss Family Home has to be the station since I remember when they bought that building and the timeline of the sale matches up on the auditor's site.

As far as I can tell the station still owns the building. Who is the developer?

People need to see more than 12 years without layoffs before the trades fully recover interest.

I never had any mandatory diversity classes at SSU at the same time. Of course it is in Appalachia -- all of which is DEI itself. The only good side of this bill I suppose is making schools focus more on job placement. Too many students come out of school poorly networked for being able to actually use their degrees while companies claim "they can't find anybody" (translation: "anybody I don't already know is probably crazy"). If more schools adopt co-op and other work/study programs their job placement numbers should improve. And that way people won't be fighting so tooth and nail to go to UC over other schools since it guarantees placement within companies with co-op.

I went to preschool next door (yes I do remember that) and was wondering how you get even three stories there. But now that I know it's Senior housing it makes sense. Not to keep going with all that "The South Side is Portsmouth" business but all the good residential towers in Portsmouth are Senior. I can't help myself.

I describe Aftab as "High-Quality Ginther".

Just a reminder of what was there previously: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9935895,-83.0378188,3a,75y,334.67h,78.45t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s7KZteTcsxT7tWuK34mtjpg!2e0!5s20151101T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D11.553020625994776%26panoid%3D7KZteTcsxT7tWuK34mtjpg%26yaw%3D334.6703448863401!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMyMy4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDU1SAFQAw%3D%3D

I never went into Burnet Woods despite being 4 blocks away.

In some way you're glad to see attention taken away from malls so that people have to pay attention to our real assets instead of just making a beeline for the mall when they are here.

There are some restaurants in the AD that say they are dependent on events but not necessarily tourists.

Husted is solidly Gen X with his surfer accent.

It was actually kind of frustrating in college going to school with a lot of Appalachian students as someone from Columbus and having the same conversation over and over about how expensive Columbus was to live in but how nice the malls were (this was 20-25 years ago it wasn't just Polaris and Easton in the conversation). People down there were so used to $50,000 houses and 90 cent drafts that a COL Index 100 Columbus was seen as a big expense. But that didn't keeo Charlotte, Research Triangle and D.C. out of play. But also the NW Ohio students said the same thing about Columbus. Mall mall mall.

It really is a bet if your industry has uneven demand and/or pricing. There's been several times that even after a good year we lowered the amount we sent in quarterly then our industry tanked and we had losses the next year. They send us the money back just like a regular W-2 refund.

Are you a partner? If so that would be a reason to file quarterly. That's a business. Usually filing quarterly estimated taxes is for people who own a business.

People in the Columbus metro are notoriously averse to long commutes as compared to other cities. People will drive up from Portsmouth to work here every day but a local wants to be in the same suburb as their job. So when the good jobs moved up to Dublin-Worthington-Westerville so did all the money and stores.

I was worried when Lafayette released the first report because it was pretty grim. I am glad to see his revision.

When that Taco Bell went up in like 2007 I remember thinking "Well at least one of them fought their way back" This was still when the husks of the previous fast food places still stood.

It certainly isn't moving very quickly but I didn't expect it to anyway.

Possum Holler IS bringing back sit-down. There is now a sign that says Possum Pub on the under-construction side of the building.

Cincinnatians care more about the Reds than 75% of cities with MLB. It would be like when they took the hockey teams out of Canada and put them in the South.

They don't have a location at every highway exit unlike other fast food so people will drive in just to go there.

The 3Cs are all now very close to bumping up against the state-maximum 8% sales tax.

Sink or swim, do or die, every man for himself.

They are planning on some racks in the future but to start it will be the dedicated drop zones. They have field-swappable batteries instead of the vehicles being taken somewhere to be charged.