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I did actually, saying something along the lines of, "I'd rather pay property taxes than gas taxes". We bust each others' balls all the time so it wasn't a big deal.

A buddy of mine was hassling me about living in town by insinuating that my property taxes were really high. Meanwhile, he lives over 20 minutes from any retail business of significance let alone other services. I'd rather pay property taxes than gas taxes. Somebody with knowledge of taxation who actually hates taxes wouldn't be spending hundreds, even thousands of dollars in unnecessary gas taxes.

^It started when the Fairness Doctrine was idled in 1987 due to a U.S. Supreme Court case. Before that, it was against FCC regulations to have one-sided political talk shows. Each side of a controversial issue was required to be allotted equal air time. There was a bit of a lag as producers and hosts came up with ideas for one-sided talk radio formats. You know what kind of governments don't keep separate budgets? Dictatorships.

I figure it would be easier to take 351 pounds out of the buses than to get regulations changed. When they were designing it they should have been conscious of these regulations, but I can picture a problem like this in one or two states slipping past the company. 350 pounds out of a 40,000 pound machine shouldn't be that hard and it can only make the mileage better.

That was back in the clear-cut days. We went through a lot of wood back then.

The one underneath the Statehouse? I was wondering about its overnight availability. That means it's even more useful than I thought.

Street parking is free after 8 and on Sundays. Which hotel? Downtown Columbus is pretty large.

I wonder what percentage of troublemakers and thugs take the time to learn what their local city councilpersons look like.

>>The way to corner these types is always simply to ask them a yes or no question, but media figures never seem to do it. >Why would they? It's kinda like big time wrestling - they make a steady profit by continuing the conversation (regardless of how moronic it is). If there is something that comes up that is definitive, it's all over, there's nothing else to exploit. That's no way to run a business. haha, yep it would have been really boring if Mean Gene just asked Macho Man "Will you beat the Hulkster at SummerSlam? Yes or no?" and then they went right back to Sean Mooney in the control room. An entire generation of boys would have gone outside and gotten really good at sports instead.

My grandmother owned and registered cars for years with no driver's license at all. She had gotten old enough that it was no longer safe for her to drive. This was in the '90s, though I imagine the law hasn't changed.

I hope they paint the roof yellow to make it look even more like Pac-Man from the air.

I guess he feels that he's too smart to get busted for lying.

Sounds like a lot of private sector workplaces I know. Working someone like a dog every second they are at work is a good way to get them to quit. Then you've got nobody to do the job and it doesn't get done. I can tell you have little management experience.

He's going to be doing East European Studies, so people will probably more interested in talking about soccer and F1 anyway. Month-long World Cup party at our house in 2014, with Eurodisco during breaks and people smoking cigarettes with pictures of tumors on the packs!

What makes relatively wealthy people cheat on each other so much? I suspect that the underclass just doesn't get married in the first place.

Man I sure wound up in that ER for minor stuff a lot being an only child. I remember sitting in the ER waiting room bored out of my mind in like 1984 looking at the kids who actually were hurt or sick while Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out" played over the P.A.

^Here's the link: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120609/NEWS010801/306070151/City-gets-out-costly-Walnut-Woods-project Man, the Enquirer website is a mess.

That Circuit City could have probably stayed open if the rest of the chain hadn't been in so much trouble.

My roommate is from NEO and a Michigan fan. He starts grad school at OSU in the fall. I bet he'll have some explaining to do around campus when the talk turns to football.

^Just like all those highways in West Virginia that turned it into an economic powerhouse. NOT

I like how the rendering shows every parking space full.

I don't know if we're all that interested in having industrial development smack dab in the middle of town, anyway. Even if it's clean industry. Industrial sprawl is certainly the least lamentable kind of sprawl to me at least. It's nice when people can walk, bike, take transit or have a short auto/motorcycle/scooter commute to work and all, but I dunno if I'd dig it if there were more industrial buildings 500 feet from our CBDs. Most cities are moving away from that direction anyway; Columbus still has a lot of warehouses Downtown that might be better served out by Rickenbacker or at least on the South Side by 104.

I guess you just need to be clear right off the bat that you are in no way in a hiring decision-making role at the organization. I know the feeling though; when 5 people come in asking for a job and I've sold like $12 worth of stuff that day it's easy to get cranky. But you can't blame someone for looking for work.

It's pretty neat that you solved the issue so easily in a cut-and-dry manner. Healthcare costs for companies are really low when all the employees have cancer and they're really productive when undergoing chemotherapy. I think it's more of a lesson about companies perhaps needing to be more cautious about relocating and building all new facilities just because they were promised some kind of tax abatement. Governments can be sneaky about pulling that stuff. If you are really committed to moving, certainly see what's available incentive-wise. But, don't let it be the end-all decision maker. Moving is expensive. edit: spelled cancer wrong