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Wraps can make it hard to see out the windows, which not only makes the ride less pleasant but is also bad for businesses along the line.

^ Nursing is getting crowded already with men who were working construction during that last round of sprawl and went back to school for something that's in higher demand. And many types of engineering majors (including mechanical) have a hard time finding work as well.

Better than Cedar Knoll Galleria or Kyova Mall or whatever it's called now.

U-3 has been useless ever since other countries starting using a rate that resembles U-6. I don't know when we started using U-3 ('80s? '90s?) or when they started using U-6.

I wonder when the guy who wrote the first letter "made the good choice" to be straight.

It was that show where you and a rail advocate from Michigan sat down with a host and talked about 3C and other rail projects in Ohio and the rest of the Midwest. It was maybe 6 months old. It was on an all-black set. You guys were on for 30 minutes. I can't remember the name of the program.

^Firefox has been through so many updates recently that it's hard to pin down certain errors.

^ I bet you've got a pretty good idea why the MSM avoids stories like that.

Federal income taxes in the U.S. were initiated to fund wars, while state and local income taxes were initiated to pay for roads and highways.

ahahaha, but it looks better in pictures that way.

There it is. This line reveals your (and many others') mindset regarding the scarcity of money as if it when it is spent, it is "spent" as in "used up" like a bottle of Windex. It's a symptom of someone who does not understand money. Each dollar "spent" has a different geographic multiplier associated with it depending on where it goes after it is transferred to another party. Money spent on transit sees most the multiplier stay in the community. Let's say you spend a dollar on gasoline from a Marathon gas station. A few cents of it goes to the gas station. The rest goes anywhere from 20 miles away (the fuel distributor) to 120 miles away (Marathon headquarters in Findlay) to the oil refinery (lord knows where, it's different every time) to the oil well owner (maybe in the U.S., maybe in South America, maybe Saudi Arabia, maybe Iran). A little bit of it may reach U.S. shareholders all over the country, but one little news story about a fish kill somewhere unrelated to Marathon at all could erase the benefit immediately by depressing oil company stocks for a few minutes. Anybody who advocates policy that directs money away from their own area to areas far away is looking to make money off of the transaction themselves, is doing the bidding of those individuals or is feeling altruistic toward them.

It was time for a reboot on my computer. A-OK.

^ Oh, those guys. That's no real surprise; they're huge. Most optics, be it prescription or non, are their work.

I believe it's pretty good, as the gang problem is less (certainly less organized/professional) than in many cities, leading to less of a "stop snitching" witness intimidation culture. It may also help that communities are so tight (everyone knows everyone, lack of transience), so that when someone commits a major crime people in the community hear about it...then someone comes forward with the info. I don't have the data to back these claims up. Anecdotally, though, I've lived in other places where murders seem to rarely be solved. Right, it always seemed to me that guys who had a beef with someone always knew where to "go looking" for him.

It's not just Cincinnati, there's lots of other agencies that do it. My highway engineer buddies up here are always bugging our one buddy to start his own firm since he's part Native American meaning he's always have work and wound get to charge more.

I know the eye doctors pay rent, but I think the retail side is still Sears.

What are those cylindrical, decaying concrete structures about halfway down? Also, are any of these blacked out for anyone else? About 20% of them are for me and it changes each time I reload.

I've been using Sears Optical for 15 years at Eastland Mall and in Ashland, KY. They've worked out great.

I guess this is "better" than how it was before. Do keep in mind that while the architecture of the old stuff that was in this area certainly more pleasing, there was high vacancy and there were a lot of unruly tenants. Unfortunately, since not enough investors feel that merely rehabbing the old buildings through here would generate enough interest, we wind up with this stuff -- which certainly could be worse.

I remember when the Right used to make fun of the Left for filing so many lawsuits.

In the past two days, I've actually gotten a lot of exposure to All Aboard Ohio. The other night, KJP was on PBS Ohio Channel. I missed it the first time around, but was glad to see the host treat the discussion with respect (I suppose it should be expected on PBS) even if he says he's not sold on rail public transit in our cities. The gentleman from Michigan also gave good explanations regarding rail. I often notice that individuals from other states (and especially other nations) show concern when they learn what happened with passenger rail in Ohio since the '70s. Yesterday, I picked up a copy of Ohio Passenger Rail News from the Grandview Heights Public Library's community information shelves, the same place where I promote gaming events happening at my shop. I haven't read all the way through it yet, but I gotta say that I love print newsletters. Reading longer articles online is tiring and I don't have internet at home, so a paper newsletter is a great thing to have around the house. Good to see articles from Ken and Bill. Another important fact, I think, that I learned from the newsletter was that All Aboard Ohio's late founder actually owned Ziebart franchises for a living. For those not familiar with Ziebart, they are a chain of auto service center that focuses on adding comfort and convenience features such as sunroofs, window tinting and truck bedliners in addition to detailing services. Some people think that train advocates are trying to force people out of their cars, run the auto companies out of business and destroy jobs. Yet, the people who actually understand passenger rail know better... why would somebody who owns a bunch of Ziebarts want to kill the automobile? There are times when the automobile is not the proper transportation solution, yet often we get stuck with it here. Then, there's lots of other times when the automobile is the perfect transportation solution. People who actually understand transportation know this... ones who don't, don't.

^ The way Columbus' property tax structure works for vacant land does make it really easy to sit on it. The landowners were only paying $500 a year in property taxes since there were no improvements on the land once the gas station was razed. Nonetheless, something was bound to go in eventually.

Not just Tamarack! Or if your old enough, the Glass House.

Now that I think of it, I do have trouble tricking my brain into thinking that I'm consuming haute cuisine when I'm eating a burger.