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Does it have anything to do with the unstable soil?

That's when they hit you with...

Love Now & Thens!

I've always suspected that people in the Columbus area are from families that have been in the U.S. for a long time and this study proves my theory. In recent years, the immigrant population in Columbus has been bolstered by people who move here because of OSU and Somalis.

Read the book Soccernomics by Kuper and Szymanski, MTS.

I just learned about the Old Post Office, Old, Old Post Office and Old, Old, Old Post Office phenomenon the other day. All three still stand in addition to the current Main Post Office.

McDonald-Douglas sound like they make tasty airplanes.

"Common Sense" = political jargon for "agrees with me".

Overseas sports team owners certainly don't look at money the same way as Americans. They will spend, spend, spend, lose tons of money and not care. American sports team owners will lose a little money for a while then move, shut down, sell or whatever.

If there's no "kick-out for redevelopment" provision in their lease, they can't be kicked out unless the building was condemned, they misbehaved, didn't pay their rent or something along those lines.

^That was the goal originally, and certainly happened in quite a few cities including Huntington. But, in other smaller cities, the downtown business communities were afraid of lost business if there weren't any freeway exits leading directly into the CBD. Since grade-separated highways were a newer concept at that time, the communities didn't know that leaving the city center intact would promote better urbanity. Streets were converted to one-way to speed drivers out to the highways or sprawl areas. One-way streets, especially high speed ones, are kryponite to a business. Also, smaller cities sometimes want to clone what's going on in larger cities near them to get a piece of that success. If the big cities got freeways right though the middle of town the little guys wanted them too. It's kinda like how much of Portsmouth and Springfield are being bulldozed to be more like Columbus was in the '70s. "Well, Columbus tore down a bunch of old stuff and look how well they're doing."

^ Do they play a lot of Nickelback?

This building's '70s interior sure made me think of people smoking joints and listening to the Black Sabbath album Sabotage while working on projects when I'd pick up my buddies from class there in the late '90s. Shame to see it gutted. Stuff gets remodeled a lot in Columbus, so even most '90s stuff is gone.

Hey now! haha

It really does depend on what type of business it is. If it is physical work or work that takes several months to learn how to do well, minimum wage won't cut it. People see "minimum" think they can get away with the minimum. If it's a fun job where people get to be around those their own age all day, meet the opposite sex, sweat minimally and don't have to be there at 5AM, minimum wage can work. When I worked as a stagehand, the cheapest employees (not minimum wage) were often the most expensive. Some would have to do stuff twice, waste materials, come in hungover, no-show, quit all the time, get in fights, would lack attention to detail, get mouthy, etc. Those who were paid only a few dollars an hour more had way fewer problems -- often these were the same people as before! They took more pride in their work. No amount of cajoling or management skill would help. A mouth can only do so much. But a dollar sign could. At the bookstore, you've probably got some great kids working there that will go on to big things and they know that. It's probably quite the pleasant place to work as well. When guys are sweating their asses off in a hole and know that they aren't going to be moving up any time soon (if ever), they will figure out ways to screw you out of more money than if you just paid them more.

My shop wasn't a ghost town during the game on Saturday, even though it was a home game and I'm close to campus. Bad sign for the Bucks.

I haven't heard anything. Those are two nasty areas to be on a bike currently.

I'd say a lot of the traffic headaches through there are not a product of the bridge, but rather speed differentials caused by the Cut-in-the-Hill's steep grade anyway.

Oh man, was that the one that used to have topless dancers in the windows at all times? That certainly gave us a big-city amenity for a while! My buddies and I sure got a kick out of that when we were teens.

New York State had an idea that you might approve of then. They won't have to worry about the economic drawbacks of not allowing the blind to drive: DMV Drops Vision Requirements, Allowing The Visually Impaired Behind The Wheel Misguided Decision Threatens Everyone’s Safety September 27, 2011 Michael Murphy 646-873-6008 The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles announced yesterday as part of a streamlining effort that they will no longer require drivers renewing their licenses to take a vision test. more: http://www.transalt.org/newsroom/releases/5465

I don;t know about the one in Forest fair mall but the one in Kenwood was paid for after only a month and a half. I have heard. Heheh, that's always what people always say with Cincinnati malls. "Screw it, we're going to Kenwood so we can make some actual money."

The World League of American Football's (later NFL Europe) Ohio Glory played one season at the 'Shoe in 1992 and finished 1-9. I think they just dissolved. Kind of an asterisk, but a pro team nonetheless.

Not to foretell doom or anything, but I mostly think of Johnny Rocket's locations in places like Forest Fair and City Center Malls.

People don't know that because of our "everyone with a pulse gets a license" policy.