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Southwest also adding second daily flight to Phoenix during the Break along with a third daily flight on Saturday. Will be interesting to see how this works with the Milwaukee adds. One of the Milwaukee flights continues to Phoenix as well. Lots of capacity to Arizona all of a sudden.

:/ more florida routes? geesh It's probably only going to be for Spring Break. Won't know if it gets extended until the next SW update closer to Labor Day.

Looks like Southwest is adding Saturday only service to Orlando starting in the spring. Lots of carriers on this route.

Yeah, but I think the address in question is its former location and not the strip mall. What do a vacant lot and this McDonald's have in common? The lack of a shake machine. (They didn't even say it was broken, they just said "we don't have a shake machine"). I wish the renovation would make the building interact with the street better. The BK at Lake is still worse and I'd love to see that thing just come down. It will probably get a shake machine now. Anyway, I agree about the street interaction. Just think if this were some Starbucks drive thru rehab nobody on here would make a comment. Cause they mask their shakes by calling them Italian names. :laugh:

They're reinvesting in a city neighborhood. Better than them closing the location and it becoming a vacant lot. Can't have a gastropub on every corner. Not a huge fan of McD's either.

I doubt anyone born after 1990 posting here any idea of that joke! One of Eddie Murphy's best movies. Don't want to take it off topic. Carry on.

No franchise is ever safe which is why these owners can play Russian Roulette with city administrators. Seattle, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Columbus, Nashville, Kansas City, Tampa and Las Vegas are all markets with legitimate size to draw an NBA team.

I'll take a stab: Part of it is type of manufacturing. A lot of Cleveland manufacturing is still a hold over from the early and mid 20th century. A lot of those types of jobs reside in China now or have been automated away. I've got to believe that Columbus manufacturing as a whole is a more modern operation. The Honda plant in Marysville is just one example.

Could it also be due to an increase in population? There certainly could be a population increase for the metro but it would be pretty small based on these numbers. Unfortunately Cleveland is still well below where it was in 2007 before the recession. Most metros have caught up and passed the last recession. Cleveland needs to string together a year of 2% employment growth to see real returns in population. Manufacturing keeps dragging the average down even though Eds and Meds jobs are expanding at a decent clip because manufacturing still makes up a large sector of the Cleveland economy. Also, while the unemployment number doesn't seem that high, it's now the highest for any Midwest metro. I'm sure there's a population drag as people without skills for these new jobs are leaving Cleveland altogether.

BLS released their latest numbers for June. Lots of interesting data for Cleveland. Cleveland had a 2% jump in total employment from June 2016. That pace is right at the national average and hefty increase from over the winter. Eds and Meds employment is showing a torrid increase: 4.7% y-o-y. That pace is on par with the tech sector in San Jose and Austin. Even manufacturing went slightly positive. Unemployment remained high at 6.4% but the total labor force is at it's highest level for June since 2010. https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/oh_cleveland_msa.htm Numbers are preliminary

So financing still isn't complete. "Aiming for August" sounds like not August. I don't care who knows who on this board, the continued delays and shortfall of financing to start this project are worrisome.

Elon is usually above the fray but he handled Twitter like the Donald today: https://jalopnik.com/heres-a-running-list-of-comments-from-public-agencies-o-1797094244

Actually, how can it be possible to travel to DC-NY in 29 minutes if it needs to make 2 stops in Baltimore and Philly. I would think this device would need to stop for at least 10 minutes at both locations for transfer pax/bags. I guess there will be an additional "express" tunnel. How would that work? The straightest line from DC-NY is under the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. That tunnel is going to be pretty deep.

Pretty easy to envision: Elon: Can we dig a giant tunnel from DC to NY and skip all that environmental assessment cr@p? The Don: Sure, absolutely, whatever you want. Covfefe. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy. :drunk:

Honestly, who cares at this point about IKEA. I can't believe they can't find any site large enough between Cleveland and Akron. Clearly IKEA has some weird issue with NE Ohio. Who needs them? Glad to see Amazon step up here.

Can't beat the location of the I-480/I-271/US422 triangle. I think the only site with similar transportations options would be the vacant half of the Ford Plant in Brook Park but that's never happening.

The whole site? If that's the case, that's truly awesome.

Miami starts selling today. Austin, San Antonio, Jacksonville, Raleigh Durham, Seattle start next Spring.

One is Miami for sure. Cleveland is picking up Miami on Frontier as well. Other new Frontier destinations would be Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Oklahoma City, Santa Ana, San Jose. Not quite sure if new routes means new destinations though. Just saw seasonal service to San Antonio for sure now. That's two.

Usually the Overall Stage winner is well established by now. This year there's conceivably six cyclists who could still win it. I can't remember the last time the race was this competitive going into the final week. This week there are two Alps stages and a time trial in Marseilles. It actually might be a true race in Paris instead of the usual dog and pony show. To me, this is way more interesting than when Lance was just putting a hammer lock on everyone else.

Is anyone following this year's Tour de France? It's one for the ages with only a week left although I think Froome will still pull it out. It's amazing how little coverage the Tour gets in the US since Lance Armstrong's scandals. I do wonder if we'll ever see another serious American contender.

Yes, if only the U.K. and Canada would finally privatize their health care they could lower their life expectancies and number of insured to US standards. Forgot this thread is about fat shaming in general. Actual facts about this specific situation be damned! Carry on. ;)

This is way more complex than presented here. It only involves non-life threatening knee and hip surgeries which are deferred for up to year. It only has been advised in certain places in the north of England where there have been several junior doctor strikes over low pay. In fact it's more of a statement on the problems within the UK NHS than about people with a BMI over 30. All of these recent articles pointing out that calories-in calories-out doesn't single-handedly control weight and health ignore that it is still the primary factor for most people. It makes people think it's okay to pig out. In May a bunch of food and beer was left at my house after a cookout. It took me three weeks to eat all of the food (brats, sides, etc.) and drink all of the leftover beer. I probably gained 2-3 pounds. Then I lost that weight almost instantly after I finished drinking the 70-80 bottles of beer. I work in the blue collar world and while there are a ton of obese guys, I'm not confident that the skinny guys are much healthier. We've had three heart attacks so far this year, one fatal. The guy who died was thinner than the others but probably smoked more. I have a BMI of 30.5. I have tree trunks for legs from doing lifting jobs in college and through other parts of my twenties. My doc says I could use to lose 30 pounds but if I were at the ideaI BMI weight I would lose way too much healthy muscle mass. I'm 44 and my heart is fine, BP is normal, no diabetes. Doc says people are taking the BMI cut-offs too strictly. We all have different body shapes and metabolisms. Some in medicine understand the environmental differences when it comes to IQ but when dealing with the BMI they pretend humans come off a single assembly line.

I travel everywhere. Cleveland is nice because it's small but it's definitely near the bottom in terms of being a modern airport. Even places like LaGuardia are getting a multi-billion dollar facelift now. The Customs facility is straight out of 1963 and is the worst facility to serve a top 40 US metro by far. It's tiny and dingy. The cost of operation at CLE plus the conditions of the Customs facility are keeping airlines away. Strong rumor that Pittsburgh will pick up Aer Lingus to Dublin next summer. That would be Euro destination number #4. Meanwhile in Cleveland......

So what? We're allowed to get excited over this getting closer to coming to fruition. Why reply like that? I think I asked some fair questions.