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There is no responsibility on the bank. YOU call them to make it happen. YOU sign the papers. They don't make YOU do anything, only provide options. The last thing you said, is 100% correct! So you don't believe in the concept of predatory lending? Or think the financial industry's fee/profit driven cliff dive into subprime, interest only, stated income and all the other wacky mortgage instruments are part of the problem?

Check out Sen. Patton's contribution to this fine article (highlighted in bold) and if you've followed the 3-C rail thread and postings on Patton there, then join me in a rousing WTF? http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/05/no_plans_to_eliminate_i71_bott.html No plans to eliminate I-71 bottleneck in Morrow County, ODOT says Posted by Karen Farkas/Plain Dealer Reporter May 09, 2009 06:00AM Categories: Real Time News, Traffic Barbara Snyder has been driving from Cleveland to Columbus since before Interstate 71 was built. The 1955 Ohio State University graduate still heads south so often for OSU football games and events that she and her husband, Dick, often stay at a condominium they own near campus.

Hasn't Midtown already taken steps in the right direction with the new zoning overlay for the district. I believe many of the structures/businesses being complained about were built/approved prior to this being put in place. http://www.midtowncleveland.org/data/pdf/MTC%20master%20plan-zoning%20summaries.pdf

Wow, even as far back as 1950, before the the interbelt sliced through downtown, surface lots have taken over the former grounds of a Euclid mansion. Anyone else notice what appears to be a small auto test track to the east of the Fenn Tower parking lots is this pic: http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/fenn&CISOPTR=345

If a bookstore is in the works for E. 4th, I'd like to see something like The Loft in C-bus/German Village. If not downtown, then maybe Tremont or OC...

I would make granite curbs mandatory on all road and bridge rebuilding projects for the long term cost savings. They last for decades and rarely crack when run over by a bus or truck. Oh, and they look better than formed concrete.

Can't believe they didn't mention the CLE in a foreclosure article about the "American Rust Belt"

PD circulation down 11.7% year over year: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003966608 Top 25 Papers by Daily Circ, in New FAS-FAX By E&P Staff Published: April 27, 2009 8:20 AM ET NEW YORK Here are the top 25 daily newspapers ranked by circulation for the six months ending March 2009, according to ABC. The percent change compares daily circulation for the same period ending in March 2008. Please note daily averages are Monday-through-Friday. Please note that the time period reflected for The Denver Post has no comparable prior period; when the Rocky Mountain News folded on Feb. 28, subscribers were sent copies of the Denver Post. See our separate main story on overall circ results, here. USA TODAY -- 2,113,725 – (-7.46%) THE WALL STREET JOURNAL -- 2,082,189 -- 0.61% THE NEW YORK TIMES -- 1,039,031 -- (-3.55%) LOS ANGELES TIMES -- 723,181 -- (-6.55%) THE WASHINGTON POST -- 665,383 -- (-1.16%) DAILY NEWS (NEW YORK) -- 602,857 -- (-14.26%) NEW YORK POST -- 558,140 -- (-20.55%) CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- 501,202 -- (-7.47%) HOUSTON CHRONICLE -- 425,138 -- (-13.96%) THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC -- 389,701 -- (-5.72%) THE DENVER POST (02/28/2009 to 03/31/2009) -- 371,728 -- N/A NEWSDAY -- 368,194 -- (-3.01%) THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS -- 331,907 -- (-9.88%) STAR-TRIBUNE, MINNEAPOLIS -- 320,076 -- (-0.71%) CHICAGO SUN-TIMES -- 312,141 -- (-0.04%) SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE -- 312,118 -- (-15.72%) THE BOSTON GLOBE -- 302,638 -- (-13.68%) THE PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND -- 291,630 -- (-11.70%) DETROIT FREE PRESS -- 290,730 -- (-5.90%) THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER -- 288,298 -- (-13.72%) THE STAR-LEDGER, NEWARK, N.J. -- 287,082 -- (-16.82%) ST. PETERSBURG (FLA.) TIMES -- 283,093 -- (-10.42%) THE OREGONIAN, PORTLAND -- 268,512 -- (-11.76%) THE ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION -- 261,828 -- (-19.91%) SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE -- 261,253 -- (-9.53%)

If they were so open to all kinds of designs, then why did they hold a press conference before the public hearing to categorically exclude cable-stay designs? Does the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston shed ice a lot? Does the I-280 shed ice a lot too? Or is it just a couple of days per year? And even if it is a lot, how hard is it to add attractive lighting elements to the cables and also serve as heating elements to prevent ice accumulation? Sounds like some narrow-minded ODOT engineer with some pull got a bug up his ass about ice accumulation and everyone freaked out. Oh, and by the way, the southern alignment may not be dead. Guess who's got some interest in it? How about Forest City Enterprises....... Let me guess...FCE owns some land in the southern alignment path that they want to sell to the State of Ohio for 20 times what they paid for it 4 months ago or something like that?

At the bottom of the graphic - "NOTE: Maps are not at the same scale." Why not include the scale? Oh nevermind, that would show what a joke this comparison is.

It was these hearings for the Columbus Interbelt/I-670 reconstruction back in the 90's where residents and community leaders spoke up for changes and the High St. cap...got the ball rolling and definitely had an impact on the final design of the project.

Any bets on when the first post-agreement lawsuit is filed by a concerned Cuyahoga county citizen? I say under 60 minutes.

Thanks Columbusite for this thread. Thurber Village was my first post-OSU graduation home...then we bought a fixer upper on Harrison Ave. for someting like $23,000 and made $50,000 (after the renovations) when we sold it. Of course we got out too early cause we wanted to move back to the CLE but whatever. Great neighborhood despite the misguided urban renewal that wiped out Flytown...we could walk to the North Market (back when it first opened) and the hot spots on W. 3rd and High St. in under 10 minutes.

They were actually headed to University Circle but they could figure out how to get there when they exited 490... :-D

sounds like a PD headline... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30015855/