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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/

excellent...thanks!

http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2009/03/plain_dealer_fileexterior_of_t.html Plain Dealer cuts pay of non-union employees and requires 10-day furloughs Posted by Michelle Jarboe/Plain Dealer Reporter March 23, 2009 15:17PM Categories: Economy, Real Time News The Plain Dealer will require non-union employees to take pay cuts and 10-day furloughs, an attempt to cut costs but preserve jobs as advertising revenue dwindles. During meetings with employees Monday, Publisher and President Terrance C. Z. Egger announced that full-time non-union employees will take 10 days of unpaid leave between April 20 and Oct. 4. Full-time and part-time non-union employees will see their first $50,000 of pay cut by 8 percent and any additional pay cut by 10 percent as of June 1.

Both the paper and the cleveland.com website are owned by Advance. http://www.advance.net/index.ssf?/advance_publications/about_advance_publications.html

I like Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design by Kenneth Kolson. The author does a fairly in depth and I think well researched analysis of the Burnham Cleveland Mall plan and Shaker Heights as well as the Erieview urban renewal scheme.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Where was the PD's call for "vigorous due diligence" when GCP was doing their thing...and that's just recent history. What about those joke CFA (or whatever they were called) meetings a few years back. Is this town and its daily newspaper caught in the twilight zone?

Here's mine. I'm going to call him too but I'm guessing he won't answer his phone again this afternoon... Senator Patton: Frankly I'm dismayed at your stance regarding funding for the development of railroads in Ohio, including passenger rail improvements in the 3-C Corridor and across the northern part of the state. As I'm sure you are aware, Ohio is a transportation cross-roads for the movement of freight (both by rail and over the road carriers) and it would seem, according to what I have read, that you would prefer to keep up stuck in the same old same old mode of continued highway expansion while states around us move to modernize and upgrade rails systems to efficiently move people and freight in the 21st century. I for one am tired of subsidizing unsustainable transportation infrastructure in this state and the federal level while being told that there's no place for rail improvements at the funding table. We can't even keep the bridge on I-90 (a mainline coast to coast interstate highway) fully open and in good repair. What does this say about the evolution of our transportation system in Ohio over the past 50 years? It says to me that we're heading in the wrong direction. Why is it OK to subsidize highways and airports but not rail improvements? I would much prefer to travel to Columbus (which I do at least monthly) with my laptop out getting some work done on a train than via the mind-numbing drive down I-71 that is, as of now, my only option. Thanks for you time. redbrick Fairview Park

I would keep the Case shuttle routes in mind too when looking for a place. http://greenie.case.edu/evening.htm

How do these naysayers not consider the disadvantage Ohio will face as surrounding states develop new or enhanced passenger rail while we stand still, as Stickland pointed out. It's like they think Ohio exists in isolation rather that seeing it as a key player in a rail network connecting the east coast to Chicago.

Knowing some of these guys, I hope they don't vote on 3/17. Sorry but I had to say it :-D :drunk:

you would think the reporter could at least get a certain someone we all know's name right... http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2009/02/ohio_house_republicans_want_to.html Ohio House Republicans want to delay action on 3C Corridor rail plan Posted by Aaron Marshall/Plain Dealer Reporter February 27, 2009 05:00AM Categories: Real Time News COLUMBUS -- House Republicans want to put the brakes on Gov. Ted Strickland's plan to pump $250 million into starting up passenger rail service connecting Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. They want the state to wait until a study by Amtrak has been completed in August before moving a muscle on the "3C Corridor" project that Strickland has proposed in his transportation budget. But the Republicans lack the votes to slow down the project. House Democrats and rail advocates worry that if the state doesn't move forward, Ohio could miss out on federal dollars for the conventional-speed rail plan. Rep. Ross McGregor, a Springfield Republican who is the ranking GOP member on transportation issues in the state budget, said his caucus members want to see what the Amtrak study shows about the number of potential riders. They are also spooked by a comment from new Ohio Department of Transportation chief Jolene Molitoris, who told lawmakers that the new train passenger line would require an ongoing state subsidy. .....