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I agree with ColDayMan that Columbus has a lot more urban character than it gets credit for. However, I believe it gets a bad rap for the same reasons that also work to it's advantage. When the city limits cover many suburban areas (I would say that by land area 3/4 of the city is suburban) then people will look at the city as a whole through that lens, which isn't always fair. However, as far as things like poverty and crime stats go, it works in favor of a city like Columbus in that it makes it look like it has less problems than other cities when in reality that may not be true.

You're awfully sure of yourself for knowing nothing about Twinsburg. I know many people that live there and have lived in the area my entire life. It is 100% a suburb. The only argument I could see is whether it is more of a suburb of Cleveland or Akron. https://patch.com/ohio/twinsburg/cleveland-magazine-rates-the-suburbs-where-does-twinsburg-rank I still have no idea what your definition of "suburb" is, but it seems to be pretty non-standard. Also, here is a discussion by people looking for a suburb of Cleveland to live in: http://www.city-data.com/forum/cleveland/882556-cleveland-suburb-fits-me.html

And Edgewater. And downtown. ?

I agree. Too many service cuts and it won't matter what the fares are.

If the two happened in tandem (correct me if I'm wrong there), then I don't see how that's possible. Fare increases make the relative cost of driving go down, and service cuts make the relative benefits of driving go up. Many ex-riders probably stopped riding due to some combination of both factors, not just one or the other. Did RTA survey riders (or ex-riders) to figure out what factor caused their projections to be wrong?

Yeah, but what I mean is that it's impossible to tell how much of their projections being wrong was due to the service cuts and how much was due to the fare increase.

I'm sorry, but you're absolutely wrong here. Twinsburg is absolutely a suburb of Cleveland. It has grown from 4,000 people to nearly 20,000 in the last 50 years, and not because it's a self sustaining metropolis. It is clearly a bedroom community for the Cleveland metro area. I think your definition of "suburb" is strange if you have to "concede" Shaker Heights and say "even Solon". Shaker Heights is an inner ring suburb and would have long ago been subsumed into the central city in many other places. Solon is pretty much a textbook suburb, just like Westlake or Strongsville. Just take a look at a satellite image of Twinsburg. All of the development west/northwest of the square is "cul-de-sac-ville" as far as the eye can see, as well as on both sides of 91 all the way to the Solon border. Even Aurora is a suburb of Cleveland, 5 miles east of Twinsburg. I know a lot of people who commute from there, and the amount of expensive housing that has been built there follows the typical outer suburban pattern.

Yeah, but that doesn't mean their projections weren't off for both factors.

Also, the difference is more like 20 miles (about 35 vs 55), not 10. Regardless, the other factor that makes them feel closer is that Cleveland's population spreads to the south considerably because it can't go north. Thus, there's not much of a gap between the urbanized areas of the two cities. In fact, many suburbs are suburbs of both cities (true suburbs, not something like Middletown).

The reason Clevelanders dispute the way the population is counted for the MSA is that there are suburbs which are clearly more Cleveland suburbs than Akron suburbs which are within the Akron MSA, such as Hudson, Twinsburg, Macedonia, Richfield, Bath, etc.

That's not exactly a convenient location...at least not in my biased west side mind. It is at least within walking distance to the Rapid, which can't be said for most of Lakewood.

A quote from PoshSteve last summer:

I watched it online. Absolutely insane and historic for CWRU in many ways! NCAA playoff game tomorrow: Case Western Reserve faces Illinois Wesleyan in D3 Playoffs http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2017/11/case_western_reserve_faces_ill.html Yes, online is how I watched it as well. Let's hope Rob Cuda is back to 100% this week.

Not sure if anyone else here watched the CWRU/CMU game online on Saturday, but that was one of the most wild finishes to a football game I've seen in a while.

Yandy Diaz

I'm skeptical about this. If, indeed, Kluber was hurt, then Tito was foolish for pitching him at all. The most I would have done, was put him in the bullpen. This year, our rotation and staff was healthy. While it would hurt somewhat to have Kluber out of the rotation, we had enough arms -- Tomlin, Salazar, ... and of course a healthy Carrasco (who was great) and Bauer. The Kluber we got was disastrous -- a 12.1 ERA. Tito stuck with his big names this year, and it cost us the series IMO. I love Brantley, but no way he and Chisenhall both should have been on the roster, and I definitely don't understand Kipnis in center. Too many guys that contributed to the win streak didn't even make the cut while guys that were injured for a good part of the season and probably not ready to come back were on it.

That's a no-brainer in my opinion...Santana. Way better OBP, better OPS, less strikeouts.

Sorry, I meant 1995 (typo). Yep, they would have won 118 games.

Also, it is only the third 100 win season in their history (1954, 1994, 2017).

http://levin.urban.csuohio.edu/nodis/maps/SPAs/Fairfax_Streets.pdf http://levin.urban.csuohio.edu/nodis/maps/SPAs/Hough_Streets.pdf http://levin.urban.csuohio.edu/nodis/maps/SPAs/University_Streets.pdf

I never understood why they include the teams with ties, even with an asterisk. There's a difference between a "winning streak" and a "not losing streak". Sorry, just read NorthShore's comment. So if the game was replayed, did the tie actually count or was the game simply postponed? How does that work when the game would have been official had it not been a tie? Does this mean they played an extra game that year due to the tie?

What effect will Amazon's distribution center have on the cargo revenue of CLE?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

The only two local channels PlayStation Vue offers in Cleveland are actually Fox and CBS, so you'd be all set if you used that service (which I highly recommend).