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Dynomite sells beer and wine, so I imagine it's legal. Sorry, I was being sarcastic. I'm sure the sign is implying that alcohol is legal up to that point, which is awesome.

It very well could be a trick. "No alcohol beyond this point" doesn't say anything about whether or not alcohol is legal before that point.

I love Presti's, but as far as donuts go, Biagio's in Eastlake is much better.

The Cavs look awful tonight. Go Tribe.

I live in Akron and have started regularly attending AMATS meetings. I honestly don't think there is a huge constituency defending that stretch of OH-59 as necessary to the regional transportation system. Officials from other cities in the AMATS region would probably love to have the annual maintenance budget for that freeway to nowhere back and available for other projects. It's all about the budget--in which fiscal year(s) do we want to take the hit to remove it, and/or can we draw the maximum amount of federal support for a deconstruction project instead of a construction project? His comment would still be correct. "Most people" can afford cars. That share may be shrinking, but it's still a clear majority. A majority may own a car, but that doesn't mean they all can really afford it. I'm sure many of those people are overextending themselves and taking on debt in other areas due to paying so much to own and maintain a car.

Yes. Trying to permanently close a section of a federally designated road is damn near impossible. Ontario is a federally designated road (US 422) through the southern half of the square and it is being closed permanently, though.

Mike Polk is never funny.

They both can mean the same thing, but jells seems to be preferred when used how she did. I would have assumed "gels" as well.

I wouldn't say that 11 years is all that unreasonable for a high-traffic concrete road to be deteriorating with the winters we have had in those years. Remember that 2004-2005 was the most snow ever recorded and the last few years have seen a lot of freeze/thaws instead of the usual long stretches below freezing. Other roads repaved in concrete much more recently have started to already show signs of wear and tear.

Ditto. Also, I enjoyed her retort about "jells", since I actually never realized that was the preferred spelling when used as she did.

What are those pictures even? Maybe I'm missing something b/c I can only see them in very low res on my phone, but I don't get it.

I liked the video overall, although I felt like they were a little lazy with the footage, between recycling the Case video's footage and using at least 3 shots of Melt food (and remember that there is no Melt in Cleveland). Also, I found it strange that the only street sign I noticed was a prominent shot of "Detroit". I thought it was strange that we would subliminally put Detroit in people's minds during a video like that.

It looks like Case owns the arts and crafts house, but not the church. Regardless, both are still there in the overhead site plan.

But they don't require talking, which is kind of the point. I think they're a good intermediate between email and talking as far as expected commitment and time to respond, although I think they should be obsoleted in favor of chat services that work over the internet instead of the archaic SMS messages.

Great stuff, Murray!! Forget the silly "Hastily Made Video..." which only, as usual, pokes fun at the City... THIS video more closely represents what Cleveland's all about. Regular people. Some good (and bad) dancing; greet music. I loved the video. Don't get me started on that unfunny cheap-shot artist, Mike Polk.

Wha-wha?!?! That Elk & Elk rehab can't be for real! That's about as bad as it gets.

We're always terrible in the 3rd quarter.

Dellavedova always gives 150%. Too bad that's still not as good as most players' 50%.

Or Red, no? The "regular steaks" aren't any more, but I don't recall Red having an $80 Wagyu steak on their menu.

It doesn't look any more expensive than Ken Stewart's.

Good points. But I can also imagine a scenario where developments like this are not proposed/encouraged/funded, and then people call out the government for only investing in "white neighborhoods" while leaving "black neighborhoods" to rot. No matter what they do, someone is going to find a reason to complain. True...I don't know too much about the specific complaints, but I wonder if they;re not related to the development as a whole, which people felt was targeting a group of people the neighborhood wanted rather than who was currently living there. Gentrification is always a touchy subject, and I can see both sides of the coin, so I guess I'm just providing an alternate viewpoint here.

Possibly, but I have a feeling this was (and that they knew it was) a much more-than-normal touchy subject in this area. First of all, it was on the corner of MLK, Jr. Dr., so it seems it was a historically black area which is being gentrified, not a recent white flight area. Also, it's Portland, which doesn't have a large percentage of African Americans, so the gentrification of likely the only historically black neighborhood probably felt more personal than it would in other cities.

If you're a renter, you don't want it to happen. It's what is happening in San Francisco. That is the central argument against gentrification. I can see where they have an argument here. If it was just an influx of private dollars for whatever reason, that'd be a different story. But selling government-owned property for an 80% discount is using taxpayer dollars to fuel gentrification. Much depends on how realistic the appraisal was. Especially considering that the property was government owned. The appraisal was "worth $2.5 to $2.7 million," whatever that means.

They do in Chicago.

Yes, absolutely property owners want this. That's the struggle going on here. I'm guessing there's a high proportion of renters so they have a strong voice to counter the voices in favor of the development. I don't generally have a problem with gentrification unless the taxpayers are paying for it in a highly populated poor neighborhood. That's what seems to be the case here.