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That doesn't sound like much to me if that is the cost of hiring the employee and not their salary. Factoring in the overhead, that probably means they were paid a salary of about $30,000.

We're only 1.5 games out of the playoffs in September, and yet we still have close to the worst attendance in all of baseball. Then there's the perennial losers that are the Browns selling out a stadium of 72,000 every game and you can understand why players may be frustrated.

Yeah, and Staten Island is Richmond County I believe. As far as Brooklyn goes, you're correct, but statistically they still are from New York City. Every other city on that CWRU list is an actual city, so I'm not sure why Brooklyn would be listed.

Good stat! I went all the way back to 2008 (as of Sept. 10): Games out of wild card by year as of Sept. 10: 2008 - 13.5 2009 - 21 2010 - 27.5 2011 - 13 2012 - 19.5 2013 - 1.5 You'd think there'd be a little more excitement about the Tribe, even in spite of their slumps.

New York City comprises all five boroughs. Postal addresses don't matter when talking about what city you're from. Manhattan is New York County.

If its going by USPS zip codes, its not even necessarily in the city limits. The 44121, 44143, 44124 zip codes among others, are considered '"Cleveland" by the USPS. I don't live in Cleveland but all my official mail comes listed as "Cleveland, Ohio" This is the case in several eastern suburbs and I imagine theres some on the westside that fall under this too. I don't think that's the case because Shaker Heights is on the list, and their main zip code (44120) is listed as having the preferred city name of CLEVELAND OH by the USPS. https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action?mode=2&refresh=true

Absolutely. I can't imagine that Solon High School sends more than 10-15 students each year to CWRU out of their graduating classes of 400-450.

Not to mention YAC, like Jermichael Finley's TD right before the half.

So the downtown population would be around 12,000 after these new units come online if you include the inmate population, right? I know that things like stores and restaurants don't benefit from the inmate population, but it does provide a more apples to apples comparison to other downtown populations which also count inmate population in their numbers.

I have a family member in the Geneva School District. It's not well off by any means, but to compare it to Cleveland is laughable. The same goes for Ashtabula, which includes places like suburban Saybrook Township in its school district (although Ashtabula's district report card IS pretty awful). But the point was more that you're discrediting the success of an inner city school due to "self-selection", yet many people (and I believe you have as well) give credit to suburban schools in exclusive areas that perform well.

Suburban schools, such as Solon, Chagrin Falls, Rocky River, etc. "beat out" Cleveland schools because many of the suburban schools have their own barriers to entry: Students must have parents that can afford the expensive homes in these districts. The implication you're making is that these suburban schools are performing miracles when that's not really the case. The truth is that many "high performing" suburban schools are full of students from middle class and wealthy families and parents with degrees that know the value of education. So while there may not be GPA requirements for these suburban schools, there's a type of self-selection occurring that makes the schools themselves look very good. I was just about to post the same thing. It amazes me how many people gloss over this fact.

I don't know if I'd really say there are too many problems. Disagreements, sure. Problems, not so much.

The train brakes and speeds up very quickly, and only stops for about 2 minutes at those stations, so I'd say KJP's 5 minutes may even be a worst-case estimate.

RTA is expressly forbidden from servicing areas outside of Cuayhoga County I believe.

Asdrubal's defense has become a real liability.

Value World? http://lakewood-oh.patch.com/groups/business-news/p/value-world-slated-to-move-into-vacated-drug-mart

I feel the same way. At first, I didn't want it to be torn down just because it would have made Cleveland feel less dense (and have less density potential as I doubt any new building would have approached that height if any were built there at all). Now, I actually kind of like the building and am excited to see what it looks like fully cleaned and renovated.

This city already had roads and highways which were designed at a time when the population was near 1 million. We have virtually no rush hour. Why in the world do we need to spend so much money on new boulevards? I thought you were fiscally conservative.

I remember marching in a line to go anywhere as well, such as lunch, gym, music, etc.

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Litening, this is what you had replied to...the "design pattern" in general. So I was replying more to the design pattern than to your simple example. I would say 95% of this pattern looks more like Arizona (hence metrocity's comment about barriers hiding the neighborhoods) than the one you are referring to. However, I did later post a street view of Irvine. Sure, it's SLIGHTLY better than the example I posted. But it still absolutely is foreboding to any mode of transportation other than the automobile. Street View around that area and tell me how many pedestrians and/or bicyclists you see. Without these, there is nobody using the bus or train, either. Sure, you COULD walk on the little side roads, but nobody is going to use that crosswalk and play Frogger with 50 MPH traffic, which means they've been relegated to a 1 mi x 1 mi square of residential for their travels, since these arterials are everywhere. If you want to see proof of the autocentric development these arterials ensure, just look at all of the commercial development. Does it look like anything you could walk to? No, they're all shopping plazas surrounded by seas of parking with the occasional outlot, also surrounded by a sea of parking. I get that you think these arterials are necessary, but then how does a city like Chicago, with such a higher population density, get away with having very few of them? It's because places like Irvine were designed to make it very easy to use of a car to get around, which requires even more roads to facilitate the car, which in turn further ensures that only a car may be used in a sort of vicious cycle. That is NOT how I think we should be designing roads through Cleveland. As to your ridiculous comment about condo prices in Irvine, I think there's many more factors at play there. Or do you really believe we have the "Opportunity" to see home values like that if we build that exact same road through this area?

Of course you do. They "criticize" density by trying to plow wide roads through it and by pushing for tearing down buildings to make parking lots.

Apparently it has been lost in the server crash. Lucky for you I guess. I remember typing half of a reply and then discarding it because I figured it wasn't even worth getting into an argument over. Anyway... I think you're completely off point about the proselytizing. Suburban plans tend to eliminate any option other than the car, and this type of construction has been "proselytized" all over America for 70 years such that a huge swath of the population now lives in an area where they only have one realistic transportation options. Urban development in the United States is nowhere near being in the position to eliminate options, but rather to PROVIDE options. Very rarely do urban development plans eliminate the ability to drive an automobile, but very often suburban plans eliminate every mode of transportation EXCEPT for the automobile. That is why I believe suburbanites are the "pushier" of the groups in wanting things to only work the way they like. And since when have urban planners forced people to live a certain way? Have you ever seen anyone on here advocating going into Westlake and tearing everything down and rebuilding it densely?

At least they have crosswalks when the streets are cut off, but I'm not sure who in their right mind would actually believe cars would stop for them in this one: http://goo.gl/maps/KNMfS

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