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I meant that the prevailing attitude toward the city of Columbus is generally more positive among suburbanites in part because the city of Columbus isn't synonymous with "inner city" like it is in Cleveland. In my mind, there are two reasons for this...a lot of "suburban" areas are within the city limits, and also OSU and downtown is all some people from the exurbs think of when they think of Columbus. This isn't a knock on Columbus. I'm just saying that I don't think the "old Columbus" area is all that different from Cleveland, it's just that the term "Columbus" has come to mean a much more encompassing area than "Cleveland" has.

I would bet people in Pataskala, Hilliard, Powell, etc. have similar opinions of the inner city areas of Columbus as suburban Clevelanders do of Cleveland. The difference is that Columbus has annexed so much that much of what is within the city limits is not inner-city.

The village of Chagrin Falls is very walkable (as well as very small.) You're probably thinking of outlying areas like Bainbridge Township and Moreland Hills. My point was simply that density does not equal walkability. Even the downtown area and small surrounding neighborhoods are not very dense due to them being mostly single family homes, even though it is extremely walkable in character. I suppose to make my point better, I should have used something around Columbus, like maybe Grandview Heights. It has a respectable density of nearly 5,000/sqmi, but I bet the area around Morse Rd. and SR 161 has a similar density, although the walkability of each is drastically different.

I think the fact that many of the suburban areas are within the city limits helps them more than anything.

Cuyahoga County is more dense than Franklin County by a decent margin, even with the Metroparks, 3 rivers running through it, and a national park. I could care less what percentage of the metro area resides in the city of Columbus because the city of Columbus is 3 times the land area of Cleveland and spans 3 counties. BTW, your stats are off. Franklin County contains 62.0% of the metro population. For comparison, Cuyahoga County contains 60.3% of the Cleveland metro area's population, while being only a little over 80% of the size of Franklin County. But as we've mentioned before, density doesn't always equate to walkability or less car dependence, which is normally what we think of as being the hallmark of sprawl. For instance, the village of Chagrin Falls likely has significantly lower density than this area of Columbus while being FAR more walkable:

Like Mario and Luigi?

What do the Native Americans you know have to say? Why are you personally upset about the name without knowing how it is viewed by others? The only reason I see to be upset is if you know Native Americans are upset about it. Otherwise, you're speaking for them, which seems a bit self-righteous and condescending.

So if people don't want to be caricatured by a hoosier mascot, and therefore they got rid of the mascot but kept the name Hoosiers, why couldn't the same be true of Indians? I don't know whether the are OK with this or not, but I also believe *you* can't know as well, unless you're Native American and know a large number of Native Americans.

All mascots are caricatures. What's important is whether or not the people being caricatured believe it to be offensive or not. If a significant number of Native Americans find it offensive, I'm all for changing it. If it's only a couple activists (one being proven corrupt already) and a bunch of well-meaning none-Native Americans, then I don't think it's necessary. Speaking of some of the examples you referenced, some people (not most, but some) consider "hoosier" as a derogatory term. My point is that I'm all on board with changing the name if it's done for the right reasons, but not just because it's the cause-du-jour for wanna be "do-gooders."

I think this is the thing we need to figure out somehow. We need to figure out what Native Americans think about the term. If it is deemed to be derogatory, we should listen and the name should change. If they either don't care or most of them actually think it's kind of cool in some way, then it should stay. That's the reason names like Vikings and Fighting Irish are considered OK. (I doubt you'd see any Irish ND people complaining about their mascot, so it's not considered derogatory.)

Homer is not white. ?

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I was just responding to KJP. I didn't see the cars in question or have any comment other than to provide statistics in reply to his question and mention the possibility of a rental car.

Only about 3% or 4% in both states, although they could also have just been rental cars.

Great find!

Looks like Koffie Cafe got their Instagram account back under control.

True. I'm guessing that maybe they were targeted because the owner is conservative, but I highly doubt he'd post that. Maybe the 8 people who liked the roach picture would give a clue.

The owner seems to be Greg Bodnar. There is only one Greg Bodnar registered to vote in Ohio and he's a registered Republican, so who knows? I find it hard to believe he'd be dumb enough business-wise to do this, even if he is a Trump supporter himself. FWIW, he was pretty outspoken about not wanting Market Ave. closed last summer, so he doesn't seem to mince words. So I guess it's possible???

The former used car lot's address is 4157 Lorain Ave. I would guess it's a different project.

What a bunch of idiots. And here I thought it couldn't get any worse than Anderson.

Pier 1 filed for bankruptcy in mid Feburary, so I don't think COVID-19 had much to do with their struggles.

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Only moderately spicy? That means no spice by my standards. Boo.

I'm going to guess that a couple of those streets are named after the father of the endower of Case School of Applied Sciences (or maybe the son). https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/case-leonard-sr