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No, the one north of there, between Bushnell and Lansdale. This plan sucks. There were about 5 businesses in that strip (not pretty, built right up to the street at least) very recently. Now we get one suburban style McDonald's. Yay!

There are still some (very limited) tickets available on Ticketmaster, but I believe they're all over $70.

Sounds like nearly every corner store in Cleveland, just that we don't call them "Pony Kegs". They're usually called "Delis" here. EDIT: Sorry, it seems the Street Views don't embed correctly, so just click the links. Adam Deli Tony's Delicatessen Marvin's Deli Although there is a "deli" called the "del" in the exurban town east of Cleveland where my in-laws live that mostly sells Mexican goods for the local nursery workers.

Don't worry, I'm not lumping you in with anyone, that was natininja. I just have never understood the point of the iMac, ever since my best friend in college bought one when they were first introduced. I myself own both a Mac (Mac mini) and a PC. What are your reasons for saying Windows is a horrible operating system, though? I think it has come a long way in the last 10 years, and has reached a point where there's not much of a difference between it and the "superior" OS X in my opinion (and as a user of both).

Keep in mind that the data is on the Buskeye Institute website. They will bend and twist and contort it every which way to try to make government employees look bad. For instance, they will report a teacher who makes $50k as making ~$90k, as they "extrapolate to a full-time salary" (their words not mine) or something along those lines.

Yup Ha, yeah, and he makes it easy since he prefixes everything he does with "Tyler Perry's...".

I was going to say the same thing, except about Nicholas Cage.

I'm betting in addition to the pension (which likely isn't included) he may have gotten paid for his accumulated sick days (I believe they call that "severance" for government employees who retire). Or it may be what Hts said. Or it may be both. Regardless, yeah, the double-dipping has to go.

30 seconds of Googling: http://www.19actionnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=13446144

Until you realize they have to pay a property tax on their vehicle. Or they have a crappy library system. Or they have to pay for their own trash pickup, etc., etc.

I would say only about half of the cities in RITA give you a full credit. The city I live in only gives me a 1% credit....on a 2.5% tax rate. So I end up paying a grand total of 3.5%. At least in Cleveland, you have a larger base of employment opportunities than any of the suburbs. As far as the rest of your arguments go, I didn't see anything all that different than the "grass is greener" talk I see on almost any cleveland.com suburban municipality forum. I think those are mostly common complaints anywhere.

What tax codes are you talking about (I wish my property taxes and local income taxes were as low as the city of Cleveland's)? What City of Cleveland leaders are incompetent or corrupt or whatever you're hinting at?

Wow, I didn't realize they were including free monitored overnight parking for those who wish to take the Rapid to the airport. That should really get some people to take the Rapid who otherwise wouldn't.

That's more of an incremental replacement vs full replacement. I guess I'm not into constantly upgrading a desktop tower with new parts. And displays are always improving as well. I'm not even talking about upgrading the desktop's internals, just the monitor vs. the computer as a whole (excluding the monitor). If one technology moves faster than the other you can just buy a new monitor (or vice versa, buy a new computer and keep the monitor if you still like it). But all the iMac does is tie the two together and force people to upgrade everything, even if they don't need to. I can understand people that don't want to crack the computer open and swap in new parts, but the monitor (IMO) should be as independent from the rest of the computer as the printer or keyboard. Would you want to have to buy a whole new computer because one of your keys stopped working? The only advantage I see to marrying the two together is portability. But the thing's a desktop, you're not going to carry it around.

8Titles, Whether or not an employee is unionized has nothing to do with whether or not they are in the public or private sector. There are both unionized and non-unionized government employees, and there are both unionized and non-unionized private sector employees. What this law does is take away rights from (certain) public sector unionized employees that private sector unionized employees have. Non-unionized government employees are already in the same boat as you are (and all other non-unionized employees, whether public or private). What you seem to be all up in arms about is that non-unionized employees don't have as many protections as unionized employees. That's a different issue (and exactly why unions were formed), but it has nothing to do with whether you are a government employee or not.

Gasoline is a very inelastic good. It takes a large change in price to noticeably change people's behavior.

I have a hard time understanding why government employees should have rights, protection, bargaining, etc., that private sector employees do not have within the same state. I've worked for the same private sector employer for 12 years and they could fire me, decrease my salary, and take away other benefits, and I have no or very little recourse. I'm a former government employee (military), and my father worked in a union shop for over 40 years, so I've seen and lived both sides of the argument. It's hard for me to grasp why the people who pay the taxes that pay the government workers salary should have less protection/rights than them. At the same time, two wrongs don't make a right, so I'm actually undecided on the issue. Private sector employees can be unionized as well as public sector employees. I think the differences you are perceiving are not between public vs. private employees, but in unionized vs. non-unionized employees. The difference now is that the (unionized) public sector employees have LESS rights than their (unionized) private sector counterparts.

Chancellor University (formerly Myers University) occupied that building until recently. http://www.chancelloru.edu/about/history.php

I understand that 110 MPH costs much more than 90 MPH, but wouldn't it cut more time off the trip (a 20 MPH increase) than going from 79 to 90 (an 11 MPH increase)? To me, it seems as if it's more important to fix the bottlenecks than increase the top speed by 11 MPH. The trains to Chicago seem to get to South Bend really fast and then creep into Chicago. You always think "man we're gonna get in ahead of schedule" and then you find a way to be late thanks to the approach to the city.

#1, that is incorrect. #2, metro LA is not on the list. #3, metro LA is far more dense than nearly all of the other western MSA's (and especially the inland ones such as Tuscon, Denver, Salt Lake City, etc.). Look at the density of the Salt Lake City MSA and tell me how it possibly could be served better than New York (unless they spend an outrageous amount to run nearly empty buses and trains over long distances). There's something really strange about these rankings.

By that criteria, how in the world is NYC not #1 by a long shot (let alone not even in the top 10)?

I never understood the iMac. It's like those TV-DVD combos. If the monitor starts to go, the computer's no good. And if the computer goes, you can't reuse the monitor. It's like getting the disadvantages of a laptop without getting the portability.

Also (to Hts) I wouldn't be opposed to the demolition of the Columbia Building if they were replacing it with anything that would encourage pedestrian activity.

One could have said E. 4th was "pedestrian unfriendly" before it was redone as well. There's a big difference though between a place which has the potential to be pedestrian friendly and one that does not. Prospect has a lot of potential as it stands. If we replace the Columbia with a big parking garage and multi-lane curb cuts, we are reducing that potential by a large margin. Just imagine how different E. 4th would have turned out if they demolished a couple large buildings and put multi-lane parking garage exits there.

I can't understand why everyone says that stretch of Prospect is "pedestrian unfriendly". I have walked many times between Tower City (Prospect entrance) and E. 4th St. There is nothing pedestrian unfriendly about it other than the fact that the buildings lining the street are mostly vacant at this point. Crossing Ontario at Prospect is no more difficult than crossing any other downtown intersection. That could definitely stand a good chance to change when the incentive for people to walk between the casino and E. 4th St. down Prospect is there. However, this plan not only makes the sidewalk tougher to traverse on the south side of Prospect, but would also eliminate a large building which could house something people could use (or at least something more interesting to walk by than a parking garage).