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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/06/usc-stripped-of-2004-national-football-championship/?hpt=hp_t2

OUCH http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/28/real_estate/us_housing_vacancy_rates/index.htm NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- There is a correction on this story. High residential vacancies are killing many housing markets, as foreclosed homes sit on the market and depress sale prices and property values. The national vacancy rate at 11.4% according to a release Tuesday from the Census Bureau. "Vacant homes equal more downward pressure on home prices," said Brad Hunter, chief economist for Metrostudy, a real estate information provider. Maine had the highest proportion of empty housing stock, at 22.8%. Other states with gluts of empty houses included Vermont (20.5%), Florida (17.5%), Arizona (16.3%) and Alaska (15.9%).

The reds blow this year. I doubt they make the playoff's.

Ouch. Bring Eddie Fingers back.

This would never come to this if they had suspended the players before the bowl game. Both the NCAA and OSU dropped the ball on this.

He took the easy way out.

I read that last night. This comment got me thinking. WTF "The population of the city of Atlanta is 540,000. The metro area, as per above, has 5.6 million people. That's more than 10 times the population of the core. Atlanta is hardly suffering. The place has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past 30 years. The same can be said for Denver, Dallas, Houston, Charlotte, and Raleigh. None of these places are obsessed with making the downtown area the center of everything, the way idiot urban planners in Cleveland are. Plano and McKinney, TX have over 100,000 people. There are skyscrapers all over the Dallas and Houston area (not just downtown) and cranes building more dot the skyline. Denver has tons of major commercial areas in Boulder, Littleton, etc. Raleigh has downtown Raleigh, but also Durham, Cary, etc. Planners in these regions are focused on providing a region that is a good place to live, with low taxes and regulations, and a pro growth enivronment; as oppossed to obsessing over making the downtown area some type of unrealistic Shangri-la at the expense of the rest of the region."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/29/us.saudi.prince.oil/index.html?hpt=P1&iref=NS1 (CNN) -- Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said Sunday that he wants oil prices to drop so that the United States and Europe don't accelerate efforts to wean themselves off his country's supply. In an interview broadcast Sunday on "CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS," the grandson of the founding king of modern Saudi Arabia said the oil price should be somewhere between $70 and $80 a barrel, rather than the current level of over $100 a barrel.

On Que. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110528/NEWS0103/110528018

^ That means nothing to me. We are not the 5th state for adding jobs which counts more than having f500 companies.

He's already leaving. He got a job with CNN.

The Reds are playing very bad baseball right now. Why swing at pitches on a position player???? What a boneheaded play by Phillips. Why Cordero throw a fastball to a fastball hitter in Howard? What a joke. Why leave a pitcher in who that last 19th inning when you had 2 more available pitchers??

Will they have Fioptics at the Banks?

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110522/NEWS01/105230337/Streetcar-only-slightly-faster-than-walking?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE What kinda garbage is this??

American Greeting. The company itself is looking at Illinois. Kinda of ironic companies want to leave Illinois but companies like AG wants to move there where it has higher taxes. It's all about who's going to put up more money.

If bringing a company like this to Ohio with incentives. Wouldn't that make other companies that here already want the same deal? Like AG?

That would be fantastic news if the Governor can get it done. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/morning_call/2011/05/will-sears-move-hq-to-ohio.html

^Only because of Chapman. They are playing well.

This is not about the tax rate it's about changing a deal(amendment) AFTER going forward with purchasing of property, advertising, etc. Every business would fight it, if it happened to them. I heard the developer already spent 200 million. If i were them i would sue the state of Ohio to recoup the month they spend after the deal was made. Did they pay the 50 millon license fee already?

Sadly another wrench has been thrown in the Streetcar plans. The casino stopped construction today. The streetcar alone was expected to get 3 million a year from the casino through taxes.

Well that justs suck. They stopped construction and both the Cincinnati and Cleveland sites.

Where will the street cars be stored?

Wish we can bus criminals back home.

How is it possible when oil went down 7% today. Under $100 a barrel.

The great recession started when gas was $4 a gallon.