JohnOSU99

Columbus' "gayborhoods" are a great asset to the city. When I was a Senior at OSU, I was dating a girl who lived on Harrison Avenue just a couple of blocks from B. Hampton's...good times! David, did you happen to see the new Harrison Park development? http://harrisonpark.com/harrison-park.aspx

Sounds good to me! I'd go to a similar ColsPAC meeting if someone wants to form it (hint: David).

New Cincinnati PAC to support urban life Cincinnati Business Courier - 2:15 PM EDT Tuesday, July 10, 2007 A group of young professionals is forming a political action committee to support leaders who want to make the city a destination for the "creative class." CincyPAC is aimed at "promoting the candidacies of leaders who are committed to vibrant arts and entertainment, affordable housing and economic development, crime prevention and quality education in the city of Cincinnati and surrounding neighborhoods," according to a news release... www.cincybizjournals.com

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some more.... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=11663.msg154279#msg154279

It's been so long since Ohio has had some good employment news....can't wait to hear what it is! :clap: I was just thinking yesterday about how well Indiana has been doing landing big projects (Honda Plant and the new transmission plant north of Indy) and wondering why Ohio can't keep up with the Hoosiers.

Glass City Skyway celbration from YouTube:

Good sentiment, gaudy results. I like the simpler Columbus Firefighters Memorial because when you see it your thoughts go straight to the firefighter's sacrifices, not to what the memorial itself looks like.

The job reductions will be spread between the Columbus headquarters and their NYC offices so I don't think all 500 jobs will be lost locally.

Great pics bro! I'm always dissapointed when I see the Columbus skyline at night because it could look so much better. Someone needs to call the Vern Riffe Center's building manager and tell them to light that big bitch up.

There's a chance some renderings will be released today, let's keep our fingers crossed.

Maybe Toledo with be Michigan's new in-state rival :-D

Southwest Airlines has started airing anti-Skybus radio ads in Columbus, focusing on the additional charges for stuff like extra luggage, food, drinks, etc.

wow, I never realized how small the Columbus Museum of Art was compared to other Ohio museums!

Dude, it's just one grown man touching another grown man's balls so don't get so uptight! :wink: In the NY guy's defense it wasn't a full-blown punch, more of a backhanded smack for his sister's honor and he didn't mean to hit him in the junk....he was aiming for the taint.

Let's just say the low-lights of the evening were: Having Section 125 at Jacob's Field adopt our drunken Canadian friend by helping us keep track of him with updated reports on where in the concorse he was and how close he was to passing out whenever someone returned from a piss break. Watching "Mr. Fremont" puke over the guardrail at the I-71/US-30 exit after being punched in the balls for talking about another friend's hot sister. "Mr. New York", wearing a Blue Jays jersey and circa-1986 Top Gun sunglasses (at 1:00am), whipping out his man-garbage in front of everyone and pissing on the front of the van while the guy he punched in the balls puked on US-30. Watching "Mr. Akron" try to stumble out of the back of the van only to fall head first onto the pavement at the Goasis gas station in Lodi. "Mr. New York" helping recover "Mr. Akron's" flip-flops which had flown off his feet during the fall from the van by throwing them at his head while he lie injured in the Goasis parking lot. (I laughed my ass off because I believe all grown men who wear flip-flops should be beaten to death with said footwear) Can't wait for our trip down to Cincy for the Reds-Indians series :|

Trust me, this is more interesting then me and my friends :-D

My Canadian friend lived his whole life without a drivers license, that is until he moved to Columbus. He went to college in St. John's, Newfoundland, then moved to Calgary where he rode the train to work, then moved to Windsor where he took the bus from Windsor to his job in downtown Detroit. Once he moved to car-centric Columbus he had to learn how to drive. :-(

To be fair, no one on this trip grew up in Columbus, they're all from smaller towns (Fremont, OH; Auburn, NY; and Deer Lake, Newfoundland) so I think that's what contributed to their anti-public transportation sentiment. Plus a lot of "road pops" were consumed on the trip up, so I'm kind of glad I didn't have to baby-sit their drunk asses on the train.

Yeah it was a great game, but I'm a Reds fan so I couldn't really enjoy it. Two of my buddies that I went with are Jays fans (one's a canuck the other is from Upstate NY) so we had a good time just ragging on them and yelling "SWEEP" all night long :-D. I was suprised that there weren't many Tribes fans in the stands, but the ones that showed up were loud and rowdy which is good. Unfortunately my friends aren't as keen on public transportation as I am so they nixed the Rapid idea. We wound up parking in one of the garages next to The Q then headed over to the Thirsty Parrot for some pre-game boozing and ended the night at Panini's.

I do have a few pics of the Cleveland Arms pub, I'll try to get one scanned. Do you know who/what Cleveland Street in London was named for? Was it originally spelled with an "a" but dropped in honor of our Cleveland? :-D

awesome! Yes we will be coming up I-71 from Columbus. Sounds like the Rapid is the way to go. I'm a big public transportation dork, so I'm all about riding the train.

^ Which line should I take? Red? Is there a convenient "park and ride" lot at any of the outer Rapid stations?

My friends and I are going to the Indians vs. Blue Jays game tomorrow night at the Jake. Would we be better off driving downtown to find a parking spot near the stadium, or parking in a suburban "park and ride" and taking the Rapid into downtown? I don't know what the parking situation is like at Jacobs Field, but I'm used to downtown Columbus where parking is the one thing we have too much of :-( Thanks in advance for any advice.

Great news! Only thing better would be if Cardinal had a downtown skyscraper instead of a sprawling suburban campus.