PigBoy

^ Since you didn't say it this time: Oy!

No way, you guys are crazy. Covington has the bestest skyline in the whole world!

$60.01. You can keep the surplus.

La. :wave: (She is my sister, folks, in case you couldn't pick up on that.) Oh, and good luck on the thesis defense!

Ah, the long-awaited ColDay New Albany thread. The No Parking.... Please sign cracks me up!

In one of those courthouse shots it looks like the birds are preparing to make a kamikaze attack on it.

Mr Sparkle, what is it about your urban form and density that makes you think the system would not get much use?

Can you point me to information about the St. Louis example you mentioned here?

Excellent! Thanks for enlightening me!

Field trip? :-D

The giant Ferris Wheel idea... I think they meant to file that one under the "How to Ruin Cincinnati's Skyline" list. (But a carousel would be okay.)

Ooh, like a secret agent? Neat! 8-) (That smiley needs a trench coat)

I think it's just that grasscat has posted over eight million pictures from the auditor's website in the various projects and construction threads. I suspect they start to look familiar after a while.

Get with the times, man! 12-year-olds don't need magazines when they can get lightning-fast porn on the internet! Yeah, Cincinnati has a reputation to uphold! :|

^ I believe you are talking about what is now Governor's Place. The city of Kettering purchased what was the former Hills and Dales shopping center and led the redevelopment. Interesting little story on the land across Dixie Hwy, where the Wal-Mart went in: the Kettering-Moraine border runs through there, and when the Wal-Mart was built, it ended up having a portion of the building and parking lot in Kettering, and a portion in Moraine. The larger part was in Moraine, and I think last year the two cities adjusted the border so that the entire property is now in Moraine. I'm in Madison, Wisconsin now for grad school at UW-Madison, but I've only been here since August. Beavercreek is "home." At the moment I'd like to think this location is temporary and that I will return to Ohio after a couple of years, but who knows...

As long as they include pie. :-) I still can't get pie out of my head from a cnn article written before last year's election, posted in this thread (you made the Pleasantville comparison in that thread as well): "Daytonians can be suspicious of outsiders, but they still show up with an apple pie when someone new moves onto the block." So, have any suspicious neighbors brought you pie yet, New Orleans Lady?

Why is second-hand smoke less believable as a cause of death than the multitude of other things that cause lung cancer, heart disease, or whatever else people are said to die from? Whatever the true number of deaths is, I trust that it is a far cry from zero, because although I don't know any particular study's methods, no legitimate scientist or scientific organization just makes up numbers out of thin air. If you said that second-hand smoke is not worth society losing much sleep over, I'd probably agree with you (and others here would not), but I do recognize that the hazard exists, just like all kinds of other hazards we don't spend much time worrying about.

Since the Golden Nugget has been talked about in this thread, here's something from the Dayton Business Journal: Golden Nugget to rebuild The owner of the Golden Nugget Restaurant in Kettering that was damaged by an early August fire is looking to rebuild. Betsy Thomas submitted a request to be reviewed at the city of Kettering's Board of Zoning Appeals meeting Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Thomas is seeking to tear down and rebuild the portion of the building that she owns. She leases the dining section, and she has not been able to acquire that portion of the property yet, said Ron Hundt, Kettering city planner. According to the zoning application, Thomas wants to start construction as soon as possible and no later than March 2006.

Indeed. Go randomness!

(sniff) Makes me want to go back home!

Does anyone have thoughts and ideas on what doomed the issue before and what it will take to pass a light rail issue? (I know it's been talked about in various threads, but I'd be interested to see a discussion dedicated more exclusively to the issue... although I could be forgetting some thread out there with this topic.)

Maybe they are also planning to enlarge the bridge to the size that it's shown in that backdrop in the photo with the article moonloop posted. Sounds interesting, but I agree on the price. That kind of makes it inaccessible to average people. (Although if Cincinnati were a cruise ship port, it'd be the cheapest attraction in town!)

^ That Cleveland ratio is so low because the 2.9 million figure includes Akron, but the ads probably don't.

^ But mankind's ultimate goal is to conquer nature and leave it begging for our mercy! So you can see why this is a step backwards.