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From the Dayton Daily News web site: $50M WPAFB project bolsters intelligence site Gathers, analyzes foreign aerospace technology data By Timothy R. Gaffney Dayton Daily News WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE | Already the Air Force's largest high-security intelligence site, the National Air and Space Intelligence Center is about to see a major expansion, a top national intelligence official said here Friday. A construction project scheduled to start in July will expand the 540,000-square-foot NASIC complex by another 155,000 square feet, and the two-story structure will be built to support two more levels if necessary, said Navy Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency... www.daytondailynews.com

Address, phone number, and income?? Wow, I don't remember being asked those things when I registered! The particular article you linked to actually doesn't say much of anything about the Arcade; it's just about David Bohardt's issues for the mayoral campaign. Here it is anyway, but the Arcade only gets mentioned as an aside: ------------ Bohardt offers vision for renewed city Candidate for mayor says safety a top issue on his agenda By Katherine Ullmer Dayton Daily News DAYTON | Jane Applegate on Saturday introduced her husband, David Bohardt, as "the next mayor of Dayton" to about 70 residents and campaign workers who came to the Gospel Mission, 750 S. Main St., to launch Bohardt's election campaign. Bohardt, 58, a Dayton native, the oldest of 11 children and executive director of the Home Builders Association of Dayton and the Miami Valley, will be on the May 3 primary ballot with Mayor Rhine McLin and former Dayton police Maj. Barbara Temple. Two of the three will win the right to face off on the November ballot. Bohardt's main thrust was the need to make the streets of Dayton safe again to attract businesses and jobs back to the city. If elected mayor in November, he said, he would hire 40 police officers by 2007. It would cost about $3 million annually, about 1.5 percent of the city's total operating budget, he said. ... If he's elected, he said, the downtown Arcade building will be redeveloped. ... http://www.daytondailynews.com/

Give up the charade, Locutus, we all know you are a big fat white guy who, when not driving a giant SUV, mows his large and manicured lawn (the envy of the neighbors) four times a week with a rifle slung across his back. (That's the best exaggerated stereotype I could come up with. :wink:)

Yeah, forest cover in Ohio has been slowly increasing for about the last century. Here's a page from the Ohio Divison of Forestry: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/forestry/forest/ohiogreen.htm

For what it's worth, given the talk about government jobs, Ohio has fewer government workers than each of the three states named there, as a percentage of the total resident workforce. (Granted, that's government workers, not government jobs--a lot of Virginia's "government workers" are of course actually in jobs out of state.)

Thanks.

"Liberal" often seems nothing more than a meaningless insult coming from Republicans these days, not necessarily having much to do with the actual political spectrum, but to be honest I don't know a whole lot about Taft, so I won't declare that it's not relevant here. Out of curiosity, could someone point me to some sort of comparison of the relevant taxes rates among all the states? I am quite ignorant when it comes to these things, too. (Seems I don't know much of anything, actually...)

I'm bringing this back up because of an article I saw in the latest Ohio Magazine talking about the lack of recognition of Columbus, as has been discussed here and there within this thread. It was comparing the growth of Columbus to other cities, namely Cleveland, and explaining why it has a white bread reputation. But the main reason I wanted to mention it is because of a couple phrases used: 1) The city wants to be the "Columbus without a comma" (i.e., not "Columbus, Ohio") 2) As Columbus grew larger earlier in the 20th century, the big boys Cleveland and Cincinnati saw Columbus not as an up-and-coming large city, but as a sort of "Dayton with a pituitary problem." Just thought those lines were cool.

^ :lol: Well either it cost them $200K or they just sent an intern out... "We want to decorate the purple bridge. Here, kid, take $40 and go buy us something nice at Wal Mart."

"Proof Unlawful to Copy" You are going straight to hell.

Well, it's not a numbered street, but someone else will have to say whether part of it became anything or just disappeared. I've just seen Front Street on old maps; but not knowing the history, it's hard to tell if it matches any present streets on the riverfront. (It is clear, though, that Front & Sycamore would be in what is now the middle of the baseball stadium, so obviously that part is gone.)

There was an intersection of Front Street and Sycamore Street in Cincinnati, once upon a time...

In a word, :clap:.

I've not been to this place personally, but it sure looks to me like the corner of 3rd and Central is literally underneath a FWW ramp, and that there is a small street that intersects between 3rd and 4th; I presume that street is the southern end of this building. Anyway, I agree the window feature may not be the most desirable thing given its location, though the thing immediately across the street is that ramp to nowhere that was discussed in a thread a while back... maybe people can sit and watch cars drive off the edge! :-P

Ha ha, one of Dublin's high points is a well-landscaped Hummer dealership! (Not picking on anyone--I just think it's a humorous symbol of suburbia.)

Yeah, I know you care about Delaware. That's why I said most people. :-) I'll have to read up on the Sawmill Parkway thing. I knew there was an effort to extend it by seeing "Stop Sawmill Parkway" signs in front of people's houses. You may also be interested to know that this paper had an article about that Henry St. tunnel, saying the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board recommends the city not remove it (whatever that's worth).

A copy of Tuesday's Delaware Gazette mysteriously found its way into my mailbox today. I don't know if it was put in the wrong box or what. But that doesn't matter. What I found on the front page of this newspaper was an article about renovations and new business in several buildings in Delaware's downtown and an upcoming tour of these renovated buildings. I know most of you don't know or care much specifically about this town, but I thought it might be interesting in the context of the general state of downtowns in small-town Ohio. For those who may not have already seen them, if you want to see pictures of Delaware besides the one above, I have a picture thread (here), as does Summit Street (here). In the near future I intend to get some more detailed pictures of downtown buildings to go along with a little historical downtown tour published by the county historical society.

Nuts. I was hoping a new picture would shed some light on just what the hell this thing is. [move]:?[/move]

Okay, I was typing up some long, friendly response, knowing that those more blunt than I would probably beat me to it. So screw it... it was all rambling anyway. I will say that curved streets and so forth, while they do break the monotony, can be taken to insane extremes. Recently I was looking at an aerial image of a small area somewhere around Dublin/Columbus/Powell and playing "Count the Cul-de-Sacs"--I got to well over 100 before losing count. It's not necessary to sacrifice so much in efficiency, shoving everyone onto a few thoroughfares to get from point A to point B, in the name of making things more interesting. I don't think all suburbs everywhere have to have a straight grid, but they don't have to go sprawl crazy with the streets. Dublin's not the absolute worst offender in this regard, but, while I'm sure the streets look pretty, they are the kind that just annoy me to be among. Dublin also appears to have plenty of shopping centers and office parks to make up for its lack of strip malls. I personally don't think it's an improvement.

If City Center were wiped from the face of the Earth (as opposed to being "revitalized" in some way), what do you guys think would take its place on that land? (Just curious...)

I don't have any brilliant suggestions, but maybe if it were something different from every ordinary suburban mall... something that would make it more of a destination. I'm not sure how you could fill up a whole mall with such retail, though.

Not to beat the joke into the ground, but here is another, with apologies to Jake Mecklenborg for defiling his photograph.

:lol: Well I'd like to see it painted RAINBOW! Okay, I need to lay off the Photoshop for a while.

^ Here's a link to the Enquirer pictures to which I assume you are referring. These are cool! But "Reds Red" sure looks like pink to me... Good ol' cincinnati-transit.net tells us that the bridge was originally painted brown (or "tan," presumably) and was painted blue in 1896, I guess in conjunction with the rebuilding of the deck.

I like its present color. Maybe the darker blue would be all right, too. I think it would be cool if each bridge were painted a different color, since there are not that many of them. There are already yellow, purple, and blue bridges; maybe a green and some kind or red could fit in there somewhere.