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Still currently in the air at 7:55 am EDT. On the way to Seoul. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/CKS614/history/20240601/0030Z/KCVG/RKSI

I am fine with McDonalds making a profit. My point was, while consumers are going into debt on their cards to buy McDonalds, the corporation isn't going to debt at all. To be transparent--I actually eat at several of their 40,000 restaurants, but only in foreign countries, where the local food laws limit the use of chemicals that they are poisoning Americans with. It's amazing how good McDonalds tastes (like i remember it from my childhood) when it's actually real beef and fries cooked in fat rather than some kind of triple-hydrogenated chem oil! And those foreign stores still turn a profit. AMAZING!

Meanwhile, McDonalds announced a 1.93 BILLION dollar profit for their first quarter of 2024. While their customers may be hurting, McDonalds and it's shareholders certainly are not... https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mcdonalds-stock-drops-as-profit-comes-up-short-85d55390

Meanwhile the ticket fees will go away, and the ticket prices will go up. It's the industry's dirty little secret that the artist takes most of the ticket money, and the higher level artists take most of those fees as well. Suggested reading: https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/05/22/live-nation-doj/

I don't completely believe this. Furthermore, we could do an experiment and call 911 for police in Lakewood, then Cleveland. Lakewood will be there in 35 seconds with 7 cars, Cleveland will be an hour with one car and a cop that could care less....

Hi all--have any landlords on here ever used a broker to rent out their property? Just looking for some experiential feedback as I am weighing on using one for the first time. I just don't have time to manage showing and screening prospective tenants. Any recommendations?

This stuff happens everywhere.... Well at least everywhere kids decide to congregate with a reasonable level of comfort knowing that police won't be able to respond fast enough to catch them in the act. I was in Anaheim a couple years ago and a big group of teenagers shut down intersections right outside of Disney doing these kinds of stunts. More beat cops would definitely help. You don't hear about kids doing this in Independence or Lakewood because the cops would be all over them in 30 seconds and they know it.

I'm at CLE this morning. Thank god for Clear. Total $hitSh*w. North, South and central TSA checkpoint lines were entwined throughout the entire ticketing lobby. People couldn't get to airline counters. A complete mess. The city really needs to come up with a plan of addressing this. But in the meantime, there is a new restroom once you navigate security....

I'm not usually critical of cities as I can find good in most in my travels. But Jacksonville is souless and rough.

Concerts and festivals sold out, amusement park attendance is up...yet somehow the economy sucks in the MAGA echo chamber.

Even more so if it is combined with CSU athletics and made into a new, mixed-use part of the campus.

Currently in Nashville which has no trains, but most definitely needs them!

Welp that was quick! Cedar Point shuts down Top Thrill 2 Updated: May. 12, 2024, 4:07 p.m.| Published: May. 12, 2024, 11:29 a.m. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/05/cedar-point-shuts-down-top-thrill-2.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0s9Ksz8rhtln0SAimCSHhAmRvPXjjPTnSOsXgPZ7YcpQ-M3aouv2JoEUk_aem_AfhWPNsA9jS0dZFiblBNUlqV3YjOKcDb3P0LY6N7QAMQYYjG5rdu1FbWbCnRt3BIgXiIcWimPRzi5ZJNjOl312HZ

I flew out this morning the pre-check line was backed up all the way to the far counters outside the A security checkpoint. Thankful for Clear where there was only 10 people in line!

With the FAA involved there is no way this happens in a timeline suitable for Haslam. And do you really want a sea of parking lots right on the lakefront?

That is a rendering of a fancy new La Quinta, before the developer dumbs it down into one that is actually built. Much like Bridgeworks.

CLEVELAND NEWS After Two-Year Study, Cleveland Seeks to Cut Lake Avenue Speed Limit By 5 MPH The city's following Lakewood's move to make pedestrians and bicyclists safer From 2021 to 2023, the City of Lakewood engaged in close observation of one of its most traveled throughways, Lake Avenue, believing that car traffic was moving too fast for the sake of safety. Earlier this year, that study—which compiled days of traffic and pedestrian counts—concluded what traffic engineers suspected: Lake Ave.'s 35 MPH speed limit was a tad too high. Most cars, they found, averaged at 30. Last week, the city prepared a month-long awareness campaign to usher in that new limit, five miles slower. https://www.clevescene.com/news/after-two-year-study-cleveland-seeks-to-cut-lake-avenue-speed-limit-by-5-mph-44260442

Agreed. This looks like an over-sized La Quinta Inn. I imagine they will be constructing a Dennys right next to it?

Counted at least seven cranes on the way into Austin this morning!

It's hard to imagine being as nearsighted as Hooples. A couple years from now they will be rolling in new business.

The difference in vision between the ownership of the Cavs and Browns is astounding. On one hand you have Dan Gilbert who has single-handedly rebuilt downtown Detroit. In Cleveland he is investing in RoMo Fieldhouse, moving Cavs facilities downtown, and providing a striking vision for the future of downtown Cleveland. And on the other, there's Jimmy Haslam, who built dirty truckstops at freeway exits in the backwaters of America. Jimmy needs to be more like Dan.

i can't read beyond the paywall, but I hope the crackdown includes forcing these companies to maintain and even make improvements to the stock they own.

This is wildly untrue. Hotels on game weekends are almost always nearly sold out if not over sold, depending on the opponent. I encountered one particular weekend last fall trying to book for a client where most everything was sold out, and the Drury had rooms for $450 rack rate.

Cleveland has always had a concrete problem. The lowest bidder here reportedly waters down concrete and supplies a sub-standard product.

100%! I would support a TIF for a transformative lakefront project, that includes mixed use buildings, the Browns offices/practice facility, and a land bridge.