neilworms

I got to swing by the basin neighborhoods for a little bit over Thanksgiving and was pretty impressed with how the stadium integrated into the neighborhood. I didn't have too much time to look at it closely, but overall I'd say its a win even if some of the actions took to build it weren't the best.

He's terrible, he'll depress turnout of the base and the mythical moderate conservative doesn't really exist these days (most have already left the GOP). All the dedicated conservatives will choose a republican over a watered down dem version of the same thing. Swing Voters aren't as big a factor as they used to be given the levels of polarization and the nationalization of state politics (city level is a different story but at state level this has happened).

Cranley has a good relationship with the broader Democratic establishment and goes out of his way to nurture those relationships (I believe he hosted Hilary Clinton at one point for a fundraiser). One example I'm positive of is that when he was Mayor, Rahm Emanuel called him for advice on racial unrest in Chicago over aggressive policing and not Mallory who IMO would have been the better choice. Emanuel even though he's discredited as a public official still has a lot of influence in the broader DNC. That's my concern - he's in line with establishment democratic politics and their strategy for reddish states like Ohio... They will prop him up.

Not following too closely, but it seems that Pureval has endorsements from both Mark Mallory (who actively campaigned for him) and David Pepper. Mallory is a positive for the city and Pepper is a negative. Not sure where to put Pureval, my gut is saying that if Mallory supported him and went the extra mile than he's going to generally be good for the city. This whole mayoral race threw me for a loop though I'm glad that Mann lost. Anyone is going to be better than the sh*tshow that was Cranley. I hope he crashes and burns in his attempt to become OH gov.

Yeah that's it! I see why I got confused, that whole area of town is a bit out of the way from where people normally go. Still no excuse though to remove a perfectly solidly built building particularly without a plan.

I remember seeing a bunch of information in the lobby of that building about the McGuffey readers. I did some googling and I also saw an old pamphlet noting a main street address. Perhaps I need to do a bit more research on this.

****I NEED TO RESEARCH THE BELOW MORE***** One of those buildings is literally where the McGuffey readers were published - a fact I only learned because when I was in the coop program in UC I interviewed at a company in that building. Seeing that go is disgusting - such a big part of American history completely erased, and in classic Cincinnati fashion almost no one knew it was a thing...

It looks more like a UK city than most of America does, but even then all the gaps in the urban fabric due to demos makes it NOT look like Europe with maybe the exception of some East German cities.

Pocket parks are everywhere, and IMO there is a parking lot in my current neighborhood in Chicago that I'd love to see turned into one because its a small triangle lot that would be very difficult to develop into anything. (Sadly an auto repair shop went in next to it and use that lot as a parking lot for the backlog of cars they work on dashing any hopes of mine that it would be used in that way). Nonetheless, if you can walk to 3 parks within 10 mins you have plenty of parks, there is no need for more. (and that's the case in Over The Rhine right now).

I was saying a general thing about the city of Cincinnati as it applies to the specific case of Over the Rhine and parks. Its still on topic, but the examples I had to give were citywide.

Everyone rushing to build pocket parks in Walnut Hills, instead of stabilizing the buildings there is a good example. Another example is destroying the business district in Fairmont, which while diminished could have been reworked and preserved, but instead you got a large park like area for the lick run environmental project. It seems that Cincinnati always chooses the park over preserving or maintaining the urban fabric.

This is correct, they also are the only craft brewery in Cincinnati that has a presence in Chicago. I also could find non-IPA things from the up here, which wasn't the case a few years ago (Not an IPA fan myself, but they do good cider and have a few decent IPAs).

Which is why the urbanity should be sold as an asset, Cincinnati already has plenty of excellent parks, but always sells itself short on its urban bones.

Yeah extremely disappointed, was hoping to see another Mallory administration. If Pepper runs for Senator, ugh - his leadership of the state party pretty made Ohio a red state, great job there. From what I understand though the leadership of the state DNC is now closely aligned with Sherrod Brown, I'm hoping that they come up with someone better...

In South Texas Trump hammered that Democrats could threaten jobs of workers in Oil Fields - this was not expected and against conventional wisdom of dem strategists. In general he did a lot of work at chipping away at working class Black and Latino voters and while it wasn't large margins the work paid off because the Biden camp took them for granted (listen to Chuck Rocha for a good analysis on this). Also by putting his name on the stimulus checks some less engaged voters might have associated his name with stimulus payments. Biden also has big weaknesses in those communities, IMO given his record on a lot of issues, frankly he didn't run a good campaign but coasted to a narrower than expected win due to high emotions over Trump. IMO if not for COVID he would have lost. --- Overjoyed to see Mallory toss his hat into the race. It brought me back to this forum after a long hiatus lol.