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.

Oh yeah the Caltrain electrification project is something I'm also following pretty closely, getting a commuter rail up to developed world standards (and ready for future high speed rail) is fantastic to see. I've had dreams of being able to hop on a train and go through Hamilton Middletown and Dayton from Cincinnati, I hope that eventually does happen and it would be a fantastic corridor to make it happen. The same guy also did a vid on Caltrain electrification as well:

Newsom's antics really really ticked me off. The project has been really really badly managed and is a deep indictment of everything wrong with American right now. At the very least I'm glad the project is still getting built. I've yet to hear any kind of update on the IL higher speed rail project that should have been finished almost decade ago for instance... so it could be way worse.

I came out of hiding to post this and found you already saw it. This guy's vids are great, and its a nice counterpart to the garbage that the LA times puts out every few months or so.

Congratulations guys! I'm happy for you. I have some concern about the timing of this though, the economy is going to tank and I have a feeling that improvements are going to be delayed because of that.

Like his great policies towards endless wars right. Good stuff, very progressive. Lets model our security state after Isreal where people have very little rights and are presumed guilty until proven innocent, great policy that gave us the TSA etc. Also If I was channeling the hard left I'd be saying a lot of BS about landlords - I'm not there, I just really don't like Buttigieg.

Buttigieg does the exact same strategy Cranley does which is trying to be a Republican lite in the hope of getting non existant moderate GOP people to join the dems. Though I guess what he did in south bend was slightly better from an urbanist policy perspective - though his relationship with the African American community gives me echos of Cincinnati in 2001. Its that bad.

Not at all surprised, I keep telling friends in Chicago that Buttigieg reminds me a ton of Cranley, same kind of weaselly rat.

Kaze was pretty good, shame to see it go - the space was really awesome (though IMO there is better ramen / japanese food at Zundo - its one of the best Japanese places I've been to outside of California). Let's hope the same doesn't happen to Quan Hapa.

I had the same exact thought when I tried going there yesterday... (yeah I did see the followup post). Also this kind of sh*t (we are a good place that is now only an event space) is so Cincinnati... ? Btw, I knew about the place because of its sign that had been up for a very long time announcing that it would open soon... I should have read this forum before doing my thanksgiving family visit so I would have known that CHX was basically closed. I think they literally had the coming soon sign up longer than the damn place was actually open.

So many comments here about crowds/fights/elements that would probably get people into a massive flamewar here if this was a larger more liberal city lol.