neilworms

Every brewery except for Rhinegeist I've been to in the Cincy area is on the top end of the craft trend. Rhinegeist is just surviving alone on good branding / riding a trend.

In Chicago, the fines are to raise money on transit improvements. I think its a win win. Also they aren't a huge percentage.

I do think progress has slowed down a bit as a whole, but things are still marching forward. I was able to work remotely from a cafe (Deeper Roots) across from Findlay Market next to a proper upscale urban market - EMC (which I highly recommend anyone in the basin hop on a streetcar and check out). That area very recently was still a no-mans land of mostly abandoned tenement buildings besides the market.

The CVG Airport actually has one lol, I was just there to take advantage of new cheaper flights to Chicago.

I thought most of the professional AA community was in suburbs like Silverton or Woodlawn...

All those great old buildings torn down for this garbage >:(

Eastsiders and Westsiders couldn't agree that this just makes sense? This just blew my mind that Westwood Northern Blvd. and Madison Rd. are actually the same street. Look up lake st in Chicago, see how far it goes :).

I've noticed a ton of very obviously former cab drivers jumping over to Uber (and to a lesser extent lyft) as of late. Its actually really erroded the quality of the service as cabbies in Chicago are more often then not total garbage drivers and usually have attitude problems.

The advantages in LA is that A) There is a decent sized hawaiian/Japanese population B) The seafood is fresh I'm sure there will be Poke places that will hang around elsewhere it just doesn't have those advantages. Though I've heard Hawaiian food critics criticize how Poke is everywhere else as not being quite right. It would be like adding ketchup to a chicago dog, or having a Cincy Chili parlor that sold Detroit style coneys. Also poke tends to be midpriced, not cheap, but its frequently served in a fast casual kind of environment.

Was wondering when this trend would hit you guys. IMO I think its already passed its peak in Chicago.

I think Simpson did get mean enough, its just that Cranley had the media apparatus at his back and Yvette was unable to frame the narrative as she didn't have people providing counter narratives to the ones Cranley was feeding to the Enquirer. I think this was her biggest failing too as she did very bad at managing PR every time she tried to bite at Cranley/Cincinnati's aristocracy - every time she did they tore her to shreds. Mallory was most effective because he was quiet. I'm starting to think his behind the scenes approach is the only way Cincinnati can get sensible politics (that and possibly another crisis at the level of the riots and post-riots boycott/crime wave). Even then Mallory only won by a slim margin the first time around. Cincy has a real nasty streak of being a stick in the mud.

I always feel like we are purposely left in the dark here, many local papers commission polls to inform people about local politics, yet I never see anything like that from the Enquirer.

Cranley is closely aligned with state party leadership. One call to David Pepper and he could work the whole chain down to the local level.

Would you have heard the same line though if Bauman was supportive of Cranley? I'm not so sure... I do hope he wins next time, he's everything you guys need, plus I think he has crossover support from people who normally won't vote for someone with his politics due to his ability to talk plainly (even about sophisticated issues), his personal one-on-one style of selling himself and his background as a cop/son of a preacher. I see him as future mayor material if he can get his vote totals up / not screw up when in office.

More analysis: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/11/08/analysis-why-cranley-rolled-to-victory.html

Chicago politicians do it all the time and only get caught now and then :/

Google "Cranley Collier County, FL" and this comes up: http://www.enaplesflorida.com/market-values/14002240003.html You will see that "Cranley Family LLC" sold the house for $10 million to "Tenth Ave. South LLC". I know that some people investigated Tenth Ave., which apparently is from Chicago, to try to find a connection to Rahm Emanuel or any Chicago developers seeking to do projects in Cincinnati. A realtor noted that this LLC significantly overpaid for the Cranley family house, which looks suspiciously like a kickback for a free city-built parking garage or some-such. Cranley and Rahm talk quite a bit, which pisses me off IMO because he's giving terrible advice to my mayor, on how to manage racial unrest of all things... (Rahm, btw for all his faults is super progressive on urbanist causes :P ).

"Its only $10 million." I'm sure you've gotten a small 10 million dollar loan there Brutis? ;) Unless we're talking about San Francisco I don't see an upper middle class home of 100-200k in Cincinnati automatically appreciating to 10 mil dollars. That would have been one hell of an investment if that happened, which IMO it probably didn't. Even inflating the initial value to a hotter home market of 200-400K really doesn't make sense to appreciate that much...

^-I read rumors that Childrens just got a new head who was a former P&G exec, was this true? if so it kind of ties neatly into Cincinnati's elite class screwing over a neighborhood...

This is currently going up in my neighborhood: https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/7/13/12174440/river-west-development-news-gonnella-construction-permit I think the buildings look better than the renderings - the bricks even change shade in the Sun. Not sure about the grocery store (if they have something lined up) but it would be very much welcomed around here. https://buildingupchicagodotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/img_1490.jpg A few more developments have been spawned from this one. The TOD ordinance combined with Rahm increasing the skyscraper zone to include this neighborhood I think is to blame: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20171013/CRED03/171019925/another-226-apartments-planned-for-river-west Including this one with a badly managed construction site (that's been blocking sidewalks for months) and a really ugly design: https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/1/26/14357566/river-west-milwaukee-avenue-apartments (When is that trendy staggered windows thing going to die the death it deserves).

City subreddits on Reddit are notoriously right-wing/reactionary, like comments on newspaper sites. And Reddit as a whole is trending alt-right. I wouldn't worry too much about what Reddit says. IMO the Cincinnati subreddit is like a more moderate version of this group in a lot of ways with a few more right wingers. They are surprisingly pro-transit for a reddit group, look at all the complaints over the years about downvoting antistreetcar comments. Generally I saw an anti-Cranley pro-OTR pro-streetcar bias on it with the out group being people who were anti-otr, pro-Cranley etc. I saw a change in tone in the last month and that bothered me because I knew something was wrong. I'm going to do a a bit of post-mortem here: 1) I think Simpson could have won if the election was at the same time as the primary, or if nothing changed since then politically. 2) Towards the end of the race she tried to get more African American voters on her side by tracking very progressive on racial issues - Native Peoples day and standing up for Avondale against Childrens Hospital 3) These stunts weakened her support among people who should have been allies - whites in more urban parts of the city. 4) The horrible fliers did exactly what they intended to do - push people who were on the fence about Yvettes recent political stunts and play upon their fears of her, pushing a lot of people past the point of no return and gaining a lot of Cranley voters in the process. Not sure of the Cranley connection with these fliers but they were put out by parties who probably had his interests in mind. 5) Cranley is really good at getting out the vote for his core group. Some quotes from reddit that I'm going to highlight: Earlier on in reddit land: Responding to stale male comment: In short she had some real problems and Cranley's camp took advantage of that. Any gains she had were offset by enough voters turned off by her comments. Also UO never seems to predict Cincinnati politics...

Farewell guys. I'm done with following Cincinnati, its too exhausting. Let you guys fester in your own garbage.

That's the side I'd always respond to people with... but it kind of comes from my own experiences living in that part of town.

This is interesting: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics-extra/2017/11/02/px-see-why-cincinnati-election-turnout-expected-up/826911001/ Btw, vote no on anything that POS from LA brings onto the ballot, he abuses his non-profit to support really shady (also anti urban things).

^-Plus Cincinnati literally is sitting upon a treasure trove of disused cultural assets. More so than any other city its size.