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When I was a teenager, I was profiled all the time. Why? Because that's what I was - a teenager who might potentially do stupid things. It's not always right to judge a book by its cover, but it's not always wrong either.

Interesting. Have a hard time seeing how they would convert 2020 Center St to apartments given the layout. Would have liked to see how a well run business would have fared in that space.

I'm with goozer. The other point I haven't seen mentioned here: Let's say the sin tax is not renewed. And the $0.05 fee per beer or pack of smokes or whatever the exact amount is is no longer being accrued to the city as a reveunue source. Well there's 0% chance the $3.00 beer you buy at a bar is now going to cost $2.95. Or the $8.99 six pack is now going to cost $8.69. You'll still be paying the same amount for your beer or your pack of cigarettes and now you'll also be paying fees somewhere else - either in ticker prices, sales tax on other goods, or whatever the "alternative funding" ends up being. Furthermore, let's assume you are somehow clever enough to force "billionaire owners" to pay for maintenance on a building they don't own, they will most certainly find ways to recoup those costs from the consumer in some way shape or fashion. Visit a stadium where the public doesn't fund maintenence (go visit the once grand Skydome as an example) and you'll quickly realize not supporting this yields a result you probably don't want.

That's basically the entire project. More advertising space which they sold to the city as a way to improve "fan experience" Not liking the project doesn't mean you have to pretend that there are no real improvements. Scoreboard, PA, escalators, better internet, and revamped food stands are all involved in the upgrade. Those do enhance fan experience ....and thousands of s.f. of advertising signage Whats the problem with the ads on display in the renderings? The existing scoreboard is littered with advertising signage. Each gate into the stadium and is branded, i.e., "The PNC Gate". Ads are pretty much everywhere inside today. Improvements are being made. Maybe if I am spending less time waiting in lines to go to the upper level or getting concessions I won't be staring at the ads as much.

Yes, that sounds about right. UAL did not connect many people thru CLE. That's one reason that I think that contributed to the closure. Some of the connections thru CLE required long connecting times between flight making it undesireable from a pax standpoint. I was always looking for frequency increases and they never came. UAL was right to say that enough people weren't connecting thru CLE to make the hub viable, but at the same time I don't think UAL attempted to increase those numbers with good connections. A hub is expensive so you try to push as many flights as possible in order to maximized your investment. It's a huge fixed cost. The costs are similar whether you have 200 flts or 500. Two hundred flights per day just din't create the economy of scale needed. Here's what I don't understand. When UAL cliams "there wasn't the demand to connect throught CLE" doesn't UAL control all of that? If the flight schedule you create provides a higher cost, long connection time at CLE vs a lower cost, shorter connection time at ORD, of course people will choose to connect through ORD. But ORD is a disaster. I doubt people would choose to connect through ORD vs. pretty much anywhere all things being equal. I just connected through ORD on UAL and it screamed to me why UAL should have been routing more traffic through CLE. Air traffic volume was so high our landing was delayed, connecting gates were extremely far apart (terminal B to F), and I basically had to jog through the terminals to make my connection. At CLE, you're not going to have the air traffic volume concerns, connecting gates should be closer (even C to D is closer that what I did B to F at ORD), and it's generally less crowded. From a passenger perspective, less mobs to deal with, better on-time performance, easier travel between connecting gates, more likely to be able to grab something quick from a vendor...this is all better. I won't ever have visibility to their financials, but from a customer service standpoint I would think using CLE to offset tremendous ORD traffic would work...and even some traffic from EWR. I think given a fair choice, people would prefer to avoid those places if possible.

At least he didn't run over a pedestrian?

Wolstein doesn't have ice making capabilities. So huge expense to facilitate that move. Agree with your other points however. And more importantly, I think Gilbert owns part of the Monsters

I have a hard time believing culture has anything to do with it. At least it doesn't apply to the Browns. The reality is this isn't really a baseball town. The best example of this is 2007 when all 3 pro franchises were good. The Indians went to the ALCS. They had the eventual Cy Young winner and plenty of stars on offense - Hafer, Sizemore, Martinez. But they didn't sell out games down the stretch as they were clinching the division. The attendence was better that year than it is this year, but the last home game only sold 28,000. Playoff tickets were still available a couple days before the game. The Browns - who will always be #1 - were good and the Cavs were the toast of the NBA with LeBron and all of those games were sold out. The Indians had the better season, yet attendence was still down, relatively speaking. From 1994-2001, it was a perfect storm. We had a new stadium, the team was great, the Browns were gone for much of it, and the Cavs sucked. 2005 and 2007 when the team was pretty good, they did not sell out many games, and most were under 30,000. I was even able to get playoff tickets in 2007 a couple days before the game. In years since 2007, people always complain about ownership not spending, yada yada. Well, now they have no excuses. Ownership spent a lot of money in the off season and the team is right there down the stretch. Any BS about the economy or not believing in the team is a bunch of garabage. The Browns give us no reason to believe ever yet they sell out and the Cavs had no problem selling out during the HEART of the financial crisis when LeBron was choking his way out of the playoffs. This isn't a Cavs town either, but LeBron was a once in a lifetime player and was also a novelty like the 90's Indians so there's extra appeal.

I'll be interested to see what happens once GY moves out of the building. It's the only office building I've ever been in where I looked around and thought "I can tell people used to smoke in here". I have to imagine the rehab will be more extensive than projected.

Who subsudizes the government?

Not clear how you arrived at that conclusion. And if that were true, why would the Republican party and its surrogates be so intent on keeping political balance away from the redistricting process? Doesn't add up. I think you get hung up on the idea that margin of vitory doesn't matter. Elections are "all or nothing" propositions. Whether a district is split 90/10 or 51/49, the representation all goes to the winner. So, to make it simple, let's say Ohio has a population of 100 with 10 districts of 10 people each. Among the 100 people living in Ohio, 52 are Democrats and 48 are Republicans. Here is a breakdown of how the districts voted: 1 - 8 D, 2 R 2 - 8 D, 2 R 3 - 8 D, 2 R 4 - 6 R, 4 D 5 - 6 R, 4 D 6 - 6 R, 4 D 7 - 6 R, 4 D 8 - 6 R, 4 D 9 - 6 R, 4 D 10 - 6 R, 4 D That would result in representation of 7 Republicans and 3 Democrats even though there are more Democrats in the state than Republicans. And while this is overly simplistic, it's not that far off if you figure districts 1-3 are the 3 C's and the remaining districts are the rest of the state. The point is, mathmatically it's not unreasonable to see how you could get an unbalanced result especially if there is a concentration of people in one area rather than evenly split throughout the state. And the fact is, urban areas of Ohio - especially Cuyahoga County - is disproportionately Democrat. Now, certainly the bias in drawing district lines should be removed but Issue 2 missed the mark. It tried to do too much all at once making it overly complicated for people to understand. So if people don't understand it, they won't vote for it.

Basically, any system that results in Ohio being anything other than 8-8 is unrepresentative, as I noted above, given the way we're split. The only way to do that is to not have actual districts. Critics argue district re-drawing cost the Democrats 2 spots. If so, that just takes it from 12-4 to 10-6.

Population density has everything to do with the likelyhood of being represented by someone who shares your view. It's not that different than the electoral college where 48% of people in Ohio voted for Romney, but 100% of the votes went to Obama. Republicans won a lot of tightly contested districts where a lot of Democrats will be represented by Republicans. You can argue its gerrymandering, but historically its been leaning Republican despite the state being pretty split.

Why does this surprise you at all? Deomcrats live in concentrated areas, basically around cities. State reps are split regionally by precinct. If you look at a county by county map, most of the counties are Republican. Not to mention, it is possible to vote for Brown as Senator and a Republican for your state rep.

My wife started taking our son to The Little Gym at about 9 months old and had a great experience. When the next session came around and it conflicted with naptime, she had made enough friends from the LG class that they split off and formed their own play group (which of course is free). She still enrolls him in sessions as schedules permit often coordinating with her group of friends. We also started sending him to toddler pre-school 2 days a week (1/2 days) for child socialization. Also gives my wife a chance to do some chores without toting him around.

I'm not so sure I agree with that. Cincinnati has Red River Gorge in its back yard, which is an awesome place for hiking/backpacking. The Smoky Mountains are also fairly close to Cincy (compared to Cleveland), and Lakes Cumberland and Norris are large, warm lakes that are great for skiing, boating, tubing, etc. I guess Cleveland might have better access to skiiking, but that might be splitting hairs. Snowshoe in WVA is decent, and not too far from Cincy, but for real skiing, Utah/Colorado or (to a lesser extent) New England are the only places in the US. Lake Erie is a great resource, but I've always gotten the impression that it was not the best lake for water activities due to pollution and lack of lake oriented development on the shore. Compare whatever Ohio has on Lake Erie with the awesome little lakeside towns in Northern Michigan, and there's really no contest. Put in Bay seems trashy and cheap, IMO. ^ well in that case you have gotten the wrong impression from somewhere. there are plenty of family oriented summer cottage towns all along the lake outside of the urban areas that are similar to what n. michigan offers. does erie have sleeping bear dunes? no. does it have the oceanfront 'stacks' that the pac nw has? no either. but at the same time does n. mich have cedar point? again no. different places - se la vie. also, even tho we can all agree pib is what it is, thats exactly why clevelanders take summer homes in kellys and pelee islands, which my family did for years. I removed the part about the gourges as I am more going to respond to the comment about PIB, islands, etc. PIB, in recent years at least, does not seem nearly as trashy as it used to. Ohh, that element is still there and you can definitely find if you are looking for it but there are more bars and winery's that attract a different crowd. You just have to go off the main strip a little bit. Still I wouldn't exactly say that it is a family weekend place. One great thing about the Islands of Ohio is that you really can find exactly the island you are looking for depending on what you want to do. Want an entertainment/party hotspot - PIB/South Bass Island. More laid back with a cottage and resort feel - Middle Bass Island. Family Friendly Island activities from Camping/Hiking/Biking to festivals and street fairs - Kelley's Island. Also, the shores of Marblehead and Catawba also have a lot going on. The Lake Erie Islands ares Ohio's unknown treasure, although it seems more people know about it given how much it's grown the last decade or so. Anyway, my family has a place on PIB so I grew up spending summers there and still go up frequently now that I have a kid of my own. Obviously what I do on the Island has changed since I've had a kid, but that's pretty much how it goes anywhere.

So this is the solution, and it costs tons of money: http://www.hcz.org/about-us/the-hcz-project/ But the bottom line is, it works.

I agree, the social/cultural problem is what needs to be fixed. To fix it I'm sure it will cost money. How much.. who knows, but I'm sure this levy isn't being presented to pay for that. It will cost a lot of money because the answer is to keep them in school - or in school sponsered programs - for as much time as possible. Those school sponsered programs cost money. The problem is not the school, but that the kids get sent home at the end of the day, and more importantly, sent home over the summer where learning generally stops (as opposed to their more middle class and affluent couter parts where learning continues outside of the school).

Having lived downtown in and around new construction/developments and seeing the clear deliniation of what developers will do and what the city will do, it's unfortunately a sad truth that the city is pretty much a donkey when it comes to these things. I won't go into what it took me to get some basics street signs in place, but it was a lot more than I thought. It's going to take Gilbert/The Casino to put pressure on the city before they do anything regarding the general maintenance of the surrounding area.

I recently discovered L'Albatros has Palm beer on tap, among my personal favorites. Discovered it while living in Holland in the 90's. Searched high and low across the country for it when I returned to the US, only to have finally discovered in in NYC about 3 years ago. It spread around NYC, then I started finding it in more mainstream places, aside from trendy restaurants (a Fox & Hound in Philly for example). Excited to have it right here in NE Ohio!

I have friend (FB friend) who will be a dealer at the Casino. He's been going through training for months now. He's apparently not allowed to post pictures, but says the inside is amazing and really well done...didn't go cheap. Personally, I'm excited to check it out.

Love that we're playing Michigan. Michigan, in an attempt to disrespect Ohio State, started calling OSU "Ohio". I sent Jalen Rose (via Twitter) some smack talk that now he actually gets to play Ohio since he's seemingly been confused the past few months. Hopefully we can pull the 1st round upset similar to the Georgetown win 2 years ago!

"California-based developer Stu Lichter, who now owns most of the Goodyear campus, will redevelop and reuse the old Goodyear buildings once the new headquarters is finished." This is among the more intersting parts to me, given the condition of the current Goodyear buildings.

I was going to say, I averaged spending $365/month last year on gas (between my wife and I).

No sports book, but everything else.