Hts121

It's about equidistant. Besides, I tend to stay away from Get-Go's. I don't like waiting in line, especially at a gas station. And I try to stay north of Mayfield Road. The south side scares me.

Once you take away Severance, the rest of the business districts in Heights are enviable compared to the rest of NEO. Go and stand at the Taylor of Taylor and Cedar to see the difference in development strategies between CH and UH.

^The City tends to overreach on these nuisance suits. The CVS one was the worst. Kelly and crew attempted to blame CVS for any crime which occured within 100 yards of the store, regardless of whether they were customers or not. The City didn't make it very far on that claim. I suspect they are also trumping up the charges a bit here and the arrangement with this Gas USA is part of a settlement which they agreed to allow the court to enter more like a judgment. This strategy helps politically in a lot of ways. They simply "accept" the court's ruling and don't give the appearance of backing down. I personally never had any issue with the gas station. The guys at the counter (a lebanese family, I believe) were always pleasant. Plus, it has the only free tire air machine in the neighborhood ;) That said, the store re-design was certainly suspect, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was something shady going on in the old mechanic's bays.

Just think of Severance as the City dump and it is a lot easier to deal with. All of the big box stores, the fast food restaraunts, the communist-bloc style highrises, the suburban office towers, the cookie cutter private housing developments, and City Hall are all quarantined within its confines.

I'd suspect this has everything to do with the streetcar, right? COAST doesn't like it because it involves mass transit and the NAACP doesn't like it because they would prefer the funds be directed towards other urban projects?

Yeah.... I'll have to agree with E Rocc on that one. The City is not going to go along with something that incentivizes people to not empty out the WHD once the bars close. I have some fuzzy drunken memories of Panini's in the Flats being open after the bars closed and that was never a pretty scene.

Why?

^Yes.... or to the Haslem Family Foundation. It wouldn't be a regime change.

The boys club is protected over the brand. The NFL has already made its decision. In fact, I've heard there are already contingency plans in place no matter what happens with Jimmy Haslem

^^^"Rock 'n Roll" for the RRHOF is a bit of a misnomer. It covers all forms of pop music basically from the mid-1950's to the present. Bob Marley is an inductee, as is Parliament-Funkadelic, and countless other artists/groups you would not find filed under "Rock 'n Roll" at your local CD/record store....... if you can still find your local CD/record store

Nominations for induction released today - KISS, Hall & Oates, Linda Rondstat, Nirvana, Yes, LL Cool J, NWA, Cat Stevens are all on the list, among others. Should be a great class. I'm not personally a KISS fan, but their induction will be a big draw to the museam. I love me some Hall & Oates. Rondstat was one of the greatest vocalists of her time, if not THE greatest IMO. Nirvana is a shoe-in. Whether you like their music or not, they changed the game and really kick started the whole Seattle grunge style. LL Cool J has to get in too.

The vapor barrier (the green wrap) is a must before winter hits

Distastefull, yes..... but not defamatory.

^They shut it down - http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2012/09/17/judge-orders-cleveland-heights-club-myxx-to-shut-down. You're right that nobody was going there..... but then the owner brought in a new manager who figured out a way for the business to earn revenue. Unfortunately, that required a business model based on promoted events which attracted too many people. There were no serious issues within the club.... but the usual riff-raff started hanging around outside at closing time and that gave the City all the reason it needed to take action.

City council is strict with 'problematic establishments.' They shut the gas station down.... but that had everything to do with the owners of the gas station and their 'business model.' The City shutdown the old Rythym Room before Melt came in. It even tried to shut down the 24 hour operation of the CVS store at Cedar/Lee a few years back. They shut down whatever the club was that took over Jillian's space at Cedar-Fairmount. If anything, council is over-aggressive. I don't know much about the bar which triggered the initial discussion, but I do know a thing or two about Shaleighlee's (I have no idea if I spelled that correctly). I've been in there more than once. That bar has went through several different stages, from good to bad to worse back to good and so on, mostly dependent on the age range of the regular clientelle at any given moment in time. If you close it, the crowd will just go to another bar. The good thing about it is that it is within spitting distance of the satelite police station. The patrons are very cognizant of that fact. Closing it down permanently will only cause more headaches in the long run for the City IMHO. And even thought I live accross the border, it's still my 'hood ;) My mail is still addressed to the "121"

It's hardly the 'only form of job growth' in UC. But it will always be the major driver, as it should be

The most bewildering aspect of that throw was, iirc, that it was one 1st or 2nd down.

I knew there were several, but only heard a specific location for the one on Coventry Peace Park. Regardless, I was using that descriptor in very general terms. Point being, if this was happening in Hunting Valley, then giving the race of the suspects might be useful since you don't see too many black kids riding on bikes in HV. But what does it accomplish when the crimes occured in the inner ring of the east side suburbs? Honest question. I read about some rather grizzly killings which occured out in the country recently and (a) I didn't see any mention of the suspects' races and (b) I didn't hear any gripes that the race of the suspects was not disclosed. This is becoming a huge issue in the right-wing blogosphere news circle. Whenever race does appear to have played an issue in a crime, and the suspect is white, they decry the media making it about race. But when race appears to have played no part in the crime, and the black suspects' race is not identified, they scream to the heavens about some imagined injustice. I'd bet I could spend 5 minutes on google and come up with several media reports on crimes in which the suspect was white but race was never mentioned once.

Every time my Dad calls me, he says "Hi, it's Dad"........ uhhhhhh, yeah I know. After 35 years, I think I can recognize his voice.

Fans in Jacksonville and Houston might disagree with you....

There are tons of media reports in which the race of the suspect is not given. The outrage only seems to appear when it is a black suspect. The question for the media is whether reporting the race of the suspect will actually help catch them. Reporting that two black kids on bikes are robbing people along the Cleveland Hts/Cleveland/E Cleveland border is not going to accomplish much. Not correct. There is a road called South Noble on the south side of Mayfield. And I have no idea why it wouldn't be considered a neighborhood. Even if it were all rentals, which it is not, simply because an area is lacking homeowners does mean it is not a "neighborhood." Is OC not a 'neighborhood'? There is more transience, and I would bet way more crime in OC than there is in the Noble-Monticello area.

Lucky for me, I got back to the house around 3pm yesterday to find that my DVR had not recorded the game... despite it still showing on my scheduled recordings. I therefore had the pleasure of taking in the last half of the 3rd quarter and all of the 4th, while missing all of the first half. [double face-palm]

^Just for purposes of clarification, Noble Rd. does not become "North Noble" until you cross Euclid. Nor does anybody in the neighborhood refer to the stretch between Monitcello and Euclid as "North Noble." :speech:

For another three quarters last night, I was really getting concerned about Bennett's ability to contribute in the NBA this season. He was really stinking it up. To pour salt on the wound, the #2 pick in the draft, Victor Oladipo, was showing well. But then Bennett absolutely EXPLODES in the fourth quarter and finishes off a huge comeback for the W. He had something around 15 points in the fourth, hitting 3 pointers, turn around jumpers, face-ups.... really showcasing the skills that made him the #1 pick. Most of the comeback, however, occurred in the 3rd, when our starters turned up the heat on the defensive side, especially Kyrie, after Brown called them out.