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Rhetorical? Not like you to intentionally invite one of those "knucklehead", off-topic rants. Perhaps the easier method for clarification is just to sort the comments in this yahoo story by "highest rated" as the general points of interest in this story from those commenters (I would bet my left nut) are exactly what led to the high traffic on the Drudge Report. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_videotaped_beating. Whenever a DR story involves transgenders, it almost always is to portray them in a negative light, which is why this story seemed odd to me.

I was wondering why Drudge Report is reporting on a hate crime against a transgender...... then I watched the video. Typical.

I am really getting annoyed with the people who are so against Hillis being on the cover of Madden. Sure, he is not one of the truly established superstars in the league (yet), but this is a popularity contest. That is the way EA Sports wanted to do it. And Hillis is undoubtedly popular..... not just in Cleveland either. Any time I talked Browns this past season with any of my friends who live in other states, they all raved about Hillis. The fact that he is in the finals just goes to prove how popular he has become..... or how truly dedicated Browns fans are.

I didn't mean to lump them all into one category. I certainly have had some outstanding, very hard working clerks from Case. I just have had better luck with the other schools (in fact, I stopped posting at Case for a year or so), but that might be due to my areas of practice.

I say either Downtown Akron, which seems to be the best choice, or Kent (with you stomaching the commute).

I don't get how you would garner a pledge or big-money sponsor without at least a conceptual drawing, which is all we are basically dealing with here. These are the types of things that need to be brought to the boardroom when trying to sell the project to investors.

^we are even better at creating causes of action to which others have to respond

I don't blame the schools that much. Too many kids going to law school nowadays simply because they don't know what to do with their 4 year degree. The profession is supposed to be highly competitive. A law degree is not a golden ticket and shouldn't be viewed or represented as one. This is especially true with the current economic climate. I hope nobody takes this the wrong way, but the Case students I have hired seem to have a sense of entitlement. It surely might just be bad luck on my part and it certainly does not apply to all or even the great majority. But, from my experience, they tend to have less real world experience than the students from C-M and Akron, and (probably due to the clinics) have far less time to contribute. Further, they treat clerkships like an externship. Yes, you are here to learn, but you are here to work first and foremost. If that sense of entitlement is the result of the expectations created by the school, then I can kind of see your point. It may be a mixture of that and the general background of the students (i.e. from more affluent families on a whole). But the school is a private institution and, just as all private ventures, it has every right to biasedly market its success stories.

I sure hope some of you hit it big and become private developers here in Cleveland. Become the 'doers', I say. Before you know it, the WHD lots will be filled, the Lakefront will be fully developed, and we will have the a beautiful 3 mile long, 500 ft wide densely built mixed use neighborhood lining Euclid Avenue between Downtown and UC instead of all of these pretty pictures.

Port leadership changed and the long term plans to move the Port to E55 were scrapped.

When college students ask me whether they should go to C-M or Case, I ask them whether they plan to stay in the region. If no, then Case may be worth the extra $ due to its national rep. But if they are going to stay, then the investment is probably not justified.

You mean those systems in which one kid has a 400 sq ft bedroom and another lives with his 5 siblings in a 400 sq ft apartment...... nah, I think we should keep education clear of that type of system

^^That's a fair criticism of the OSU piece. Privatization, I think, is too radical a shift. I get the concept. It's much like Paul Ryan's plan for medicare. There are multiple concerns for me, mainly an inevitable result of the really good schools charging the voucher + "x" for their tuition on a decreasing scale to where the bad schools would just take the amount of the voucher. But that's probably getting too far off topic. Regionalization of the school district is the only legitimate hope for the CMSD and a few others. It will certainly be to the detriment of a few districts, but I truly believe the net effect on the great majority of the districts will be so minimal or zero... and improving the CMSD is so absolutely vital to the region... that the juice will be worth the squeeze.

From Ronald G. Corwin, Professor Emeritus (The Ohio State University): "Ohio is only one case, but the experience there is illuminating. For 10 consecutive years, public school districts have out-performed charter schools in that state, according to the Ohio Department of Education report card data. In 2007, traditional schools topped charters on all 28 achievement tests administered with an average difference of nearly 26 points in proficiency levels. Significantly, charter schools operated by traditional public school districts outperformed charter schools operated by management companies or other entities on 27 of 28 state achievement tests, by an average of 12 percentage points. Factoring in wide variances among schools paints an even bleaker picture. As Barbara Shaner, chair of Ohio’s Coalition for Public Education, put it, “if your child attends a traditional public school, he or she has an 80% chance of receiving an effective or excellent rating…[but] children attending an Ohio charter school have just a 9% chance of receiving such an education.” (Ohio Retired Teachers Association Quarterly, Fall 2007). The state auditor has ruled 26 of the 213 schools “unauditable” because of improper auditing practices. The largely negative results hardly justify the $2.7 billion spent on charter schools there during the past decade, including nearly half a billion dollars in the past year alone."

Let me revise, I don't mind having charter schools. It is nice to have that option. But when/if that is the only option is when I predict there will be serious, very inequitable problems.

In theory, I like the idea of charter schools. In application, I think there are some serious issues and nothing will be improved. You still will have all the rich kids going to the best schools and all the poor kids going to the worst schools. County wide public education seems to work in other places quite nicely, and they are able to blen in something akin to a charter school system. This seems to work OK in Mecklenberg County, NC.

I can't see why. It is built to hold hundreds of cars. I suppose the only issue would be creating a good water run-off system, which wouldn't be that hard.

If you are going to gut them anyways, have you given any consideration to combining the spaces? Given, rent-wise, you probably could bring in more with them separate, but a combined space of 3,500sf might attract some interesting tenants.

Light show from Portugal. Incredible. http://sorisomail.com/email/74120/mais-uma-projecao-3d-sensacional.html

They need to loosen up on the out of classroom requirements as well. Makes it very difficult for Case students to get real world experience while still in school.

He was a narcotics officer from what I heard and there was a question of missing evidence (money or drugs, most likely).

I would label these plans as 'measured'. Great idea throwing the Clinic's name in there, even if they don't have a committment. In all of these types of developments, we know that an anchor tenant is key. CCF and the Browns would be great 'spearheads' for lakefront development.... better than the Port Authority or City Hall.

Something awful just happened in Euclid. A cop under investigation just took his own life.... right there at the station... in the Captain's office from what I hear.

You're jumping to from the idea that chains are needed for sustainability (however you want to define that) to the idea that chains can aid in sustainability. I see those issues as distinct. I also see a major distinction between chain restaurants and chain retail..... which we seem to have diverted this discussion to. Also, the comparisons don't really hold up either. Different things work in different places. What TPTB should be working on, to the extent they can influence private development (a limitation some continue to ignore or don't realize), is what works for Cleveland. I won't eat there (I guess because I am "snobbish") but come on down PF Changs, come on down Chili's, come on down IHOP, all are welcome to open a business. NOBODY IS STOPPING THEM.

Sounds like Downtown Cleveland in the mid 90's.