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No mention of the Wolfgang Puck eatery going into the UH Ireland Cancer Center? Id post the article, but am mobile at the moment.

I think you just repeated my post from earlier today ;)

If we are so desperate for money then why in the h e double hockey sticks is eliminating the estate tax even up for conversation? Why are we spending over $1 billion to widen a highway in Columbus (or whatever that project is)? The budget had to be balanced. It is required by law. If Strickland was still in office, he would have had to do it too..... but I HIGHLY doubt he would have made the same choices. Many of Kasich's decisions reflect a blatant attack on his political opponents. They are driven by partisanship, thinly veiled under the guise of purported fiscal responsibility.

I disagree with your last paragraph Gramarye. Strongly disagree.

^^Republicans believe that government should play a lessor role in solving our social issues? Ha!!!! Hysterical! Sure they do.... as long as it doesn't involve who we marry, what we consume, what we do in the privacy of our own bedroom, how we express ourselves in public, what a private property owner does on his own land, what we do with our own body, and a plethora of other invasions into our individual discretion. ^you could phrase the question that way Gramarye.... or you could ask who is more selfish, the one who wants to keep what he earns (or what was handed to him with a silver spoon up his arse) and say screw the less fortunate... or the one who wants to help out his neighbors and those who truly are in despair. Or we could both stop with all the partisan phraseology and say that the American solution is found somewhere in the middle, as it always has been.

Joe and TJ are now frequenting Monsters games as well.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that we ignore the schools.

Burnham. In an ideal world I love the latest renditions, but I think (for several reasons) that extending the pavers to the loop is not realistic. Having them cover Superior on the interior of the square is a lofty enough goal. JMO.

Yes. I believe you have to have and maintain a certain gpa to be enrolled at John Hay

You're making the giant assumption that the decision he DID make he "has to make". I disagree. He didn't have to kill the 3C, for example. He doesn't have to restrict the ability of my community to reach a fair and mutually agreeable contract with the exclusive bargaining reps for our firefighters, cops and teachers. It is these types of decisions that are making him unpopular, not any non-partisan, good faith efforts to bring the budget into balance. That said, I am not one of the many who is calling for his removal. He won the election fair and square and unlike too many in our society I do understand that 'heavy lies the crown'.... especially in modern politics. He will be judged again in 2014. Until then, he is my governor. I actually probably agree with 85% of the decisions he has made. But I so strongly disagree with the other 15% that, if polled, I likely would be in the 'disapprove' category

^^^ non-profits can certainly have surpluses. The difference is that the surplus can't be used to increase the CEO's savings account.... or his/her children's trust funds. There is a difference between a surplus and a profit.

Especially if you also work in the City of Cleveland, which I don't ;)

I live in the inner ring and approached it this way, Hoot. I bought a 4bdrm 2 1/2 bath house for about 100-200gs less than I would have paid in a "better" school system for a comparable home. When I add in savings on interest and propery tax, that figure doubles over the term of my mortgage. That savings easily accounts for a reasonable private school education should we decide to go that route.

I think Kasich is overreaching too much into issues of purely local concern. On the government being run like a business debate, without inserting the us (citizens) vs them (gov't) viewpoint that I don't hold, I agree that government has the duty to be financial responsible. But I disagree that you are suppossed to run it like a business. These constant comparisons between the private sector and the public sector don't hold much water with me. It is a false equivolency. I look at gov't more like a not-for-profit entity.... if a comparison to the private sector must be made. Despite what many believe, the #1 priority of gov't is not to lower your taxes.

I suppose their could be a weight restriction on passing through the square (ie no buses or tractor trailers). Those vehicles could be routed around the loop. Not sure if Superior through the square being part of "the Grand Army of the Republic Highway" (Rt 6) would preclude such a restriction, but it would certainly go a long way towards calming the traffic through the square. I say drastically drop the speed limit over the pavers and add in all kinds of yield to pedestrian features like they have along Coventry. That might just discourage enough traffic to make it work.

Da$^..... I never realized how 'big' Indy was. More than 7x the square miles of Cleveland? If my math is correct, it is bigger than the 3C's combined, albeit has 1/2 the population.

Forget the blighted areas. We want to see the amenities!

We really need to invite Holmgren, Gilbert, and the other "urban design experts" on the group plan commission to come and visit this thread for inspiration. Urbanomic, I love, love, love the idea of meshing the street with the rest of the square. In fact, you did it so well, that at first glance I thought you had eliminated Superior altogether (see my knee-jerk response to your original post).

Not really. As I mentioned before, it is quite a bit bigger..... Detroit + Cleveland/Cincy = Columbus. But take a look at the metro numbers and Detroit still dwarfs C-Bus. My point is that it shouldn't be anymore suprising than San Antonio being 'bigger' than Atlanta..... or Jacksonville being 'double the size' of Miami.

Is this not an example of the market correcting itself? Painful as that might be in the short-term, isn't it better for us in the long-run?

Humidity is my #1 weather pet-peeve. Can't stand it. Makes me want to get inside as quickly as possible.

"Former" Judge Bridget McCafferty. She was not re-elected. Judge Terry is the one with the uncertain future.... at least as far as continuing to serve on the bench is concerned.

It just sounds very similar.... and I think a shooting at Dave's would have got more pub

^right. It wraps right around the corner, which is definitely preferable IMO. All it would have provided anyways would have been a cut through to residential parking in the rear. Maybe the rendering on the previous page was just an early conceptual massing. One thing that really caught my eye last time going past is just how massive the ground floor space will be. Ceilings will be a minimum of 30 ft I would guess.... maybe closer to 50. It will make this 3 story building look more like 5

I'm impressed with the effort, but you all have to realize that closing just one of either Ontario or Superior is going to be difficult enough to sell. Closing both is not going to be up for conversation.