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I had been rolling with a mytouch 3g slide for a few months now. Loved that phone, but I felt the need for speed and used the wife's upgrade to land a G2 ;) for $50 on amazon. She was going to get a slide anyways, so I'm not that bad. Honestly, the slide was just perfect IMO in shape, size, weight. The G2 is a little boxier, bigger and heavier.... but it is a huge step up. The way the stock loaded google earth app works on this phone is insane. I feel like one of those analysts on TV just flicking the globe around with my finger, zooming in on any given city... fully uploaded..... within seconds.

I think they would de well on the west side of CBS. reduce a lane of traffic and that parking lot, enhance the gardens and you've got a winner. Back on topic!

I think both of them are on vacation this week. Just...... kidding.....

I prefer picturing you with a blonde mustache and a mullett

I think the Aquarium and the Children's Museam should both go on the lot north of CBS. They would both be projects the PA could build off of in its attempt to develop that land. I don't care much for the Powerhouse option (for both the aquarium and the museam) and I can't really think of an ideal place in UC.

Driving by, you really get a feel for the massive presence these dorms will have on Euclid Avenue. It's like an entire City block built right up to street. Still don't care for the materials, but otherwise I really appreciate this project.

Looks like 4 lanes to me. Leaving Huron at 6 lanes would be a monumental mistake IMHO.

The Polar Express was indeed a hard ticket to land. First couple dates we wanted to go were all booked up and this was like a month ago...

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? I thought we were trying to get rid of the faux facade skins around this City :x

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but doesn't it appear that the rendering calls for a significant narrowing of Huron Rd.?

^That position might change with new leadership. It's not Fitzgerald's or the new council's "boondoggle".... they can stop the bleeding at any time and not take any of the blame for what was lost. That said, it sure sounds like AG has done all the "due diligence" it feels is necessary and Cleveland proper has not made the final list. I'll just hope they stay in the area, even if I think that company is going the way of the doe-doe in the years to come.

^Jacksonville's front 4 (even their front 7) is WAY more physical than I expected. That may be the first game this season where I saw our guy's getting pushed around a bit.... Atlanta maybe did it too. At the beginning of the season, I said I wanted us to be competitive but not to play ourselves out of a top 10 pick. Seems like things are going according to plan. As much as I hate to see losses like the last two... or the first two... the fact is that this team is still in need a major top-end talent infusion. We have a good foundation and good core. We need pro-bowlers (although I think Mack, Thomas, Vickers, Hillis, and Rubin all have a chance this year). Haden and Ward appear to be good start to the Heckert/Holmgren drafting era. If we can pick up 2-3 more playmakers this year, that will really help.

I don't think the City, MidTown Inc, or any other controlling body would refuse to cater to a request by AG to build an urban friendly HQ anywhere in the City, campus style or not. As long as it meets the extremely loosely applied design standards envisioned for Euclid Corridor, there is no reason it couldn't be built there. Or.... AG could plop down a campus suitable for Chagrin Highlands in any number of other places within the City that does not have such design standards. I hear we have a few vacant lots lying around somewhere.

Most people in Greater Cleveland live in the suburbs.... by approximately a 6:1 margin. And you have to remember that some of Cleveland's suburbs, such as Lakewood and Cleveland Heights, are more urban than many big cities.

^^Sorry. 1st sentence was correct. 2nd sentence should have said Chicago after they merged with Amaco? ^Right

Eaton is moving southeast. :x

BP left. Took their operations to L.A. TRW was bought out. So was Charter One and Office Max. They still all left.

This is a major problem today. And, even worse, about 10x more people watch / listen / read to Beck than those who watch Matthews. Beck's followers are also much more cult-like and faith-based, making it all the more dangerous. Question: does anybody know anyone who faithfully watches Beck (for reasons other than comic relief), who you can honestly say that you respect their intelligence?

As a young professional, I would prefer my business not be located in Midtown. Seriously, what is this 'Midtown' other than words and a few isolated placards along the roadside? There's nothing there. What am I going to eat? Where am I going to park? The need for a campus is even more compelling if you want to locate it there, because the surrounding area offers almost nothing. If they want to bulldoze a huge area and put up a campus (or use any of the vast open spaces on Chester/Euclid), that's great, please, do so. The city should make it virtually free for them to do so. Because that area ranks about as low in desirability as I can imagine. Someone has to go first, but there is no reason for AG to feel like that's a good idea without a seriously big carrot. I usually criticize others for having too much of this with regard to MidTown, but I would say you have absolutely no long-term vision for the area. MidTown and Euclid Corridor both have certain design standards. The Corridor was built with certain concepts and goals in mind. I'm not sure what you are envisioining would qualify. Maybe it is you use of the word "campus", which is evoking artifical ponds, rolling green fields, and 1500 ft setbacks. If you were talking about something along the line of Tyler Village or what KJP is talking about, you won't get any objection here. But if you want to put something like what Eaton has planned for Chagrin Highlands, that is not something I could get aboard with.

Good. We need articles like this from the PD. That woman getting rundown by the juvenille a few years back really gave PHS a black eye.... even though the juvenille really had no connection to PHS and was only driving through because the police were chasing him (an error in judgment, one could argue). I'm sure this will cue stage left for the "inappropriate behavoir" crowd who will tell us their cousins neighbors sister was deficated on by a homeless man (the black'n'mild smokin' type) who then proceeded to empty the waste baskets on to the street for the sake of littering and then accomplished his get-away by jumping on an RTA bus without paying and at the invitation of the bus driver. Oh well.... some people just don't trust facts. To be honest, I was a victim of a crime at PHS just the other weekend. The wife got tix to the opera to see Pagliachi (or however it is spelled).... but that opera is rather short so the first Act was actually another opera (La Voix Humaine... or something like that). That first opera involved a single actress, a sofa, a chair, and a phone. It is 51 of the worst spent minutes in my life of this whiny b!tch on the phone with some guy who is understandably dumping the psycho. It doesn't even have any songs... it is just her singing through the conversatin. Awful story, awful acting. Downright criminal.

"It's a boondoggle"...... "It's a boondoggle"..... that's all they ever say. Sure, $400 billion is a bit much to spend on a boondoggle: But the amount is well worth seeing a few of these in action every day:

I don't think Cleveland has a particularly large German influence.

Why not do what C-Bus does and expand into surrounding counties? But seriously, I could see a few annexations making sense, but nothing on such grand a scale. EC, a few in the western side of the Industrial Valley, and maybe Garfield Hts. Anything substantially greater than that is a pipe dream IMO. Take Bratenahl for example. There is no way the Bratenahl residents would let that happen.

Look at EVD casting stones with the "ist" accusations :) That lightened up my day more than a bit. How about he cries like a woman? Does that fit better within your sensibilities, Mr. PC.

Way to go Joe! Take a look at his picture in the link. That guy screams "Cleveland" to me.