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How much of this money is for Mill Creek issues? (I'm just asking a host of questions today! So much I don't know a damn thing about, all coming up today!)

I had no idea this was ever discussed. Did I miss a very important thread somewhere? This would be unimaginable and unconscionable...

So if someone can confirm/correct this - the current status is: 1) Analyzing alternatives, scheduled to be finished by 2009. 2) Working on gathering funding - already have enough money to fund the studies, but still have to get the money for construction. Probably will occur in the next couple years while the plans are cemented. 3) Construct whatever is selected by 2018. That about right?

Would a downtown or a Beechmont Bloomingdales really draw folks from Akron? And would a downtown or Kenwood Bloomingdales really draw folks from Dayton? I know it wouldn't draw me, but I don't know how shoppers actually behave...I wonder if density around a proposed location might not be a measure they'd be more concerned with...like, how many folks who they think might be their shoppers live within maybe 25 miles of a spot?

Very interesting and fun! Though this part: I have never once heard of anyone commuting by airplane between Cincinnati and Dayton - the owner of my company owns a private jet, and his parents live in Dayton, and I don't think he's ever flown from one to the other - and I don't believe for a second that it would take a well-prepared traveller less time than driving it. My wife and I drove to Chicago for a conference she had, and our travel time was identical to two other folks who flew there...that may have been an anomaly, but Dayton? No way... But other than that, a very cool article. Thanks for posting it!

I think the answer to your question is, "quite well!" Thanks! I know I won't make it to Zoo Blooms this year, but your thread is wonderful!

Very fun, indeed...

Rustoleum-colored steel carports were a common architectural trait during the Civil War, especially in frontier construction like in Wisconsin...it protected a wooden shed like nothing else could. Ah, but very nice tours! Thank you! I especially liked your art-shots at the end!

I always thought the two dots over the "O" in Hopple in I-75 south, making it an umlaut, was graffiti far more subtle than one normally sees...very fun.

We spent one day in sole possession of 1st place, then a little two-game back-to-reality from the Cardinals...it's been a lot of fun so far - if the Reds can be better than .500 most of the season, and within striking distance come August, it's gonna be a wonderful summer...

Is Cleveland's sell-out streak an MLB record?

Props to Jake - the Enquirer is referencing his page! Woo hoo! As I always say, Cincinnati-transit.net is simply indispensible!

There was a pretty well publicized work slowdown after the riots. Arrests dropped, proactive policing was non-existent, and yeah, to some degree, they let OTR become an "open city"...I don't know the details like I'm sure other forumers do, but I certainly heard about it a number of times.

They don't describe in what way the Portsmouth locks will impact recreational uses in Cincinnati...anyone have any idea?

...about time...the current steps really, really look run-down. Even just some new railing would be nice... Church steps to get new life $1.5M reconstruction includes wider stairs, larger overlook BY GREGORY KORTE | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060413/NEWS01/604130343 MOUNT ADAMS - Starting at midnight, in a scene repeated every Good Friday for 145 years, thousands of Roman Catholics from Cincinnati - and indeed, all over the country - will come to Mount Adams to recite the rosary on steps leading to Holy Cross-Immaculata Church. The narrow, dilapidated steps - 85 of them from St. Gregory Street to Guido Street - could see their last Good Friday this year. ...

Actually, that's all the digital pictures I took...I suck. I did get my film prints back, but first priority was getting reprints and enlargements...next step I'll go somewhere and scan them...

I think ColDay got just about everything imaginable...he was like, "look at the density in Bond Hill" and "there sure are some huge houses in Blue Ash" and stuff...meanwhile I'm thinking to myself, "wait a minute, is that I-71 or the Lateral?" and "no, that's too small to be the Ohio river..." Only thing we couldn't get was the west side...CVG has a radius of 5.75 miles of Class A restricted airspace, and we were only cleared for their Class B (I think I have the letters right). I'm sure Chris got some shots out of that side of the plane while we were over downtown and the West End, but Northside is the furthest west that we were able to fly.

Yeah, I'm just getting the Red X...someone want to give us a clue regarding the secret Mac-favored ice cream brand?

I completely understand what you're saying about the politics. There are very valid reasons for the CPD to be incensed at grandstanding by the Sherrif's department. But, that being said, I couldn't give two shits less about who in the CPD is annoyed at whom - I want the crime to stop. I'll be the first to side with the police in an incident, to support big raises for them, to get them the equipment they need to stay safe and fight crime effectively, to support increasing their ranks to cover problem areas better, and to be polite and respectful in any interaction I have with them. But, that being said, they have GOT to make fighting crime their #1 priority. And if efforts to fight crime are weakened in the slightest by political considerations, turf wars, PR stunts, work slowdowns - then I absolutely condemn them for it.

Isn't it a suburb of Mansfield? (yeah, I never get tired of that joke...)

Mine's just a Canon PowerShot A60, 2MP, 3x optical zoom...nice enough for most everything I'm interested in, though it's not a good enough machine to have gotten the most out of aerials, as you can see just comparing ColDay's two shots with mine...

^I think the weights were all lugnuts or other car parts...so it ended up as natural as any of the other tricks, I guess...

Monte - yeah, we've been trying to get up since January, wanting a crisp winter day, and the weather just kept being uncooperative. First time it was threatening rain - it was a transitional day, and while it would have been perfect weather, we couldn't know that in time...the second time it was threatening icing, which is bad to screw around with...the third time, we tried to postpone and postpone, but the ceiling just wouldn't lift. This was about the last chance we had to go up before the leaves all came out, and since my lot is covered with trees, I wanted to get up before it was too late to see my house. Wish it had been clearer, no doubt, but it was Tuesday evening or leaves... PigBoy - yeah, I'll scan some of my better shots, no doubt. I'm going to order reprints of the better shots today - prints for the neighbors, for friends whose houses I got, then overviews that came out non-blurry - got some cool long shots of the bridges with the river threading its way downstream - then I'll get some of those scanned. But hopefully everyone will be sated by ColDay's post by then!

Er..."they're going to screw it up." Uh, what, exactly, would it be that they're going to screw up? Man, I could throw out a host of sarcastic comments here, but I'm sure that's utterly unnecessary...