RiverViewer

Very nice! I love the perspectives you give - the depth of the roads and such, with the walls receeding and the focus of the shot way in the background - makes for very interesting pictures. My favorite shot is this one: ...that multiple-layers-of-buildings effect...Grasscat does that all the time in his tours, and I love that look...that and the first one with that statue in the park at E 3rd - dude just standing straight up into the sky... Thanks for starting off with a bang! Very nicely done!

How well do HOV lanes work for reducing congestion in other cities?

Thanks for the reminder, and the great picture!

What if this was planned all along? Since black people were moving in the cities en masse decades ago, there was no where to kick them out to. So in order to get them out the suburbs were setup for whites to have a safe haven until the time was right to move back in and push all the blacks far away outside into those same distant suburbs. Leaving the cities for white people to take over. What do think of that theory? Planned by whom?

I see, it's the 0/5ths compromise!

Xavier owns the land on the north west corner of Dana and Montgomery - the lot and the first building west of Montgomery. I don't know which site is BASF and which is Zumbiel, but the lots at Dana and Montgomery abut the buildings they bought from Canora Corporation in 2004, and those abut the back end of the Commons Apartments on the southeast corner of campus. They're separated by the railroad tracks, I believe, but it's all connected.

...and if Erie is a lake, what does that make East Fork?

No, actually I remember the 5th grade girls doing that. And I probably wouldn't have described them as "living in sin with a safety pin." And is that really what they're trying to evoke, this temporary odd fashion element from one branch of music? Like, "livin' in the Keys, with patches on my knees, goin' Six Toes Rock, Six Toes Rock," trying to evoke Hemmingway...

I definitely want City Council involved in the decisions - they're our elected representatives, specifically for the folks who live in the city, and I want them to have a hand in this. But good lord, can we PLEASE lock these twelve folks up in a big conference room and not let them out when they have a signed deal? Make it like the papal conclaves used to be - you get a week to elect a new pope, after which you only get one meal per day for a week, after which you go to bread and water for a week, and after that you're on your own...

^One of the great things about being new to a city is getting to explore something completely new...you can print a Cincinnati map off the internet, then go to http://www.sorta.com/ and figure out how to get somewhere and back...costs a couple bucks, and it's a little adventure...

Never been in the statehouse...thanks for the tour!

Can anyone explain this? I mean, I've always thought those lyrics were astonishingly surreal for such a straight-ahead rock tune. I actually really dig the song, but what the f*** do safety pins have to do with a goddamn thing?

Hard to tell which is worse - that or "we're talkin' baseball...talkin' Tribe! (Nobody plays harder than the Tribe!)"

The willows and the pines? Not the trees I'd have guessed... And I can see them shining Through the Tulips and the Oak, The lights of Cincinnati ...and it makes me want to choke? And I make a funny joke?

And lots of people walk from the gaslight area to class every day. It's really not that far to walk, and it's got a movie theater (with actual intelligent movies too, which often appeals to college folks), a skyline open until 4am or so, Sitwell's coffee shop which I'm sure is open late, a couple bars if you're of age, a couple cheap eats places, etc. Then if you're up for spending $1 each way, the busses will get you anywhere you want to go. One of the coolest days I spent as a freshman at CCM was taking a bus downtown to meet a girl at the downtown parks...we walked across the old Central bridge to a riverboat restaurant, then took a bus back to her place in Norwood...it was a great time.

I'd be interested to know how many got religion, speech and assembly - because really, not knowing freedom of the press is enumerated separately from freedom of speech? I ain't worried about that guy. And not knowing the right to petition the government is in the 1st amendment? Hell, I've read the constitution and the amendments a lot of times, and in fact just quite recently, and I didn't remember that. Now, more interesting is definitely the pull quote KJP chose - 17% believing driving is a constitutional right...although, at the height of Watergate, with Nixon on the ropes, embarrassed, with a crap economy and the ugliest fashions ever conceived, Nixon still had a 24% approval rating...and with double-digit inflation and double-digit interest rates and super-high unemployment and an energy crisis and Americans being held hostage in Iran and the country humiliated internationally, at least 30% of the people thought Jimmy Carter was doing a good job. ...goes to show you, it's a big country out there, with lots of people thinking lots of stupid things...

I don't want to sound rude, but there are tons of things to do in this city...what kinds of things are you into, what would you want to have available that is missing?

Oh, you rock. Rock on!

Yeah, Cincinnati is kind of short on lighthouses...given that they're also short on oceans and Great Lakes, that makes sense, though! Alas...though I'll take the river over the lake any day (sorry...lakes rock too!)

I agree, I hope they can figure out a perfect solution that supplies their needs and preserves the building...but I've gotta say, the thought of them taking advantage of their view is WONDERFUL! FINALLY! WOO HOO! And sorry about the Academy...but THE VIEW! WOO HOO!

That doesn't actually sound very outrageous to me. Attorneys are expensive, and good ones are more expensive, and everything they're working on requires attorneys...you'd think they'd have in-house counsel to handle some of this, but for some stuff you truly need top-notch talent. One screw-up by an attorney can cost thousands, even millions of dollars...

I've driven through the Hewitt/Fairfield one a number of times - a friend lives a couple blocks from there. There are always a half-dozen people outside the corner convenience store, then most of the time young kids on the corners in each direction...it does kind of cut against the "Main Road" thesis, though - it's kind of off the beaten path, in the middle of a residential neighborhood...

horosho - you wrote, "3. O' Bryonville. Very visually appealling. Kinda pricey and not really my scene but they've done an excellent job and it really draws people in." - do you mean pricey as in the stores are pricey, or that it's pricey to live there? Because if you just head a block north to Pogue, I'm sure there are plenty of affordable rental units available...there were when I lived there...

^Er...yeah, exactly, that's completely possible. Media in the 19th century was extremely partisan, as Magyar said. There was no pretense of objectivity, and playing fast and loose with the facts for purely partisan reasons was standard operating procedure. Imagine talk radio today, multiply it by an order of magnitude, then ask yourself the same question...

I really love the "They're building such CRAAAAP!!!" feature! Regarding the Cheviot Memorial Building, it sounded like you had a link to its history, but the link didn't make the post...I can google it if you don't have it handy, though...I love WPA stuff, so it sounded interesting...