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^^ Is the top of that new sign pole supposed to get another cobrahead, even though there are already two at the corner? Looks sort of dumb and needlessly tall if not. Hopefully they do a little streetscaping there - none of the utility poles are plumb, the sidewalk is all weedy...just looks run down, like a place that no one looks at because they fly past at 45 mph. I'd actually like to see fewer lanes there, too. Presumably with 71 access at MLK, fewer people will use this stretch. Really doesn't need to be four lanes wide. Narrow it, calm it, and slow people down before they hit the Walnut Hills business district. Maybe people will actually want to use the sidewalks.

Did...did you read the article? I guarantee they'll buy them out. It's genius. I wish I had come up with this plan. Yes, the two residents either current or former that I was referring to were Senators Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi. Hence why I am not shocked that they didn't pay even the most minuscule of taxes. You STILL didn't read the article. Do you pay things you don't know you're responsible for? Are you cutting checks to the county auditor just on the off chance there's a charge you don't know about? I'm sure many of the homes have changed hands in the last 30 years, and new owners would have no idea about the charge. The rest faithfully paid their own property taxes and HOA fees, which would have included the charge had the clerical error not occurred. But if the HOA (or their accountant) wasn't getting the bill, and thus not passing it along to the homeowners, how would any of them - Feinstein, Pelosi, whoever - know they were responsible for it?

No, the brewery failed. Stagnaro lost interest in distributing craft beer a couple of years ago and dropped a bunch of brands, but kept BSBC as it's well regarded and right around the corner. In the spring, though, Stagnaro stopped pushing Blank Slate almost completely and keg and package sales cratered. Scott couldn't meet current debts and closed. He's trying to sell equipment and IP in order to recoup his investors' money. What's interesting is if he sells the brewery and IP the new owners can go to any distributor they want. No one wanted to distribute BSBC because Stagnaro had Hamilton County. It's quite sad that one of the highest quality breweries in the city had to shutter, while Tap and Screw and Bad Tom serve swill and are expanding.

Nah, it's Red Bank from I-71S. It's over a mile. Montgomery in Evanston is under 4,000 feet. EDIT: forgot about the new MLK/Hopple to 75-N. That looks a few hundred feet longer than Red Bank.

^I may have my facts wrong, but wasn't there a railyard back when under Gilbert and 5th Street? That would explain the overpasses, but I wholeheartedly agree that Reedy should go away, and Gilbert and Eggleston should be at grade.

Moving to the Maryland suburbs of DC in the fall. I've tried to find a comparable forum to this one covering news there, but all I can turn up is City-Data, which is a ghost town. Anyone run across anything similar? Thanks.

The basic measure of how competitive an airport is relative to its peers will always be O&D traffic. CVG was once much larger when accounting for connecting passengers, true, but was also leaking passengers to Dayton like a sieve because Delta charged an arm and a leg for a seat. Is that really what you want from your airport? That *more* local people are using the airport than ever means a greater share of the airport's economic impact is staying local. Connecting passengers spent a lot of money at CVG in the hub days, but all of that money went elsewhere -- to Delta, to Delaware North, etc. The economic impact of lower fares originating from CVG all stays local -- local businesses pay less to fly, lower travel expenses make local firms more competitive, and it's attractive to companies looking to locate here, etc.

^ If I could just think of an analog...some sort of service that gets paid to put cardboard boxes on your doorstep. I mean, if the boxes are brown...maybe the delivery service could be brown, too...man, why hasn't someone thought of this concept yet?

I hear you. We're on the verge of moving to DC as my wife is getting transferred to Silver Spring. We're looking at two-bedroom apartments just to have a little space for hobbies, a home office for me, etc. It seems anything in a decent walkable neighborhood in Maryland near the Metro is $2,000+/month for a 1,000sf apartment, plus utilities. For a few years in the mid-2000s I paid $750 for a very nice two-bedroom apartment in Hyde Park, and got a garage. Hell, my house mortgage was only $1500/mo, and it was only that high because we paid it off in seven years. Granted, some expenses go down (sell the cars, cancel the car insurance, avoid property taxes, etc.), but that $2k/month will be a painful check to write.

Here's what I wrote in February: The city will be doing something similar by curving Erkenbrecher around the new Children's expansion. Central Ave would need to be curved to lay in the footprint of Providence, which only exists between 14th and Wade, so you wouldn't be disrupting the grid. As for the streetcar, my pie-in-the-sky dream would be for a gameday-only loop to be constructed branching off Elm via 14th and Wade with a stop right in front of the stadium, and then for two hours before and after games, the northern section of the streetcar route (north of Central Parkway) would be a fare-free circulator.

^I believe the highest point in Hamilton County is the base of the Mt. Airy water tower. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=23199

Isn't it always illegal everywhere to drive with an expired tag? You're probably lucky you went that long without a ticket.

It's amazing to see how much the suburbs developed in the 40s-50s.

I do like Chipelto, but I prefer getting a big sandwich at Johnny Jim's to take into a Reds' game.

^I've been to that new Signage restaurant. The menu was particularly easy to read.

Those seem pretty nice in places - casement windows seem rare in new construction, and many of the other finishes seem nice - but man did they cheap out in the closets with that bargain-basement shelving. I mean, why not spend a couple hundred bucks for better materials in a $425k apartment?

Did we already rule out the Stargel Stadium site? The area bounded by John St., Wade, Providence, and Taft HS has a similar footprint to MAPFRE. Nothing immediately east along Central Pkwy is very high-value, so you could even have a "front lawn" facing the parkway. Central Ave. could be curved east around the site a la the way Mehring curves around the Reds and Bengals stadiums. You'd have highway access via Ezzard Charles and Liberty, and a short gameday loop of the streetcar could be built to connect to the core. Some parking already exists at the Music Hall garage, lowering the amount that would need to be built. If Stargel is still used for high school games, I can't see why it couldn't still on FC off-days - they're clearly used to sharing. And the sale of the site could be seen as a nice boost for CPS. I can imagine the fan groups congregating at Taft's and Taste of Belgium or wherever, marching around/through Washington Park, and then over to the stadium. To me, it just fits.

^ Doesn't "accepting a nomination" mean you've won the primary for your party?

I was lamenting that the awesome-looking Fred's Place/Cianciolo is now a generic Penn Station, but then in streetview look what's passing by? https://goo.gl/maps/GfcWZTsAJuB2 Progress isn't always a straight line.

^Blank Slate teamed up with Oskar Blues a year or two ago to make a Skyline beer. It was pretty mildly spiced. Was pretty good, but most people went "eww chili beer" without trying it. As for black raspberry chocolate chip milk stout, there are already plenty of chocolate milk (lactose, not actual milk) stouts out there, and there are plenty of dark beers with fruit added. That's definitely not the strangest combination you'll see.

^Admittedly I don't ride on Eggleston at rush hour or after a Reds game or anything, but that is already a great street for cycling. Traffic is light, the road is wide, and it connects a lot - if you're riding downtown from Walnut Hills/Eden Park and points east, it's the best connector to the riverfront. I will likely not use the shared path, especially as it terminates oddly.

^That continues to surprise me. Of all the breweries in the city, Tap & Screw would be my second-last guess as to the first to open a second location. They're glorified homebrew, mostly.

^ Subscribers only. Did they come up with a bottom line number, and is it greater than the construction cost?

Fantastic. You should consider submitting to Daily Overview. http://www.dailyoverview.com/home2

I think most recently it was a fairly run-down medical supply store.