If people want city living, why do you need to build it from scratch? Already in the City of Cincinnati, and in inner ring suburbs we have areas like Hyde Park, Mt. Lookout, Mt. Washington, Northside, Montgomery, Blue Ash, Covington, Newport, OTR, Downtown, and Clifton all offer places where you can walk to a restaurant, bar, store, or coffeehouse. No one needs to spend a dime to create these places.
What those areas can't provide is either a gate to keep people out, or a stale brand of milquetoast retail picked right out of Disneyworld, or it might be both. Each of these areas will not be a self contained unit, ala BioDome, where you never have to leave to get what ever you want. That assumes that you want a stale life where the only thing to fret over is the rude server at First Watch.
I know this kind of place by another name, a Retirement Community.
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Downtown Joseph-Beth Store?
Nick Spencer posted on news from Joseph-Beth Booksellers that they are interested in opening a Fountain Square location.
This is wonderful news for downtown retail and the movement to build up the Fountain Square area as a beacon for entertainment and shopping. Where might it go?
This is wonderful news for downtown retail and the movement to build up the Fountain Square area as a beacon for entertainment and shopping. Where might it go?
Housekeeping
I have added several additional local blogs to the blogroll, including a couple right leaning bloggers and a couple of extreme right wingers. I also added two blogs of folks who helping out with some web work for the Fringe Fest.
In addition, I have updated my comments to include a "preview" function to allow people to see what their post will look like before publishing it. That is most useful for those will to post links. If you do post links, try to use the "a" tag when possible. Long URLs tend to look bad and cause havoc when trying to read the post.
If there are other blogs out there I am missing or if there are other improvements I could easily make to the blog, please let me know.
In addition, I have updated my comments to include a "preview" function to allow people to see what their post will look like before publishing it. That is most useful for those will to post links. If you do post links, try to use the "a" tag when possible. Long URLs tend to look bad and cause havoc when trying to read the post.
If there are other blogs out there I am missing or if there are other improvements I could easily make to the blog, please let me know.
If It Doesn't Bleed Gallons, Don't Bother?
Why is that when a car bomb goes off in Iraq it just gets a quickly little headline, the number of dead, and that's it. Every time a car bomb goes off in Israel we get the cable channels going live with breaking news?
There are some factors at play here that are structural bias. Israel has a bigger media community of its own, so they of course will carry it live and the cable channels can just feed off them for coverage. The second reason is that at this point in time there are fewer bombings in Israel, so when one happens it is more newsworthy.
What may be the biggest structural problem is that no television journalists are really in Iraq on a big scale doing much on the ground reporting. I don't know if I have seen much more than random footage of events in Iraq recently and that is when the journalists are on patrol or escorted by US troops.
Those aside, why is that when multiple car bombs go off on a single day in Iraq we don't get live Baghdad coverage of it? Are we so unphased by 10 killed or 8 killed because we now only get on our ears about terrorist acts that kill in the hundreds? Now, if those 10 or 8 were Americans you get more attention, but now a days even that is not enough.
The news media, ALL if it from FOX to CNN to NBC to Talk Radio, have illustrated their callousness and total attention to ratings (or other agendas), not to journalism. The print media, as usual, has done a better job, but if its not on TV it just doesn't matter to most Americans.
There are some factors at play here that are structural bias. Israel has a bigger media community of its own, so they of course will carry it live and the cable channels can just feed off them for coverage. The second reason is that at this point in time there are fewer bombings in Israel, so when one happens it is more newsworthy.
What may be the biggest structural problem is that no television journalists are really in Iraq on a big scale doing much on the ground reporting. I don't know if I have seen much more than random footage of events in Iraq recently and that is when the journalists are on patrol or escorted by US troops.
Those aside, why is that when multiple car bombs go off on a single day in Iraq we don't get live Baghdad coverage of it? Are we so unphased by 10 killed or 8 killed because we now only get on our ears about terrorist acts that kill in the hundreds? Now, if those 10 or 8 were Americans you get more attention, but now a days even that is not enough.
The news media, ALL if it from FOX to CNN to NBC to Talk Radio, have illustrated their callousness and total attention to ratings (or other agendas), not to journalism. The print media, as usual, has done a better job, but if its not on TV it just doesn't matter to most Americans.
Friday, April 22, 2005
Small World
John Bolton, nominee US Ambassador to the UN was one of the GOP Lawyers in Palm Beach County, FLA in 2000 for the post election maneuvering. This has no real bearing on his confirmation, but it is interesting. I first thought this was a fake picture, but apparently not. I do wonder, did every lawyer or activist who went to Florida in 2000 get a spot in the Administration?
[VIA Kos]
[VIA Kos]
Susquehanna Media Co. For Sale
Media division of Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff Co. is looking sell all of it's media holdings. Locally it includes radio stations WRRM-FM (WARM 98), WYGY-FM (96.5), and WMOJ-FM (MOJO 94.9). Which media giant will get them? Would a major radio ownership shift cause more format changes?
Kaldi's Closed
In what can't be deemed a surprise, Kaldi's closed. When you give up your liquor license, close at 7 PM, and then expect to make money with a location in the Main Street Entertainment District, it should not shock you when it does not work.
Word is that a deal is close on a new owner who hopefully will get a liquor license, and then return it to a similar, yet improved structure. Speed of the service staff would be priority number 1.
Word is that a deal is close on a new owner who hopefully will get a liquor license, and then return it to a similar, yet improved structure. Speed of the service staff would be priority number 1.
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