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Kids in Fountain 

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Kids asleep, dishes cleaned, laundry folded. Wife is working the night shift. I fix a drink and sit in the window and look at the street. A few people sit on the wall by the sidewalk murmuring around the division of whatever drug they do these days. Not quite raining, it is misting, and the dark shapes of the northern hills are scattered with dozens of house lights. Two decrepit church towers

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Associates of mine on an email listserve took the following pictures and I thought I would post them since they represented well my post two months ago about Starbucks being less urban and more suburban, like other fast food places: By a freeway:  The next 3 are from Washington DC and are an example of good urbanism:

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Hard to tell from the photo, but take my word that this couple is saying wedding vows with a minister: 

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All kids ages 6-12 are invited to our FREE event this weekend. Children will enjoy face painting, indoor and outdoor games, crafts, dancing, a petting zoo, safety activities and can meet mounted police officers. The event is at the Lincoln Community Center in the West End from 10 am - 3 pm. You can get more information and register children at Give Back Cincinnati.

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They return this weekend in connection with Reds related events: ... seven “Reds Hot Weekend” celebrations from May to September. The first “Reds Hot Weekend” is THIS WEEKEND, May 16-18 when the Cincinnati Reds take on the Cleveland Indians at Great American Ball Park. “Reds Hot Weekends” begin this Friday night with live music by Lo-fi, a local cover band playing funk and rock classics, at 5

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I have heard about Imago for years, and I think finally I will visit this weekend: Enright Ecovillage Google map

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Where can a family go for an affordable dinner out at 7pm on a Saturday downtown? I'm thinking pizzeria type food and atmosphere. If we drive to Clifton there is Dewey's, Pomi's, and a few other spots that are pretty kid friendly. Downtown, not much. Most cheap eats are closed completely on weekends, and some that are open on Saturday, close by 4pm (Potbelly's, Skyline). Even our only fast food

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  [Where: 35 East Seventh Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202]

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Do you know who I am? I'm the big rubber clown doll you had as a kid, and every time you hit it, it bounces back. That's me--the harder you hit me, the faster I come back up.-Bill Clinton to Newt Gingrich, Winter 1995

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I'm interested in how a visitor sees Cincinnati. This time, an Indianapolis native gives his perspective: There is simply not a city in the Midwest apart from Chicago that has anything near the great assets of Cincy. It is an embarrassment of riches. ... Drive around Cincinnati and you'll notice that much of the great architecture is in a shocking state of disrepair. While the buildings weren't

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This doesn't make much sense to me. The advantage of riding a bike is that you can go right to the front door with it, not park it a few blocks away in a garage. In Japanese:

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Editorial in the Cleveland Free Times: ... no candidate running this year is going to upset or even challenge the suburban sprawl industry. ... a bipartisan commitment to avoiding any talk about reining in the immense power of the real-estate industry. ... long-avoided discussions America ought to have on race, on climate change, on imported energy, on highway construction and on agriculture

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We need an Eisenhower for today's crisis: The collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis last August points to a fundamental crisis. Transportation systems and structures are outmoded and stressed beyond their capacities. This is not an abstraction; we suffer the consequences during our commutes every day. Traffic congestion in 2005 drained $78 billion from our economy,... adding 4.2

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  Cuzins:  

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NY Times:Some cities with long-established public transit systems, like New York and Boston, have seen increases in ridership of 5 percent or more so far this year. But the biggest surges — of 10 to 15 percent or more over last year — are occurring in many metropolitan areas in the South and West where the driving culture is strongest and bus and rail lines are more limited. Nobody believed that

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For those of you not on John Schneider's protransit email list, I had to pass this along: Gas pushes above $3.67 a gallon, while oil passes $126 on Venezuela supply concerns And the Cincinnati backstory is ... At $126, a barrel of oil now costs $100 more than it cost on November 5, 2002 when Hamilton County voters defeated an extensive plan for transportation choices here. Economists hired

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  Taken while he gave my horoscope.

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  [where: 13 E. Thirteenth Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202] (SW corner of Thirteenth and Jackson, 1227 Jackson ie: Jackson Street Warehouse is the owner responsible)

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A neighbor of ours has a great post today about choosing her environment. I definitely feel affinity for her decision process. My life, where I live and how, is made from innumerable small steps and everyday decisions. It was not planned out in advance, but the result is pretty good. Read her post.

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Basil Sturgill? I don't think so, but that is the address he gave the sheriff when he registered as a sexual offender last week. He probably just got out of jail and had no idea what else to tell them when asked where he is going to live... I've seen other men list their cars, or even the sidewalk....

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Nothing gets the point across better than a simple drawing like this by the New Urbanists:   On the subject of walkability... no other mode of transport compares in ease or pleasure. A few days ago our family took a nice bike ride to Newport. The ride was a lot of fun, but I was struck how much more complicated and difficult it was than our usual walk to the Library or Fountain Square. You

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Boy and Dog Drawing  See the William Steig webpage. He is the author of The Amazing Bone, Dr. DeSoto, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and many other great children's books.

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I thought this article was interesting and am linking to it, because it is in the UC magazine, which probably doesn't have a big readership: Researchers save lives by unlocking the street code in Cincinnati ... Dozens of young men filed into a downtown courtroom last summer. ...they were summoned as a condition of probation or parole to sit through a surprise "call-in session," ...Facing them

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Situation #1: Should a preacher be allowed to preach in a public park? Sure. Can he use a loudspeaker? Without any kind of permit? How loud can he be? Can he curse all the people in the park to Hell? Can he play obnoxious music and sing a really bad version of "We Are the World"? How would you like it, if in the public park by your house, this guy came every Saturday of the year and

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