Great move and a great candidate, hopefully he can overcome the damage Platner has done. Luckily Jackson has similar policies so there's not too much of a policy change issue with the campaigns, just the face.
D3 means classified as a extreme drought by the US government
It is interesting to see which regions that will have the most water over the next 100 years and which will likely struggle with decreasing water resources.
The Great Lakes and Ohio River Valley stick out as the frontrunners with the Pacific Northwest, Mississippi River Valley, and Northeast having decent amounts of water as well. It will be interesting to see how this impacts migration in the future
I know the roar of coney Island posts has dimmed down this year, but I thought I would give people some info on what's actually going on, because the MEMI CEO has not been the best at approaching Public Relations on this issue.
Backstory
Coney Island founded Kind Island in the 70s to fix the issues of flooding and constant congestion, this is the reason for the coney mall area of KI, which contains many former Coney Island rides. Despite moving most of its rides it was luckily able to survive on its own afterwards albeit as a diminished park. It was ran by the walker family for many years successfully, but eventually their son inherited the business, he (in my eyes) essentially ran the business to the ground in search of increased profit, closing the rides in 2019 and eventually coming to the decision to sell the whole thing in 2023.
MEMI (the company that owns riverbend and AJB Music Center and contributes all of its profits to the Cincinnati Orchestra, which owns the company) was not a part of any of the previously discussed events, they were approached because the park owner was planning to sell the park. In my opinion most of the other possible buyers were much worse, with most being for profit companies that seemed to develop the land and knock down all of the historic buildings.
MEMI's current plans
The new Farmer music center is being build on the former West parking lot, NOT on the former Coney Island grounds, which is a common misconception I have heard, this was where the Christmas lights used to be held if you attended those.
MEMI plans to preserve and restore most of the historic buildings on the site to use, with work likely to begin in earnest after the music center is built. This includes the Moonlite Gardens and Moonlite Pavilion, Auto and River Gates, picnic shelters and area as well as the Hampton Square building among others. As far as I know only two things of note have been or are planned to be demolished, the former larosas building and the Sunlite pool, which of course I am very sad about. The buildings currently are used as offices and workspace for MEMI, but are eventually planned to be turned into a festival and Event space between the two music centers, allowing for food, drinks, shopvendors etc as well as green space for festival goers to hang out in.
The Moonlite Gardens specifically are condemned due to rotting floors, but these are currently planned to be restored and MEMI desires to use the space as a very small scale intimate music venue to combine for a total of 4 differently sized music venues on site(Riverbend,Farmer, PNC Pavilion, Moonlite Gardens). And no riverbend is not going to be demolished either, most of the shows will move to farmer, but Riverbend will still be used for future events and festivals that are in the works as well as some musicians(like certain country singers) who are fond of the old venue and desire to play their shows in it.
Lake Como is also not being demolished, it was drained and then dredged for fill dirt to make sure the new music center is high enough not to flood, but it is already refilling and will be even deeper than before once refilled.
TLDR:
MEMI didn't cause Coney Island to shut down, they just bought the property afterwards. Sunlite pool and the larosas building have been demolished but everything else in coney island is planned to be restored into food drink and vendor spaces for events and future festivals, with all of the historic buildings and areas preserved. Riverbend will also stay around for future music festivals and certain artists who wish to hold their shows there. Moonlite Gardens will be turned into a smaller scale, historic and intimate music venue to compliment the others and Lake Como is already refilling.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
As much as I hate Xavier, I think this would be a fun move, and even though they'd be too cowardly to let UC destroy them, it would be very fun to watch the Xavier Dayton rivalry in football.
This would also mean that Cincinnati would have a NCAA football team in every division, FBS: Cincy, FCS: Xavier, D2: Thomas Moore, D3: Mt St Joseph, and that would be good for the sport in the area I think.
It's essentially chaos in Wisconsin currently, Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez dropped out over a campaign finance scandal, leaving democratic socialist Rep. Francesca Hong as the frontrunner in a race against former Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes. Now Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley has reentered the race after dropping out to endorse Rodriguez last week, he comes back with the endorsement of Gov. Tony Evers. It's obviously a bad thing for complete chaos in a primary but hopefully this won't have too much of an effect on the election in November.
Article on Crowley re-entering: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/18/david-crowley-reenters-wisconsin-governors-race-with-evers-endorsement-01004326
OH: Lean R to Tossup
AZ: Tossup to Lean D
ME: Likely D to Solid D
NM: Likely D to Solid D
OR: Solid D to Likely D
Huge news for Ohio and AZ, Ohio specifically might not be as far gone as many thought.
back to the offseason folks
I know there have been a couple scattered new building proposals and currently much to the focus is (rightfully) on office conversions and infill. But at some point we have to run out of offices to convert and with all land opening up in queensgate due to the highway bridge reconnecting the street grid and the banks heating back up again it feels like only a matter of time till we experience a true building boom like other nearby cities have experienced. Not to mention that it's been over a decade since we've built a new skyscraper downtown and despite the W&S guy ominously hinting at one I haven't seen any concrete news.
So at what point do we convent enough offices and star building again in earnest? I'm sure an improved public transit system would be a real help...
A very positive development in my opinion, buildings in this style just aren't built anymore and it's important to preserve the ones left, increasing housing at the same time is a huge win. The neighborhood community development corporations have turned into a really positive tool for neighborhoods.
It's interesting to see how this fits in with modern land use in the state. The beech forest and prairie regions generally line up with the flattest and most fertile regions of the state and thus got cleared and developed first. The great black swamp in the north got cleared and developed as well for the most part. The part of forest that has survived the most is the areas that were hilier and thus harder to clear, roughly corresponating with mixed mesophystic and oak forests and stretching from Cincinnati through the east of the state up to just outside Cleveland, with both cities and especially Cincinnati being quite forested, especially compared to cities like Toledo and Columbus, which now sit in great plains of corn and soybeans. It's also interesting to see the diverse appalachian mixed mesophystic ecosystem stretching to the cincinnati region.
You literally just follow the last word in the phase, the others are just for emphasis/characterizarion. It's such a. simple rule and more consistent than almost any other rule in the English language. Even more complex phrases like "Yeah, no yeah" follow that rule. People complaining about it being too complex to understand are just kidding themselves.
I cut it up and it tasted just like a green pepper, honestly just means more pepper for me, so I'm not complaining.
This city has plenty of things it could improve on, what things do you think would benefit the city as a whole the most? air maybe just what would be your personal pet project you'd love to see done in this city.
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Personally I'd renovate and open the old subway system, or maybe rebuild one of the old inclines.
My more selfish answer would be to fund a D1 Hockey team at UC, a renovated armoury fieldhouse would make a great hockey barn and on campus stadium. It would also be great to be able to play Miami, OSU and BGSU
I've heard both Tennis Shoe and Sneaker as well, I just assumed all 3 were interchangeable everywhere.
Gym shoes makes the most sense anyway imo, I ain't doing any sneaking and I don't play tennis, but I do go to the gym.
This map was compiled by Rick Aschmann based on hundreds of pronounciation samples across the country. It's pretty accurate in my experience and captures some peculiarities like the cot-caught merger region that stretches from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh and North Appalachia. A full guide to reading it is at the linked site.
I would personally nominate Cincinnati and Pittsburgh as the most likely candidates in my mind. They are both in hilly areas on the Ohio river with revitalized historical districts, headquarters of huge banks and corporations like PNC, Kroger and P&G, and are in areas that will be relatively safe from the effects of climate change over the next couple of decades.
Add to that a large cultural footprint through things like sports and major universities, world class arts scenes and amenities as well as cohesive local identities and foods I think these cities are best positioned currently for the future. Cincy could really use a better public transit system and Pittsburgh is still losing population so there is still plenty of room to improve.
For a runner up I would say Detroit probably and for smaller cities I think both Grand Rapids MI and Dayton OH have a decent amount of potential and are both growing.