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October 27th there will be a small quiet "Grand Opening" celebration of James Street opening with a small celebration where you can walk on the street.
To say I'm disappointed in Columbus would be an understatement as once again we dropped the ball in getting the word out that we are open again. We should have had a BIG celebration that would have gotten at least two of the networks (CH3 and CH15) to come and broadcast the road is open.
We could have had 2 or 3000 people on the street selling our downtown to outsiders. We had years to get this done and I though we were. It's a no brainer - free advertising, fantastic PR, a once in a multi decade opportunity. WASTED.
We could have had 2 or 3000 people on the street selling our downtown to outsiders. We had years to get this done and I though we were. It's a no brainer - free advertising, fantastic PR, a once in a multi decade opportunity. WASTED.
If you think small you are small.
You ask - "Rod - if you are so gung ho why did you not get involved". Well, I thought it was happening. We could have had a street party with a band and food vendors and all sorts of downtown festivities. Have those big search lights - CELEBRATE!!!!
Thank goodness the CDDC and JD Milburn are doing SOMETHING.
The weather forecast is for temps to be about 50 and sunny.
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Another conundrum is that 78 foot step that was created in the terrace area on James in front of The Cage. The issue is railings.
It seems there are to trains of thought. My vision was a long railing to keep people from falling and breaking their legs and suing Columbus but others think a railing for getting up the less then 12 inch step. Or both?
Here is, once again, our opportunity to make Columbus something special with a nice looking railing that matches all the other objects we need like creative bike racks, nice looking trash containers and so forth. But at the moment basic black steel pipes are the front runners. BORING!
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Anybody else see Gordon Haywards horrific injury last night in the Celtics game. OMG! it made me sick. Less the 5 minutes into the very first game and his season is over. Dislocates ankle, fractured tibia.
Look at the faces in the crowd (except for the dude that has money on Cleveland)
BTW - the Bucks play the Celtics tonight!
I think basketball has the most horrific injuries. Yea - football you won't remember your name after 10 years so that is pretty bad also I suppose.
On a side note - remember Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle? ( he was Malcolm)? He has no recollection of ever doing that show. Strokes and a heart attack took that away.
Look at the faces in the crowd (except for the dude that has money on Cleveland)
BTW - the Bucks play the Celtics tonight!
I think basketball has the most horrific injuries. Yea - football you won't remember your name after 10 years so that is pretty bad also I suppose.
On a side note - remember Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle? ( he was Malcolm)? He has no recollection of ever doing that show. Strokes and a heart attack took that away.
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Since I'm on a rant - remember how I said MPs Town Tap had pretty darn good burgers? COME ON MAN - this is how you advertise your place? A fuzzy image of someone smoking a cig in front of a building?
Columbus needs to make an ordinance that will keep people from smoking and tossing the cigarette butts in to the streets. I know there have been complaints about apartment dwellers tossing their butts out the 2nd floor windows. This does not make me want to go into any business that has cigarette smokers loitering in front of an establishment. Filthy vile habit that will kill you in a long slow painful death where you choke on your own phlegm.
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BTW - being the only NBA fan in Wisconsin , Thon Maker the Bucks back-up new center is awesome. He is a Sudanese-born Australian out of high school. A 7 '1" 3 point shooting center. The bucks have a REALLY tall team with REALLY long arms. It's their thing. Thon has the highest standing vertical jump of any player over 6'11 (32 inches).
The world watches Giannis Antetokounmpo become a honest to God super star this year (Kevin Durant says The Greek could be the greatest NBA player ever) with his 7 foot wing span. Many people do not know the Bucks players have long long arms. While the NBA goes small ball the Bucks are tall with very long arms.
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“Being President doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are” - Michelle Obama
I can't wait to see what our acting President does in a REAL crisis!
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I'll probably get in trouble for even mentioning our Police Department and the city attorney is probably sitting up a little straighter all of a sudden. Seems people get irritated when I speak my mind.
The September 15th smack down of Columbus citizens by the CPD was a "Drug Interdiction" that included agencies from Columbia County, the State Patrol and Lodi, Fall River, Rio and Portage also went though this . . . . . operation.
Traffic stops were for legal violations such as speeding, failure to obey traffic stops, blinker violations and pretty much anything.
K-9s conducted sniffs to find drugs and so forth.
So it was not purely a Columbus thing. Some drugs were found with felony cannabis arrests. K-9s were alerted but never found drugs any real drugs in quantity.
K-9s have been found to not really do anything but give the police a reason to search. The problem is that in tests a dog can read it's owners body language and will give a false positive to please his owner which will allow an officer to search a car. Give that dog to a different handler and his positive sniff percentage drop like a rock, at least that is what I have read when researching K9s but that is for another blog.
SO - bottom line. This barely legal shake down was NOT a Columbus Police Department hair brained idea. It was a Columbia County hair brained idea. So when I blamed our Police Department I was wrong and I apologize. I was blaming the wrong group. My opinion has not changed one iota.
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Baseball - the average game this year was 10 minutes longer then last year and 21 minutes longer then 2 years ago.
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Jeopardy - I actually saw this yesterday. The winner of Jeopardy won with $1. This has only happened once before, in 1993.
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Weather - 7 of the next 10 days are going to be pretty windy with temps above average
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OH - the 4 happiest places in America are all in States with legal cannabis - go figure! Personally I'm for decriminalizing - the jury is still out on legalization for me.
Have a great middle week.
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BTW - being the only NBA fan in Wisconsin , Thon Maker the Bucks back-up new center is awesome. He is a Sudanese-born Australian out of high school. A 7 '1" 3 point shooting center. The bucks have a REALLY tall team with REALLY long arms. It's their thing. Thon has the highest standing vertical jump of any player over 6'11 (32 inches).
The world watches Giannis Antetokounmpo become a honest to God super star this year (Kevin Durant says The Greek could be the greatest NBA player ever) with his 7 foot wing span. Many people do not know the Bucks players have long long arms. While the NBA goes small ball the Bucks are tall with very long arms.
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“Being President doesn’t change who you are, it reveals who you are” - Michelle Obama
I can't wait to see what our acting President does in a REAL crisis!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
I'll probably get in trouble for even mentioning our Police Department and the city attorney is probably sitting up a little straighter all of a sudden. Seems people get irritated when I speak my mind.
The September 15th smack down of Columbus citizens by the CPD was a "Drug Interdiction" that included agencies from Columbia County, the State Patrol and Lodi, Fall River, Rio and Portage also went though this . . . . . operation.
Traffic stops were for legal violations such as speeding, failure to obey traffic stops, blinker violations and pretty much anything.
K-9s conducted sniffs to find drugs and so forth.
So it was not purely a Columbus thing. Some drugs were found with felony cannabis arrests. K-9s were alerted but never found drugs any real drugs in quantity.
K-9s have been found to not really do anything but give the police a reason to search. The problem is that in tests a dog can read it's owners body language and will give a false positive to please his owner which will allow an officer to search a car. Give that dog to a different handler and his positive sniff percentage drop like a rock, at least that is what I have read when researching K9s but that is for another blog.
SO - bottom line. This barely legal shake down was NOT a Columbus Police Department hair brained idea. It was a Columbia County hair brained idea. So when I blamed our Police Department I was wrong and I apologize. I was blaming the wrong group. My opinion has not changed one iota.
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Baseball - the average game this year was 10 minutes longer then last year and 21 minutes longer then 2 years ago.
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Jeopardy - I actually saw this yesterday. The winner of Jeopardy won with $1. This has only happened once before, in 1993.
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Weather - 7 of the next 10 days are going to be pretty windy with temps above average
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OH - the 4 happiest places in America are all in States with legal cannabis - go figure! Personally I'm for decriminalizing - the jury is still out on legalization for me.
Have a great middle week.
