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Professor Woland

If I were on the fence before, Grandpa Gulag showing up from Vermont to campaign for Mello would put me firmly in the Stothert camp.

Professor Woland

The poll is an Internet poll based on multiple votes by mostly a local population base. It is a popularity contest, not a reflection of the subjective qualities that make a great zoo. It has been a bunch of years since I have been to the St. Louis zoo, and it was an outstanding zoo when I was there...

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Based on her enemies, I think she deserves my vote!

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I keep seeing it said that the advantage of the Streetcar is that it conveys a sense of permanence, which entices developers to build nearby. I think this overstates things. It's certainly possible the developers are that unwise (after all Trump was a developer, and my two year old shows better reas...

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If the city puts up the majority of the money for the streetcar and provides TIF for building this area out when the main lobbyists, Mutual, UNMC, and Kiewit stand to make millions in development this will be an especially galling example of corporate welfare. These developers should be putting sub...

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So I keep seeing a late model black Bentley Continental (I think it's a Continental) in Dundee. While driving west on Underwood this morning (I had to get out to Le Petit Paris for some apricot croissants) I saw it parked across from the KFAB building. The car had a custom license plate that indicat...

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OmahaJaysCU wrote:Just saw on KETV DSM is trying to get some of the Trump infrastructure money for a $500MM airport expansion...

No doubt as part of their ambitious plan for direct flights to Paris, London, and Tokyo.

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How many people who rightly cheered Pinochet's demise will either be silent or offer only tempered criticisms of Castro?

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Beloved local chef Rene Orduna.

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Pete Burns, frontman of Dead or Alive. No word on whether it was plastic surgery related.

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Celebrated American kook and comic book artist, Jack Chick.

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Not every building needs to be salvaged and repurposed. Some buidlings (the Civic is certainly one of them) are crying out for the wrecking ball. The preservationist impulse is fine, but when pushed to the point of being a preservationist fetish it will cause a city to stagnate. Good riddance to a b...

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They were up the hill from the petting zoo. The otters were named Mork and Mindy. I think it was Mindy that died, she was quite old. I learned this from the docent. Thanks for the info! There is nothing up that hill now, correct? That one building is closed, the wolves are out at the Safari Park, t...

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Meanwhile, they've removed some of my favorite animals. Mostly the north american river otters, and the African wild dogs. The river otters were probably the most depressing removal. They're one of the only animals that is highly active in the winter too. I once watched them play hockey with chunks...

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we need to legalize marijuana Now that you mention it, this alone would be enough to get many people from surrounding competing cities to move here. It would also increase tourism, stealing a good chunk from Colorado. I think some sort of political boundary between western and eastern Nebraska woul...

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It could also be that Alexander Payne wants it to be a top quality establishment when it reopens. Maybe they are waiting on a chef or arranging new suppliers and a new menu or something. I don't know anything about the restaurant business, but I assume there could be dozens of explanations for the d...

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At the state level we need a smart plan to reduce state taxes and spending, it can't be haphazard like in Kansas, but the future belongs to tax havens, we need to be one. It is also crucial that the state and city not "live down" to stereotypes. It is crucial that the death penalty repeal ...

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iamjacobm wrote:I wonder with more space if they will get a bigger/second pizza oven. Can get a little backed up sometimes in the one they have now.

They are quite possibly the best pizza place in Omaha.

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I would like the area turned into a sort of park with multiple museums on it. Move the Children's Museum and the Great Plains Black History Museum there, and maybe have the Joslyn spin off its modern collection into a new museum on the site too. Cap it off with a science and natural history museum a...

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Somewhere Streets has retreated to his fainting couch.

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No doubt the optics of the city-backed purchase also harmed the project. The players should have come up with some sort of alternative financing arrangement that would not have made it appear that the city was directly funding the destruction of the historic buildings. My only concern about this wa...

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There is some potentially enormous news for the museum. Apparently they are going to acquire 50 works from the Phillip G. Schrager collection. Depending on which works they are, the importance of this gift could be difficult to overstate. If the gift includes the works by Rothko and de Kooning and M...

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Here it is mid June and the doors are still locked. Within two weeks, they started hiring at the end of May. image.jpeg Was in Dundee last night. Baela Rose is open for business. I had seen people eating there on both Friday night and last night, I just assumed they were doing a test run to work ou...

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This was a thing during the ritual abuse panic. The sorts of stories attached to this case were similar to other hoaxes throughout the country. I think this was pretty thoroughly discredited, but the story reemerges during periods of intense anti-elitism or when stories of real sexual abuse appear i...

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Coyote wrote:I wonder to what extent the building will need renovations.

Well, HDR is an engineering firm, so they'll have a plan to fix it up to suit their needs.

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I hear Jennifer Coco has acquired the building. I hope this is true.

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Chicago has actually lost thousands of residents over the last few years, not just the city proper but the entire metro. While I have nothing against Chicago I would laugh if it went down the crapper right as ConAgra settled in. Well Chicago is largely losing blue collar people, not necessarily wha...

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Chicago has actually lost thousands of residents over the last few years, not just the city proper but the entire metro. While I have nothing against Chicago I would laugh if it went down the crapper right as ConAgra settled in.

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I have no idea where they're thinking of going now, but I had heard they were looking at the parking lot across from Upstream next to La Buvette. It would probably have to be two stories if it were to go there. I like the idea of doing one in the first floor of a larger building like the Whole Foods...

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If one were to swim out past this project could they watch the world die?

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PotatoeEatsFish wrote:Oh god, this has become the Trump thread...

I tried to steer it back with my reference to the pyramid.

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The only saving grace of a Trump presidency is that he is so hated by both parties that unless his running mate is pure impeachment insurance, his administration won't last a year before he is convicted in an impeachment. As to the question of my favorite skyscraper, I like the TransAmerica pyramid ...

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Now would be a good time for preservationists to get out ahead of this. Raise funds, work the owners and the city to arrange moving the buildings and be ready when the time comes.

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The only way the lot north of the Holland will ever be developed is if someone with money ponies up the dough to move the three buildings to a different location, gives OPA the entire greenspace lot, thereby freeing up the parking lot for development. Someone on this board needs to get their stuff t...

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The Olde Shoppes at Towne Centre Landing pecker

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I see Wymore was one of the least snobby cities. I used to have to go there at Christmas to visit my grandmother. Apparently it was a thriving community in the 50s and 60s, but it was already extremely depressing in the 90s. I once saw a barefoot child playing outdoors with a loaf of bread in the de...

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I think bad publicity is a lot stronger tool for preservationists than legal hurdles. As we saw in Midtown a historic designation isn't worth the paper it is written on if it can be voted away easily. The Midtown thing was a Pyrrhic victory for the forces of right (willing sellers and willing buyer...

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This was the proper outcome, but because of the dynamics of the situation it's a mixed blessing. Obviously, the city should never have paid to buy land for OPA. Secondly, while by all accounts eminent domain wasn't on the table, it had to hang over any negotiations. On the other hand, I don't know i...

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We ate there tonight. It was really busy for a late Sunday afternoon, I ate at the pizza place. I liked it and didn't think it was all that pricey. My wife had some ramen, which she really enjoyed but thought was a bit pricey. I think we would be happy to eat there again in the future, and by the lo...

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I really, really hope it isn't an all glass and metal structure. How would a glass structure fit the theme of the Old Market? If we were talking the borders of the OM, maybe. But not right at the intersection of 11th & Howard. You see that kind of eclecticism all the time in New York, Chicago a...

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