Joe Akron

What that tells me (and private investors who need to come up with the $$) is, if it didn't happen when interest rates were at all time record lows, then it's time to find a new way to spend taxpayer money. Debt service has ZERO return.

R.E.M. said it best.. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

Absolutely no issue with spending, but why is it all by the city and not by private investors? If the downtown area is an area that is truly a good investment opportunity, then it will attract private dollars with the money that local government has already invested. The old mayor left us with 2 huge burdens, a still struggling downtown (in spite of the city spending) and a huge sewer bill (because of the lack of city spending)

The old mayor tried the "spend it and they will come" theory and we have a nice baseball stadium, a few new bars, tons of student housing and a heavy debt load, even without the money being spent on the sewer project. My bet is that the administration will try to keep the .25% tax income tax after the last CLC is built. They will need to to pay down the debt load.

No pom-poms but we do have Pomade

From today's ABJ: The discovery of $500,000 that was “just overlooked” by finance staff and now applied to the new $21.5 million Akron Municipal Courthouse. How does a city that is always crying about money "just overlook" half a MILLLLLLION DOLLARS? Maybe they found another Mayor Don fund??

Wow, Bleu & Cold agrees with me. Stop the Presses!!

Zips are 9-12 vs the spread. Maybe they don't cover enough, so KP calls it "luck"

Akron Area Rowdy Persons...or AARP We could set up a website, start an online campaign, lobby Congress, form a PAC. oh, bad news, somebody else is using my idea..

You forgot to mention "the smell of rubber filled the air".

Perhaps.

Not exactly. It was my brother, Lower..

Hilarious.. .

He might be obnoxious, he might be from Canada, he might even be a 6th year sophomore, but I wish we had a gym full of them. PS..Acoustically speaking, putting 40 students in the upper corner only makes them sound louder to everyone located below them.. Hmm...

Yes. His mother and my mother are both mothers

Personally excited about the 1974 SEC POY providing insightful analysis on ASN. Riveting.

Pudge Dog Hack a Fatty Zips fat kid. Wide Dog That must pass for "wit" down there in northwest West VA. Only half right.

oh Ye of little faith. Joe and the Zips are of one mind, one soul, one being. OK, so I watched a little too much of "The Young Pope" ..

Whose friends are they?

“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose” Baltasar Gracian quotes (Spanish Philosopher and Writer, leading Spanish exponent of conceptism, 1601-1658)

got me right in my Lu-NARD-is ..

..and to think that "someone" called me an SOB for picking one of those other teams... just sayin.

Sorry, I just think they are due for a MAC homer job. Look what home cooking did for Randolph State v Toledo. But, Blue, you're still my boy!

I showed, Zips D did not. Sadly, my cousins, Fred Falls, Sam Stow, and Richie Richfield were all too busy to attend...something about long wait times at a local ER..

Joe Akron will be IN DA Houzzze