COMPLETELY off-topic, but thank you for spiking my memory of Beeman’s gum (hadn’t thought of it since probably the 90s), and tossing me down a rabbit hole of, “Wait...I know the packaging was similar, but did Beeman’s make Clove gum?”

Not that I disagree on the incentives being obnoxious to deal with, but please...do tell us about the simple, comprehensive programs suggested by the GOP...

Most of the CBD is retail, unless you go to Greektown, or the area between there and Woodward, north of Campus Martius. What do you expect late in the evening? If you saw it during the day, you’d see a bustling downtown commercial district.

Ah, my bad. I thought you meant the study done on I-375. I’ve got no experience with anything on El Camino Royal like that. We work exclusively with Detroit’s data.

So you only went the places that couldn’t be developed further, beyond new tenants in the storefronts. Got it. I can see why you’d think that about it not changing in the last decade. The CBD finished its redevelopment around 2011. If you ever drum up the nerve, see what Cass Corridor and Corktown look like these…

LA would have that demand even if the freeways leading in weren’t 5 lanes wide in each direction. San Diego is less affected because the population of the metro area there is 1/4 what LA has, but we saw LA rush hour traffic all the way out in Riverside.

I wasn’t directly involved in the study, but my company works with the resulting data set. I’m also someone who works downtown, and hangs out there enough to have seen the traffic patterns with my own eyes.

How long ago has it been since you truly spent time downtown?

SoCal has the traffic volume to justify roads that large. Even with that many lanes, that road is still probably gridlocked most of both rush hours. In Detroit, there isn’t the traffic to justify it. There’s nothing down where 375 is that necessitates 7 lanes as-is. The sports stadiums are north of there along I-75,…

The Last Ninja was such a classic. Easily my fondest C64 memory...

Fair enough. I don’t have kids, so I’m not the most familiar with the exemptions they provide. Even taking that into account, an expense of over $700/mo on top of the other bills I listed puts the budget in the red, when you take into account that there are costs to life beyond what I added (clothes, medical,…

Who do you pay $30/mo for cell service through?

We’re about the same for water and trash. Electricity looks like I peaked at $137.97 this year, but I set pretty good habits about keeping usage as low as possible. Gas is what bites me during the winter, because my house was built in 1946, so the “insulation” is...yeah...so I get $150/mo in gas usage during the cold…

Of course not, they can’t afford to! ;)

I’m aware mean and median aren’t the same, but the ACS data doesn’t lend well to working with the mean income. The MoE is pretty large.

If I read Gerber’s statement correctly, it seems he considers the investors the core demographic of the company - not the people they’re selling cars to (who by and large genuinely struggle to make a nearly $50,000 new car “affordable” in their budget).

I mean look...just because he’s shorter than a 7 year old...

Does it do away with more than the sunroof, like the older TR (tuner ready) spec from the GD WRX era? Those were a bit miserable to live with, if you didn’t plan on adding a ton to them, if I remember right. Downgraded stereo and speakers, among other things, because you might want to install better ones anyway...

46-year-long running show... So, by your logic, Richard Hammond was hosting it when he was 7 years old? Hammond, Clarkson, and May were not the ones who “Originally hosted” it.

The fact that the term he used for her potential mate was, “steady partner” (as in the phrase “going steady”, which fell out of fashion in the 1960s), should tell you all you need to know about where (or more to the point when) this doctor is, as a person...