Well I wish them luck. Fairfield is a terrible area for a tourist attraction. Building a skate park in Fairfield is one thing but I would think something like Wake Nation would need more tourist support to stay profitable. If the city of Cincinnati wasn't an option, building near King's Island is a no brainer even if the land is four times as much. The run off from King's Island, The Beach, Great Wolf Lodge & the Tennis Masters would provide the theme park a huge boost. When you open a casino in Las Vegas you don't build it in Henderson, you build it on the Strip. When you open a theme park in Orlando, you don't build it in North Orlando, you build it in Lake Buena Vista. Fairfield can't even support their mall.

It is man made. They are breaking ground next month.

Is their a natural lake big enough to handle this in Fairfield or will it be man made?

LOL

It will be located in the Fairfield area near where the skateboarding park is currently.

Where will Wake Nation Cincinnati be located? Will it be in the city of Cincinnati or near King's Island?

That really caught my attention over the weekend.

I'm glad they have stuff going on, you can't fault them, Fountain Square is doing the same thing, but downtown is a little stretch isn't it? Isn't it funny as much as everyone complains about cities that they are all trying to recreate them in the burbs.

This is the first time that I have seen Kroger mentioned with the Banks.

When I first saw this headline, I thought vet meant veterans..... Anyway, Strickland is working on making the state more attractive for those folks, too.

Fixed.

How about spellers?

Any rumors on the hotel?

What is, "The Price"?

Looks like I misspoke, I verified that it doesn't work on the Blackberry platform. Looks like it only supports iPhones. I have updated the title.

THE PRICE is perhaps Arthur Miller's best and most interesting of his works. It is seldom performed for some reason. There is a spelling error in the Director's name. It should be DONALD VOLPENHEIN

Thank God! They're floating the whole economy right now.

I tried it on my Blackberry 7520. Navigated to the site Ok, clicked on Cameras, got a list, clicked I-75 at Sharon Rd, and it just sent me back to the list. I-75 at Glendale-Milford, same thing. Cartimis.com should also be accessible from a desktop browser with Javascript installed, but I get identical behavior there too. However when i go to http://www.artimis.org/cameraselect.php from the same Blackberry, I am able to get full screen traffic pics, but I have to scroll through a dozen logos and links. If Cartimis could get me to the pic I want w/o all the BS I would be forever grateful. Looks promising, but something tells me Cartimis isn't finished yet.

The link you provided is not for cell phones and is a link to the standard Artimis site. It worked for me, which phone did you attempt the site on?

Doesn't work at all for me. This one is better: http://www.artimis.org/camaccess1.html

Impressive, where has this website been hiding?

Oh I hear you, we skip the cartoons, they usually show those first and hit the movie second. I don't go every week, we cherry pick the ones we'd like to see. It would be nice to see something newer than 10 years old.

Trio is great for lunch, I wouldn't go there for dinner. Prices are substantially cheaper too.

Yes but I probably won't be going as much as last year. I have no desire to watch cartoons on the Square and I even have a daughter that the cartoon segment caters too. I understand the need to keep it family friendly but their are plenty of movies that aren't cartoons that could be shown. Lastly, please don't show Sound of Music or the Wizard of Oz during movie night. Many of us had to suffer through these movies as kids when the parents controlled the TV.

The CCV is a "hate group" pure and simple. They should spend more time worrying about themselves instead of pushing their beliefs onto others.

I'm so tired of reading comments assuming that a wooden superstructure of a boat can be compared to a pile of dry wood sucked with kerosene ... Forget about naive campfire-style of thinking! This boat has top-of-the-notch modern fire detection and monitoring systems, high-volume sprinklers, watchmen patrolling the boat day and night etc. etc. And over that, the escape routes on this boat are extremely short, usually just a couple of feet - literally! Compare to an ocean-going 2,500-passenger cruise ship with walkways of 300 feet and longer, in one of the lower decks, where you have to climb up many stairs and then have some burning and havily smoking plastic stuff there ... I really prefer to be on the Delta Queen in such an event!

Sure but as a wooden boat, one night it will go up in a ball of flames with a couple hundred people on board and it will be all George W's fault that nothing was done to stop the carnage.

All 3 top decks are nothing but staterooms. Main deck is engine room and gathering space. She was built specifically for luxury multi-day cruising. I suppose she could be gutted and refit as a party boat, but it wouldn't be the Delta Queen any more. Her allure is history. Wooden frames feel different than modern welded steel. You start to imagine travellers of yore reacting to indians on shore, and gossiping about how the new-fangled railroads are going to change everything. What I find incredibly stupid is the role of government in all this. Regulators don't have a category for river boats, so they lump DQ in with ocean-going cruise ships that operate beyond sight of land. DQ, however, is never more than 100 yards from shore. You'd think they could find a way to account for the obvious safety difference. DQ doesn't really have any problems other than government. She's usually booked solid, has an excellent safety record, and is making money for her operator. Some regulation in a dusty law book is all that stands between her and a bright future. Interesting that unions are a possible salvation. They're often more expensive because they systematically shake-down their members for money to buy politicians. And politics is 100% of the problem here. It's clear to me that our government is no longer of, by, and for the people. It's taken on a life of its own. And it's about to sell out a key piece of our national heritage over political games.

Thats the dumbest idea I've heard in awhile. More expensive labor will save it? It can't carry passengers overnight anymore, why can't they run day trips? I don't understand why this spells doom for the ship.

Yes, it does.