The aforementioned poem by Longfellow is titled "Catawba Wine"

Catawba Wine

This song of mine
Is a Song of the Vine,
To be sung by the glowing embers
Of wayside inns,
When the rain begins
To darken the drear Novembers.

It is not a song
Of the Scuppernong,
From warm Carolinian valleys,
Nor the Isabel
And the Muscadel
That bask in our garden alleys.

Nor the red Mustang,
Whose clusters hang
O'er the waves of the Colorado,
And the fiery flood
Of whose purple blood
Has a dash of Spanish bravado.

For richest and best
Is the wine of the West,
That grows by the Beautiful River;
Whose sweet perfume
Fills all the room
With a benison on the giver.

And as hollow trees
Are the haunts of bees,
Forever going and coming;
So this crystal hive
Is all alive
With a swarming and buzzing and humming.

Very good in its way
Is the Verzenay,
Or the Sillery soft and creamy;
But Catawba wine
Has a taste more divine,
More dulcet, delicious, and dreamy.

There grows no vine
By the haunted Rhine,
By Danube or Guadalquivir,
Nor on island or cape,
That bears such a grape
As grows by the Beautiful River.

Drugged is their juice
For foreign use,
When shipped o'er the reeling Atlantic,
To rack our brains
With the fever pains,
That have driven the Old World frantic.

To the sewers and sinks
With all such drinks,
And after them tumble the mixer;
For a poison malign
Is such Borgia wine,
Or at best but a Devil's Elixir.

While pure as a spring
Is the wine I sing,
And to praise it, one needs but name it;
For Catawba wine
Has need of no sign,
No tavern-bush to proclaim it.

And this Song of the Vine,
This greeting of mine,
The winds and the birds shall deliver
To the Queen of the West,
In her garlands dressed,
On the banks of the Beautiful River.

Cincy is definitely missing the boat here, they've basically watched the NKY waterfront develop for 6+ years and in the meantime they've put up 2 new stadiums but nothing else.

From what I have heard people in Cincy aren't as mad that NKY is getting these projects, but more angered that Cincy with all its red tape hinders the projects from going in DT Cincy.

And 180 years ago it was the location of the nation's first gold rush and one of the largest cities in the USA at the time. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything though.

Have the opened up the 2nd Polaris exit yet? They were building that back in 2005 b4 I moved.

If you want to just arbitrarily tack on touching metropolitan areas to inflate the size of Cleveland you could simply say the the Pittsburgh-New Castle CSA (2,500,000) and the Youngstown-Warren-East Liverpool CSA (700,000) should be credited to the Cleveland-Akron-Elyria CSA (2,900,000) to form a Cleveland metropolitan area (MSA) of over 6 million people!

The Cleveland MSA is 2.1 million as is the Cincinnati MSA--personally, it doesn't really matter to me that Cincinnati's MSA will surpass Cleveland's, Cleveland is still the bigger city.

The Lazarus building has been really changed for the better. Ohio State University has opened up some artist space there, the Ohio EPA has opened up offices in it, and I think there are more offices and some lofts going into it.

Here is a link to the website of the company doing the work on the Lazarus Building.

What effect is residential development in and near downtown having on retail and other businesses? Columbus is a great city, but I always wished downtown could be a little more vibrant. It always seemed to me, because Columbus did not have the decline other northern cities had, it did not have a need for those revivals and renaissances that left other towns up north hip and pretty downtown, but too often otherwise stagnant.

Also for those in the know what is going on near the City Center Mall and the Lazarus site?

In that light, cleveland is bigger than miami and pittsburgh, its a rough city, not many people would care to live in cleveland, from my standpoint i am not surprised cleveland is the poorest place to be

any updates on Queen City square phase 2?

Hello Folks, I am possibly thinking about relocating from Grand Rapids, MI to the Dayton area in Ohio. What should one expect if they plan to move there? Also, how is the job market looking like out there? How's the crime rate? Are there lots of nice people to meet out there. Feel free to give me any information possible.

"One thing I know about economic development is things move slowly. But if we are going to bring jobs, we’ve got to position ourselves in a way that makes us more attractive to companies that might want to locate here. New restaurants are certainly one piece of the puzzle."
--Ironton Port Authority Director Bill Dickens