Hurray! White people get a trolley while north and south Omaha can't get a fucking bus to work.
because people want a little toy transit car for the CWS and nothing else
people here are weird as shit about CWS. I'd literally never heard of it before I moved here.
Slightly biased because I'm from South O, while I never watched an actual CWS game (never had the money), I did like the community/neighborhood aspect of when it was down here. Also, Rosenblatt was unique and cool. I believe Warren Buffet or someone else said at one point that they could literally shutter Rosenblatt outside of the CWS and the facility would have still made a profit.
But the NCAA and the business groups wanted to turn it into a corporate blaise baseball theme park attraction and that's what they've pretty much done. (even ESPN criticized the new setup as being that) The new stadium is bland, and people barely leave the immediate grounds of the area now. Receipts for downtown actually went down after they moved the CWS because everybody is like "well, fuck going downtown" while it's going on.
But I think South O got the better end of the deal as we don't have to worry about the zoo leaving every 10 years because it doesn't like the contract, and as much as it was sad to see rosenblatt go, it's letting the zoo expand and improve itself.
As an aside, the zoo is so immersive and neat here that whenever I'm in it I forget I'm still technically in South Omaha. They do a good job of making you feel like you're somewhere else. I have to remind myself that I live within blocks of elephants, tigers, penguins, sharks...
anyway, that's why they want to build all these things that connect to CWS, because they want those tourists to filter out more to the surrounding area. It's never gonna work, tourists like to have a "home base" and stick to it.
west vs east omaha
may the one with the less closed polling stations for some reason wiiiiin
precinct version of the omaha election
source
https://www.reddit.com/r/Omaha/comments/6awmwg/2017_omaha_mayoral_race_map_by_precincts/
This is why annexing sucks. You effectively have exurbs and downtown with the same mayor and city government, and it doesn't make a damn bit of sense, because the needs and desires are totally different.
On a side note, I'm curious if anyone is up for a meet next weekend. I'm thinking beercade because that makes sense for a gaming forum, but am up for whatever. I can do Friday night or anytime Saturday. If there's no preference, I'll just give a timenin a day or so that I'll be there and whoever wants to come can come.
Went to Tracks Lounge for wings again today. Seriously guys. You need these in your life if you like wings.
Better than Tanner's blair wings?
Honestly the best I have ever had. three times straight they have been excellent.
I hope everyone is doing, I've been job hunting for a part-time recently and I was wondering if anyone has any info some good part-times out there? I do have call center experience and I'm pretty sure my supervisor and director would speak very well on my behalf. I've been searching recently since my department is getting dramatically downsized and being the guy with the least amount of seniority, I'm getting the boot first.
Thank You,
ZBR
I dunno if First National does part time, but their call centers are basically always hiring.
Oh, I had the tanner's wings over in Ralston and they were pretty good. The actual buffalo ones were kinda meh, but the teriyaki ones were amazing. Could have been slightly more charr buffed than they were, but I think they were better than Oscars. Still not close to Watering Hole though.
Did you do the Blair wings? Watering Hole in Lincoln, right? I thought they were just okay myself.
If anyone is interested I have an extra spot into the Playstation E3 Experience on Monday, June 12th. Just send me a PM or something. You don't have to sit with me or talk to me outside of getting into the door if you don't want to be social. I won't be offended. I had gotten two tickets in case one of my friends couldn't get one, but everyone is accounted for so I thought I'd at least offer it out. Have a good day!
Where and what time?
The thing starts at 7PM, but they are seating the tickets at 6:30PM and it's at the AMC 24 Theater next to the Oakview Mall on 144th and Center.
There are 4 Nintendo Switches at the Target on 72nd and Dodge for those interested. Even though I don't want one, my wife pulled me away while I was looking. Can't even window shop.
How much longer is the stadium deal? I certainly hope it doesn't go anywhere, but I wouldn't be surprised.
until 2035 but in the legal sense doesn't really mean much and NCAA has always prodded for re-negotiations part way through anyway. Rosenblatt still had years left on the contract before they switched it.
My father-in-law is heavily involved in the local Omaha events scene. CWS ain't going anywhere.
Everybody says forever until some other state or money backs up a truck of tax and money incentives.
I mean, we're talking about the city that almost lost the swim trials because they decided to put the CWS right across the street from the Convention Center