An alert reader might notice that the last entry in this "diary" is fifty-one days old. It's like this: First I went to a conference. Then a week later I went with family to Yellowstone, where we stayed for two weeks out of range of cell phones, let alone Blogger. When we got back it was already a month since I'd posted, a lot of work was backed up and I just kept letting it slide.

Until now. Hi there. Did you miss me?

Hmmm. Well, anyway...

THE FERRY AGAIN: My personal favorite downtown development project, the Cleveland-to-Port-Stanley ferry, was in the news yesterday with this PD article and a WCPN story. The good news is that the Port Authority is moving forward with its Federally funded feasibility study, and hyping the concept. The bad news, from the PD:

The port doesn't plan to subsidize the service, beyond lobbying for federal money to build a terminal, so it needs to find an operator willing to shoulder the risk.

Now this is bizarre. The Port, which has used its bonds to finance everything from the Rock Hall to the Applied Industrial Technologies headquarters in Midtown, doesn't want to invest a penny of its own resources to draw new international passenger and freight business to its own docks!

Stay tuned, more to come.