To Steve Hammond, you can't be serious. I've been to professional conventions in cities across the country, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, Cincinnati to St. Louis, New York to Miami. Not once did schedules or budgets permit the live viewing of professional basketball in downtown areas with arenas. Why do city leaders put so much stock in sports? ARCO isn't exactly falling down, and last time I saw a game on TV, it's not exactly bulging with an overflow crowd.

Bikes on the same pathway as pedestrians? Get real. You can't even get a waiter to cross a sidewalk safely on J Street to bring food out of Kru to an outdoor table. Bikes careening on pedestrian walkways is an incompatible and dangerous folly. Not against bikes at all, just don't want to compete them when eating or shopping. Make a dedicated area for bikes; leave the desired pedestrian in safety.

Why 3 thumbs down on this piece? The writing?

Here they all are: http://www.beeguildnow.org/

Of the four newspapers I've worked at across the country, the B-minus was the worst staffed, worst managed and meanest snake pit of them all. Two clowns who were my bosses were poseurs at best, and of course got promoted to 6-figure posts. Where did they go? One destroyed marketing. The other went to sacbee.com, and we know how that worked out. Thanks for getting the names. I don't know any of them. On the bright side, they'll be helping the cause for single-payer universal health care now that their "daddy" employer won't be taking care of them anymore. Next up, filling out the questionnaire for individual insurance. It is rigged, and you won't qualify.