The PD front-pages the effects of national Community Development Block Grant cuts on the city. Becky Gaylord does a good job connecting it to the unique role of community development corporations in Cleveland.
Wendell implies that they got the idea from this post. Nice thought, but I think it’s more likely that the importance of the [...]
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Can someone just explain to me how a city that’s been hemorrhaging its population, like this…
… could have experienced modest increases in annual home sales and prices over the same period, like this?
… and here it is.
With this front page (main story), the Plain Dealer’s coverage of census “news” has officially crossed the line into self-parody. Apparently, statistics about poverty now sell newspapers. Who knew? Maybe Yahoo is actually making money off my old “Cleveland wages pages” site — which I put up way back in the [...]
Well, the Census finally got around to publishing the income and poverty estimates from its 2005 American Community Survey.
And surprise! Cleveland is back on top of the poverty list, edging out the 2004 champion, Detroit.
Okay, kids, just for the record, here are the Cleveland “percent of individuals living in poverty” numbers “estimated” by the ACS [...]
Does it matter to people who are trying to redevelop city neighborhoods which party is in charge of the White House and Congress?
Well… here’s something to consider. It’s a graph of Federal Community Development Block Grant money received by Ohio’s big three cities each year since 2001, in 2000 constant dollars (using the GDP deflator):
The [...]
Some good news about new Cleveland Schools CEO Eugene Sanders:
A friend who teaches in an elementary school was offered some extra paid hours in the week before school opened. Doing what? Why, counting the textbooks in her building — every single book. Seems that Sanders decided he couldn’t trust the information provided by outgoing administrators, [...]
In a comment on my last post, Wendell Robinson (Republican candidate for County Commissioner, member of the county GOP Central Committee, and blogger who recently Met The Bloggers), says this about the politics of a Republican National Convention in Cleveland:
My conversations with the visiting selection committee members indicated to me that they are keenly [...]
I hate to break it to you all, while everyone’s down at Edgewater watching the fireworks and buzzing about Virtual Convention: The Game, but the Republicans are not coming to Cleveland in 2008.
It has nothing to do with our hotel rooms, buses, restaurants, Al Lerner’s convenient glut of office space, Don King’s hair, or our [...]
In my email yesterday from George Zeller at Community Solutions:
With the release of today’s Current Employment Statistics from ODJFS, The Center for Community Solutions has updated its analysis of Ohio’s record-breaking streak of sub-par job growth. That streak has now been extended today to 125 consecutive months with Ohio’s employment growth below the USA national [...]