Multichannel News, 5/24:
Basic-cable rates have not declined in any of the Texas communities where there are competitive providers, according to a survey done by the Texas chapter of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors.
Rates for the tier including off-air signals and public, educational and government channels have actually increased over the past two [...]
The “news” at the second House Public Utilities Committee hearing on Senate Bill 117 was the cable industry’s outright endorsement of the bill.
The entire first hour of yesterday’s hearing was devoted to that endorsement, delivered by Ohio Cable Telecom Association director Jonathan McGee, assisted by Time Warner’s Ohio boss, Ed Kozelek. OCTA has been vigorously, [...]
Carole looks at single-family home sale totals, selling prices, asking prices and time-on-the-market for the first five months of 2007 vs. 2006.
West Side of Cleveland (large area, includes Tremont and OC but also Clark/Metro Area)…
2007: 150 Total SF sales. The average Ask Price was $81,133. The average Sale Price was $78,469. Number of days on [...]
This Monday will mark the fourth anniversary of Cleveland Diary’s introductory post. My first post that was about anything came three days later. What it was about was the proposal for a Cleveland-to-Ontario ferry.
Much water has passed under this particular bridge in four years: the Port Authority has conducted studies, made a deal with an [...]
Q. What do these Ohio cities have in common?
Athens. Newark. Mansfield. Ashtabula. Brunswick. Portsmouth. New Philadelphia. Lorain. Elyria. Norwalk. Hudson. Medina. Marion. Wapakoneta. Lima. Defiance. Bryan. Van Wert. Oregon. Bowling Green. Ashland. Wooster. Carrollton. Piketon. Lorain. Amherst. Oberlin.
A. These are just a couple of dozen of the hundreds of Ohio municipalities that are about to [...]
The Ohio House Public Utilities Committee will hold its sponsor/proponent hearing on Senate Bill 117 this Wednesday. At least one local representative heard this from an AT&T lobbyist before he heard it from the committee leadership, but hey, what’s new there? Anyway, it’s on the official schedule now, so the train’s moving. That’s the inevitable [...]
Plain Dealer this morning: Cash crunch threatens 34 city schools…
Former schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett could not be reached for comment, but she has said she was aware from the beginning that the bond issue probably would not cover costs.
Bob Dykes, an election strategist on the 2001 bond issue campaign, said officials were [...]
Ed Morrison has an important post today at Brewed Fresh Daily.
I would add: The CSU study and Ed’s chart are not really about retail development at all. They’re about retail square footage, i.e. a category of real estate development.
Retail industry growth would be measured by growth in retail spending, net income, and/or employment — none [...]
Regular readers know that I’m a cheerleader for compact fluorescent light bulbs as a cheap, straightforward method of reducing greater Cleveland’s energy dollar drain as well as our carbon emissions. In the past few months this general idea has become enormously popular, with no small help from the likes of Yahoo and Wal-Mart. So naturally, [...]
From an email I sent this morning to my State Representative, Eugene Miller (D-10). Feel free to plagiarize if you’re so inclined:
Dear Representative Miller,
… On Wednesday the Ohio Senate passed Substitute SB 117, which strips local governments of their role in franchising both existing and new cable/video providers. This bill is apparently on a very [...]