Callahan’s Cleveland Diary

“Search terms that produce 400 or more case numbers when querying the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas online database…“

… or, why reporters have a union.
The story at Ohio Daily Blog.
Cleveland Plain Dealer Online Editor Jean DuBail raised the matter of LaTourette’s displeasure with my participation in “Wide Open” in discussion with the four bloggeres on at least two occasions. We discussed the possibility of my making a disclosure of my support for [...]

(c/p Foreclosing Cleveland)
… As of yesterday (October 29), according to the County Auditor,  Wells Fargo held title to 443 properties in the city — up from 419 six weeks earlier.

Click on the graphic for a Google map of these properties (not including a few vacant lots without addresses).
(Map created with GPS Visualizer.)

PD this morning:
A Solon builder who has been tied to mortgage fraud has agreed to get out of the construction business as part of his punishment.
Edward Emery Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday to submitting a false loan application for a woman who bought a $490,000 home on Sedge Circle in Solon that he built. Emery also [...]

Krugman in the NYT today:
So, once again, why was nothing done to head off this disaster? The answer is ideology.
In a paper presented just before his death, Mr. Gramlich wrote that “the subprime market was the Wild West. Over half the mortgage loans were made by independent lenders without any federal supervision.” What he didn’t [...]

177 sheriff’s deeds were filed with the Cuyahoga County Recorder’s Office in the past week (October 22 through October 26).
Here’s who filed five or more of them:
Deutsche Bank (30)
Wells Fargo (15)
US Bank (14)
Dept of HUD (12)
Bank of New York (11)
Household Realty (11)
Lasalle Bank (10)
City of East Cleveland (6)
National City (6)
Washington Mutual (5)
JP Morgan Chase (5)
(Previous [...]

(c/p Foreclosing Cleveland)
… At the beginning of this week (October 22), according to the County Auditor, Deutsche Bank held title to 570 properties in the city — up from 532 one month earlier. Click on the graphic for a Google map of all these properties (not including a few vacant lots without addresses).

(Map created [...]

Harold at Wetmachine. Read it. All the way through.
Douglas also said that using various techniques to manage bandwidth is “standard practice for [Internet service providers] and network operators all over the world. We rarely disclose our vendors or our processes for operating our network for competitive reasons and to protect against network abuse.”
If any [...]

Seriously, if you were in Chicago and you had a chance to hear this person do standup, wouldn’t you go?
(Even if her Blogger-self thinks it still lives in Cleveland.)

Press release posted today by the Mayor’s Office:
The City is moving Mayor Jackson’s goal of Cleveland becoming a Digital City of Choice by taking a phased approach to building a broadband infrastructure that is not dependent on an anchor tenancy model which was one of the reasons for rejecting the proposals from Earthlink and MetroFi. [...]