Archive for October, 2009

Role model

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Q. What city not far from Cleveland has all of the following:

A county governed since 1984 by a home rule charter, with an elected County CEO, an Assistant CEO responsible for economic development, and a fifteen-member county legislative branch elected by district?
An established downtown casino industry?
A downtown waterfront free of industrial and port uses, with [...]

Finally, time for Ferry 2.0

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

The PD wrote its official obituary for the Port Authority’s lumbering version of a Cleveland-to-Ontario ferry back in September. Of course, the project had stopped breathing months before.
But look! It turns out that so many people in Lorain are lining up to ride a fast ferry twenty miles to the Inner Harbor, Jet Express had [...]

Another try at City wifi for Cleveland

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

It’s been two years since Frank Jackson officially abandoned his first high-profile attempt to create a City-supported wifi network on the ill-fated Philadelphia-EarthLink model. Now he’s quietly giving City wifi another try, this time hoping to pay for it with $15 million in Federal broadband stimulus money.
From the Commerce Department’s Broadband USA database of [...]

3rd-quarter suburban foreclosure filings up 7% over ‘08

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Cuyahoga County’s foreclosure crisis hasn’t gone away. It’s just moved to the suburbs.
New, non-tax foreclosure filings in Common Pleas Court were down around 4% in the third quarter of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008, according to NEO CANDO. But all of that decrease happened in the city of Cleveland. The rest [...]