This Prospect story of how the owners of the Cleveland Plain Dealer hate the Newspaper Guild so much that they half killed the paper of one of the nation's most.
In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught on fire. This was hardly the first time. It had happened several times actually. In fact, it was so not notable that.
I know Cleveland fairly well, though I haven't spent much time there in the last few years. Much of the city is obviously a mess. I love the place more.
Jeff La Noue has an interesting piece about how to "fix" the Rust Belt cities. Using Toronto as a model, he asks why the Canadian side of the Great Lakes.
Richey Piiparinen at Rust Wire has a really interesting article about reverse gentrification in Cleveland. Basically, in the Rust Belt resident patterns are flipping normal patterns. With a declining population.
