Tag: cleveland

Newspaper Unionbusting

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 29, 2020

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 important cities is just infuriating. The Guild was very strong at the Plain Dealer for a half-century. And ownership today just couldn’t abide it. The […]

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Cleaning Up the Cuyahoga

By Erik Loomis

On November 18, 2018

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 there are no known images of the fi

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Pretty Clearly All About Supporting the Troops

By Erik Loomis

On September 3, 2017

The Cleveland police are protesting Browns players kneeling during the national anthem by doing their jobs and respecting the flag like they claim to believe oh actually also refusing to participate i

The Complexities of Revitalizing Neighborhoods

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 26, 2015

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 than pretty much any other city east of the Mississippi and there is so much potential for cool things to happen there. One of the […]

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Fixing the Rust Belt Through Immigration

By Erik Loomis

On August 30, 2013

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 is booming and the American side i

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The Rust Belt in a Nutshell

By Erik Loomis

On September 2, 2012

Ouch. I do have some optimism for Cleveland, but that map presents a grim picture for the region.

Reverse Gentrification

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 5, 2012

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 and huge home vacancy rates, African-Americans are leaving Cleveland for the suburbs because they see now as the time to snatch their piece of the […]