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Cleveland City Council approves funding for police body cameras CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland City Council passed legislation Monday authorizing the Police Department to spend $1.6 million to equip hundreds of patrol officers with body cameras as early as the first quarter of 2015. Some council members have been calling for the cameras for years, arguing that the footage would aid criminal investigations and clear up controversy surrounding police shootings and accusations of misconduct. Council authorized the city a year ago to spend as much as $2.4 million on a combination of body and dashboard-mounted cameras. http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2014/10/cleveland_city_council_approve_8.html#incart_river

I've been noticing a lot of the "inversion"deals recently: Eaton/Cooper, Burger King/Tim Hortons.. Steris buying a new HQ in England but says Cleveland still home MENTOR, Ohio--Another prominent Greater Cleveland employer intends to pull up the corporate flag and move the company headquarters abroad. Steris Corp., a Mentor-based medical technology company, announced Monday it plans to buy a British competitor and reincorporate in the United Kingdom. It will pay $1.9 billion in cash and stock for Synergy Health PLC to create New Steris. If the deal closes in March, as expected, old Steris will become a $2.6 billion company with a lower U.S. tax bill and a larger presence in Europe. National and global publications were quick to note the growing popularity of the Steris strategy. More and more U.S. companies are buying foreign rivals and reincorporating overseas. Such deals, known as "inversions," allow them to escape U.S. corporate taxes. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/10/steris_buying_a_new_hq_in_engl.html#incart_river

Cleveland – Further Improvement Though growth continues to be slower than national and statewide advances, the Cleveland metro area’s economy has strengthened in the first half of 2014. The housing market has particularly improved, with both house prices and building permits increasing. The metro area has also experienced a sharp decline in unemployment and modest increases in job numbers and average weekly wages. The latest data shows that 28.5 percent of adults in Cleveland have a bachelor’s degree, bringing the metro area up to the nation’s rate. http://www.clevelandfed.org/our_region/regional_profile/pdf/Cleveland_2014Q3.pdf

^ Weird, maybe they're working to condoize certain units?

^ That RFP was for the City owned parking lot at 13th and Chester. The 17th & Euclid lot is owned by Playhouse Square IIRC.

It looks like they're spraying for bugs. Really though, are they just using dirty bedsheets?

Thanks for the explanation. So the largest job losses in the Cleveland region came from government spending cuts decided outside of our region due to a worldwide economic crash. That just doesn't sound like a Cleveland specific problem to me. *Note: Sorry for misspellings and bad grammar in my long post - I typed it "stream of consciousness style" without proofreading.

There's more discussion about the Browns in here than there is about the Bengals. :-P

Here's how I understand it through conversations with people smarter than myself: Northeast Ohio was was heavily dependent on the manufacturing sector up until very recently. The abundance of manufacturing employment, probably moreso than any other industry in America, has left America soil never to return in the numbers that it once had. This is the result of macroeconomic trends - way larger than Cleveland or Ohio. In the earlier 2/3rds of the 20th century, the largest consuming markets for American goods were in the world were the United States and Western Europe - therefore, production in America made sense considering transportation costs. With markets growing abroad - much faster than the established Western markets, it now makes more sense to locate closer to the growing consumption markets. The obvious point is that labor in America is much more expensive for menial manufacturing jobs than it is overseas. Combined with the point above, production will go where there is cheap labor. The magnified negative effect of lost manufacturing jobs is due to the fact that most of these jobs were considered "base jobs" that created and exported goods to be used outside of our region. This means that the old manufacturing jobs and industries were pulling in money from outside of northeast Ohio - this made the sector very valuable. With this type of "base employment" comes a ton of support jobs (restaurants, hairdressers, etc.) who exist to serve the local economy. These people do not produce "tradeable goods" but benefit from the money being pulled in from the "base jobs." The loss of the manufacturing jobs meant money was not flowing into the local economy from abroad like it once did - the loss of the base jobs also means the loss of the support jobs. The effects are felt over and over and over. If the steel workers lose their jobs, so do the local bartenders and clothing salesmen. Reading on economic base analysis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_base_analysis Given all of the factors, job losses from our old industries and their support industries was inevitable. Hell, economists have been writing about this impending issue since the 70s - we really shouldn't be surprised, as uncomfortable as it may be. This economic restructuring is a tough pill to swallow but we have to do it and we are better off doing it sooner rather than later. Pittsburgh faced this issue decades before Cleveland did and unemployment in the region was over 10% for 3 years in the 1980s! I recently saw that Cleveland's manufacturing employment as a regional percentage was over 40% at its peak and is now around 14% with the national average at 12%. (I don't have a cite for this and I don't remember where I heard it) The article didn't really analyze much did mention that the heaviest job losses came from the government sectors. I don't know what to say about this other than - if the budgets don't support it than they just simply don't support it. The clearest point of the article was that the author thinks the government should be spending more on unemployment relief. Ok, but that's more of a political policy point than a regional employment analysis. Whenever someone pulls the "Am I the only adult in the room?!" argument regarding Cleveland optimism my response is usually the same. Ok, should we not celebrate victories, progress, and movement in the right direction? Furthermore, its bizarre that a serious contingency don't recognize this as a restructuring process shaped by macroeconomic trends much larger than Cleveland. I haven't heard any of these folks offer any policy prescription that is likely to have an appreciable dent in the employment statistics - it's just rhetoric. This just doesn't make sense to me. It's like a fat guy going to the gym and working out to lose weight and someone coming up behind him and screaming "BUT YOU'RE STILL FAT!" Richie's analysis is sober as it is positive. We have a highly skilled workforce and we are adding jobs that require degrees while shedding those that don't. This comes with a lot of pain but I'll be damned if there's not another way.

HUMAN MISERY!! duhn duhn duuuhhhnn

Paul Kruger Exclusive: "I Love Cleveland" Browns LB Paul Kruger talks about his love for Cleveland and the excitement of facing the Steelers https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/video/paul-kruger-exclusive-love-cleveland-221938496.html

If I ever own a restaurant, I am only going to employ robots.

Cleveland Heights man charged in The Katz Club Diner fire CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A Cleveland Heights man was charged with arson Wednesday in connection to an early morning fire that damaged The Katz Club Diner. James Warholak, 46, started the blaze at 4:17 a.m. Tuesday, a criminal complaint filed in Cleveland Heights Municipal Court said. http://www.cleveland.com/cleveland-heights/index.ssf/2014/10/cleveland_heights_man_charged.html#incart_river

I give up. There really is no hope for rail in this City.

Ah I see. I thought there may have been a specific backstory regarding Katz's that would have explained this.

Why do you imply this was to be expected? (honest question)

Brawny Cleveland ranks 5th nationally for the growth of its brainy workforce on October 06, 2014 at 7:00 AM, updated October 06, 2014 at 7:05 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio--Despite the region's historic ties to manufacturing, Greater Cleveland is advancing into the knowledge economy with surprising speed, new research indicates. In recent years, the region's high skill workforce has grown at a rate that ranks 5th in the nation, in league with San Francisco, according to a study being released today by the Center for Population Dynamics at Cleveland State University. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/10/brawny_cleveland_ranks_5th_nat.html#incart_m-rpt-1

You answered your own question :-D :-D :wink:

So the article says ODOT will continue with its plan to shut down the Prospect Ave ramps: "ODOT agreed to search for alternatives to closing Carnegie --- it has said that keeping the Prospect ramp shut is a certainty." So what happens to the land that the ramps are currently on? Given back to the City to be parceled out and sold?

East 9th to East 12th Thanks for the response - I appreciate it. My question was about where the 220,000 sqft of construction/renovation was occurring within the financial district. Particularly, what building.

B..b...b...but the bike crusader dudley do-right went through the tail end of a yellow light at a 3 way intersection...

Amazing - best of luck! I will definitely eat your product. Quick questions: Has your image of Cleveland softened? Is the Hispanic community still divided?

^ Yeah, how DARE he! We don't need any "Dudley do-right" concerned citizen-types in Cleveland watching out for bus drivers who drive insanely dangerously! Move to Portland, hippie. :-o

Also an extremely low foreclosure rate during the sub-prime crisis due to the Asian tradition to buy outright as opposed to using credit.

Hope you had fun - hopefully you can stay longer next time!