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What's Charlie Frye doing these days?

I wonder what Elian Gonzalez is doing now...

I was going to guess Franklinton

Youngstown (and environs) seems to be the most forward thinking region in Ohio.

is BuckeyeDawgs on cleveland.com an UrbanOhio forumer?

http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/12/01/daily46.html PNC names post-National City acquisition management team Pittsburgh Business Times PNC Financial Services Group Inc. Chairman and CEO James Rohr outlined the executive management team that will lead the Pittsburgh-based bank when it completes its acquisition of National City Corp., Cleveland, Dec. 31 via a letter circulated to employees of both companies Thursday and filed with the SEC. PNC (NYSE:PNC) executives reporting directly to Rohr will continue to oversee the following areas: •Joe Guyaux, retail banking •Bill Demchak, corporate and institutional banking/asset and liability management group •Rob Reilly, private banking and asset management •Tim Shack, PNC global investment servicing, technology and operations Guyaux is PNC’s president; Demchak is vice chairman. PNC Chief Administrative Officer Tom Whitford is relocating to Cleveland to lead the integration. National City’s (NYSE:NCC) Shelley Seifert and Jon Gorney will help to lead the transition of employees, systems and technology, reporting to Whitford and Shack. PNC’s Pete Classen will be in charge of market leadership for Western Pennsylvania and all markets east, while Phil Rice, of National City, will handle Cleveland and all markets west. Additionally, these PNC executives will continue to head the following support areas: Joan Gulley, human resources; Mike Hannon, risk management; Rick Johnson, finance; Mike Little, audit; Helen Pudlin, legal. The letter indicated staff cuts will occur. Rohr said in the letter that “we must eliminate redundancies to create greater efficiencies” but did not address how many positions would be affected or when this would happen.. PNC announced Oct. 24 that it planned to buy National City for $5.6 billion by year-end, pending regulatory and shareholder approval. All contents of this site © American City Business Journals Inc. All rights reserved.

There's been quite a bit of discussion about Cleveland.com comments concerning the PNC-National City merger and the recent Pittsburgh/Cleveland comparison article amongst faculty and students in my department. It's a window into what regular Clevelanders are thinking.

According to Ben, the creator, he filmed this tribute in Southern Ohio! " I filmed much of this video in different locations throughout southern Ohio."

Love Story - One Man. One Dream. One Chance.

that is a great song! Downtown Williamsport looks fun!

Buffalo's playing for the MAC championship? whoa

as a Steeler fan... I feel for the Bengals... I was actually pretty excited for you guys when it appeared the organization had turned things around in 2005... it would've been nice to have a new rival instead of the annoying Ravens and pathetic Browns

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1861417,00.html US Steel Producers Feeling Recession Pains By AP / DANIEL LOVERING (PITTSBURGH) — Just weeks after posting record profits, steel makers are facing a harsh new reality: dwindling orders, production cuts, layoffs. And tougher times lay ahead, analysts say. The steel industry had been riding high earlier this year, as surging demand from China and other countries, coupled with soaring prices for materials used in steel making, produced the most lucrative market for the metal in more than 60 years. ...

Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1990, but only started playing Big Ten football in 1993.

Cincinnati Bengals fans sit with bags on their heads as they watch the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Bengals 27-10 in an NFL football game in Pittsburgh, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

that sucks about the parking lot!

ugh... it's always Big East versus ACC ... the two worst (by far) BCS conferences... who knows who the ACC champ will be... they all keep losing to each other...

I thought this was an interesting view... Akron as the emergent leader of Northeast Ohio??? Posted by grnbstrd on 11/23/08 at 9:04AM I wonder what the relationship between between the City of Pittsburgh and the State of PA has been like. We've had about 30 years of absolute crap state leadership and although Cleveland has a lot of politics, it hasn't had any real leadership in at least as many decades. I've talked to regional reps for international corporations, they tell me Columbus, Cincy and Dayton are all doing fine, but Toledo, Cleveland and Youngstown are on their death beds. CSU is an overglorified community college, if they aren't going to get some top notch programs and quit catering to the lowest-common-denominator of academia, I'd write them off. Akron at least is in a position to be turned into Ohio's Ann Arbor. It has the Polymer Institute and Kent, which is only 15-20 minutes away, has the Liquid Crystal Institute. Akron has less to get out from under as a city than Cleveland does too, it just needs to run out all the white trash and crackheads. NEO could come back, I just don't think Cleveland is it's best hope.

Penn State clinches Rose Bowl berth in impressive fashion with a 49-18 rout of the Spartans. If only the Nits wouldn't have had that lapse against their annual tormentor Iowa.

Fire RichRod!

whoa.. there's 4 columns devoted to the Bengals in today's Washington Post! http://views.washingtonpost.com/theleague/2008/11/whos_to_blame_in_cincinnati/all.html

Pittsburgh beat Cincinnati! Not the last time we'll be saying that this weekend ;)

Remember guys... Bengals play on Thursday this week!

Annex! Annex! Annex! Though I'd prefer to see a city-county merger!