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Beautiful view, thanks! What floor are you on?

I like this concept and am intrigued by it, though it would be really hard to pull off I think.

Did the Washington Redskins just forego a name altogether? That's what it sounds like from the NYT article which keeps referring to the team as the "Washington Football Team." If we get a new name/mascot, I like the Cleveland Spiders.

^I agree that all of Summit and Portage may not consider themselves "Greater Cleveland", but certainly northern Summit and Portage are Cleveland suburbs. But the gist of the article is we should not be calling "greater Cleveland" (whatever that area contains) NEO--it should be called "greater Cleveland" and I wholeheartedly agree. We sound like idiots to outsiders when we say NEO instead of Cleveland--either that or that we are utterly ashamed of the city that we cannot even say the word Cleveland. Either way, its helping to kill Cleveland as a brand and place.

This article is spot-on. I always find it really irritating when people say "Northeast Ohio" when they should be saying Cleveland. This happens all the time. This is particularly true of younger people as they grew up with the term everywhere. I've heard people now even say they are FROM "Northeast Ohio" instead of saying Cleveland or Akron, etc. Its crazy. Just listen for ONE DAY to how many times you hear it from people, the web, radio, etc. and decide how many of those times the person should have been saying "Greater Cleveland" or "Cuyahoga County" instead. I figured I'd start this as a new thread as I'm sure its a contentious topic as it seems a lot of people like saying NEO. Or maybe they're just programmed to doing so without even realizing it. Personal View: Please stop saying ‘Northeast Ohio' "The "Northeast Ohio" moniker is destroying Cleveland's brand and identity outside the region and, as such, severely impacting our ability to achieve economic development and population growth. Please stop saying "Northeast Ohio" unless referring to the geography that encompasses Cleveland, Akron, Canton and Youngstown. "Cleveland" or "Greater Cleveland" is the region, which includes Cuyahoga and the six outer counties of Lorain, Medina Summit, Portage, Geauga and Lake. Imagine if people in Chicago started using "Northeast Illinois" when referring to their city and region. That would sound quite silly, but that is exactly what we are doing here....." https://www.crainscleveland.com/opinion/personal-view-please-stop-saying-northeast-ohio

^If you get a chance, could you do some data analysis for Cleveland & Cuyahoga County as well? would love to see it!

Too bad the decennial census was not april 2021 vs 2020---for Covid, CLE may have seen a decent bump.

"The Greater Cleveland Film Commission (GCFC) and our President, Evan Miller, have mutually agreed to part ways," said board chairman Tim Birch in an emailed statement" 'have mutually agreed to part ways'.....sounds like there is some back story here. The story kindof ends abruptly--I was expecting more discussion on the parting of ways, but no... https://www.ideastream.org/news/greater-cleveland-film-commission-and-president-part-ways

^sorry---i was responding to the comment above that said, "Is this graphic suggesting there is actual YOY GROWTH in the CLE metro?"

Census 2015-2019 ACS data was released today. I haven't had a chance to dig into it yet, but thought I'd share that it was released.

^That graphic is referring to RENT GROWTH, not population growth. But the title says that its driven by migration. So the 4.2% for Cleveland is not pop growth, its the rent payment.

^I couldn't find the 2020 data, but I did find the 2019 raw data. Of the big library systems (the largest category, which is $30M or more, here is the list. Interestingly NY public--branch libraries got ZERO stars. The 2 big CLE systems (CPL and Cuyahoga) and Cincinnati all got five stars. Columbus got 4. Boston, LA, Houston, San Diego, and many more got zero stars. Very last on the list was Detroit. https://www.libraryjournal.com/?page=americas-star-libraries-2019

The Cleveland Crime thread is locked but I found an interesting datapoint and wanted to share, so I'll put it here, though it belongs there.... "Cuyahoga County is one of the 2% of U.S. counties that collectively account for a majority of the nation’s death-row prisoners and imposed more death sentences in 2018-2019 than any other county in the U.S." https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/eight-years-after-exoneration-court-declares-joe-dambrosio-wrongfully-imprisoned I had started reading about the death penalty in the US and what's allowed in what states when I came upon that article. I originally got to the topic after reading that Trump wants to execute five people during the transition---the first time in more than a century. "If the executions of Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bourgeois go ahead as scheduled the 10 inmates executed in 2020 will bring a single-year total unmatched in modern history. "We'd have to go back to 1896 to find another year where there were 10 or more executions," Ms Ndulue said." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55236260

^Thats the scary thing. The pandemic will end hopefully within a year--but Cleveland Clinic will shut down that hospital forever.

Maybe not. But a competitor of yours may find that face-to-face collaboration spawns new ideas and energy and outplace you in the market with greater profits. Then your company may pivot and return to more people in the office. I'm not convinced yet that the office is dead and that business is 'just as good' with so many units remote than having people work in the same location. Its way too early to see where the chips may fall as we have yet to even give the first vaccination injection in the US.

The more suppliers of a good, the better for consumers. In Cleveland, we've lost many many hospitals and independent doctors to major acquisitions by the Cleveland Clinic and to a lesser extent Univ Hospitals. And suddenly hospitals became 'health SYTEMS." So we have four in Cleveland: UH, CLE Clinic, Metro, and Sisters of Charity. Sisters of Charity has two hospitals--St. Vincent on E. 22 St and one in Canton. But it was just announced that the Cleveland Clinic is taking over the hospital in Canton, meaning the Sisters of Charity SYSTEM will be just one hospital---so not really a health 'system'. This is dangerous as I wonder if Cleveland Clinic is plotting to take over St. Vincent as well and as part of their strategy is to first take out the Canton hospital, weakening the system (lower economies of scale) so they can then take St. Vincent---and then shut it down forcing everyone to their main campus while Downtown and all those residents in the projects along Cedar lose a good hospital right in their neighborhood. Cleveland Clinic is a greedy business and isn't to be trusted. I now fear for St. Vincent. [cross posted in Cleveland Public Health and Cleveland: General Business & Economic News]

The more suppliers of a good, the better for consumers. In Cleveland, we've lost many many hospitals and independent doctors to major acquisitions by the Cleveland Clinic and to a lesser extent Univ Hospitals. And suddenly hospitals became 'health SYTEMS." So we have four in Cleveland: UH, CLE Clinic, Metro, and Sisters of Charity. Sisters of Charity has two hospitals--St. Vincent on E. 22 St and one in Canton. But it was just announced that the Cleveland Clinic is taking over the hospital in Canton, meaning the Sisters of Charity SYSTEM will be just one hospital---so not really a health 'system'. This is dangerous as I wonder if Cleveland Clinic is plotting to take over St. Vincent as well and as part of their strategy is to first take out the Canton hospital, weakening the system (lower economies of scale) so they can then take St. Vincent---and then shut it down forcing everyone to their main campus while Downtown and all those residents in the projects along Cedar lose a good hospital right in their neighborhood. Cleveland Clinic is a greedy business and isn't to be trusted. I now fear for St. Vincent. [cross posted in Cleveland Public Health and Cleveland: General Business & Economic News]

Here's another person who has officially declared he's running (so two total): Arthur Kostendt, a 29-year old Republican from Hudson. And he's a got a 330 area code on his website, not even savvy enough to use a 216 number. https://www.aok4cle.com

^Justin Bibb? I heard he's been plotting a run. But not sure he really has what it takes to be a good mayor.

^and he is....[just a clue or title, if not a name]

^Its 1135pm. I'm checking it in 26 minutes.

Stow probably offered some dirty backroom deal. The suburbs are always rubbing their hands trying to steal jobs and future jobs from the city. It doesn't help that Cleveland is not very pro-active in engaging its businesses.

Its high time we added this topic! The race is only 11 months away. While there's a lengthy list of speculation on who might run, not many have officially declared yet. Some recent activity: Kevin Kelley, President of City Council launched a site "Kevin Kelley for Cleveland" (https://www.kevinforcle.com/) but he doesn't say he's running for mayor. This guy--DID declare--but is likely a long shot: https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2020/10/29/west-park-attorney-launches-outsider-cleveland-mayoral-campaign And Kucinich just filed papers to run, but didn't officially announce yet. And, Hizzoner hasn't ruled out a fifth term...

Is there a full list of applicants somewhere? If there were applicants within the city and CLE got zero, that's really sh&tty.

@KJP---that was so long ago that I had forgotten---that said, its pretty impressive that you beat Crains by FOUR months!