The Cleveland PD will be spotlighting Cleveland's successes, and apparently focus on erasing city pessimism.

 

From the first article:

 

"For the rest of this year, this editorial page will spotlight these successes and try to spark the conversations about how to build on them and turn these small points of light into powerful beacons. We will cheer, cajole and sometimes criticize -- but always with the ultimate goal of banishing Eeyore from the lexicon and mindsets of those who live here. That includes the schoolchildren who too often associate their hometown with failure and assume that the grass is greener everywhere else."

 

Building on Greater Cleveland's strengths: editorial

Published: Sunday, February 06, 2011, 4:00 AM

 

Within the past month -- in downtown Cleveland alone -- work has begun on a medical mart and convention center; a Flats East Bank office, hotel and retail complex; and a new Inner Belt Bridge. Just last week, developers of the voter-approved downtown casino purchased riverfront property for their main complex and announced plans to open a high-end gaming operation on Public Square within a year. Major construction projects continue at Cleveland State University, as well as in University Circle, Midtown and Chagrin Highlands.

 

So let's stop thinking like Eeyore, A.A. Milne's perpetual pessimist. The sky here is not falling.

 

In fact, look around.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/02/building_on_greater_clevelands.html

how about erasing PD pessimism.

Look around?  Look in the mirror, PD.

It's a start.  It didn't make me want to throw the entire paper in the bin like most Sunday mornings....

The Cleveland PD will be spotlighting Cleveland's successes, and apparently focus on erasing city pessimism.

 

 

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

I can only hope they resist the temptation to start their articles with something like:  "Despite staying behind in a city that lost more than half its population in the last 60 years, there are some who haven't yet jumped to their deaths from I-490 into the still-smoldering Cuyahoga River left undrinkable from 200 years of cesspool-like industrial pollution....."

 

Yeah, I know the city's horror stories. And I know they're true. But if you know someone who starts every conversation by bitching about the same things all the time, would you choose to pay money to hear them talk or do you want to avoid them at all cost?

 

Or do you want to learn something new? ....Hence the term "NEWSpaper." I hope this approach by the PD truly is to actually offer something new.