^hahahahahahahahahhahaha that's so bad

8:19 AM and they still haven't noticed...

8:19 AM and they still haven't noticed...

 

And people have even commented about it!

^^Its still like that

unchanged as of 11:16

The guy who does the captions for the pictures must not be too bright.  Damn I cannot recall specifically what it was but last week the caption for a picture had all the wrong information...it didn't even track the information detailed in the accompanying story.

There was a caption for a photo in Crain's that showed designs for a house with a "coy" pond in front of it.  SERIOUSLY?

"Coy" haha...the Coy pond...Does it taunt you to go swimming only to be too shallow?

LOL!

Hmm RnR vocabulary puns don't seem to go over that well here....Glad you found it funny.

Hmm RnR vocabulary puns don't seem to go over that well here....Glad you found it funny.

 

I thought it was hilarious!  I made it a fav quote on UO.

Indeed, I Chuckled Quietly To Self as well.

Glad you found it funny. Honestly I doubled checked the definition of Coy before posting that, because I didn't wantto look like a fool. My wife is always challenging my use of words, and I have a little complex because of it. I don't know why because she is usually wrong and I am using the word correctly 90% of the time. Just because she has an English minor and reads 5 books a month, and I have an engineering degree she assumes I am wrong.

 

 

Local media news related tidbit. Apparently former WMMS after talk jocks Maxwell and Stansbury are on the 98.5 morning show as of Monday.

That'll be interesting to see. I'm not a big Rover fan, and I'm getting sick of Mike & Mike  (Golic does zero prep for the show. I mean none. You can't have every opinion be "Well we'll see what happens...." And once he's out of football season, the guy is lost). I've been listening to NPR, but that gets a little dry (pronounced in a raspy voice with a long drawn out 'yyyyyyy') after a while.

 

Maxwell's afternoon show got a little stale. Hopefully he's had a chance to 'freshen up'.

Yeah, I agree the show went south later on especially after he got sober. I think his issues brought a lot of tension and uncertanity to the shows chemistry that made it entertaining. Well that and Crackerman....

I've been listening to NPR, but that gets a little dry (pronounced in a raspy voice with a long drawn out 'yyyyyyy') after a while. 

 

Everytime I hear any program on NPR, I can't help but think of my good ole' friend Pete Schweddy.

Below is an article with outgoing Gov. Strickland.  He is not pulling punches towards Kasich, Republicans, and what I consider entertaining and insightful, our very own Plain Dealer!

 

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/12/outgoing_ohio_gov_ted_strickla.html

 

He also said that "Cleveland's biggest enemy is Cleveland," and cited what he called the paper's negative coverage of the city.

"I mean how you could read The Plain Dealer consistently and decide that you wanted to live in Cleveland if you're from outside the state," he said. "I don't know how you do it."

Wow! He nailed it...I'm glad other people see it.

Outgoing Gov. Ted Strickland plans to stay politically active by supporting a startup liberal think tank whose objective will be to scrutinize every action of the incoming Republican-controlled governor's office and legislature.

 

And this improves the Democrat party how??

 

 

http://www.clevelandfrowns.com/2010/12/tony-grossi-to-doug-dieken-all-i-do-all.html#links

 

Frowns has a nice post  on the PD and their coverage of the Browns (Note: he hates Grossi's witch hunt on Mangini). The post is with respect of the PD efforts to sell papers by creating Browns controversay, but I think that it's a pretty good analogy for the effect of the PD on the region in general.

This editorial by Brent Larkin just encapsulated what is wrong with the PD and the journalists of his generation (like Feagler)

 

When are we going to build a future for Cleveland?: Brent Larkin

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/12/when_are_we_going_to_build_a_f.html

 

The story starts off in typical PD fashion, bashing Cleveland.  We built stadiums, but did nothing for the poor.  OK, fine.

 

Then he talks about how exiting it is that many Cleveland institutions are coming together to fund a college scholarship program for students who graduate from any Cleveland HS.  Great.

 

BUT THEN..

 

"More than two dozen U.S. cities have scholarship programs. The Kalamazoo Promise in Michigan is the most famous, but the idea being worked on for Cleveland would be modeled after the one launched three years ago in Pittsburgh. (The only thing Pittsburgh used to beat us at is football. Now it surpasses us in pretty much everything -- including its economy, university system, ideas and spirit of cooperation)."

 

WTF!! 

 

This is a great story, one of the many things that the community is doing to help its citizens.  Sure, we were not the first, but we are the first with Evergreen Cooperative.  Do you think the Pittsburgh paper is saying that Pittsburgh is second rate because of this???

 

He took a good story about Cleveland and twisted it to make us feel second rate compared to Pittsburgh. 

 

I just hope when the Feagler generation retires, Cleveland can also retire the loathing for this city that the editors of the PD love to spread.

 

 

Just when you thought the paper had turned a corner....

^ I think now that Goldberg has left, the old PD is making a comeback

Some of these things need to be said though.  We've had plenty of Cle-Pitt threads and we don't need another, but I don't see how Larkin's statement is objectively untrue.  I say that as an unabashed Cleveland booster.  We have a long way to go and we need to pick up the pace.  We need to keep defending our community from outside criticism, but we also need to take our problems more seriously.  I've got nothing against the local media challenging the local leadership.  They're supposed to.

I took one look at the article title and said to myself, "No thanks."  I'm tired of people who aren't doing anything for the future of this city sitting on their lazy *sses and asking when someone else will fix it all.

Some of these things need to be said though. We've had plenty of Cle-Pitt threads and we don't need another, but I don't see how Larkin's statement is objectively untrue. I say that as an unabashed Cleveland booster. We have a long way to go and we need to pick up the pace. We need to keep defending our community from outside criticism, but we also need to take our problems more seriously. I've got nothing against the local media challenging the local leadership. They're supposed to.

 

Mark my words.  Pittsburgh's recent "success", while commendable, is significantly gilded.

^Agree...I graduated from Pitt, my wife is from Pittsburgh and got her MPA from Pitt and we discuss this topic a lot. Cleveland can learn a few things from Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh's recent success is a little over-hyped.

Lets not make this a CLE vs PITT debate.  Pittsburgh is doing a lot of good things, but so is Cleveland. 

The point was how the PD can take a good thing the city is doing and make it "not good enough, so why bother.  Cleveland sucks"

 

Cleveland rocks, the PD sucks.

Cleveland rocks, the PD sucks.

 

I'd buy that bumpersticker...

Cleveland rocks, the PD sucks.

 

I'd buy that bumpersticker...

 

Lets make them lol

To be fair to Larkin, it seemed like the point of the editorial was to promote the importance of the program and to cut naysayers off at the chase (even if he was doing a bit of naysaying to himself). To be fair to Cleveland, though, I'd say Pittsburgh isn't really "beating" us with this program

 

... First, because Pittsburgh didn't design this program to compete with Cleveland directly but to strengthen their overall education system and economy, and Cleveland should be thinking about that and not what it means about our relationship with Pittsburgh

 

... And second, because it's not like Cleveland has just been ignoring scholarship funding to local students until this very minute. Cleveland Scholarship Programs was founded back in 1966. Since then, it's provided more than $45 million in scholarship aid to more than 250,000 students. And THAT program has been replicated across the country, too. We need to stop navel-gazing over the positive press in Pittsburgh!

We need to keep defending our community from outside criticism, but we also need to take our problems more seriously.  I've got nothing against the local media challenging the local leadership.  They're supposed to.

 

 

I agree with this statement a lot....... And that we do need to take our own problems more seriously. By that I mean we, as Cleveland boosters, should be able to come together at the table and define our problems and what to do about them without someone always pulling a "you're a naysayer, anti-Cleveland" card, and weed the good ideas out of the discussion that can help produce a balance of good for the whole community in general, not just a few. When we are verbally handcuffed from addressing a problem and ideas on how to make it right, we are held back as a city, and nothing gets done.

 

The thing I do not like about the PD, however, is that the writing style is often simply too sensationalistic in such a style that seems to beacon to a lot of the negative or angry suburbanite community, somehow needing its negative opinions about Cleveland proper validated in ink. "Seee.. I TOLD YA SO!!!...It says it RIGHT here in the paper!!!",  in other words.

 

Such IS a good formula for selling tabloid-ish type papers, but is not doing its duty to factually and accurately inform. We can do our own constructive criticism here---as we should---and I have said that again and again, but constructive criticism without offering up an idea for fixing a given situation---and instead tears down with typical negative "woe-is-us...we suck...everything is working great everyplace else" commentary---is NOT, imo, constructive at all.....

 

Rather, it is destructive criticism...and that is what this paper has mostly done, and such does little if anything to generate and foster much needed better civic pride. Pride is free and can do wonders for motivating a community to action, when people are taught to actually give a damn about their community, and why they should...what they should be proud of, etc..etc. This is a kind of social responsibility where the paper has failed miserably.

 

 

That's just how I see it though.

 

 

And yes, I agree the positive Pitt hype is largely over waxed... A spectacular skyline and successful football team can be deceiving. I am there frequently and there are many usual signs of problems and issues all their own...But, just because they.....or any other place has them.... is not a signal for us to relax, become complacent and sit on our laurels.

 

We should always be striving for better...and not be content with mediocrity or slack, just because other places have the same/similar issues too....and offer up the usual... "These problems are not exclusive to Cleveland" thing.. Although, I admit, many around here seem to think they are, and maybe that has a bit to do with how the paper has failed to help stimulate civic pride...back to what I was saying above. 

Rather than serve as a civic cheerleader for Cleveland, the PD would have served a more vital role had they been vigilant against the incompetent and criminal elected officials who have been destroying the city.

 

We need to keep defending our community from outside criticism, but we also need to take our problems more seriously. I've got nothing against the local media challenging the local leadership. They're supposed to.

 

 

I agree with this statement a lot....... And that we do need to take our own problems more seriously. By that I mean we, as Cleveland boosters, should be able to come together at the table and define our problems and what to do about them without someone always pulling a "you're a naysayer, anti-Cleveland" card, and weed the good ideas out of the discussion that can help produce a balance of good for the whole community in general, not just a few.

 

The thing I do not like about the PD, however, is that the writing style is often simply too sensationalistic in such a style that seems to beacon to a lot of the negative or angry suburbanite community, somehow needing its negative opinions about Cleveland proper validated in ink. "Seee.. I TOLD YA SO!!!...It says it RIGHT here in the peper!!!", in other words.

 

Such IS a good formula for selling tabloid-ish type papers, but is not doing its duty to factually and accurately inform. We can do our own constructive criticism here as we should and I have said that again and again, but constructive criticism without offering up an idea for fixing a given situation---and instead tears down with typical negative "woe-is-us...we suck" commentary---is NOT, imo, constructive at all.....

 

It is destructive criticism and that is what this paper has mostly done, and such does little if anything to generate and foster much needed better civic pride. Pride is free and can do wonders for motivating a community to action, when people are taught to actually give a damn about their community, and why they should...what they should be proud of, etc..etc. This is a kind of social responsibility where the paper has failed miserably.

 

 

That's just how I see it though.

 

 

And yes, I agree the positive Pit hype is largely over waxed... A spectacular skyline and successful football team can be deceiving. I am there frequently and there are many usual signs of problems and issues all their own...But, just because they or any other place has them is not a signal for us to relax, become complacent and sit on our laurels. We should always be striving for better...and not be content with mediocrity or slack, just because other places have the same/similar issues too....and offer up the usual... "These problems are not exclusive to Cleveland" thing.. Although, I admit, many around here seem to think they are, and maybe that has a bit to do with how the paper has failed to help stimulate civic pride...back to what I was saying above.

^ True, but that can be another whole issue unto itself. And even if they did, right now, it would be delivered in such a style that plots one party against another, and really does not aim to offer solutions to anything, and thus creating more division.

Cleveland's going up: New projects, pioneers poised to give city a lift: Joe Frolik

Official population figures for individual cities and counties will come early next year. But after a decade of job losses and a brutal wave of foreclosures that emptied out neighborhoods, its very possible that Cleveland will have fewer than 400,000 residents -- less than half its 1950 population peak. After the relative stability of the 1990s, that would be a huge symbolic blow.

 

Population growth isn't necessarily the best measure of a region's health, but it is telling. Americans go where they believe they can find jobs and opportunities. That in-migration, in turn, replenishes the energy, creativity and wealth of those lucky places. For much of the last century, Greater Cleveland benefited from that dynamic. But for too long, as Brent Larkin noted in his column a few weeks ago, we have been getting older, smaller and poorer. That dynamic also feeds on itself.

 

So why am I optimistic? Because even in this Great Recession, the seeds of positive change are beginning to sprout -- and collectively, they can be transformative.

 

Some are easy to see -- or soon will be. By next Christmas, work on the medical mart and convention center, the Flats East Bank development, the Inner Belt Bridge and the downtown casino (provided its backers don't waste too much time trying to reroute the Cuyahoga River) should all be under way; that alone is more than $1 billion worth of investment and construction jobs. Together these projects will remake downtown. They have already inspired planning about how to connect these new pieces with usable and inviting public spaces that can make the city vibrant and attractive to people with options.

 

A similar makeover is taking shape at University Circle, where the $300 million mixed-use Uptown project is rising from the ground along both sides of Euclid Avenue. It will help create a real neighborhood for people who are studying, doing research, treating patients, creating art or starting companies there -- and tie together other investments in and around the Circle and Little Italy.

 

........

 

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/12/clevelands_going_up_new_projec.html

 

A nice summary of what's in store for the next 5 years or so.  I'm not sure these projects will "remake downtown" but they're still welcome additions.  What bugs me is that so many of them involve replacing something we already had, most notably the Flats.  And even if they represent necessary upgrades, the innerbelt and convention center also fall into this category.  We need a lot more projects like Uptown, which replace surface parking.

 

The article also discusses nodes of small business revitalization in Ohio City and Tyler Village.  It's great to see them mentioned alongside higher-profile items like the casino.  These homegrown efforts deserve every ounce of promotion they can get.  Considering the slim likelihood of attracting major employers from outside, our best bet is still to develop them from within.

Is it possible that the "Old Guard" at the PD (Feagler and that other retired guy that writes continuous editorials bashing Cleveland - Larkin) are finally giving way to some new writers with fresh ideas.  It is the Christmas season and I can dream :-).

Might be old news to lots of people, but I just discovered patch.com today (http://www.patch.com/), a local news platform.  They have several sites covering the Cleveland area, including a very high quality Cleveland Heights site: http://clevelandheights.patch.com/

 

Is it possible that the "Old Guard" at the PD (Feagler and that other retired guy that writes continuous editorials bashing Cleveland - Larkin) are finally giving way to some new writers with fresh ideas. It is the Christmas season and I can dream :-).

 

They aren't giving way soon enough.

 

Might be old news to lots of people, but I just discovered patch.com today

 

 

They are looking for more writers, so contact each of the city's editors if you know how to write news and want a little extra income. They also want original, quality photos with each story.

 

Unfortunately, they are focusing almost wholly on suburban areas. They need to target cities which are in desperate need of better news coverage, especially at the neighborhood level. One of these I may just have to start up my own web-based news platform if I could find a good ad salesperson.

Does the Peedee have a new editor to replace Michelle Goldberg?  I cannot tell by looking at http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/

Does the Peedee have a new editor to replace Michelle Goldberg? I cannot tell by looking at http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/

 

I think you're combining names. The previous editor was Susan Goldberg. And there is a Michelle Jarboe who covers real estate for the PD.

I sure did mix up the names.

There is in fact a new editor. Her previous gig was the same job @ABJ

In other news. The PD ran the Cleve-Burgh article on the front page of the Sunday opinion section  that ran in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a couple of weeks ago, and after it made the round on the internet...

BTW, I created this blog, in part, to compensate for the PD's biased, anti-Cleveland coverage. Please let this type of coverage make the rounds on the Internet instead....

 

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011

Cleveland may be jumping out of recession

By Ken Prendergast

 

For metropolitan areas, how they emerge from recessions is a lot like how companies emerge from bankruptcies. Did they learn anything? Are they leaner and more efficient? Have they positioned themselves to grab growth opportunities from the coming economic upswing?

 

Unlike the last two recessions in the early 1990s and early 2000s, the answers for Greater Cleveland this time appear to be “yes.” Admittedly, at this early stage the data seems incomplete and, in one case, questionable. But to have early indications that are positive is better than the alternative. Greater Cleveland has had its share of the alternative. Now, the positive indications are rolling in and well-deserved.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://neo-trans.blogspot.com/2011/01/cleveland-may-be-jumping-out-of.html

BTW, I created this blog, in part, to compensate for the PD's biased, anti-Cleveland coverage. Please let this type of coverage make the rounds on the Internet instead....

 

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011

Cleveland may be jumping out of recession

By Ken Prendergast

 

  For metropolitan areas, how they emerge from recessions is a lot like how companies emerge from bankruptcies. Did they learn anything? Are they leaner and more efficient? Have they positioned themselves to grab growth opportunities from the coming economic upswing?

 

  Unlike the last two recessions in the early 1990s and early 2000s, the answers for Greater Cleveland this time appear to be “yes.” Admittedly, at this early stage the data seems incomplete and, in one case, questionable. But to have early indications that are positive is better than the alternative. Greater Cleveland has had its share of the alternative. Now, the positive indications are rolling in and well-deserved.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://neo-trans.blogspot.com/2011/01/cleveland-may-be-jumping-out-of.html

make sure to put this on your twitter and facebook pages.

I shared it on my facebook page but I don't twit.

I shared it on my facebook page but I don't twit.

 

Thats "tweet" you twit!  ;D :P :laugh: LOL

Yep, I know. I don't tort, tip or tap either.

Good work KJP.