Published: Oct. 2, 2008
FIRST PLACE, Best Public Service Journalism, 2009 Best of Ohio Journalism Awards, Society of Professional Journalists (Print Newspapers, Circ. over 100,000)
A vote by the commissioners on the merits of a convention center/medical mart and its location could come by the end of October. If the final decision reflects the best interests of the region's taxpayers, it might just be a coincidence.
Conventional Wisdom.pdf
Published: Aug. 3, 2005
The axiom that higher taxes swamp economies permeates the American psyche. City and state officials around the country -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- invoke the cause of economic growth to slash corporate taxes and provide breaks to select companies.
Published: Nov. 29, 2006
For years, the city's sole approach to retail development has been large-scale projects and strip malls, with seemingly little interest in developing citywide policies that would save neighborhood retail districts.
Published: April 23, 2007
Cleveland Councilman Matt Zone pushes forward a brochure for the first "eco-village" built in the country. It's in his ward. "I've defined myself as the environmental councilman," he says. "Ask anybody."
Zone then begins to discuss the recent vote allowing Cleveland Public Power to enter a deal to begin in 2012 drawing energy supplies from a brand-new coal-burning plant in Southern Ohio - a vote that has sparked much criticism.