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cleveland economic news: Say No To Second Stimulus Package and Yes to Jobs...Let's Get Creative! - 10/29/08 09:56 PM

The Election is almost over and it's going to be time to roll up our sleeves and get to prioritizing issues that need to be tackled. If you had told any of us five years ago that our Government would be willing to pump money into banks, financial institutions or anything else, we'd have all said collectively someone was pipe dreaming. HR 1424, The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act is in effect and now we can see the possibilities.   One of our most important and least sexy urgent needs is infrastructure repair. You can go onto many NE Ohio blogs … (5 comments)

cleveland economic news: It's January, Must Be Time for an Ohio Hub/Passenger Rail Update - 01/27/08 04:31 PM
I've met some awesome people over the past six months and that is the up side to working on and caring about this issue....because it all moves so slowly. Having said that, here is what is new or newer (now I sound like a Realtor®) regarding passenger rail/The Ohio Hub.
First, most of my rail posts last year were strewn with pleas for support of SB294 to restore monies to AMTRAK for rail improvements. I'm happy to say that the Senate passed the Bill! 268 Yays and 153 Nays later, with my only disappointment - Senator Voinovich did not support it. This after … (18 comments)

cleveland economic news: What Part Do Individual Markets Need to Play In Our National Mortgage Crisis? - 11/23/07 04:15 PM
There are two thought provoking posts on the board today getting my brain in a swirl. The first one was on the issue of California Sub Prime Relief by Lenn Harley. This post is replete with the relief issue as proposed by the California Governor, and the general question of how involved should The Government be in these relief efforts (Gena Reide). Lenn asks important questions and some of them said, is the California Market pertinent to her Maryland market?
I say, how intertwined are all of our markets based on the severity of the issues involved?  And I ask that question hoping … (19 comments)

cleveland economic news: Cuyahoga County Treasurer Writes About Slavic Village, Foreclosures and The Poignancy Behind the Crisis - 09/30/07 02:02 PM
Jim Rokakis has been our Treasurer for quite some time. I had no idea how eloquently he could write a story. The Washington Post's Outlook section featured an article he wrote today. The article is about everyone wanting the American Dream, not having enough money to get it, and then being given false hope that a loan can in fact make you a 'part of' that Dream.
There are parts of the article that make me uncomfortable, because he talks about predators and that includes Realtors®. He talks about Ohio's NAR lobbying against predatory lending legislation a few years ago. Regardless of … (16 comments)

cleveland economic news: A Call To uh, No ARMS ....Are ARMS really the devil incarnate? - 09/26/07 08:09 PM
Approximately 600,000 ARMS are set to well, reset next month. This prompts a coalition of groups to call for a moratorium on ARMS.  A two year moratorium. WKYC's website has an article about it here.
Cleveland's Slavic Village and Union-Miles neighborhoods are in the unfortunate position to be number one in the Country in foreclosures...yes, that is the Country and not the County! So Slavic Village was the setting for this moratorium request. They call it the Save The American Dream program. There were people there from other cities like Des Moines and Pittsburgh.....places also hoping to stem the tide of foreclosures.
They give … (31 comments)

cleveland economic news: The 'Downeaster' From Maine to Boston Shows Us What The Hub Can Do For Ohio - 07/21/07 09:52 PM
This is why The Ohio Hub and the 3C Corridor Plan is such a great idea for Cleveland and Ohio in general. Watch this video and see what the Downeaster Railroad Line has done for people in the Maine to Boston corridor. No really, please watch it!I also have a link here to the May 2007 financial report regarding the Downeaster. Ridership is up, they had over 28k riders in May of this year. They are at 97 percent of their target ridership for the fiscall year (I am assuming it's July to July?) They are getting ready to add a … (14 comments)

 

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