Entries from January 2009

I’m already a huge fan of the Siam Cafe, not to mention Asia Town itself. Tonight was delightful, being at Li Wah restaurant on Payne to celebrate The Year of the Ox. The restaurant is bright, colorful, and open enough that the lion dance was visible to everyone. The lion dancers and their percussionists were [...]
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Tags: Cleveland Events · neighborhood news · photos
January 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Coffee lovers unite! Okay, tons of contradictory health reports come out at least once a year regarding coffee and how much you should drink. Decades ago coffee was the devil incarnate. Then not so much. Through it all, it has been one habit I have not been able to break. Not that I have [...]
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Tags: Ideas
January 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Cool article, complete with photos, in today’s PD. James Ewinger writes about the luxurious private cars people around the country, including about 40 Ohioans, spiffed up, brought up to standards and used like Air Force One quality transportation. To show you how popular the idea of passenger rail is in this day and age, the [...]
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Tags: Ideas · Ohio Rail and Transit
January 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I’ve been watching them build Artemus Ward from the ground up and it’s been pretty darn exciting. Monday you have an opportunity, whether you have children in school or not, to go see the two newest schools in Ward 20: R.G. Jones and Artemus Ward. : BPDC, Councilman Martin J. Sweeney, and Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) [...]
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Tags: Cleveland Events · education · neighborhood news
Tags: Ideas · politics

Well, we might not be as happy with Bill’s information regarding foreclosure filings at the end of 2008, but we would rather have the truth than not, right? Bill mentions that an Akron Beacon Journal article that was overly optimistic. Henry Gomez wrote in this week’s PD that sheriff sales were down 32% – may [...]
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Tags: Cleveland Home Sales · Cuyahoga County Home Sales · housing trends
January 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

One of the reasons being argued against cities being allowed to have residency requirements for workers, seems a bit odd to me. Here is a quote from a Reginald Fields post on the PD site covering the proceedings: “[atty for State of Ohio]….said the local rules are affecting population and property values in surrounding communities because [...]
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Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · housing trends · neighborhood news

We are into supporting local yes? Here is your chance to do it three ways: get the latest book by a wonderful local author at her book signing; support a fabulous Ohio City Gallery at which the book signing will be held; support those among us who are surely suffering this frigid winter if they [...]
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Tags: Cleveland Events · neighborhood news
January 19th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Probably not for NE Ohio, can’t imagine a paper house lasting through even one snow storm but, it rains in Africa and San Diego so I could be proven wrong. John Herman of Gizmodo (a self proclaimed gadget blog) writes about a Swiss company called The Wall AG and their 390 sf homes made out of [...]
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Tags: housing trends · Ideas · Ohio Rail and Transit

Gergen is right. Here is a good recap of the train trip, found on Now Public’s website. Dare I hope that train travel will become more of a possibility for us now that we have an administration already so familiar with the benefits of train travel. Since there is talk about cutting funding for passenger [...]
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Tags: economic development · Ohio Rail and Transit