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Weekly Job Post: Chef Jeff Tells You Why You Can Do It, Whether You Want To Be A Chef or Something Else

November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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Tags: Cleveland Events · economic news · education

Reminder: Mortgage Workshop at CSU November 19th

November 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I wrote this post last week - and you can find the details about the Workshop. The bottom line is, it’s sponsored by Hope Now, an organization with affliates all around the Country, including here. Hope Now is a HUD approved partner. See excerpt below from their website:
HOPE NOW members are committed to minimizing foreclosures. [...]

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Tags: Cleveland Events · Cleveland Real Estate · economic news · neighborhood news

Jobs Coming to Canton and Cleveland…Lots of Them!

November 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Two interesting developments were on the news tonight so I ferreted out the information on the Web. Yep, you can always find it here. First in Canton. This is from the North Canton News blog. A h/t to the blog’s author, Anthony McCune. The old Hoover company headquarters and plant will be redeveloped. Maple Street [...]

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Local Mortgage Relief Help On the Way November 19th

November 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Feds are adding more mortgage relief assistance and you can read about it here in a Washington Post article. The preliminary information says you need to be at least 90 days behind on your mortgage and still owe 90% of your loan. We’ll find out more as time goes on.
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Pittsburgh Gazette Weighs In On Why Sub Prime Issues Hit Us and Not PA

November 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Brian O’Neil of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette says Pennsylvania has a “better economy, better lenders and better laws.” He’s explaining why the sub prime mess as he calls it, hit Ohio harder than Pennsylvania.
Some differences: Allegheny County PA has about 4700 foreclosures this year and same with last year; we had twice as many in [...]

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Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · economic news · politics

Details About Banks Receiving $ From Feds In Letter Written By Sen. Voinovich

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve sent a few emails, letters (and made phone calls) to Senator Voinovich over past few months and am still not pleased at all with his lack of understanding as to how important some of the transportation bills he’s voted against truly are to our economy.  Somehow I must have signed up for his newsletter [...]

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Tags: economic news · politics

Foreclosure Rally Thursday at Justice Center

October 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

This rally was supposed to be held a while ago but then Bill Clinton came to town on the same day and it was postponed. I wrote here about what one Cook County sheriff in Illinois decided to do. He said no more no way. Many people feel this should happen here too. Since they changed [...]

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Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · economic news

More Good News! Tri C is Expanding to Add a Westlake Campus

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Thankfully all the news is not bad !  From WKYC’s website, Cuyahoga Community College is adding a Westlake Campus.  There was a 33 acre plot of land in Westlake zoned industrial but apparently Westlake said a bird in the hand is better than waiting for an industry to buy it.  yeay!  Tri C has already [...]

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Tags: economic development · economic news · education · neighborhood news

Good News! Mayor Jackson Encouraging Independent Film Company

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Nehst Creations, which is apparently no slouch since they did the Billy Bob Thornton movie Sling Blade, might be able to set up shop in an unused portion of our existing Convention Center for a year. At least that is what Mayor Jackson is presenting to our Council - well it’s after 8pm so he’s [...]

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Tags: economic development · economic news

Pittsburgh Retailers Not All Gloomy; Some Good Economic News

October 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Nordstrom opened in Pittsburgh.  Apparently there had been a dearth of upscale shops but a bunch (to the tune of about 35 shops) have arrived in the area.  Including Nordstrom. Here is the New York Times article about the new Nordstrom and retail in general. One of the Nordstrom’s (family store, don’t ya know) said [...]