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A WindCube In Northern Ohio

A cube;

Green Energy Technologies unveiled a new type of wind turbine Monday that will generate power for business park resident Crown Battery.

This is the first commercial installation of the WindCube in the country. The concept was introduced to the public in May at the Windpower 2009 Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.

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July 06, 2009

Northeast Ohio Political Expert Weighs In On Palin Departure Via CNN

This blogger knows that blogger. That blogger is Cleveland's Jill Miller Zymon. {Her blog is Writes Like She Talks}

Interesting stuff...Jill is one of two bloggers that was chosen by CNN to weigh in on Sarah Palin's sudden resignation.



Are YOU Buying NEO?

From Cleveland.com and COSE;

COSE's "I Buy NEO" program is a local version of a grassroots movement in cities and small towns across America that has been gaining momentum for more than a decade. Merchants and consumers from Maui to Rockland, Maine, have banded together to promote local merchants and preserve what makes their communities unique.

"Numerous studies have demonstrated that dollars spent at independent, locally owned businesses generate more than three times as much direct return to the local economy as dollars spent at chains or other absentee-owned businesses," said Jeff Milchen, co-founder of the American Independent Business Alliance in Bozeman, Mont., a national hub for such efforts around the country.

Read more and buy local

July 01, 2009

Big Surprise; Cleveland Has Lost Some Of It's Residents

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From the "I'm surprised and shocked" file;

The U.S. Census Bureau will announce today that Cleveland lost nearly 10 percent of its population this decade, the fastest rate of decline of any major American city except New Orleans, which weathered a hurricane and is bouncing back.

Read The Cleveland Story

I'll bet you have a theory or 20 about the reasons why...

Comment area is open!

June 29, 2009

Northeast Ohio Pawnshops Are Busy

Happening now in Youngstown;

Ohio's unemployment rate was 10.4 percent in May. Trumbull County's rate was 14.3 percent, and in Warren, the rate reached 15.3 percent. Mahoning County was not far behind with a 12.2 percent unemployment rate, which includes a Youngstown unemployment rate of 13.7 percent.

Read about area pawnshops, and what is really going on with people, nowadays...

June 23, 2009

Free 8 Week Tutoring Program Being Offered

Right now, students all across America are preparing for their summer vacations. Unfortunately their minds might be going on an extended vacation. Extensive studies by Johns Hopkins University have shown that kids can lose up to two months or more of math and reading skills each summer. Those same studies have shown that two-thirds of the 9th grade achievement gap between low and high income students is due to a lack of adequate summer learning activities. Many teachers have to spend at least 4-6 weeks of each school year re-teaching the previous years material.

All of this frustration led to the creation of the Knowledge College Community Corporation (KCCC). A non-profit organization whose mission is to close the achievement gap that exists in urban public schools, and to prepare up and coming college grads for a career in the public school system.

The non-profit was formed in the fall of 2008, and will provide a FREE 8-week tutoring program at the MLK Civic Center in East Cleveland starting June 16th. In preparation for their careers, several college students and recent grads will be conducting math and
reading lessons for kids in grades K through 8. In addition, several local Shaw High School football players will also be volunteering their time to help assist Knowledge College tutors each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm ending August 6th.

Registration will be limited to 30 kids this summer. For more information about the program, visit the summer camp page on www.knowledgecollegeinc.com or call 216-771-1428. You can also call the MLK Civic Center for more information on programming
before and after tutoring at (216) 681-2434.

An Open Letter To Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson

Dear Mayor Jackson,

There is a problem at the City Of Cleveland's Division Of Water. A big one.

I am not sure if you read The Plain Dealer or not, but no less than 8 articles documenting customer service issues and unexplained spikes in your customer's water bills {Some as high as 800%} have been written in the last 6 months.

The TV stations are just warming up. Tom Meyer is on deck, and Joe P. is really getting pumped up for this one, Mayor..

Your customers are really angry, and it is just not getting better, Mayor Jackson.

Current issues now include;

  • No follow up whatsoever from supervisors who have been left phone messages by your customers.
  • No answers to emails that have been submitted to customer service by your customers.
  • No reply's at all, whatsoever, from written letters sent to your water company via US Mail by your customers.
  • Automated bills that just keep coming, with no explanations.
  • Voice mail messages stating that your employee is in training. It must be permanent training, because these employees have completely disappeared.

Mayor, it is time for you to step in. You are the Mayor of The City Of Cleveland, and this is your utility. 6 months of this is way too long for you to not get involved in this confusing fiasco. {And it is a fiasco}

Did you know that some of your angrier, tech savvy customers, have even set up websites to document what your water company has been doing. {Or not doing}

Here is what you need to do, please.

  1. Have your water company employees go through each bill, and make the proper adjustments, immediately. Adjustments would be simple; Base the bills on the last 3 year's average bills, and be done with it. 
  2. Have your customer service reps reach out and call your customers, and let them know that they will not have to pay the mistaken amounts that mysteriously appeared, several months ago, and that keep getting piled up.
  3. Have a press conference. Apologize to your customers. Some of them have spend 20-30 hours of their own valuable time trying to make heads or tails of these erroneous bills. {The bills are wrong. Period}

There are thousands of customers who have been affected and aggrieved by this situation. If this situation is not remedied, this story could become a national one, and the Cleveland jokes will start flying, once again.

Sincerely,

A City Of Cleveland Division Of Water Customer


June 21, 2009

The Plain Dealer Just Got More Relevant

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Because of a strong editorial from it's publisher, Terrance CZ Egger

"I'd like to set the record straight. There is no doubt that our business is facing a significant challenge; we're like every individual, household and company coping with the toughest economy most of us have ever experienced. That's why we've undertaken difficult measures -- including pay cuts for our management and staff -- to help weather the storm."

Egger continues;

"But the next time you hear someone say that The Plain Dealer is irrelevant in the Internet age, please join with me in informing them of the facts:"

Continue reading this over at Cleveland.com

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