🆕Universities Say They Promote Economic Development, But How? The complex world of university-based economic development explained for New America newamerica.org/education-poli…

Rising rent prices in Cleveland, Akron markets are bucking national trends, new data say ideastream.org/health/2024-03…

Hear author Richey Piiparinen read from his new book “Octopus Hunting'' at Mac's Backs Saturday - goo.gl/alerts/aXu1Cw

Author Richey Piiparinen’ new book links his fight against brain cancer to Cleveland’s fight for revival cleveland.com/news/2024/04/a…

NEXT WEEK! Wed. 5/1 at 7:30 pm at the Happy Dog Richey Piiparinen will speak about his latest book "Octopus Hunting," a collection of essays on CLE's history + economics & part memoir of Piiparinen's wisdom in the face of life and death. This forum is free! cityclub.org/forums/2024/05…

I've become both horrified and obsessed with this Pittsburgh organization that existed from the late 70s into the 80s. The "Appalachian Forum" was far from hidden, locally-based, and clearly White-supremacist organization. See alt for source:

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”

Watch the River Rush On: Springsteen’s “Nebraska” and the Deindustrialized Midwest midstory.org/watch-the-rive… via @Midstory

Postindustrial Books: Cleveland author Richey Piiparinen shares his Ohio childhood in an excerpt from his book “Octopus Hunting” via Postindustrial Media postindustrial.com/stories/postin…

Bibb’s driver said he was rushing mayor to ‘emergency meeting’ at time of crash; Bibb apologizes cleveland.com/metro/2024/06/…

City of Cleveland's conversation fodder is boring, lame. The world's on fire, this is our level of discourse. The quality of civic discussion reflects the quality of civic leadership. Shame.

The Cleveland Cancer Collective, a measure of the city’s grassroots resilience: Richey Piiparinen cleveland.com/opinion/2024/0…

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People with 'bonding identity' cope better with structural disadvantage sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/…

Cleveland is prodigious in its ability to lift you up only to let you down.

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The Brookpark Browns coming at ya hard today

How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal? neh.gov/humanities/201…