Can You Have Redevelopment Without Gentrification? Some In The Walnut Hills Neighborhood Of Cincinnati Say Yes.
By Hillary Copsey Walnut Hills, a neighborhood inside Cincinnati’s urban core, is having a big year. After the community suffered [...]
Richard Florida Can’t Let Go Of His Creative Class Theory. His Reputation Depends On It.
By Frank Bures Photo by Garrett MacLean When Richard Florida’s new book came out earlier this year, I saw some [...]
In Today’s Ohio, ‘Home Rule’ Is Not About Cities Being Self-Governed; It’s Cover For State Officials Moving Economic Growth To The Exurbs
By Tom Bier Photo by Maddie McGarvey In my new book, Housing Dynamics in Northeast Ohio: Setting the Stage for [...]
On Being ‘In Real Estate’ in Cleveland, OH
I usually tell people “I’m in real estate.” That’s not as charged as “I’m a landlord.” Everybody hates landlords. Everybody got free rent as kids and thinks rent should be free.
Countdown to 2018 Midterms Begins: 8 Rust Belt Congressional Races Already Starting to Foreshadow 2020
With Election Day 2017 safely behind us, the race to the 2018 Midterm Elections has officially begun. And with Donald Trump sitting in the White House ...
Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt
As the jobs have vanished, as education and employment have lured our young people out-of-state and overseas, our holidays have been transformed as well.
Big Ag vs. Lake Erie: How Ohio’s Biggest Industry Threatens Its Greatest Resource
In late September, temperatures in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan eclipsed 90 degrees for six straight days.
White Lady Problems: On Celeste Ng’s ‘Little Fires Everywhere,’ and the Portrayal of ‘Rich, Lily White’ Shaker Heights, OH
By Lynda Montgomery The publication of Celeste Ng’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, has once again brought the city of [...]
A Pair of Dominion Pipelines in Appalachia Are Uniting a Coalition of Environmental Activists That Crosses Racial, Economic, and Geographic Lines
"While there are no Neo-Nazis in the streets of Charlottesville today, white supremacy is very much at work in the offices of Dominion Energy. Money rules, African Americans suffer. It is an old story of power and heartlessness."
Safe In Buffalo, NY, Syrian Refugees Are Still Looking For Peace
Fatima Darwish El Nashef needed air, so she left her apartment and strolled through the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo. She had been feeling like a zombie, adjusting to a new home while constantly thinking about the hell she had left behind in Syria.
As Ohio Goes: One Year Removed From Election Day 2016, Voters From The Ultimate Bellwether State Reflect On A Divided Nation
By Aaron Gettinger Since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide election victory of 1964, no candidate for U.S. president has won the White [...]
Turns Out Kid Rock’s Senate Run Was A Prank. But The Divisions It Exposed Between Detroit And Its Surrounding Suburbs Are No Joke.
By 5:30 p.m. on September 12, Woodward Avenue, Detroit’s main downtown boulevard, had transformed into the latest battleground of America’s seething culture wars.