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Spring Salamander Gauntlet: Avoiding Raccoons, Sexual Parasitism, and Suburban Sprawl

2018-10-26T16:03:08-04:00By Matt Stansberry|Covers, Current Issue, North Coast Biodiversity|

It was the kind of morning I would never spend outside: 46-degrees Fahrenheit, rain running down the bare trees and pooling up on the muddy ground. Nothing looked alive.

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Tremont: A Product Of Its Past, A Piece Of Its Future

2016-05-28T08:39:13-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue, History|

Originally known as Brooklyn Heights, before it was incorporated into Ohio City between 1836 and 1854, the neighborhood of Tremont was finally annexed by Cleveland in 1867 ...

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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-03-26T23:44:45-04:00By William Rickman|Current Issue|

News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of March 21-March 27, 2016.

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Belt Magazine Fellowship: Dispatches from RNC 2016

2016-03-28T08:07:49-04:00By Anne Trubek|Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue|

Belt Magazine, based in Cleveland, Ohio, is offering a one week fellowship for a freelance journalist interested in covering the Republican National Convention from July 18-21.

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An Interview with Matthew Desmond

2016-03-25T10:29:31-04:00By William Rickman|Arts & Culture, Books, Cities, Current Issue, Housing, Milwaukee, Politics and Urbanism, Population|

One-third. For more than 100 years that’s been the standard measure for figuring housing costs in the United States: you should pay no more than one-third of your income in rent or mortgage payments.

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What John Kasich Says Is Bullshit, But How He Says It Hits Home

2016-03-24T10:48:53-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Current Issue, Essays, Pittsburgh, Politics and Urbanism|

John Kasich, you don’t speak for my people: most denizens of the Mon Valley aren’t clamoring for corporate tax breaks and massive deregulation. But — and maybe this is more important — you speak like my people.

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Twelve Tips For Journalists Covering RNC 2016 In Cleveland

2016-03-23T11:01:36-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue, Editor's Pick, Politics and Urbanism|

Are you writing a thinkpiece on Donald Trump’s comments about “riots” in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention? Covering violence at Trump rallies and want to include possible slugfests...

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East Cleveland Abandoned Wasteland

2016-03-21T15:03:24-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Cleveland, Current Issue, Housing, Politics and Urbanism, Population|

A video drive-through and commentary of East Cleveland, Ohio by Jamal Collins, a visual communication design instructor, providing art education at Cleveland's Boys and Girls Club.

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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-03-25T17:46:28-04:00By William Rickman|Current Issue|

News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of March 14-March 20, 2016.

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On Leaving Detroit

2016-03-21T08:23:17-04:00By Martha Bayne|Cities, Current Issue, Detroit, On Detroit by Aaron Foley|

I have a dear friend who is planning to leave Detroit very soon to move West. After living in and around Detroit all his life, he is taking a new job in sunny California. He is, by definition, the very demographic Michigan wants to hold on to...

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