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Return of the Club: Youngstown’s Good Old Days Reborn on the Fifth Floor
All George Guarnieri was looking for was a liquor license. What he found was the remnants of a Youngstown institution.
A Rust Belt Education: Part Two
On a glorious Saturday morning, Erika Harrison pulled up to her house in East Cleveland, bounced out of a sparkling red Chevy Equinox minivan, and walked briskly to her front door ...
A Rust Belt Education: Part One
It has been more than four decades since money problems forced Jerry Schlueter to cut short his broadcast degree at Ohio University.
The Brelo Verdict: Safety in Numbers for the Police
When the verdict came down Saturday in the Michael Brelo case—the case of the Cleveland police officer who found it necessary to fire 49 shots into a car, killing two unarmed people ...
Rust Belt Refugees – May 2015
These profiles tell the story of “Rust Belt Refugees” – former residents of the Rust Belt who have for one reason or another moved on to different parts of the country.
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt.
The Art of Vacancy: Cleveland’s Rooms To Let
Rooms to Let: Cleveland returned to the Slavic Village neighborhood in Cleveland last Sat., May 16 and Sun., May 17. Artists created a temporary art exhibition using vacant homes as their medium.
Readers’ Corner: The Dickeyville Grotto
In the pamphlet that you can purchase in the gift shop of the Dickeyville Grotto and Shrines in Dickeyville, Wisconsin (population: 1,061 souls), the anonymous author writes ...
Weekly Links Roundup
News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt.
An Interview with Sarah Carson
Sarah Carson’s new collection of prose poems, Buick City, begins with freight trains rattling past Flint’s closed automotive plants, and ends with a mechanic spitting on the city’s grave.
Why Can’t Cleveland Be More Like a Bicycle?
The road racing bicycle is one of history’s great design achievements: it multiplies the potential of the human body, allowing a person to travel much greater distances and at much greater speeds.

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