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It started with a quiet announcement, that Cuyahoga county's Creative Workforce Fellowship was to be temporarily suspended, pending a review by the funder. Few noticed, until Belt Mag founder and editor-in-chief Anne Trubek started a minor ruckus online and on her Facebook wall. She eventually deleted the Facebook post, but not before generating a little...

This was originally published on Huffington Post (7/8/14) Yesterday, after the Republican National Committee named Cleveland as its 2016 convention site, a writer for Politico added his two cents to the national narrative about Cleveland. "Cleveland: 10 things to know" obviously meant well but started with something that happened 45 years ago and had all the hallmarks of a hastily cobbled...

When Ron Ratner spoke to the City Club of Cleveland on May 23 as part of the Business Leaders Series, his remarks offered three critical insights into Cleveland’s future development and the conventional wisdom of urban planning: First, Ratner said, “community buy-in in a shared vision is absolutely critical” to the success of development projects....

David Orr took center stage at the Cleveland City Club on May 16th, 2014. His position at Oberlin College as Professor of Environmental Studies gave weight to his words about how to fix the ever-worsening problem of climate change. Mr. Orr began by focusing on the Oberlin campus where he pioneered  “one of thirty milestone...