When did holiday shopping become a contact sport? There is an entire class of websites dedicated to Black Friday deals. If I’m to believe what I see in the media, people map out chain-store floor plans weeks in advance. And before the Thanksgiving gravy has congealed, they motor … [Read more...] about Happy hyperlocal holidays
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Educational Redlining: How Zillow’s School Ratings Help Segregate Communities
Heights Community Congress has just released Educational Redlining: How Zillow and GreatSchools Profit from Suspect School Ratings and Harm Communities, a report on the practice by Zillow, the real estate website, and GreatSchools to guide home buyers to choose communities … [Read more...] about Educational Redlining: How Zillow’s School Ratings Help Segregate Communities
Poetry Friday: Kisha Nicole Foster
Last night I went to church*. Church in this case was a mixer for Literary Cleveland at Platform Brewery in Ohio City. It was loud, the beer was flowing, the congregation distracted. Between the words, text and talking - I heard only one voice. Kisha Nicole Foster on stage, on … [Read more...] about Poetry Friday: Kisha Nicole Foster
ShopCLE: An onslaught of litter every Wednesday
Video and photos of the streetscape after weekly distribution of the ShopCLE "shopper" throughout Cleveland Heights. Week after week after week, they drive through our neighborhoods and toss thousands of bagged papers out the window without regard to where they … [Read more...] about ShopCLE: An onslaught of litter every Wednesday
What comes after the tax increase
Congratulations Cleveland Heights. We've voted ourselves a tax increase. Nobody wants to pay more taxes, but by a vote of 7,573-5,135, the select group of residents who bothered to go to the polls on election day determined that it's in the best interest of the city. I … [Read more...] about What comes after the tax increase
