Category: Today’s Report

Scene: My House, Out Of The Ordinary. A fairly even-handed summary of the housing code enforcement push in Tremont that’s going on right now. If you listen to some people, TWDC is sneaking around and trying to tear down half the houses in the neighborhood whether they meet code or not. Certainly not the case.…

GreenCityBlueLake: Train Avenue Connector Approved. I missed this last week, but apparently the trail along Train Ave. between W. 65th and the new Towpath trail was approved by the Planning Commission. Very cool. Train Ave. is a really odd little road. It’s down in the gully that used to hold a creek called Walworth Run.…

Ruhlman: Popcorn. We also make popcorn on the stove top and have many of the same ambitions as Michael. Mostly how to get more of the corn to pop and less of the corn to burn. I guess that’s pretty much everyone’s main goal with popcorn. Although the Dog, who sometimes gets the more scorched…

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Honey Laundering. There was an interesting article on the radio program Life On Earth this week highlighting this eight-part investigative report by Andrew Schneider. Basically, Schneider discovered that imported honey — about 2/3 of the honey consumed in the US — is quite likely to be “trans-shipped” to avoid tariffs. A huge percentage…

NY Times: Obama’s New Chef Skewers School Lunches. This is a very good sign. Here’s his thoughts about the National School Lunch Program which provides breakfast and lunch for 28 million kids a day, including every single child in the Cleveland School District. There are a couple major repercussions of [the National School Lunch Program]…

Cleveland Magazine: Med-Mart Free For All. Very nice roundup of the various reactions and comments to the Medical Mart / Convention Center decision. The best item linked here is all the sputtering by the Greater Cleveland Partnership, whose desires were totally rejected. Obviously the Mall site is the correct one (and I believe that’s the…

Slate: Why some foreigners can’t believe Obama won the presidency fair and square.

The ALA gave out their 2009 literary awards yesterday. Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book won the Newberry. Quite a change from last year’s winner. Maybe the ALA’s been reading their press? Anyway, I was happy to see that a majority of the Newberry and Printz (YA) medal and honor books have rolled through the house…

New York Review of Books: Google and the Future of Books. A relatively thoughtful piece about the sea change that’s going to occur once Google does reach their stated goal: to scan and make available the information from all books. Won’t they have some sort of “monopoly” on “knowledge”? How do traditional libraries or even…

Onion: Area Teen Up to Something. Slate: More about Heroes and Cowards. Slate: Cooking Their Books. Is it possible to recreate restaurant meals at home? Not really very well. And especially if the recipes aren’t actually the ones used in the restaurant. GreenCityBlueLake: City Chickens. More on the upcoming Cleveland urban farming legislation.