Category: Today’s Report

WEWS: Cleveland Schools’ Shakeup? Looks like some underperforming schools are going to get new principals. The current principals are being “reassigned” to assistant principal…

Cash for Clunkers. As the owner of two clunkers this bill interests me greatly. We’ve always said that we will wait for our cars to literally die before buying new ones, but a $5,000 incentive to buy a car would almost certainly push us into a purchase sooner. The catch is that the car has…

Rob Pitingolo: What Causes Long Commutes? Rob charts commute times vs. transit usage rates and sees some correlation. What isn’t clear, however, is any sort of causation. It seems like nobody really knows if public transportation actually reduces congestion or can only succeed if there’s a lot of congestion.

WEWS: The Big Egg’s Breakfast This Week: One Cent. (With the purchase of a drink…) The Big Egg opened back up this month and this is a promotion they’re running every day from 6 am – 8 am. Hulu: Cosmos. This is a great TV series from the 80’s that goes into detail on all…

Crain’s: Weston to pursue development of key block in downtown Cleveland. The Asher family had been partnering with Bob Stark on the development of all those parking lots west of Public Square into a vast commercial/retail/residential project.  Stark has pulled out of that project, but apparently the Ashers still have some hopes for redevelopment there.…

The Cybils: The Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards.  Given out in January for the third year. Lots of good books on these lists. And this site has a link to KidLitosphere Central, which tries to maintain links to all the blogging being done about Children’s and YA books. On related notes: All the…

Cleveland Orchestra: Announced the 2009 Blossom Schedule. Plain Dealer: East Cleveland library may team up with Cuyahoga County system. Laura and I have talked about this a lot. I’m sure that the East Cleveland Public Library is great and I know their new building is a marvel in a place short of them, but there’s…

Clay Shirky: “Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.”

Brand New: Snapple. Another exceedingly generic design. I wasn’t a fan of the old Snapple logo, but at least it didn’t look like a generic store-brand tea product. Ken Levine. No one ever bought a drink at Cheers. Because it would have been boring watching Carla count out the change. There’s lots of of other…

NY Times: Computer Science Makes a Comeback. Back when I was in college Computer Science was the hottest major. But over the last 10 years or so, people who weren’t really into computers all that much realized they could make a lot more money in other areas (like finance) without as much work. With the…