Carole's Cleveland Blog

What's New news from the All Aboard Ohio Annual Rail/Transit Summit held earlier this week. I received word from our contact Ed - thank you Ed! It's potentially good stuff for Ohio's economy. And the economy of any other State that benefits from it, which to me at least includes Pennsylvania, Ill...

So many of you were interested/concerned about the state of our Railways and the Ohio Hub Plan, so it's time for a last minute alert here: Wednesday March 7th Important Ohio Rail MeetingAll Aboard Ohio is having their Third Annual Ohio Rail/Transit Summit in Columbus tomorrow. It's a morning choc...

Lo and Behold: WALMART  announced that they are participating in Job Opportunity Zones in ten cities. How did I find this out? And what is it? Let me explain.WALMART as we know, has been taking it on the chin by groups of citizens wherever they plan a store; some are thrilled but this inevitable ...

I hate this time of year; not because it's winter specifically though of course 95 degrees and sunshine is better. But it's tax season. Bah humbug. I have been checking the 2006 changes/updates for this year's filing. I stumbled across a site called selfemployedweb.com. It may or may not be usefu...

Do you celebrate Valentine's Day? Or are you a member of the 'anti' group!If you DO celebrate, and are a procrastinator, and live in Cleveland, you might be up the proverbial creek this year if the weather folk are correct and we continue to get three inches of snow an hour until who knows when....

From what I have read, most of the 50 States offer some form of tax incentive to build. Some do it to encourage farmers to get into the 'clean energy' business with solar power. Some do it to encourage building in areas the city would like to see revitalized. Some do it to keep up the properties ...

Sound odd to you? Well, not odd to a group of people who formed a partnership to work on the Euclid Avenue Idea Design District for Downtown Cleveland. Businesses, Insitutes of Higher Learning, Design Award Winners and Cleveland's Government all sit as idea people for this .....idea about ......a...

Those of us who are from Cleveland relish the gritty, roll up your sleeves history, the sight of a steel mill chimney spewing fire at night; I even have a photo of a rainbow I took as a kid, as a backdrop to a steel mill. Cities embrace their heritage or they lose their identity; at least that is...

Hot off the press, Mayor Frank Jackson announced today the City's new Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) that encompasses a mission and a strategy for the next five years. There is an emphasis on economic development, especially along Cleveland's Lakefront A few weeks ago, the City, in conjunction wi...

Will Reviving the Passenger Rail System Be Good for the Economy?  This idea intrigues me, I admit it. The Ohio Association of Railroad Passengers and ODOT are major players in this initiative, which would bring high speed passenger rail trains to cities within a two to four hour travel time of ea...