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Selling St. Louis to New Yorkers Does Cleveland+ do this?

Young workers get job boost Minnesota is a leading state in summer youth work programs; who is Cuyahoga County is seeing this opportunity…or, will we be sending kids out to paint fire hydrants again?

Morton Marcus: Prerequisites for Economic Development Marcus is a good commentator of developments in Indiana;

Work Ready an asset in tough economic times More states are looking at work readiness certificates; Georgia has been a leader;

Creating An Economy Based on New Energy Requires Broad-Based Collaboration A view from Pittsburgh…More on Pittsburgh Green Innovators here.

East Lansing mulls tying economic development funds to green building practices

Workforce strengthens partnerships with employers to give job seekers boost The Hispanic Workforce hosted an open house to strengthen relationships with corporate partners in Northeast Ohio.

The American Brain Drain and Asia Dumb immigration policies impose a cost on US competitiveness

Medical Mart backers see furniture first — but something greater down the line “When you try to picture what Cleveland’s Medical Mart will look like — at least at first — think of a Medical Furniture Mart.” Sounds really exciting.

Allegheny Conference chief aims for growth

After nine months of work, Indiana’s Energy Systems Network went public last week. An entire team of people were working on this initiative, including my colleagues and me from Purdue.

The network is working on a pipeline of Clean Tech projects. The first two:

The Hoosier Heavy Hybrid Partnership to develop hybrid trucks and buses; and

Project Plug‐IN to integrate electric vehicles and ‘smart grid’ technologies.

Open innovation networks enable participants to align resources quickly around emerging market opportunities.

You can learn more about our network here.

Team NEO is looking to leverage fans of the region and social media and could use our help:

On Friday, April 3rd and Saturday, April 4th, Team NEO is hosting top site selection consultants in Cleveland Plus region for a Familiarization FAM Tour that shows off Northeast Ohios best assets and attractions. These professionals are hired by companies worldwide to analyze to business attributes of a region, then help the company make the decision where to locate and create jobs.  Not only are we going to show these important the Rock Hall, Great Lakes Brewery and NASA Glenn, but well also showcase our regions innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, workforce and university assets. To sell the region, though, WE NEED YOUR HELP We need you to tell our guests why Northeat Ohio is a great place for business Our guests will be sharing their experience in real time, maybe asking you questions along the way.

I’m excited to see them using the media in this way.

via Team NEO 2009 Fam Tour

Summary information regarding current legislative actions and discussions in Cleveland and Akron with regards to outdoor media advertising and in particular digital billboards.

CLEVELAND – In June 2008 Ordinance No. 945-08 was introduced to amend the City of Cleveland’s Billboard Ordinance, 350.10. That same month, there was an active variance request by Clear Channel (Calendar No. 08-97:, 12510 Triskett Road) to replace an existing static billboard which eventually received approval.

These two issues generated a local interest in Cleveland to take a closer look at the existing legislation.

Read post at realneo.

Usually, the byline on these posts is Pat Perry, but given the commentary, I could see why it goes up anonymously:

Holy cow, I forgot that someone is still thinking that is a good idea. We can’t even welcome travelers here well. If I was a visitor and had a few hour layover in Cleveland it would affirm all the negative press about our region. Something needs to change their fast…every day conditions that the airport remain the same and business as ususal transpires we are taking another step backwards.

What’s it going to take to make an investment in that plot of land with landing strips? Changing the name from Hopkins to CLE with a slick marketing campaign is not going to do the trick. Doesn’t look like that has worked too well either as J.D. Powers and Associates still refers to the airport using the old name…

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