What does it mean to be a Clevelander? There seems to be a different spirit in the air these days about what it means to be from Northeast Ohio, and about how screamin’ wonderful it is to live here. The issue of regionalism is forcing people to recognize that the high-profile faults of the inner city only sound bad because we’re not including our entire region in the statistics. If Columbus wouldn’t have gone regional and annexed it’s suburbs, not only wouldn’t it be the largest city in Ohio by a long stretch, but their inner city would show up pretty much statistically the same as Cleveland’s. The new Cleveland-Plus campaign by the Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Greater Cleveland Partnership and TeamNEO is an innovative, collaborative program that offers our best chance, and millions of dollars, to attract business and tourism to our part of the world. And I’ve always kidded there were two ways to deal with our region’s leadership vacuum: assassination and attrition, and it seems that the latter has finally taken hold: we’re seeing a younger generation take over, and they exhibit little of the cynicism that our mainstream media continues to feed us. These young people are redefining what it means to be a Clevelander.
To listen to the Cool Cleveland podcast, just click here.
For families and kids, this is a great week to have fun in Akron, Independence, University Circle and at a bank. To listen to the Cool Cleveland Kids podcast from Max, just click here.
Are these podcasts useful? When and where do you listen? Max and I want to know.
