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Chris Seper emailed me with a heads up about his blog post today about [my guess Lev Gonick's post] the "scalding critique of the local tech sector. It claims Progressive Corp. is moving technology jobs out of Cleveland and to Colorado Springs even as it plans an expansion of IT work (The Plain Dealer is chasing this story today).":

All kinds of spinning will go on to soften the story, turn it around, turn it upside. But the cold hard facts are staring us in the face, and have been for many years. Cleveland missed the Internet. At the very moment that the technology economy took a cyclical downturn, Cleveland's leadership patted itself on the back for not having taken the big risk and not executed against a technology strategy for the region. Calls for urgent action, to articulate and build consensus around an IT strategy for Northeast Ohio were largely redirected by well-intentioned people with designs on boutique strategies for IT-related activity to grow a new economy in NEOhio. Not good enough.

Emphasis mine. Since Cleveland.com doesn't do comments, I think BFD readers should start something here.