Tomorrow: The Future of Manufacturing and Working-Class Communities

Tomorrow: The Future of Manufacturing and Working-Class Communities

The Center for Working-Class Studies Lecture Series welcomes Manufacturing and Technology News editor...
Controllar with Digimob Friday at Cedars

Controllar with Digimob Friday at Cedars

I got an e-mail from Thomas Myrmel. He’s from Amsterdam but will be at Cedars Friday night performing...
Conservative Court Approves U.S.A., Inc.

Conservative Court Approves U.S.A., Inc.

Apparently the free market should be so free that it should be free to run the government. That’s...
Regional Chamber ad in WSJ: That city is Youngstown, Ohio

Regional Chamber ad in WSJ: That city is Youngstown, Ohio

It’s a revitalized city poised for great change, prosperity and global success… a city where passion...

Tomorrow: The Future of Manufacturing and Working-Class Communities

Events — January 27, 2010 at 10:47 am
The Center for Working-Class Studies Lecture Series welcomes Manufacturing and Technology News editor Richard McCormack to campus Thursday. There is a public lecture in the evening from 7:30-9:00 p.m. entitled “Working-Class Communities and the Future of Manufacturing.” The lecture will be held in Kilcawley Center’s Chestnut Room. At 4 p.m., there is a forum for business, economic and political...

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Events

WYSU Commentary Contest

WYSU Commentary Contest
Happy New Year to everyone. There are a few posts I want to get up, including a 2009 year in review and a couple of other...
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Jan 6, 2010 18:26

Technology

100 Jobs in 100 Days

100 Jobs in 100 Days
I got this a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve had my head buried in work and not much blogging. On the upside, that means...
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Jan 20, 2010 21:00

Youngstown

Youngstown in America’s Route to Recovery

Youngstown in America’s Route to Recovery
Youngstown’s story is America’s story. So agrees Reuters reporter Nick Carey in his article “America’s...
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Dec 30, 2009 14:11

Music

Wilco for the Weekend

Wilco for the Weekend
I had a music-filled weekend, Friday in Athens then Sunday in Wooster. Friday, a friend and I met in Columbus and drove...
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Apr 20, 2009 9:08

Recently...

Match Your Email to Your Custom Domain

Every week I encounter a business or organization who still uses an e-mail address with a nondescript domain address. ginasflowers@yahoo.com or fishinginc@ameritech.net There’s really no excuse for this. Domains cost about $10 per year, and you can get your e-mail hosted at your custom domain name...
January 20th, 2010 | Technology | Read More

Ampco: no more parking needed downtown

John P. Coyne is vice president of business development for Ampco System Parking and owner of Coyne Investments Ltd. In a November article detailing the conversion of three downtown buildings to forty-one parking spaces, Coyne referred to himself as “almost a one-person wrecking ball.” Given...
December 24th, 2009 | Youngstown | Read More

Youngstown Top Ten Entrepreneur City Banner Raised

Friday morning, a banner was lifted into place at the Ohio One building in downtown Youngstown, facing Front Street. The banner came about from some discussions immediately following the appearance of the Entrepreneur Magazine article featuring Youngstown as a top ten city to start a business. Eric...
December 21st, 2009 | Youngstown | Read More

Michael Williamson documents recession in Youngstown

Michael Williamson was named Photographer of the Year by the White House News Photographers’ Association. He works for the Washington Post and has collaborated on several books with Dale Maharidge. I had the good fortune, thanks to John Russo, to have lunch with both of them last year as they were...
December 17th, 2009 | Youngstown | Read More

Must Reads 12/16/09

The Wedding? I’m Here for the Cookies Youngstown cookie tables (article) are legend, and the New York Times this week has an article and video on Pittsburgh and Youngstown cookie tables (video). For as long as anyone here can remember, wedding receptions in Pittsburgh have featured cookie tables, laden...
December 16th, 2009 | Youngstown | Read More

Saturday property clean-up (address updated)

Below are pictures from last Saturday’s clean-up and an invitation to this Saturday’s. I’d estimate about twenty-five people showed up and worked to rake, bag, weed, mow and pick up trash from the property on Broadway. Some arrived as early as 9am and some stayed well into the afternoon....
December 10th, 2009 | Events | Read More