A remarkable time to be in Youngstown
Youngstown — March 5, 2010 at 10:57 amWe’ve taken it on the chin and had a generous share of speed bumps for many years. That only makes the times we’re living in more remarkable.
Professionally, I’ve had a surge of projects in 2010 that has kept me from blogging actively. I’ve added about a dozen clients in about as many weeks, and I’m trying to spend spare time with family and friends.
Personally, I’m just so...
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Events
GoodGuides Open House Today
Goodwill Industries has created an interesting program for youth mentoring. In February of 2009, some in the community gathered...
Feb 18, 2010 11:44
Technology
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...
Jan 20, 2010 21:00
Youngstown
A remarkable time to be in Youngstown
We’ve taken it on the chin and had a generous share of speed bumps for many years. That only makes the times we’re...
Mar 5, 2010 10:57
Music
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...
Apr 20, 2009 9:08
Recently...
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
Steeltown USA up to 7000 copies with new printing
Youngstown State University has the privilege of housing the first academic program in the country to focus on issues of work and class–critical issues for our Valley in particular. The Center for Working-Class Studies was founded and is directed by John Russo and Sherry Linkon. I’m personally...
December 9th, 2009 | Events | Read More
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