Financially Depressed Rural and Urban Cities

There are a growing number of urban amd rural cities whose financial condition grows weaker by the day. You know, cities like East Cleveland, OH, or Lawrence, MA, whose troubles were profiled in the New York Times yesterday. The Boston Magazine labeled, Lawerence, MA, the " most God-forsaken place in MA". a horrible, and truly replusive way to describe a struggling, municipal city. Due to significant federal and state cutbacks in allocations in city governments, the decline in tax revenues, among other things, have placed numerous cities on fiscal emergency and fiscal watch status. Stay tuned on more critical insight.

Revenue Sharing Among Municipalities How is revenue shared among municipalities when financially challenged cities may not have any revenue to share?

Economic Development for the People? Often, it is said in the economic development realm, that the result of economic development planning and programs, is to bring jobs,and enhance the quality of life for residents who are most impacted by such strategies and designs, but has that been really true? Maybe downtown, but what about uptown? Do low-income residents benefit or is it just what they spend leaves the community and does not return? Just thinking.

After, a very very long hibernation, I am back.

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"Intellectuals , it is supposed, have a duty to speak truth to power. But as Orwell’s mellifluously sinister O’Brien in 1984 would no doubt remind us, power doesn’t have to listen to anything it doesn’t want to listen to. You can speak truth at power and you can speak truth about power, but speaking truth to power is a dangerous business".

---Arundhati Roy

East Cleveland, Ohio

We're seeding new projects and initiatives in the City of East Cleveland. Stay tuned.

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In the pursuit of justice for the convicted, truth is sometimes wrapped in differing shades of gray.