This post originally appeared at Streetsblog.
It’s presidential election time in Ohio, and boy does Stanley Kurtz at the National Review have a scoop for the good, unsuspecting citizens of the Buckeye State. Northeast Ohio political leaders and President Obama are working on a sinister plot to redistribute wealth from suburbs and give it to cities!! (Socialism!)
Kurtz has found a bogeyman in the concept of “regionalism,” which has for decades been promoted (and by that I mean talked about more than acted upon) by suburban and urban leaders alike in Northeast …

Park(ing) Day is an international, grass-roots demonstration of the wasted potential in American cities represented by surface parking.
Cleveland, Ohio had its biggest demonstration ever today, with five different pop-up “parks” on Prospect Avenue downtown.
I recorded this video for posterity.

Hope you like it!
-A.S.
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Browns fans, I often think, are gluttons for punishment. But this video, shot by Cleveland’s own Matthew Hashiguchi, explains it pretty well.

Browns Bus: Cleveland Heights Chapter from Matthew Hashiguchi on Vimeo.
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A good friend of mine is from East Liverpool. It’s sorta like a small Steubenville. This story has been doing the rounds. Seems like Starbucks is getting its money’s worth in free advertising for this deal alone. Was that part of the point? I don’t know. But if it was, it was smart.
Americans are hungry for more stories like this right now.
-A.S.
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Ok. My post from yesterday stirred up a lot of shit. That was not my intention, I swear–at least not to attack anyone personally, just to make a point about art and community development in Cleveland.
But whoa, check out the city of Hamtramck in Detroit. These people are so cool! I’m having a hard time recovering from watching this video. All I can say is, way to go Hamtramck!
 
Hamtramck City Council on Street Art from Metro Times on Vimeo.
I literally know nothing about this town except I think it’s Polish …