Hey northeast Ohioans, check out this cool feature from Cleveland Magazine.
It shows where all the Lenten fish fries are in the area:
http://www.clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C&type=gen&mod=Core+Pages&gid=C9302107C42A440083D2FC3FBC1D3937
Be sure you read the companion article about the ladies of St. Mary Romanian Orthodox Cathedral on Warren Road. I was salivating just reading about it!
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Here’s more confirmation that not all areas of the country are suffering equally in this recession:
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/how-some-places-fare-better-in-hard-times/
“Unemployment today, as in previous recessions, is strongly linked to manufacturing. Old-line industries, like car manufacturing, have been declining for decades, and such industries are also more likely to lay off masses of workers during a downturn.”
We already knew places like Ohio and Michigan are worse off; this blog post has some interesting charts that show how bad the disparity is.
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Anyone who lives in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or Buffalo can attest that Rust Belt residents take their professional sports teams – especially football- very seriously. And why shouldn’t we? Who doesn’t love to cheer for our team, particularly when our cities aren’t doing so well?
A team can be so critical to a city’s self-esteem. I’ll never forget the dancing-in-the-streets joy I witnessed in Pittsburgh after the Steelers’ most recent Superbowl victories.
That’s why so many people are troubled by what they fear might happen in Buffalo. The Buffalo Bills have a …

Anyone who lives in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or Buffalo can attest that Rust Belt residents take their professional sports teams – especially football- very seriously. And why shouldn’t we? Who doesn’t love to cheer for our team, particularly when our cities aren’t doing so well?
A team can be so critical to a city’s self-esteem. I’ll never forget the dancing-in-the-streets joy I witnessed in Pittsburgh after the Steelers’ most recent Superbowl victories.
That’s why so many people are troubled by what they fear might happen in Buffalo. The Buffalo Bills have a …

We all know how critical the Great Lakes are to our region – for shipping and industry, drinking water, recreation, tourism, and more.
This story from Monday’s Plain Dealer details how scientists are seeing a decline in winter ice on the Great Lakes, a change driven by global warming.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/03/great_lakes_ice_cover_shows_cl.html
“And that’s not good for the lakes, scientists and environmentalists say.
Ice cover generally protects the lakes from significant winter evaporation. Open water, on the other hand, is easily sucked up by colder air above — which we experience all too often as heavy …