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Marietta, Ohio, my home town has that kind of we-don’t-lock-our-doors-at-night ambiance. Neighbors watch out for each other and kids play in the streets. That pastoral image got knocked in the mud this morning as I was driving to the Phoenix Coffee House on Mayfield Road. Listening to WCPN I heard a report on car thefts [...]
[Update -- 1047: I should have known that County Council candidate Tim Russo would weigh in on this.] If you didn’t listen to it live, make sure you have medicine at hand for when you stomach starts roilling and give a listen to Martin Zanotti and Jim McCafferty, the un-elected co-czars of Issue 6 Lets [...]
Last evening, on my way home from my last student, I listened to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s As It Happens and heard security technologist Bruce Schneier eviscerate every fear-driven panic strategy for combating terrorism. I won’t attempt to speak for Schneier, he does very well for himself. Give a listen to Part I. We must [...]
It’s summer and I’m getting to listen to Dan Moulthrop’s Sound of Ideas on WCPN more regularly. Yesterday, during the Reporter’s Roundtable show, Plain Dealer Editorial Page Director Betsy Sullivan made a brake-slamming statement. In discussing the political meltdown in Cuyahoga County she said of her own paper’s coverage (at 23:33): It’s mind blowing. It’s [...]
This piece was written on 27 June. For an interesting non-update, listen to John Caniglia and Betsy Sullivan on The Sound of Ideas from this morning. Roldo Bartimole writes: The Plain Dealer, hot and heavy on corruption, today buries the fact that a man the paper says could replace Jimmy Dimora story has been indicted [...]
Listening to WCPN’s Dan Bobkoff’s Eric Wellman’s report on the the auto show gave me a skidmark moment this morning. Attendance is down at this year’s Cleveland Auto Show — can you say bowling in the aisles? — and Dan Eric interviewed Margery Krevsky of Productions Plus in Detroit. Her agency hires models for car [...]
You know WCPN, you know Driveway Moments; when you sit in your driveway listening to hear the finish of a captivating bit of radio. Well, I’m instituting Skidmark Moments, radio that cause you to slam on the brakes because you can’t believe what you just heard. Today, President George Bush on the people of China. [...]
You know WCPN, you know Driveway Moments; when you sit in your driveway listening to hear the finish of a captivating bit of radio. Well, I’m instituting Skidmark Moments, radio that cause you to slam on the brakes because you can’t believe what you just heard. Today, Dan Moulthrop does The Greater Cleveland Film Commission. [...]
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