Angie Schmitt Goes Toe-to-Toe With Northeast Ohio Sprawl Boosters
Angie's on sabbatical this week attending the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Entrepreneur Bootcamp in Los Angeles. To help tide you over until she gets back, here's a clip from a northeast Ohio radio show she recently appeared on called "The Civic Commons." Inspired by a post Angie put together a few weeks ago (headline: "It's the Sprawl, Stupid: The Budget Buster No Ones Talking About"), this half-hour podcast features some heated debate about how the Cleveland region can put a stop to the hemorrhaging of residents and jobs from northeast Ohio:
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Ben Fried
11:22 AM EDT on May 16, 2011
Angie’s on sabbatical this week attending the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Entrepreneur Bootcamp in Los Angeles. To help tide you over until she gets back, here’s a clip from a northeast Ohio radio show she recently appeared on called “The Civic Commons.” Inspired by a post Angie put together a few weeks ago (headline: “It’s the Sprawl, Stupid: The Budget Buster No Ones Talking About”), this half-hour podcast features some heated debate about how the Cleveland region can put a stop to the hemorrhaging of residents and jobs from northeast Ohio:
We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled Streetsblog Network round-ups next week.
Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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