Recently added articles from Crain's Cleveland Business:
Akron residents right to rebuff recall.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Brian Tucker With all the talk of corruption swirling around Cuyahoga County's Democrats, an interesting contrast was provided last week when Akron's voters overwhelmingly rejected an attempted recall of their mayor. Don Plusquellic, who's been mayor since ...
CHOICE BITS.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... In the recession, they eat their own Cleveland-area businessman Ross Farro was among the restaurateurs featured in a June 24 New York Times story about how casual dining chains are eating each other's lunches in a price war. "The informal, sit-down restaurant chains ...
CLARIFICATION.(NEWS)(Correction notice)
Jun 29, 2009 ... A June 22, Page 4 story on a new electric rate program that the Council of Smaller Enterprises has arranged for its members with FirstEnergy Corp. contained misleading information. Because of new power prices set at auction in May by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, customers of ...
OPINION.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... The cloud By his very presence on the Board of Cuyahoga County Commissioners, Jimmy Dimora is casting a huge cloud over the sanctity of the operations of county government. He should resign from his position, effective immediately. Mr. Dimora has not been charged in ...
GOING PLACES.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... JOB CHANGES FINANCIAL SERVICE ERNST & YOUNG: Anthony J. Berni, Craig M. Frabotta and Joshua D. Jenkins to partners; William G. Nolan to executive director. STIFEL & NICOLAUS: Scot Sinkler to senior vice president, investments. U.S. BANCORP ...
BARBARA WEST.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Shannon Mortland Administrative director of emergency medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center How life has changed: Ms. West's previous supervisory duties were moved to another department. Now she manages Life Flight. Barbara West has seen a multitude ...
A NEW REALITY; There are some signs of hope amid 2009's darkness.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: JOHN BOOTH Across the region, production is down, unemployment is up, wage and salary freezes are commonplace and uncertainty permeates Northeast Ohio business and industry. And yet two broadly dynamic quarters into 2009, there seems to be a lightening of the mood. ...
PAT MODICA.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Stan Bullard Real estate agent, Howard Hanna How life has changed: Existing homes are the main movers, with first-time buyers drawn to the new tax credit. In her 29 years as a residential real estate agent, Pat Modica has worked through many ...
TOUGH CLIMATE FOR NURSERIES; Bitter economy, colder spring weather prompt some garden centers to close up shop.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: STAN BULLARD Sunnybrook Farms & Nursery in Chesterland survived the Great Depression, wars, a change in ownership and 81 springs. But it, along with some other retail garden centers and nurseries, stands to succumb to the current recession. Owner Susan ...
Crain's nabs 15 Press Club awards.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Crain's Cleveland Business has been honored with 15 awards including best business publication in Ohio in the annual Ohio Excellence in Journalism competition conducted by the Press Club of Cleveland. Crain's received 10 first-place and five second-place awards in the contest, ...
SPENDING THE STIMULUS; Three big Northeast Ohio companies are expecting hefty windfalls when the government's allocation kicks into high gear.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: DAN SHINGLER When the federal government spends $787 billion, a company only needs to grab a fraction of that money to be up to its ledger in gravy and some of Northeast Ohio's industrial giants are planning to spend the next couple of years au jus. It's ...
Swagelok boss: Lean operations not for us; Solon manufacturer bucks layoff, inventory norms.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: DAN SHINGLER To heck with lean manufacturing. Be fat and happy you can keep your valuable employees handy for when things turn around. That was, in part, the message delivered at last week's Wire-Net annual meeting by Swagelok Co. president and CEO Art Anton, ...
THE WEEK; JUNE 22 - 29.(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... The big story: Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora spoke out last Thursday in his defense, nearly a year after his home and office were raided by federal agents and two weeks after four men were indicted on federal bribery charges in an investigation of corruption in county ...
WHAT IS A SID?(NEWS)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Three Cleveland neighborhoods and the city of Lakewood are considering implementing special improvent districts, like the Downtown Cleveland Alliance's "Clean & Safe ...
Budget woes endanger E-Prep progress.(NEWS)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Byline: Brian Tucker Ohio's budget woes are threatening what has been arguably one of Cleveland's great success stories in public education, a sparkling charter school in the Tyler Village complex known as Entrepreneurship Preparatory School. That same axe is hanging over ...
CHOICE BITS.(NEWS)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Well, well, well: Time lauds Clinic's wellness ideas Last week's issue of Time magazine, which focused on health care, had a long feature on the Cleveland Clinic's approach to moving from sick care to health care by focusing on wellness and prevention. The Clinic and ...
COSE turns on to electricity market; Small business group to offer competitive rates.(NEWS)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Byline: JAY MILLER With electric power deregulation entering a new era in Ohio, the Council of Smaller Enterprises is getting into the electricity game. The small business group believes it can offer small businesses and their employees electric power at a ...
Mentor medical device maker's partnerships open new opportunities; Outside inventors' ideas materialize through Frantz.(NEWS)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Byline: CHUCK SODER Mark Frantz will have a lot of people to thank if his company's latest ventures take off. Frantz Medical Development Ltd. is in the process of developing several medical devices based on ideas from outside inventors. Frantz aims to manufacture the ...
Manufacturers urged to adapt to defense; Department of Defense's North Canton center to teach companies how to enter advanced metals.(NEWS)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Byline: DAN SHINGLER Many of the manufacturers still doing well in Northeast Ohio can claim that status because they make things for the military, often from steel, polymers or composite materials. More companies could do the same if they'd learn to work with ...
Huntington's future at a crossroads; As bank eyes Cleveland market growth, analysts ponder its long-term prospects.(NEWS)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Byline: ARIELLE KASS Analysts who cover Huntington Bancshares said the bank's plans to expand in Cleveland are a good move, but they're split as to whether Huntington will be the one to take advantage of the growth in the long run. Tom Mitchell, a research analyst ...