Love for the Little Guy
I love all of these businesses! [“Generation Sell: How a new wave of entrepreneurs find success in our crumbled economy,” January 25, 2012]. What a great support system they are for each other too.
Owning a small business is certainly a risk, but when you love what you do and can network with others who are in the same boat, it is so worth it!
It’s great to see this service-oriented trend prospering right here in good old Cleveland, Ohio! As a business owner in the Lakewood area, I am proud to be in such a supportive community, where customers really get what the local economy is all about. Yay Cleveland!
Stitch Cleveland
Escape From Walmart
This is one of the ways out of the Walmart big-box mentality. If we supported small business even a small amount more, we could create thousands of good jobs in businesses that communicate with people … I mean really … in forms other than coupons and sales and perceived savings. Save for what? More 401k? More shareholder interest in Google? Save so you can buy more junk you do not need?
Kenny Jaeger
Roots of Bureaucracy
Cleveland’s bureaucrats have done enough to chase away business and discourage new business and events with their poor management and corruption [“Reggae on the Waterfront?” January 25, 2012]. The city is lucky to have the Mid West Reggae Fest, an event that promotes unity, family, and peace — not to mention more business. Please call your councilman and tell him enough with taxes! I am very excited to bring my family to a big reggae event so close to home!
Jim Elios
This article appears in Feb 15-21, 2012.
Cleveland businesses cannot thrive when corruption is rampant. Keep in mind that if the system was totally corrupt you would never have these prosecutions. We were just ranked 7th in a national study on corruption:
Only seventh? We won’t even make the playoffs. I think the FBI needs to look closer in Northeast Ohio. Cleveland can be number one if t gets serious.
Who got the county asbestos removal contract even though the bid was one million over the lowest bid?
Who are the “approved” contractors of the Catholic diocese? Are those contractors REALLY controlled by one owner? Did Holy Family, for example just overpay by as much as $30,000 for a project? Were there kickbacks, oh I’m sorry, we’re there “donations” after the Holy family contract by a contractor?
Do our so called “investigative reporters” have the brains,or the gumption to investigate who owns the companies that lease orange barrels to contractors and why those owners pass the laws on how many barrels are necessary per contract?
Is anyone asking why the companies with the most ads in the paper are never investigated? We can be number one on the list of corruption I am sure of it. C’mon Cleveland lets go for the championship! by the way…what is the overwhelming majority with a few exceptions,political party of all of the convicted politicians in the study? Just asking.