On Sunday, the PD ran an article with the headline: Cleveland's Euclid corridor project has paved the way to economic development. The article covers a lot of ground, but I had some issues with the content and the enthusiastic picture ...Read More
I did not know how much my latest piece in the Independent would bother Dan Gilbert, or his Cavs spokesperson Tad Carper. Last week, I found out in great detail just how much it does bother them. The Cleveland Cavaliers share ...Read More
Road to Reform panelists will discuss the genesis of Issues 5 and 6 and describe what happens after November 3rd if either, both or neither pass. They’ll also have a look at the eleven geographical districts passage of Issue 6 ...Read More
From John Kroll: We are trying to be better about enforcing this site's longstanding community rules. They cover a lot of areas, but another Advance site, AnnArbor.com, summed them up this way: "We won't tolerate jerks." We are removing some comments ...Read More
From the Clevosphere: Ohio Daily Blog - League of Women Voters Chooses Partisanship Ohio Daily Blog - Cuyahoga Dems: Yes on Issues 1, 3, 4, 5. No on 2, 6 Cuyahoga County Rough Writers - Flush 5 and Vote Yes on 6! Issue 5 ...Read More
I first wrote a blog post on BSB in March of 2008 titled "Someone is going to get hurt". It was in response to the veiled race baiting of the heated presidential primary. The unrelenting hatred that is now being ...Read More
Yesterday, the parties settled out of court in James Renner's wrongful termination suit. You'll recall that Renner did a story on how Kevin Coughlin fucks everything in sight except his wife, that Coughlin threatened to sue, Scene and the parent ...Read More
Over the weekend, BLACKHEART Cleveland got together with The Cleveland Independent and started planning a mutually beneficial collaboration. The next issue of the Independent is due in early September. Before then, expect to see some new writers and new content ...Read More
One of the most fun things about being a blogger is watching people you criticize have their heads explode the nanosecond you call them out on their bullshit. We here at BLACKHEARTCleveland are sick and tired of said bullshit in the ...Read More
This will likely be my last word on the Connie Schultz-Plain Dealer proposal to gut fair use doctrine and the First Amendment in order to save their own jobs. It's plain to me their effort won't make it past their ...Read More
Travel with me, if you will, to Planet PD - the world where Connie Schultz's employer gets every single thing she advocated to her US Senator husband in her Sunday column. To get to this universe, you have to assume that ...Read More
Jeff Jarvis smells the plainly obvious rat. First note well that Schultz is married to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown as she calls on her newspapers and employer (my former employer, Advance Publications) and fellow columnists to influence Congress to remake copyright. ...Read More
The PD is on six month death watch, a period set by Connie Schultz herself. That is six months from now, which is a lifetime in an industry that, in the last six months, has slashed thousands of salaries and jobs. ...Read More
R.A. Washington: we ask for more media outlets, more alternatives to the shit we get, but when they crop up, we dont support them. sure we pick em up and put it in our bags, carry issues around but we do ...Read More
