Race and Regionalism
There have been bits and pieces of dialogue in the NEO blogosphere lately about race and regionalism. It all started when Bill Callahan asked for predictions from the blogosphere about the biggest issue in the race for Cleveland mayor. Tim Russo said race. I responded with an attempt to discuss the issue (but ended up discussing poverty and access to higher education) instead. Later, I responded again, and received quite a few comments. MaryBeth joined in with her commentary on a recent REI brainstorming session and received several comments as well. Jeff picked up on it tangentially with his search for non-European voices in the NEO blogosphere.
To add to the conversation, I wanted to point to this interview with John Powell on the EcoCity Cleveland website. I wonder how people respond to his suggestion that we build public housing units into each new development in our communities? I wonder what it would it take to make that happen, before all the new condos in Cleveland are finished out. Perhaps we could we get public housing units integrated into Scott Wolstein's proposed redevelopment of the flats....
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