Our Region Just Got Bigger

[Bill Call]

Further evidence that our chattering class has given up on Cleveland:

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index. ... nd_and_pit.

Has Lakewood's leadership given up as well?

[Bryan Schwegler]

Bill this article is about statistical metro areas, not actual regionalization. These things have existed for more than 50 years, no need to raise an alarm over nothing.

And from a statistical standpoint, this article does make some interesting points.

[Bill Call]

Bill this article is about statistical metro areas, not actual regionalization. These things have existed for more than 50 years, no need to raise an alarm over nothing.

And from a statistical standpoint, this article does make some interesting points.

This link might work better:

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index. ... d_pit.html

I suppose the purchase of National City Bank by PNC is an example of working together to eliminate parochialism; from the article:


"If Pittsburgh and Cleveland can greatly expand the cooperation that has only just begun, then maybe we can lose the inward-looking parochialism that also is part of our common legacy. "

Of course the same can be said of the region that includes Cleveland to Columbus or Cleveland to Detroit. If the concept of regionalism has evolved into thinking of the region as Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana then has regionalism evolved into a meaningless slogan?

If we are all part of the Cleveland/Pittsburg/Akron/Canton region would we be better served with one regional airport? Why does the region need 3 or 4 substandard airports? Why not one large airport that will be large enough to be an international airport? Akron/Canton would be perfect.

[ryan costa]

all is full of region.

beyond some vague limit, The bigger an airport is, the more a pain in the ass it is to get there and to be there. The primary advantage of Akron/Canton airport is the break it gives people from having to go to Hopkins. Yet if it replaced Hopkins, frequent air travelers would want some break from the Akron/Canton airport.

[Will Brown]

Cleveland Hopkins is an international airport. While it has its problems, mostly attributable to the City of Cleveland's policies, it is still useful to most of us.

Akron is a municipal airport, hardly convenient to most of the people from the general Cleveland area.

Regionalization seems primarily concerned with governmental processes. I don't see how the taking over of failed banks (NCB and Ohio Savings) by out of town banks has anything to do with regionalization.