Saturday, December 15, 2007

The Issues #1

Being a Cleveland sports fan is difficult, and the roller coaster year that the city's sports teams have been giving us is exhausting and exhilarating.

In general though, the news coming out of Cleveland is bleak and disconcerting. The city has been hit inordinately hard with foreclosures due to the sub-prime mess, payday loan businesses are preying on the city's poor, and criminals moving about parts of town to strip foreclosed homes of salvageable metal from pipes and wiring.

On Foreclosures