Warren Expressed http://warrenexpressed.org Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:02:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Dull but important http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/18/dull-but-important/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dull-but-important http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/18/dull-but-important/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:02:39 +0000 dblank http://warrenexpressed.org/?p=2009 The Trumbull County Land Reutilization Corporation, better known as the Land Bank has been the most effective, proactive, creative and efficient government organization I’ve encountered since starting this blog over two years ago. It’s been efficient because TC Treasurer Sam Lamancusa and his deputy Michael Robinson did all the work of getting it started by [...]

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]]> http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/18/dull-but-important/feed/ 0 Painted lady http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/17/painted-lady/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=painted-lady http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/17/painted-lady/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:20:01 +0000 dblank http://warrenexpressed.org/?p=1995 Here are a few photos taken recently of a house in the proposed Garden District, which we may have painted. It will take some imagination, but picture it without the homemade wooden fire escape leading down from the third floor. (A wooden fire escape must have been less than confidence-inspiring to the upstairs tenants in [...]

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]]> http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/17/painted-lady/feed/ 1 Rust Belt Fields http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/14/1988/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1988 http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/14/1988/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:54:23 +0000 dblank http://warrenexpressed.org/?p=1988 My buddy Doc passed through Warren the other day on a road trip from New York City. I showed him the sites and filled him in on what’s happened in the 40 years since he was last here when we were both students at Hiram College. We did a trifecta of Warren establishments: Horse Shoe, [...]

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]]> http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/14/1988/feed/ 0 Free music http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/13/free-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-music http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/13/free-music/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:15:48 +0000 dblank http://warrenexpressed.org/?p=1986 Tonight is the first free Thursday Night Concert at the Amp, which is put on by the Fine Arts Council of Trumbull County. Tonight’s band is the Youngstown Total Package (R&B, Funk, Line Dance, Jazz and Pop Theme). The concert will begin at 7:00 p.m. and go until 9:00 p.m. Tomorrow will be the first [...]

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]]> http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/13/free-music/feed/ 0 Chicago style http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/12/chicago-style/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chicago-style http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/12/chicago-style/#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:22:56 +0000 dblank http://warrenexpressed.org/?p=1979 “The government failed us. The market failed us. Harvard, Yale and the University of Chicago failed us. Our government — the government — doesn’t belong to us. Forget them; they forgot us. We need to solve our problems ourselves.” That’s a quote from Willie Fleming, a Chicago housing activist who specializes in reclaiming foreclosed houses [...]

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]]> http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/12/chicago-style/feed/ 0 The “Big Picture” http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/10/the-big-picture-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-big-picture-2 http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/10/the-big-picture-2/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:45:51 +0000 dblank http://warrenexpressed.org/?p=1973 It’s been an exciting week. In case you weren’t following events, the Trumbull 100 announced that they are making the revitalization of Warren’s central city their main priority and the Tribune gave us front page coverage. The comments on the Trib web site are usually – how can I say this? – unhelpful, but we [...]

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]]> http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/10/the-big-picture-2/feed/ 3 The cavalry arrives http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/05/the-cavalry-arrives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cavalry-arrives http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/05/the-cavalry-arrives/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:46:14 +0000 dblank http://warrenexpressed.org/?p=1966 The battle to create a Garden District, which will serve as a lever to revitalize Warren’s oldest residential neighborhood, got got reinforcements. It was already going well, in part because we have had substantial financial support from the Trumbull 100 from the beginning, but yesterday they rode in on white horses waving the same flag [...]

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]]> http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/06/02/more-sunshine/feed/ 3 Public art http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/05/31/public-art/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=public-art http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/05/31/public-art/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 13:48:27 +0000 dblank http://warrenexpressed.org/?p=1953 I attended a really interesting talk at the Wean Building last night. It featured Robb Hankins, President of Arts in Stark, a cultural organization in Canton that champions the arts in Stark County. You may have read an earlier post from me expressing how dynamic and fun a group of people from Warren, including me, [...]

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]]> http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/05/31/public-art/feed/ 0 Feet to the fire http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/05/30/feet-to-the-fire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feet-to-the-fire http://warrenexpressed.org/2013/05/30/feet-to-the-fire/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 19:31:47 +0000 dblank http://warrenexpressed.org/?p=1949 Few public events in my lifetime made me angrier than the way the enormous “too-big-to-fail” banks took every penny the government shoveled their way, to save them from destroying the financial system they put in peril through their own greed and stupidity, while they simultaneously stuck it to millions of homeowners by foreclosing on everything [...]

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