Regional News Stories: March 2006

The Place You Love is Gone: Interview with Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Posted Wednesday, March 8, 2006
How do you measure the price of urban and suburban development? Do you measure it in the millions in municipal bonds issued to fund the projects? That's the yard stick used by many inside the development world. But if you're standing outside that world, watching development projects transform landscapes you grew up with, the price isn't measured in dollars - it's something a little less tangible. Melissa Holbrook Pierson writes, "What we are is where we have been." Her new book is called The Place You Love is Gone: Progress Hits Home, and the first chapter is an elegy for her hometown, Akron. She spoke with morning host Dan Moulthrop.

Monitoring Vernal Pools: Citizen Science
Posted Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Take a walk in the woods on an early spring day and you'll see one of Ohio's best-kept natural secrets. Standing pools of water - called vernal pools - may not look like much, but they're the source of incredible bio-diversity. From them each spring crawl thousands of young amphibians, from frogs to salamanders. The silent salamanders alone make up more of our region's vertebrate wildlife than all of the deer, raccoons and birds combined. But this unique breeding ground is threatened by development. ideastream's Karen Schaefer reports on a group of citizen volunteers who are hoping to change that.

Word Befuddlement: Interview with Norm Friedman
Posted Thursday, March 2, 2006
Do you ever get confused by a word or words? Recently, morning host Dan Moulthrop was reading a story about the state of Maryland requiring Wal-Mart to provide health benefits to their employees, and he found himself a bit confused about the way the writer was using the words ensure and insure. Some people use them interchangeably, and that simply can't be correct. So he called on someone who knows how to sort out these sorts of linguistic quandaries: Norm Friedman, a writer who runs communication workshops for local businesses. If you're facing any verbal conundrums, let us know, we'll try to sort it out for you. Just address your email to news@wcpn.org

Making Change: Lorain Business Incubator
Posted Wednesday, March 1, 2006
For years, many Northeast Ohioans have assumed that the local economy won't rebound until big industry comes back. But, some business experts in Lorain see it differently. As part of Making Change: Building the Region's Future, ideastream's David C. Barnett reports on a training program that is hatching some new ideas.

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