Bring Back The People: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Care

No city can exist without people and Cleveland has lost more than half its population since the 1950s.

Yet the city still boasts amazingly affordable neighborhoods, down-to-earth charm, a rich history, a stunning and varied landscape, and diverse ethnic and cultural scenes.

How can Cleveland become a destination where people flock to pursue their personal versions of the American Dream?

Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey is written and produced by Paul Feine; camera and editing by Roger Richards and Alex Manning; narrated by Nick Gillespie; music by the Cleveland band Cats on Holiday.

This is the sixth of six episodes which will air March 15-19, 2010.

Approximately 10 minutes long. Go to http://reason.tv for iPod, HD, and audio versions of this video.

To watch this series as a single video, go to http://reason.tv/video/show/1046

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[jstevens1212]

Someone please gather all the Cleveland City officials and FORCE THEM to watch this series!

[soco13466]

I was in Cleveland once. ONCE. The reisential areas were a dump, similar to broken cities in my home state, Michigan. Yep. Government works!

[cdoftx]

@soco13466 Save up ur money, if the city made fundamental changes it'd be a good place to invest. All those run down houses and properties.

[Texasjim2007]

Ban Rap music. How many people with money want to move next door to some jerk playing rap music at maximum volumn all night unless they're a drug dealer

which Cleveland has probably already maxed out the job opportunities in? Spanish music is cool with most people because it's mainly about having sex on the beach but Rap music is mainly about hating rich white people which don't draw taxpayers

[Amidat]

you are correct... real estate is about supply and demand. People forget California was once what Texas is now... but as people moved their - real estate became expensive... and when that happens people want more regulations to protect their investments. I don't know why people are so surprised at these cycles.

[Amidat]

@ledzep1234567 - the only correct thing you said it "best military"... and that's actually why everything else is crumbling. Other rich nations encouraged the US to be the world's policeman to ease their own military spending. They took that money and spent it on their - infrastructure - schools - healthcare... which when you check it out the US does not rank in the top 10 in any of those.

[Amidat]

@SFCMAC57 - no Cleveland has a higher crime rate than NYC. NYC became resurgent after it tackled the crime that was overrunning the city.

[Amidat]

@Keylimedelight - yeah - it's like comparing apples and oranges. they should have more compared it to a city like Pittsburgh.

[petion2010]

@marinegrunt0341 is highly inefficient. It will take visionary businessmen and businesswomen, a strong commitment to competition and free trade, and ability to take advantage of the change of the free market.

[petion2010]

@marinegrunt0341 Low taxes is just one of the reasons. The Midwest however needs to reinvent itself. People gotta understand that the region can no longer rely on manufacturing. Pittsburgh had to adapt and not rely on the steel industry. Houston is probably the best reinvention story. It went from over-reliance on energy, to one of the most diverse economy of the country. No other city, other than NYC, has more fortune 500 companies. This won't take the government to do because government

[marinegrunt0341]

@MrTexcolo I don't get it. Cleveland is dying a slow death and all signs show that this downward trajectory is going to continue for a long time, and here is a video that is introducing new ideas that have logical merit, and all you can do is try to discredit these ideas with a straw-man argument. How about trying some different ideas like what is presented here instead of doing the same dumb things over and over again to no avail.

[marinegrunt0341]

@petion2010 Why do you think everyone is migrating? Could it be that Texas has no state income tax and has a very business friendly environment, which brings jobs. I left Cleveland because there are no jobs. I used to work for a very successful construction company in Florida that left Northeast Ohio for Florida because of low taxes, its a right to work state, and little red tape.