Publications Take Notice of City, Ryan
December 11, 2006
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- From a relatively obscure magazine on historic houses to
two of the nation's best known daily newspapers: Youngstown as well as its
congressman are getting noticed.
Today's edition of the Washington Post takes note of U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan's
appointment to the Democratic Steering Committee, which determines committee
assignments.
The newspaper reports that Ryan, U.S. Reps. Kendrick Meek and Debbie
Wasserman Schultz are being rewarded by House Speaker-elected Nancy Pelosi
for carrying out late-night speaking assignments on the House floor as part
of the 30-Something Working Group she created. Like Ryan, Meek was appointed
to the steering committee and Wasserman Schultz will be deputy chief whip in
the new Congress. Also like Ryan, Meek is seeking appointment to the
powerful House Appropriations Committee. Pelosi is expected to make
committee assignments this week or next.
The New York Times took note of the city of Youngstown's 2010 transformation
plan in a story published Sunday in its magazine. The piece, headlined
“Creative Shrinkage,” says the redevelopment plan is “a blueprint for a
smaller town that retains the best features of the metropolis Youngstown
used to be.”
The story also suggests the city “could become a culturally rich bedroom
community serving Cleveland and Pittsburgh.”
The city's historic Crandall Park district is mentioned in a third
nationally circulated publication, Old House Journal, which reports in this
month's edition that that “the nation's most affordable historic district is
Crandall Park in Youngstown, where houses (many of them originally built by
steel magnates in the 1920s and '30s) cost about $110,000.”
The average cost for houses in the nation's most expensive historic
district, Hensley Park in San Jose, Calif., is $800,000, according to Old
House Journal. |