Poverty v. Most Livable City - Bloggers, Speak Up!

I am still alive.
I have spent the last three weeks in conference hell in three different cities, but I am home now.
As previously mentioned, there is much going on in my world right now (family, school-learning, school-teaching, school-GAing, among other things) so the amount of writing I would normally like to do will be put on hold until some of these other things are finished… that would be sometime in December.

I really wanted to comment on an issue I have not read much in other NEO Blogs… or maybe I just have not noticed it. As many of you know, the City of Cleveland was recently awarded the distinction of being the most livable city in the country (along with Pittsburgh) and one of the most livable in the world by the folks at the Economic Intelligence Unit, the publishers of the uber-cool magazine, The Economist.
(Something I have been telling people for years, by the way – mostly out of town visitors I would talk with when I drove a cab. On a side note, I have had a least four different instances were I was driving passengers visiting from New York City around town and they would tell me how much they loved coming to Cleveland. Each of those times they told me in there own that one of the reasons they loved to visit here was because anything they could do in NYC they could do here in Cleveland for half the amount of money.)
According to CNN, “The EIU study assessed nearly 40 indicators in five broad categories -- stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.”
This has been the talk of the Neo-Blogosphere all week as well as those outside the area. (here and here)

Now let’s go back a year and think about what was plastered all over the front page of the PD and written about almost weekly. Do you remember? I’ll give you a one-word hint – poverty. Ring a bell? Cleveland was supposedly the poorest big city in the country according to misinterpreted data by the Census Bureau.

Ok, now we will go back a little more then a week - October 6 to be exact - The PD published a 228-word “article” by Emily Hamlin on the findings of the EIU. WOW! You would think with all of the “Believe in Cleveland” hype going on (or lack of), there would have an something written everyday promoting this; but there has not. It is really sad.

Now about the issue I mentioned in the beginning. Why has nobody else brought this up? There are clearly more qualified and well-written bloggers out there that have the audience to make this into something, but I have not seen anything.