According to a Time.com article (read the article here), the Cleveland Plain Dealer is one of 10 major newspapers that will either fold or go digital in the next 18 months.

The 10 newspapers were chosen on the basis of three criteria:

1. The financial strength of their parent companies;
2. The amount of direct market competition;
3. Their financial losses (based on industry information).

So, how bad are the industry’s financial losses?

According to a Silicon Alley Insider estimate, printing and delivering the New York Times costs twice as much as buying each subscriber a new Amazon Kindle ($359 Retail).

If you work in downtown Cleveland, and take I-77 southbound, feel my pain…

The Ontario Street ramp to I-77 southbound – remains closed.  Motorists may detour via I-77 and I-490.

The detour, of course, results in a parking lot of traffic.

Now, I am not an expert in urban traffic control systems or practices, but I do believe that police officers are more effective when directing traffic than when sitting on the side of the road.