Thirty Years Ago, An Article Described How a 'Benign Conspiracy' of Corporate Executives Took Over Cleveland
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June 03, 2019
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Posted By Sam Allard, Cleveland Scene
Exactly thirty years ago, on March 29, 1989, an article published in Fortune Magazine described how Cleveland's corporate executives took control of the city in an explicit — and in their view, public-spirited — power grab.
The contents of the article resonate years later. Residents have watched as cooperation among the city's business and political leaders has proven extraordinary beneficial, time and again, to the businesses doing the cooperating. Meanwhile, the city itself — I'm referring here to the physical area and the people who live within it — is still bedeviled by the ills that made Cleveland "a microcosm, almost a caricature" of industrial America's woes during the middle 20th century."