AltWeeklies Wire
Breaking the Banknew
National City Bank invested in con artists -- now it expects victims to foot the bill.
Cleveland Scene |
Jared Klaus |
07-10-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Plant 666new
An Ohio wastewater treatment plant is killing the workers one by one.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
07-10-2006 |
Business & Labor
Hoodwinkednew
Nationwide Retirement Solutions advises Ohio workers to invest in a fund that benefits ... Nationwide.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
05-08-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Monsters of Misery Courtnew
Why are divorce lawyers so afraid of the Stafford brothers?
Cleveland Scene |
Joe P. Tone |
05-01-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Herding Sheepnew
An Internet site promised easy money -- but it was only a high-tech take on an age-old scam.
Cleveland Scene |
Jared Klaus |
03-27-2006 |
Business & Labor
Emily's Lawnew
In Ohio, insurers bought the right to take victims' injury settlements -- for $400,000.
Cleveland Scene |
Jared Klaus |
01-23-2006 |
Business & Labor
Targeting Wal-Martnew
While other businesses have accepted defeat by the world's largest retailer, Target is proving itself the Hannibal of discount shopping. In North Olmsted, Ohio, it's going toe-to-toe with the reigning champ.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
12-28-2005 |
Business & Labor
Mortgage Company Breaks Trust With Amish Familiesnew
World Home Lending has lured several Amish families in Ohio into mortgage loans they claim they didn't understand. But when two men in the community warned others to be cautious, the company sued them for slander.
Cleveland Scene |
Lisa Rab |
11-09-2005 |
Business & Labor
Divorce Ends in Loss of a Coffee Companynew
When she was getting divorced, Angela Caruso hired a lawyer to protect her coffee company. Instead, she claims, he helped his father take it over.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
09-09-2005 |
Business & Labor
Ohio Firm Sues Manager for Breach of Loyaltynew
The president of an Ohio hydraulic-pump firm thought it odd that a South African company planned to build a similar plant nearby and then found out that his special-project manager had been feeding company information to the rival.
Cleveland Scene |
Kevin Hoffman |
07-12-2005 |
Business & Labor
Smucker's Denied Crustless-Sandwich Supremacynew
Regan Quaal remembers well the day he received a letter from the J.M. Smucker Company demanding that he stop peddling his peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches -- the ones with the crusts cut off. Smucker's, the letter read, already owned the U.S. patent for crustless sandwiches.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
04-26-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Lawsuite Puts Shopping Mall Titan on a Hot Seatnew
Business magnate Dick Jacobs' nephew has filed a lawsuit accusing his uncle of taking or misspending as much as $448 million from family trusts, much of it to prop up failed real-estate investments in downtown Cleveland.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
03-23-2005 |
Business & Labor
Corporate Leeches Eye Clevelandnew
Development deals have little to do with morality. They are matters of dollars and cents. And when you look strictly at the numbers, Wal-Mart will be a disastrous play for Cleveland.
Cleveland Scene |
Pete Kotz |
01-26-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: hottopic
The Wreck of the Oglebay Nortonnew
Oglebay Norton was once "the most conservative, risk-averse company that ever existed," according to one analyst. Then a respected, ambitious CEO, John Lauer, sank the shipping and mining company in a sea of red ink.
Cleveland Scene |
Frank Lewis |
09-24-2004 |
Business & Labor
