Word: cuyahoga
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Indeed, playing family-history detective takes time, patience and effort. Helen Shaw, 48, of Chicago started with only the family Bible and a grandfather's scrapbook. They led her to a quiet cemetery in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. "It turns out," she says, "that I'm related to about three-fourths of the people buried there." Now a professional genealogist, Shaw photocopied local census records and created a 500-page manuscript documenting the entwined relationships of the cemetery's roughly 2,500 people. Phyllis Heiss, 76, of Boca Raton, Fla., tracked her family back 15 generations across five centuries and estimates...
...anybody out there?' But a more pressing question is, 'If someone is, how do we explain it all?'" DAN PAGE Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio...
While municipal finance may seem dry and abstract to the uninitiated, the pain of bad bets can be highly tangible. Rocked by $115 million in losses on its leveraged investments in bonds and other securities, Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, Ohio, said last week it was slashing 11% from all county budgets and was freezing spending for the next four years. Some of the harshest cuts will crimp children's services, as planned hirings of social workers are put on hold. "It means that if you should be making four visits to a child's home one month, you will...
Orange County is far wealthier than Cuyahoga, of course, and therein lies one of the ironies of the Southern California area's financial fall. With a population of nearly 2.6 million and a median household income of $47,774, Orange is the fifth largest county in the U.S. and boasted the fourth richest county government before the crisis. As famed for its political conservatism as for Disneyland and aerospace giants like McDonnell Douglas, Orange County was the birthplace of Richard Nixon and gave Ronald Reagan the largest margin of victory of any U.S. county in his presidential races...