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Small businesses are creating jobs—why doesn’t it feel like it? Forbes: A recent employment index shows that small businesses created 55,000 new jobs in September, equaling a 3.3 percent annualized rate of employment growth at companies with fewer than 20 employees. However, this growth didn’t come...

Property values fall across Ohio as every county undergoing reappraisal sees drop The Plain Dealer: Cuyahoga County won’t conduct a state-required reappraisal until next year, but its property values are expected to drop then. “It hasn't turned around,” said Claudia Coulton, co-director of the Cent...

Faster networks seek killer apps IEEE Spectrum: The Case Connection Zone, an experimental network that provides 1-gigabit-per-second uploads and downloads near the university, has been a hotbed for development of grassroots projects, said Lev Gonick, chief information officer. Such projects include...

$1 million gift from KeyBank Foundation helps Cleveland Clinic medical students The Plain Dealer: The KeyBank Foundation will give $1 million over five years to support the Key Bank Minority Medical Student Fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve Unive...

Could divorce trigger hair loss in women? HealthDay: New research found that, other than genetics, the next strongest predictor of hair loss among women is marital status. “Most likely, stress is the aspect of a troubling divorce that appears to lead to hair loss among women,” said Bahman Guyuron, ...

Ohio Third Frontier gives grants for research in medical innovation in Cleveland The Plain Dealer: A collaboration among Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Philips is working to develop an imaging system that could better detect breast cancer and reduce th...

Crain's slideshow: 2011 Emerald Awards reception Crain’s Cleveland Business: Ana Locci, director of the University Farm, and Christopher Bond, farm horticulturalist, attended the 2011 Emerald Awards reception, where the farm was honored for its sustainability initiatives....

Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor says 'Obamacare' would require purchase of unnecessary insurance PolitiFact: Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor wrote a guest column for newspapers saying that the federal health care law will require coverage for benefits and services individuals do not want. This is true, said J.B. Si...

Gastrointestinal cancers target of $11.3 million grant to CWRU The Plain Dealer: An $11.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute will create a top-level research center for the prevention and cure of gastrointestinal cancers. “We hope that ultimately the research that is done in this cent...

How far does the streetcar ballot issue really go? Cincinnati Enquirer: The wording of a ballot issue to halt Cincinnati’s streetcar plan until 2020 may stop other rail projects in the city, according to legal experts. David Carney, associate professor of legal analysis and writing at the School of...