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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...

Supremely consequential National Review Online: Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Professor of Law, penned an article on the opening of the Supreme Court’s new term, saying it “could be the term of the decade — if not also for many more decades to come.”...

Dunkelberg, Shane on small business job growth Bloomberg Television: Scott Shane, A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, discusses the impact of small business on the economy and employment on Bloomberg Television’s “InsideTrack.”...

Youth violence in Cleveland targeted by new group that looks for answers to stem crime NewsNet5: Case Western Reserve University and Partnership for a Safer Cleveland received a $200,000 grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop crime-fighting organizations to help curb teenage crime. “I...

Black women tend to suffer disabilities earlier, study finds HealthDay: Researchers from Case Western Reserve University found that black women are likely to develop physical limitations earlier in life than others their age, although David Warner, assistant professor of sociology, said they “could...

A jobs program…government style Fox Business: In his blog, John Stossel quotes School of Law professor Jonathan Adler on the EPA’s authority to increase regulatory controls. “These controls could represent the largest expansion of federal environmental regulation in decades,” Adler wrote, “and yet ...

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...

Albert J. Weatherhead III, boosted Case Western and other schools, dies at age 86 The Plain Dealer: Albert J. Weatherhead III, a legendary business leader and philanthropist, died Tuesday. “Al was a brilliant and generous man,” said President Barbara R. Snyder. “His gifts have had a transformationa...

$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...