Stabilizing Cleveland Families

• The Cleveland Clinic awarded Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. the contract to manage construction for the Clinic’s $400 million Heart Center, which is scheduled for completion in 2008. (PD 6/3)

• FedEx Corp.’s FedEx Express unit received a contract to handle guaranteed international deliveries for the U.S. Postal Service a deal that was previously held by DHL Worldwide Express. (PD 6/9)

• Adelphia Communications Corp. is working to hire investment bankers to help the bankrupt U.S. cable-television operator arrange its own sale. Adelphia filed for bankruptcy in June 2002. (PD 6/15)

• The business incubator CAMP Inc. on Tuesday will unveil a one-year nanotech initiative it hopes will create one new company in the area and deliver fresh technologies that businesses can use in their products. CAMP’s Nanotech Consortium will spend the next year searching the country for nanotechnology innovations and educating the region’s manufacturing businesses about the potential of the nanotech industry. (PD 6/28)

• In an effort to help consumers, Medicare is planning to offer detailed price comparison information about the costs of Medicare prescription drugs. Through the web site Medicare.gov.www.medicare.gov,http://www.medicare.gov/., the federal government hopes to shine a light on one of the biggest secrets in the health care industry showing how prices compare for drugs – whether they are brand name or generic. The site will list the prices charged for various dosages of specific drugs at retail pharmacies in or near a given zip code.

• Batter-coated French fries are a fresh vegetable, according to the Agriculture Department, which has a federal judge’s ruling to back it up. But the department said that the classification applies only to rules of commerce, not nutrition, and it doesn’t consider an order of fries the same as an apple in school lunches. (PD 6/16)

• Nearly 82 million people – one-third of the U.S. population younger than 65 lacked health insurance at some point over the past two years and most of those were uninsured for more than nine months, says a study by the private group Families USA. The problem reaches deep into the middle class, affects African-Americans and Hispanics disproportionately and is most pronounced among people younger than 25 years old. (PD 6/16)

• Cattle futures in Chicago had their biggest decline in six months after the U.S. said a mad-cow screening test was positive and may indicate the second case of the disease since December. The test has yet to be confirmed.

• A $10 million grant from the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation to the Case Western Reserve University School o Medicine will create a new center geared toward reducing medical errors. (PD 6/11)

• Cleveland school board members finally sliced $100 million from the district’s budget, making cuts that officials said were bad for Children. The budget eliminates education programs and scales back new textbook purchases and overtime pay for staff members. It will also slice about 70 administrative positions and more than 600 teaching positions. More students will walk to and from school or take public transportation, class size will increase by five to seven more students per class and sports and extracurricular programs will be reduced. (PD 6/16)

• Graduating seniors from Cleveland Central Catholic High School got a surprise June 6. After speaking at commencement, Sam Miller, co-chair of Forest City Enterprises, told the seniors the Sam and Maria Miller Foundation would be awarding a $250. scholarship to each senior who plans to attend college. (PD 6/29)

• The city-governed YO! Cleveland program will receive an additional $3.3 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Labor. YO! Cleveland serves Empowerment Zone youth ages 14 to 21 in collaboration with City’ s Workforce Investment Act Board and Youth Council. The program is designed to positively impact the outcomes in job placement and retention, high school completion and college enrollment. (seniorsconnect.org- May)

HOUSING

• A Certificate of Disclosure is now required in the transfer of certain residential properties. The Certificate of Disclosure will provide potential buyers with the information needed to make a well informed decision before purchase. (seniorconnect.org – May)