“In the first half of the 20th century, Cleveland was an economic powerhouse. … Today that golden age is just a memory. Cleveland’s population now is not even half of what it was at its peak. Its median household income is less than $28,000, far below the national average of $50,300. One out of every five homes in Cleveland stands vacant. ‘The economy is in trouble, the schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time,’ says TV star Drew Carey, a Clevelander born and bred. Carey appears in Reason Saves Cleveland, a wonderfully incisive series of mini-documentaries produced by the Reason Foundation and airing this week at reason.tv, its video website. … The Reason Foundation’s approach is libertarian. Its video series repeatedly contrasts the sclerotic, top-down culture that so often stifles innovation in Cleveland with the decentralized, entrepreneurial approaches that would encourage it.” (03/17/10)