Our phone rang at dinnertime tonight, and it was a woman from a call center in Cleveland, Ohio, who wondered if we wanted to subscribe to The Union newspaper in Grass Valley.
She told me our phone number was dialed automatically and the call center in Cleveland handles subscriptions for lots of newspapers, including Macon, Georgia, and Longview, Texas.
The rate she offered was $11.95 per month for print and web.
I said “no thanks” but thanked her for the information.
Unlike the Yuba, the river in Cleveland caught on fire, helping to spur the environmental movement in the late ’60s. Though much maligned, it’s not a bad place — home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for example:
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I find it hard to believe myself, but my 26 year old daughter, who mostly grew up in Bend, Oregon, thinks Cleveland is a great place. A big reason for that attraction to the rust belt city is because a girl she went to Lewis and Clark College with is doing urban farming and the business is thriving. I think its a great sign for this country that the younger generation is re-pioneering older cities like Cleveland and Detroit, often times starting their own businesses. And why not, living is pretty cheap back there if you can find or create a job.
And those calls for Union subscriptions offers, we get them about every few months. The last time I talked to them the woman said she was in Canada, I think it was Calgary.
We have caller ID and yesterday the call said Cleveland, OH. I thought it was a political fundraiser and decided to find out. The caller invited me to subscribe. I told her that I had subscribed for years and was quite proud of The Union but I won’t subscribe as long as the paper is run by Ackerman because he’s mean, rude, and severely partisan.
BTW, I call Ackerman the “ache” man.