MORE ON LOCAL JOB LOSSES: The Cleveland-Lorain SMSA lost 55,000 jobs during 2001 and 2002, according to a new report issued Saturday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Over 32,000 of those jobs went away during the "jobless recovery" of 2002. Cleveland's two-year total was eighth highest among U.S. metropolitan areas.

The Plain Dealer did not have the story in this morning's edition, although many other big-city papers did. (Here are the stories from Detroit, Indianapolis, and Boston.) Maybe it was just a deadline problem... we'll see about Monday.

MORE ON CLEVELAND MEDIA OWNERSHIP: What the PD did have this morning was a long front-page report on local implications of this week's FCC media ownership decision, with accompanying info on the concentrated out-of-town ownership of Cleveland radio and TV stations (and the PD itself.) Strangely, none of this is posted on cleveland.com.

My big question on this topic is: With all of Cuyahoga County's local broadcast frequencies taken up by outside corporate owners, why is there so little interest in creating alternatives? Where are Cleveland's radio entrepreneurs?

Remember the FCC shutdown of five Cleveland "pirate radio stations" a few years ago? But when the FCC solicited applications for Low Power FM licenses, there was virtually no interest here. (FCC records show 110 applications filed from Ohio, but only one from Cuyahoga County.) And there's no apparent upsurge of Internet radio sites based here, either. What's the matter... no one in Cleveland wants to hear the sound of our own voices?