Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan rode a recent wave of good news into the John S. Knight Center, where he delivered his third State of the City speech on Wednesday. The city's housing market has awakened. Population decline has slowed. Budgeting remains tight, but a new tax is rebuilding police and fire stations and nearly tripling the resurfacing budget for pothole-ridden streets. And partnerships within the city and across the region are flourishing.It's what Horrigan and others call the "Akron renaissance...
