In reviewing REALNEO for material on the historic Cleveland U.S. Coast Guard Station, to accompany these November 25, 2009, photographs and Thanksgiving Day Pans of the Coast Guard site, I came across the May, 2006, REALNEO discussion "COAST GUARD IDEAS" about what should be done with the site... with a lengthy vision from "Citizen" Ed Hauser.

The mast head on the New York Times and the Cleveland Dirty Dealer is the same every day, year in and year out.

Silly.

The most valuable visual real estate on the planet (or in your town) should not just be blank....static or repeditive.

In Realneo the header is never blank, static, or repeditive.  

Rather, the Realneo header strives to create another new thought even before you read the news below.

(See the link below to the story about the cancellation of the AMP Ohio Plant)

A Proclamation.

Exquisite decay.

On Thanksgiving eve, a little over a year following the death of Ed Hauser - the primary community activist for preservation of the National Historic Landmark Dyer Coast Guard Station, on Whiskey Island - I went Hauser Way to photograph this best location in the nation, to share with you on Thanksgiving day. Enjoy.

 so here's the long story short. They're going to demolish 243 public housing units and replace them with "mixed income" housing, including a paltry 95 public housing units (a net loss of 148 public housing units). Residents are being kicked out beginning this month but demolitin might take up to a year and a half (which means they could sit vacant for up to a year). Residents are being moved to King Kenedy North, Carver Park and Lakeview (all natoriuosly poor public housing areas). 

Start Thanksgiving with a smile, and a new perspective on urban settlements in America - enjoy "Veronica Moss Visits Times Square". I found this video at Rob Pitingolo's very cool NEO-based blog - Extraordinary Observations (since September, 2004)... originally from StreetFilms.org.

Definitely check out Extraordinary Observations , which we should add to our blogroll, if it isn't there... and welcome to our newest REALNEO/REAL COOP member, Rob Pitingolo... "progressive, urbanist, entrepreneur, blogger, thinker"... REALNEO's kind of guy!

Mother Jones - Liberals have not done enough public wrestling with Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf's Time article on the ouster of White House counsel Gregory Craig. Perhaps that's because they don't want to deal with the article's troubling implications. As Kevin explains, Craig was "the White House lawyer tasked with dismantling Bush-era interrogation and detention policies.

Max Eternity - Ever notice that we don't call white people terrorist?  Think about it, whenver a white man goes on a rampage with a gun, we call it "shootings" or something like that.  Yet when an Arab [non-white] does the same exact thing, it gets classified as terrorism.  Which is kinda like how during the New Orleans floods (after Katrina) white people who were struggling to stay alive were said to be "finding food" while black people were called "looters."

Explain the spacing.  

Max Eternity - Jaques Pepin, a Dean at the French Culinary Institute--colleague and good friend to Julia Child--author--artist--former Chef of Charles de Gaul--wrote in 2005 about the legacy of Howard Johnson's in America, specifically about how it shaped his understanding of the US.  Pepin, known for his simplistic approch to Haute Cuisine was hired personally by Mr. Johnson, turning down the job as Executive Chef for John F.

The most reasonable tax for Cleveland City Council to raise income would be a special admissions tax on all events at Progressive Field, Quicken Arena, and Browns Stadium.

AntiWar - With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA PATRIOT Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic freedoms.

And it is reportedly doing so over the objections of some prominent Democrats.

Please watch the 9-part 30-minute video at www.youtube.com/tvfields from the September 21, 2009 Meeting of the Ohio Elder Abuse Commission.  This video was recorded as part of a project conducted by the National Coalition of Aging (NCOA), the Elder Justice Coalition (EJC), and the international human rights group WITNESS, Inc.  It records a discussion of legal reforms needed to protect Alzheimer sufferers, stroke victims and others against fraud, undue influence and negligence when signing financial/legal documents, incl

One of my most valued resources for insight on health, the environment and aging is The Myth Of Alzheimer's, and I strongly recommend anyone reading this post subscribe to their e-mail updates and read that site regularly - it updates nearly daily.

The Myth Of Alzheimer's is absolutely about you, your family, your friends, and all our futures, as we all age together on this human-changing world until we die.

Peel back the corruption and downer psych of Cleveland Plus+ (joe roman) - Go with a friend to the West Side Market on West 25 and Lorain in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Market is part museum, part culinary madness, and a big part of being human.

I am convinced that many of the vendors do what they do because they thrive on the interaction, not just the cash.

The West Side Market is a way of knowing if you are alive.  Check it out.

George Nemeth and myself have been invited to debate the silly notion that copyright laws should be changed to "protect" old media. Lordy lordy lordy.

Dec. 1st, noon.

Here's a few of the issues I'll bring up during the debate:

 Thanksgiving meals offered this week

Cuyahoga County expects the Medical Mart fund to be at about $80 million by the end of this year. That’s a few million dollars less than expected because sale tax revenue has been down. However, that doesn’t include investment earnings that add to the fund.