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WANT A JUST CITY TAX - TRY ADMISSIONS TAX ON SPORTS EVENTS - FAIR & PROPER

Submitted by Roldo on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 15:57.

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.

 

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INTEREST ON MED MART TAX KICKING INCOME UP

Submitted by Roldo on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 15:00.

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.

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VOINOVICH ONLY ABSENT U.S. SENATOR FOR BIG VOTE

Submitted by Roldo on Sun, 11/22/2009 - 11:06.

Ohio’s Senator George Voinovich was the only U. S. Senator to not cast a vote yesterday on moving the historic health care bill. It didn’t make a difference since his would have been the 40th Republican vote against moving the bill to a floor vote.

 

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WILL PEE DEE TELL WHO GETS LOOT FROM LEBRON AD?

Submitted by Roldo on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 12:06.

 

The article on the Lebron sign has been pulled.

 

The sign is not on the Q as I thought.

 

Roldo

 

 

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MMPI GETS MORE; COUNTY SPENDS ANOTHER $600,000 ON MED MART DEAL

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 12:22.

Cuyahoga County has paid MMPI another $1,240,799 in addition to the monthly fees of $333,333.33, according to figures from the County Auditor’s department. (Update below).

 

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MMPI GETS $1 MILLION PER QUARTER WITH NO DETAILS

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:27.

I find the way MMPI bills Cuyahoga County for its monthly “fee” an example of bad management taken to extreme. The billings tell the County nothing of what MMPI does for its healthy fee.

 

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MMPI PLAYING WITH CLEVELAND & CUYAHOGA COUNTY

Submitted by Roldo on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 20:26.

I talked with MMPI’s Mark Falanga after a three hour Council briefing to ask a simple question. Did MMPI expect to build a private medical mart on public land at no cost?

 

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TAXES - FAIR & UNFAIR, DUMB & DUMBER

Submitted by Roldo on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 10:49.

I guess I’m just stupid. I don’t get it. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson wants to tax garbage to raise $13 million a year. Then he wants to tax non-profits to raise $5 million a year.

 

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JACKSON SLAMS THE LITTLE GUY, AVOIDS FAIR TAX

Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 17:31.

See what I mean? Mayor Frank Jackson wants to charge $9.25 a month, or $111 a year, for garbage pickup. Hitting the little guy because he’s afraid of tapping those who paid his campaign bills.

 

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CLEVELANDER BILL GUNLOCKE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY - LISTEN N.Y.

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 16:51.

Clevelanders over the years have taken over the Yankees, the Knicks, the Nets, the Rangers, Madison Square Garden. If sports, why not the book industry. Well, not quite that ambitious but Bill Gunlocke who gave Cleveland the alternative paper The Edition, has started a blog and wonders if New York City is really a Book City.

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IT'S FAIR TAXES FOR HONEST CITY REVENUE, STUPID

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 14:08.

I haven’t read the 300 page plus consulting report on management and efficiency of Cleveland government and I probably won’t. I leave it to others. I know it won’t touch the one revenue source that Cleveland should tap if it had any concern for its citizens. It is out of the question. Won’t happen.

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MAJOR INSTITUTIONAL FAILURES HELPED IMPERIAL MURDERER

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 17:01.

Were there failures or absence of institutional and community structure that helped make the mass murderer of Imperial Avenue get away with the killings so easily? Yes, there were.

 

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JOHN CARNEY SHOULD RESIGN FROM PORT BOARD

Submitted by Roldo on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 17:36.

The reason we don’t know why the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority dumped its chief executive Adam Wasserman is because the real leader of the board – John Carney – believes it’s none of your business.

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DENNIS VOTES THE WAY VOINOVICH WILL - NO

Submitted by Roldo on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 13:46.

Ran into an old friend this morning at University Hospital where we older people are likely to meet. Boy was she angry. At Dennis Kucinich, a favorite of hers.

 

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WILL COUNTY REFORM BE SPELLED: R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N?

Submitted by Roldo on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 15:21.

Could the pathetic condition of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party give us a Republican for the first County executive? Is the Pee Dee already pushing a Republican, the out-of-county son of Cleveland Indians’ owner Larry Dolan for the top spot?

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MIA JACKSON FAILS TO GIVE COMMUNITY CONFIDENCE

Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 13:55.

As if the Cleveland police don’t have enough on their hands. Now they have another missing person: Mayor Frank Jackson.

 

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PEE DEE LOOKS PAST IMPERIAL AVE. TO TOWPATH, PUBLIC SQUARE

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 20:24.

It didn’t even take a day for the Pee Dee to setup the next pillage and plunder of Cleveland.

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RANDY LERNER GETS $10 MILLION FROM FANS/NON-FANS

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 11:38.

Cleveland Browns fans may be angry with Randy Lerner and the Cleveland Browns football team but that didn’t stop them from contributing $10.9 million to help him this year.

 

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EDITOR GOLDBERG ACCUSED OF PIMPING FOR ISSUE 3 - NO KIDDING

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 10:34.

Roger Stone, a Republican PR hit man, took quite a shot at Pee Dee editor Susan Goldberg, on the Issue 3 coverage: “PD Editor Pimps for Casino Gambling.”

 

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TEN MURDERED IN CLEVELAND - FINALLY NOTICED

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 17:12.

The biggest story this day after the election isn’t approval of County government reform or approval of a monopoly casino for a billionaire.

 

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WRONG DAN GILBERT - A ROLDO APOLOGY

Submitted by Roldo on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 19:48.

I have removed a recent posting on a Dan Gilbert blog. I mistook a blog by another Dan Gilbert. I apologize for the error.

 

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DOING WHAT WE DON'T NEED, NOT DOING WHAT WE NEED

Submitted by Roldo on Sun, 11/01/2009 - 15:16.

Stampede, stampede, stampede.

 

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STATE COP'S ARREST STORY DIFFERS FROM GILBERT'S VERSION

Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 14:19.

A former Michigan state trooper tells a different story of Dan Gilbert’s arrest on operation of gambling business than the Cavs owner has been peddling to the news media. Gilbert has made it seem a minor episode, best forgotten.

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DAN GILBERT AMONG FOUR IN $240,000 LOAN TO DISGRACED DETROIT MAYOR

Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 11:04.

Wonder if the Pee Dee will headline this story: Four billionaires have “loaned” $240,000 to the former disgrace Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. One of them our casino king: Dan Gilbert.

 

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SCENE TRIES TO BALANCE PEE DEE ON ISSUE 6

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 14:42.

The Cleveland Scene this week offers some antidote to the noxious coverage of the Pee Dee on Cuyahoga County reform. Issue 6 ain’t the joy ride into the sunset that the paper would like us to believe.

 

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