Roldo's blog

HOW CHEAP CAN YOU GET? PRETTY DAMN CHEAP

Submitted by Roldo on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 15:16.

Rich people HATE to pay taxes. They pinch pennies. The squeeze real hard.

 

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TV 8 - NEWS YOU CAN'T BE WITHOUT

Submitted by Roldo on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 16:47.

This is what passes as news at Ch. 8, Fox’s WJW-TV these days.

 

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O'BRIEN - TORTURE OKAY IF CALLED "ROUGH METHOD"

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 18:19.

I didn’t really know until today that the Pee Dee endorsed torture.

 

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DR. SPOCK AND NATIONAL HEALTH CARE

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 12:01.

I’ve been stirring memories as I look through memorabilia as I near 50 years of news reporting. I came across two long interviews with Dr. Benjamin Spock from 1967.

 

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WHO LET THE VULTURES IN? WOOF, WOOF

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 10:16.

Here’s how honest Jeff Jacobs is.

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RTA GETTING OUT OF TRANSIT BUSINESS - REALLY

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 15:03.

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority is planning to drop “Transit” from its name. You can tell that because it keeps eliminating transportation for people. In fact, it can change its name to the Greater Cleveland Downtown Pleasing Authority.

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PATHETIC, PATHETIC PEE DEE

Submitted by Roldo on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 14:34.

How pathetic can you get, Pee Dee?

 

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READ COMMENT BY MAYOR ERIC BREWER BEFORE IT'S ELIMINATED

Submitted by Roldo on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 18:37.

Read the comment by East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer on the Plain Dealer. He's responding to an article on county reform by the Pee Dee.

It's amusing and informative.  See here: http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/08/entrenched_interests_are_fight.html

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LOOK TO MAYORAL ELECTION - NOT THIS ONE BUT 2013

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:22.

Now is the time for those who believe Mayor Frank Jackson isn't the Mayor Cleveland Needs. PREPARE. Not for election 2009 but for the next election in 2013.

 

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GOT NO CAR? WALK, WHY DON'TCHA

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 14:05.

RTA has decided to cut the services to the most transit-dependent. Not enough money, they say. Can’t you just accept that? What are you crying about?

 

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IS CLEVELAND HISTORY IMPORTANT TO YOU?

Submitted by Roldo on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 15:47.

This is not a summer reading list but a list of reading for anyone who wants to know more about Cleveland, its people - the good and bad - and its history.

 

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ABATEMENT ON TRAIL BUT VOTE WAS RIGGED

Submitted by Roldo on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 13:57.

Mayor Michael White almost helped derail tax abatement in the late 1990s when his brutal attacks to portray Cleveland teachers as greedy backfired.

 

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ANOTHER ABATEMENT TURNED DOWN - AND HERE!

Submitted by Roldo on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 13:48.

Can this be catching on? Parma Heights turns down a tax abatement request by Tony George, a political connected guy.

 

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TURNING DOWN HOME DEPOT'S TAX ABATEMENT

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 11:56.

Enough! This is how cities should greet greedy, hands-out corporate interests that want to play one off against the other. Home Depot doesn’t deserve welfare.

 

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PARK BUILDING - FROM TAX DEDUCTION TO TAX ABATEMENT

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 14:15.

I was passing by the Park Building on Public Square and Ontario recently and stopped to ask about the new condominiums promoted for the old office building.

 

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DID THE PD DAMAGE THE COUNTY REFORM IT BACKS?

Submitted by Roldo on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 16:28.

The Plain Dealer did an excellent job of displaying and explaining the divisions of the County Reform ballot proposal the newspaper supports. But I’m wondering if “division” isn’t the operating word in its presentation.

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CLEVELAND NEEDS A GAME-CHANGER

Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 13:49.

You could hear the envy in his voice as he grumbles that when Jeff Johnson walks into a room all eyes moved to him. He takes the air out of the room, said a friendly rival.

 

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PD EDITOR GOLDBERG SAYS CAMPAIGN ENDED, "NIPPED IN BUD"

Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 10:35.

Editor Susan Goldberg of the Plain Dealer called to say that the attempt to lure resident out of Cleveland by an “over aggressive” salesperson was sent to only one mayor – in Rocky River and has been stopped.

 

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PD WANTS TO PROFIT FROM CLEVELAND'S CARCASS

Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 08:45.

The Plain Dealer should desist and apologize for trying to lure city employees to the suburbs.

 

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HOW MUCH $$$ DOES CLEVELAND LOSE TO ABATEMENT

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 06:47.

Civic corruption comes in many forms. We have been hearing a lot about corruption these days. However, the focus is very narrow. Unnecessarily so.

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LIBRARIES INTO POWER PLAYS?

Submitted by Roldo on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 11:44.

The Cuyahoga County Public Library system’s threat to close libraries on Sunday - which they say is its busiest day – makes no sense at all.

 

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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS & ANOTHER MONEY DRAIN

Submitted by Roldo on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 11:35.

Cuyahoga County Commissioners dug themselves a big financial hole by purchasing the Ameritrust property from Dick Jacobs. Now they are getting ready to dig a bigger hole for the Medical Mart.

 

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MAYOR JACKSON - A MAYOR FOR THESE TIMES?

Submitted by Roldo on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 18:44.

Sometimes you try to put people into boxes they don’t fit into. Mayor Frank Jackson is one of those people difficult to place. At least for me.

 

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RTA TAKES US FOR THE WRONG RIDE

Submitted by Roldo on Sat, 07/18/2009 - 13:06.

Is RTA taking us on another ride? As a transit system, it seems more like a servant of the same old special interests when it should be taking care of transit-dependent citizens.

 

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JIMMY'S SLIPPING BELOW THE PD'S PAGE ONE FOLD

Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 09:22.

He’s slipping. But Public Enemy No. 1’s portrait still makes the front page of the Plain Dealer this morning.

 

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