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eGovernmentForest City - The Hands Out CompanySubmitted by Roldo on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 12:12.
A couple of years ago when Forest City was selling its site for a new convention center to Cuyahoga County's Facilities Commission (since disbanded), Al Ratner casually mentioned that I would have lots of fun if I were tracking all the money Forest City got in subsidies around the nation.
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Cleveland used to illustrate Iraq war costSubmitted by Roldo on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 15:28.
The Nation magazine chose Cleveland as the city to illustrate the cost of the War in Iraq to one troubled city. The two-page spread in the March 31 issue shows what could have been bought to meet public needs with $479.2 million, Cleveland’s share of the war cost.
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MMPI - $901 million; County (so far) ZeroSubmitted by Roldo on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 15:18.
The County has pulled another Gateway. Only better - for the operators. It looks as if the medical mart and convention center will cost County taxpayers – and this is if there are no snafus - $1 billion.
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Can I build you a house & pay you to live in it?Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 08:49.
The Cuyahoga County Commissioners have given me a great idea.
Let's privatize the Commission by hiring one person who actually knows what he or she is doing and do away with electing our three Stooges for Private Businesses of Any Kind, aka, Tim Hagan, Jimmy Dimora & Peter Lawson Jones.
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DENNIS R. WILCOX ESQ - WORKING FOR AND AGAINST CLEVELAND-CUYAHOGA PORT AUTHORITY - WHAT'S NEW?Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 18:11.
If you owned a $40,500.000.00 parking structure, would these images concern you? (by the way, if you live in Cuyahoga County, you DO OWN IT)
Why do we do this?Submitted by Roldo on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 11:06.
Just as a reminder to relate to the cost of the medical mart and the new convention center construction, bonding and payments, don't forget that the County already spends heavily with tax fund for the convention business.
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CUYAHOGA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS - SNEAKY & ARROGANT? OR JUST OUR ELECTED REPS?Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 16:01.
I attended the KennedyConCenter meeting this morning - held before the scheduled meeting of the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners.
All the TV cameras and paper reporters were there. Big news was afoot!
CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS - A LIGHT IN NEOSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 14:13.
One of the few organizations in Cleveland that seems to have truly meritorious objectives is The Cleveland Council on World Affairs.
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Connect the Dots for Bill Clinton's Friends, Cashing In, Philanthropic Fundraising and Undermining FreedomSubmitted by Kevin Cronin on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 23:45.
Sometimes the intersection of politics and policy is comfortable, sometimes uncomfortable, and sometimes you have to "connect the dots." One very uncomfortable "dot connecting" involves President Bill Clinton, philanthropic fundraising, the uranium industry and Clinton's private activity that ran contrary to US foreign policy and reinforced a country, Kazakhstan, with an antipathy to human rights and open media.
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Be ObamaSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 20:56.
The day Ohioans and others around America failed the world and allowed Bush and his clan 4 more years was the saddest of my life, and I was depressed by life after that until I posted the following... ( categories:
FROZEN PIPES BREAKING ALL OVER NORTH EAST OHIOSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 16:05.
![]() When you don't have the money to keep the heat on, and it gets cold, the pipes freeze.
And break. Then when it warms up like it did over the past two days, the pipes thaw out. And water floods everything. And when the building is filled up, the water pours out under the doors and into the street - just like it is doing at Sweet Daddy's.
10,000 little ideas Feb. 5 - MY IDEA? NEW GOVERNMENT IN NEOSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 16:32.
02/05/2008 - 17:15 02/05/2008 - 20:00 Etc/GMT-4 Cleveland365.com (what persons/names/$ are behind this anyway?) is sponsoring what they call a 10,000 little ideas convo. Location
Sammy's Metropolitan Ballroom
925 Euclid Avenue 21st Floor, Huntington Bank Build
Cleveland, OH United States
See map: Google Maps
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PUBLIC TAX DOLLARS BEING WELL SPENT - IN TORONTO, CANADASubmitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 14:29.
Kenny Ward told me about how he maintains Toronto skating rinks.
YOU ARE THE BEST REPORTER!Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 17:03.
YOU ARE THE BEST REPORTER IN NEO - YOU HAVE informative and educational NEWS!
TOWN CRIER RINGS IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY BICENTENIAL - BUT NOT ON AGENDASubmitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 16:46.
![]() The January 14, 2008 Cuyahoga County Commissioner's meeting started sounding much like a New England Town Meeting. Coming down the hall towards the fourth floor Commissioner’s public meeting room, the Town Crier's sharply ringing hand bell competed with his yells of Hear Yea! Hear Yea!
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ATTNY COHEN AND CLEVELAND SUE WALL STREET BANKS - WAS SUB-PRIME DISASTER PREDICTABLE?Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 20:49.
On Friday January 11, 2008 Cleveland, Ohio Mayor Frank Jackson announced that the City was filing suit against 21 banks/financial firms. The suit alleges that the defendants created a public nuisance in Cleveland. The alleged nuisance was created through issuances of thousands of “sub-prime” loans which are alleged by the City to have caused the abandonment, vacancy, and subsequent demolition of thousands of Cleveland residential buildings.
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REALNEO / DRUPAL WEB POSTING and WEB ORIENTATION/HELP MONDAY 4:00PM January 14, 2008Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 15:17.
01/14/2008 - 16:00 01/14/2008 - 18:00 Etc/GMT-5
Location
Cleveland Public Library Brooklyn Branch
3706 PEARL ROAD Parking across street
OH United States
See map: Google Maps
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GREATER CLEVELAND VOTER COALITION AND DAVE'S SUPERMARKETS ADVANCE OUR DEMOCRACYSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 19:21.
![]() Sam Heide (seated at table) working with the Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition on Saturday afternoon, January 5th, 2008 helped register prospective voters at Dave’s Supermarket in Shaker Square. Cold and rainy outside - warm, well lit, gregarious and non-adversarial atmosphere inside the store. Great place to meet the neighborhood.
THE REAL CLEVELAND - STREET CONVERSATIONS WITH REZASubmitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 18:16.
![]() Post in progress, need to upload images from one computer and do Word on another. to be finished soon...It's Wednesday Jan 9, and I still haven't been able to edit my final draft of this pc. Patience please, will get final soon...thanks
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PUTITONTHEBALLOT - CUYAHOGA COUNTY - WHERE'S YOUR SALES TAX MONEY NOW?Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 16:41.
![]() Cuyahoga County, Ohio, has been collecting a quarter percent more sales and use tax for almost 3 months now - since October 1, 2007. Projected by Commissioners Tim Hagan and Jimmy Dimora at about one million per week, that extrapolates to about 11 million in the County coffers from the added sales tax. I accompanied Cleveland City Councilman Zack Reed, (center with clip board above) a number of times as he collected signatures in order to allow a County wide referendum vote to determine if the voters would support such a tax.
ROLDO BARTIMOLE ON BREWED FRESH DAILY - POSITIVELY CLEVELAND + PLUSSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 15:06.
BREWED FRESH DAILY HAS A THREAD which carries a discussion which I believe it is important for everyone in NEO to read. The thread is especially important now that the City of Cleveland is looking desperately for immediate cash-back from the taxpayers’ UDAG loans.
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TOWER CITY CENTER ADVERTIZING WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION ON THE RTA?Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 13:38.
![]() ___________________________________________________________________ This post is a response to the RTA public informantion officer, Mr. Masek, and Anonymous (who seems to be responding for Mr. Masek also) here over on Tim Ferris' blog __________________________________________________________________
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BUY PROPAGANDA POSTERS TO SPIN BREUER DEMOLITIONSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 12:43.
![]() POST NO BILLS: The County Commissioners are using our tax money in a blatant and hypocritical propaganda campaign intended to sway public opinion after their vote to demolish the Breuer Tower.
ADAM HARVEY SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWERSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 21:32.
![]() There’s a little mystery on the plywood construction wall around the Marcel Breuer designed Ameritrust Tower in Cleveland, Ohio.
HARD TIME IN THE RACKSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 10:35.
![]() Tower City and the Downtown Alliance Corporations around Public Square are moving the Cleveland bedroom up Superior. Downtown Cleveland is saying "NO" loud and clear.
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