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George Nemeth- still seeing straight (11.21.16 - I just recvd notice from reliable source of George's death)Submitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 21:07.
What happened to all the civic energy which we had in the 2004 to 2007 era? I reported (image above) on March 12, 2007 about George Nemeth and Gloria Ferris conducting a Meet the Bloggers discussion. Last night, at dinner with another discouraged Cleveland ex-blogger, I learned that Mr. Nemeth has created a new web site: Cle+Sucks? In my opinion, George is maintaining his intelligent avante garde perspective. In particular, I appreciate Mr. Nemeth's note directed to Brad Whitehead and Joe Roman titled "An Open Letter to Brad Whitehead and Joe Roman by cleplussux"Readers here also have the option to search Realneo for more info on "Voices and Choices".
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RIP George Nemeth
Like Norm Roulet - George Nemeth made every effort to empower citizens to build our regional economy through social media and technology.
Like Norm - George left- DISGUSTED with the charlatans we continue to prop up in Northeast Ohio. The Greater Cleveland Partnership just released an economic report that predicts they will prop up Frank Jackson for another four year term as mayor.
Here is one of George's parting salvos - it no longer exists on his former blog site - but is archived by the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120525110810/http://cleplussucks.com/post/6309137540/an-open-letter-to-brad-whitehead-and-joe-roman
June 2011
An Open Letter to Brad Whitehead and Joe Roman by cleplussux
Regarding your opinion piece (which I highly doubt you wrote yourselves, it’s most likely the work of some PR flacks), I have several points to raise as well as some questions.
First point. Second sentence. Wrong. OBAMA (not the LA Times) said the nation needs to update itself “Cleveland-style”. Get the facts straight.
First question. Resurgent manufacturing economy? Huh? USA Today “80K manufacturing jobs lost since 2000”. Where are your figures coming from? It’s not in the 2010 report from the Fund.
Second point. “Alignment and connection”. Thanks for finally getting it. Too bad it’s too little too late.
Second question. The “Health-Tech Corridor in Cleveland”? What sort of made-up BS is that? Can you actually take any credit for it if it does exist?
Third question. If we have “sufficient resources” is it necessary to FOCUS them? On the regional priorities YOU’VE established but no one else agrees with?
Third point. Representing the clusterfuck known as Voices and Choices as “extensive public input” is complete BS.
Fourth question. “an unprecedented wave of local government collaboration”? Really? Again, produce some facts. Unless you have actually figures and compare them to other regions, it’s just an opinion.
Fourth point. Now I see why you’re flogging “alignment and connection”. “Puget Sound and the Twin Cities emphasized the criticality of aligning and connecting assets through private, public, civic and philanthropic collaboration. “
Final point. For the last 30 years, you’ve been ED of the GCP Joe. Brad, you’ve been ED at the Fund for 5, and with the Cleveland Foundation prior to that for at least five years.
Fifth question. What effect can you honestly say you’ve had on the regional economy?
Final question. When will you step aside?
Signed,
George Nemeth
NOTE**** George was responding to this opinion piece (published 6/4/2011) -it is no longer available on line. I had to request the article from the microfilm collection at Cleveland Public LIbrary. Without libraries - even recent history is lost - and effectively erased. And, unless we continue to support libraries - expect more of our recent history to disappear.
George was one catalyst for civic reporting here on Realneo
Please read an Obituary here at the Plain Dealer (copied below for archiving). George is on the left in the top photo. On the right is Hunter Morrison with Ed Morrison in the middle during a "Meet the Blogger" session at Phoenix Coffee in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Published in The Plain Dealer from Nov. 12 to Nov. 14, 2016-