some neighborhood scrapper's got to have his eye on that pole.

 There is the Tremont lighting project and 10,000 little (micro) ideas....whatever.
 

Meanwhile, the existing lighting infrastructure throughout the city is a low priority.  Only you and Henry dog the city on providing the service they should be providing to residents in the first place.  WOIO picks up the story:

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 If only residents were the one and only priority...but, remember, developers get first dibs...

In my neighborhood, the developer NRP gets more done for them, than all the whining and complaining I can muster...more photos of the house that should be torn down on my street...and, still not a priority for the demolition monsters.  Has any one seen the foreclosure/vacant property solutions demolition plan drawn up by NPI, yet? 

And what about our UNSEEN infrastructure, our sewers? Over one hundred years old....no one is watching.

Thanks for the visual of one of Cleveland's many needs.

I guess I didn't think it was necessary to cite the needs of Cleveland and its residents.

The listing of Cleveland as NO. 1 or #2 or #3 in poverty year after year speaks to the needs.

I was once the "welfare reporter" at the Plain Dealer. Essentially, that was covering poverty. I was very, very busy.

There's little coverage of the poverty today - which I suspect is even worse now than it was in the late 1960s.

There's hardly mention of the day-to-day living conditions of low income residents in Cleveland. Those conditions are largely ignored.

There has been more press emphasis on getting the homeless out of Public Square and panhandlers out of downtown in the newspapers as articles about poverty.

The times, of course, have changed. The activists in Cleveland have changed, too. Many who would be telling the stories (Jacob Riis style) and pointing reporters to poverty and injustice issues have become - via community development corporations - mini housing developers. Nothing wrong with working on housing. But by taking their financing from City Hall they have silenced themselves about the injustice going on in the city's neighborhoods. They can't upset the people who write their paychecks. Reporters need the eyes and ears of many to direct them directly to these problems.

I would like to see the major issue of Cleveland - poverty - covered by the Plain Dealer. Maybe one-tenth of the energy  the newspaper spends on sports or rock and roll could be deployed to seek out how people are living, especially as the economy crumbles even more for those on the low end.

One reason, Jeff, that I think I may get into the rut of the school system as an example is that much of the money that has been diverted has been property tax revenue for the stadiums, arena and Rock Hall (in addition to sin taxes) and that comes generally each year some 60 percent from the schools. The County and City lose about 12 percent each from that source and small amounts from the public library system and port authority.