Here's a big not-so-secret - Frank Jackson hired his former girlfriend - Merle Gordon - to head up the dysfunctional City of Cleveland Health Department.  The City of Cleveland has a cronyism problem with pretty much every dysfunctional department at City Hall (Building and Housing, Community Development).  But, the news media won't do any hard-hitting investigation, because the Greater Cleveland Partnership has to keep the status quo, until they can find another puppet to run the city.

 Columbus, Ohio has been validated this year for its transportation and education planning efforts with two large grants - the federal Smart Cities Challenge and the MacArthur sponsored We Are LRNG - Cities of Learning Grant.

 
The Department of Community Development would like to transfer $619,000 from the SHAP program to the Housing Trust Fund. The posting was made in the June 10th 2016 Friday edition of the Plain Dealer in the “Market Place” location.
Along the way, the Department of Community Development had asked for $619,000

 Just SAY NO to the Cuyahoga Land Bank, SCFBC and Cleveland Housing Network's sleazy deal (Note: arrive 6 pm so you can be cleared at desk with photo ID and pls don't bring your drugs with you)

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Just a few points glossed over by the NEOMG and affiliates like WKYC -  

DYK - Metrohealth has 2 new board members? Yep.  And, no one questions the rationale of putting Mitch Schneider and Tony Minor on the board of Metrohealth?  

TWO major red flags -

 http://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/the-rich-got-richer-faster-in-seattle-study-finds/

 Wow, just how dangerous am I?  PD-NEOMG even deletes my comments about this upcoming meeting to address RTA ridership concerns:

I am not the first person to see the connection between former council person John Zayac (Jackson council era) , his consultant firm The Project Group and lucrative contracts at City Hall.

Leila Atassi ran a great story in 2014 - and like all things in Northeast Ohio - it was promptly forgotten:

The media is strangely very quiet on the state of Cuyahoga County finances.  And, for weeks, they have been mining the archive at REALNEO (certainly more reliable than, say, the Cleveland.com archive or the County's website).