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PEE DEE CALLS FOR MORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT VOODOO

Submitted by Roldo on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 14:38.

If Dan Gilbert had even a smidgen of real interest in Cleveland and its people he would show it by volunteering to pay property taxes on Quicken Arena.

 

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2010-2015 Consolidated Plan for CDBG funds

Submitted by lmcshane on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 16:27.
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Mayor Frank G. Jackson is extending a special invitation to all Cleveland residents and community stakeholders to participate in one of the upcoming Citizens Participation 2010 community meetings focusing on next year’s spending of CDBG funds and the development of the City’s 2010-2015 Consolidated Plan.

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Observations from Baltimore - Stoops2- in a series

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 20:16.

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Cleveland's Forest City Corporation's Science and Technology Group is the developer for the eminent domain demolished area to the north of Johns Hopkins.

These children are playing on a stoop of one of the vacant rowhouses on the edge of the Mason Dixon line.

Is this important?

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Observations from Baltimore - Stoops - 1st in a series

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 17:20.

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What is important in our lives?

 

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UNSAFE WHEELCHAIR PASSAGE, STROLLER CLEARANCE - AS WELL AS LITTLE ROOM FOR THE WALKING IMPAIRED

Submitted by jerleen1 on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 19:28.
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 This is a pic that I took last winter showing not only little to no room for handicapped accessability but even not enough room for able bodied pedestrians to make it around the tight squeeze of the fence that is called temporary.  This is not to mention the big semi truck bus kitchen on wheels the size of a house that stays parked either on the corner of Jefferson or Professor blocking the view of traffic coming into the intersection and is sooner or later going to cause a little kid to get seriously injured or killed when it darts out in front of a car because this big thing is

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WILL YOU BE THE NEXT FRANK GIGLIO IN LINE FOR COMBAT AGAINST BLIGHT IN TREMONT?

Submitted by jerleen1 on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 12:41.
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 WILL YOU BE THE NEXT FRANK GIGLIO IN TREMONT?  

WILL YOUR HOUSE BE NEXT IN LINE TO BE SMASHED TO SMITHERINES?  ARE YOU SIGHTED FOR BLIGHTHOOD?

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we the pro-se people - ( legal representing ones self without a lawyer in court)

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 23:41.

Welcome. No matter if the issues are a court appointment, filing paperwork for Sovereign issues or credit/banking/tax problems. Or JUST to be FREE! All we want is to be left alone from government! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The PRO SE - what does it mean? What other words go along with it? Court, self defense in front of a judge, arrest, jail, bond, bail bond - to name a few. Some people say the Name: Sui Juris ; is a Latin phrase that literally means “of one’s own laws”. - Or use "PRO SE" Sovereign.

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ATLANTIC CITY & CASINOS - FROM 50TH IN CRIME TO FIRST IN THREE YEARS

Submitted by Roldo on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 16:28.

If you don’t have enough reasons to vote against gambling casinos, Brian Rothenberg, director of ProgressOHIO, has some gems. As the fact that in the first three years of legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City it went from 50th in crime to NO. 1.

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RATNERS DEAL WITH RUSSIAN OLIGARCH

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 15:03.

Bruce Ratner and Forest City Ratner made a deal with Russia’s richest man for the New Jersey Nets and a major Brooklyn project called Atlantic Yards.

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THE BUTTERFLY MURAL

Submitted by jerleen1 on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 07:11.
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This is the mural at the end of the little garden.  Sorry if I was off about the address, I was more interested in taking the pictures that the actual address.

I know this mural has been on NEO before but it is still pretty to look at again.

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A LITTLE INGENUITY, IMAGINATION AND WHAT A VISION

Submitted by jerleen1 on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 15:06.
"Driving Miss Daisy"

A little ingenuity and imagination and what a vision.

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ANOTHER INSULT TO US ALL

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 13:36.

How is it six Senators from states that don’t have even 10 million people tell the people of the United States of more than 300 million that they can’t have the kind of health care they need?

 

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PD EGGING ON UNNECESSARY ROAD

Submitted by Roldo on Sun, 09/13/2009 - 13:33.

We have a problem Plain Dealer.

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Naomi Klein: Has the president turned his back on black America?

Submitted by Eternity on Sat, 09/12/2009 - 10:41.

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JACKSON SHOWS HIMSELF A CONVENTIONAL CLEVELAND MAYOR

Submitted by Roldo on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 09:38.

One day after winning victory by a large margin, Mayor Frank Jackson showed he’s a conventional Cleveland Mayor by offering Jeff Jacobs $2 million gift.

 

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RESCUE RAILROAD

Submitted by jerleen1 on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 22:31.

Today I went on my first run of the Rescue Railroad.  I was invited to ride shotgun on one leg of the journey to Mansfield, Ohio and back to Cleveland with three of the original twelve little dogs that first started out on this run.  The engineer of this particular leg was Ted Thelander of Near West Neighbors in Action. 

I believe that six of the canines were transported by one driver all the way to New York and the other six were divided into two groups for convenience of the transporters.

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On the Road at Night

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 16:33.

 Driving at night on the interstates at 65 MPH is really pretty crazy.    Your vision is about a 1000xs less able to collect life saving data than in the daylight. 

Is that a deer looking to go for a meal in the median?  Just a shadow in the asphalt or a 42 lb steel reinforced radial truck tire chunck?  

Whatever...

Cruise control doesn't get scared and even falter a 1/2 MPH.  

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$68 MILLION READY FOR HANDOVER TO MMPI

Submitted by Roldo on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 12:43.

Cuyahoga County taxpayers now have “contributed” some $68 million for the proposed Medical Mart project. I guess all the great needs of this area have been superseded by special interests again.

 

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ACCIDENT ON WEST 14TH STREET - ROUNDABOUT THIS AFTERNOON

Submitted by jerleen1 on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 22:39.
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This is the scene on the "ring of death" today.  It took big huge tow trucks and the Air Cushion Recovery System hours to get this big truck back on it's wheels.  Several police cruisers were strategically parked creating a blockade while a number of Police Officers attempted to direct the traffic roundabout the roundabout.

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I missed this 'til this afternoon...spider web thread isn't all the same

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 15:01.

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Freedom and Jeff - This is so very touching.. Lynda -

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Sat, 08/22/2009 - 03:23.

This is so very touching.. Lynda

 

Freedom and Jeff

 

Freedom and I have been together 10 years this summer. She came in as a baby in 1998 with two broken wings. Her left wing doesn't open all the way even after surgery, it was broken in 4 places. She's my baby.

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A perfect front porch view

Submitted by jerleen1 on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 21:36.
A perfect front porch view
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ANOTHER LONG-TIME TREMONT RESIDENT/SMALL BUSINESS OWNER BEING GIVEN THE BUM RUSH! FAIRFIELD GAS AND AUTO - 1001 WEST 10TH

Submitted by jerleen1 on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 03:40.

Sam Jawhari has lived in the Tremont Community for a long time.  He is raising three children, and owns/leases the Fairfield Gas and Auto on Fairfield Avenue.  The location of Sam's business has been a garage and gas station for four, five or more decades.  Sam is one of the nicest and most considerate neighbors/businessmen in our neighborhood. 

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Biking to Community Gardens in Cleveland, Ohio

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 18:21.
I am perhaps too tired to give the entire run down now, but suffice to say we took routes I never knew existed - those funky pedestrian trapezes over the interstate highways, paths through old neighborhoods, new rail road right of way bike paths.   
 
Norm has been advocating urban gardening, and today the riders could see that it is beginning to take root!
 
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TREMONT RESIDENTS IN THURMAN ALLEY OUTRAGED AT TWDC'S SII DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR SAMMY CATANIA

Submitted by jerleen1 on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 01:21.

As my sister-in-law and I made our way through Thurman Alley today passing out flyers for the OSS meeting, we encountered a number of residents either on their porches, walking up and down the sidewalk and/or exchanging conversation over fences. 

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