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. 

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. 

Another classic in the dumpster.  Courtesy The Cleveland Clinic.  Number one in heart surgery.

Endocrinology.  Etc Etc.  

But in community sensitivity? 

Off the bottom of the chart.  wAY off the bottom.  Toby. Sorry.

I guess they have an excuse.  They are doctors.  And pay no real estate taxes. 

Thanks DM and SM for leads to this story.

The Cleveland Clinic continues its decades long emphasis on sterilization.  Today the demolition of the Carnegie Medical Building left this class room - with its drapes, chairs, and tables - a bit interrupted. 

Sustainability.   That's our Creed!  Below is an inside look at Sustainable Cleveland!

Max Eternity - I have many criticisms of President Obama, even though I voted for him.  But let me be clear, I voted for him not because I though he was going to save us from all the doom and gloom, but because I thought he had the most integrity of all the candidates that were (by June '08) left standing.  Every president, and indeed every citizen, should be held accountable.  However, the anti-black, hateful, vicious, character assisination that we are all witnessing right now...the slanderous, unsubstantiated attacks on Obama, go way, way, way beyond the pale.

Kate...

 Your remarks sounded more like a backhanded compliment than actual accolades to the neighborhood who worked hard to make a beautiful & colorful green space.

In many NEO communitities, scrabbling for municipal operating cash has led to the licensing of big game hunting. 

The biggest game in East Cleveland and Cleveland, Ohio is the BUCK. Image on downhill stretch of N.Taylor before reaching  Euclid.

Who is reviewing this business?  Do I see Frank Russo's decal on the speed cam?

The Plain Dealer should desist and apologize for trying to lure city employees to the suburbs.

Civic corruption comes in many forms. We have been hearing a lot about corruption these days. However, the focus is very narrow. Unnecessarily so.

Here is the best explanation of the term 'Poverty Pimps' I have ever come across-TR

Do you know a poverty pimp?

by Bork

Cuyahoga County Commissioners dug themselves a big financial hole by purchasing the Ameritrust property from Dick Jacobs. Now they are getting ready to dig a bigger hole for the Medical Mart.

Didn't come to play teeball, folks.  Better bring the A game.

Is RTA taking us on another ride? As a transit system, it seems more like a servant of the same old special interests when it should be taking care of transit-dependent citizens.

theres something missing in tremont - and other places the gulls would fly to and from - the cuyahoga river - tremont - downtown cleveland - to other places of cleveland - has anyone seen any gulls - i cryed when i read lauras post of the gulls murdered - no gulls since in tremont - an empty feeling - my friends - our friends that i-we would say hi to as they flew over saying hi to us - our dear sisters-brothers in another body - warning me-us of storms earthquakes other inclimate weather - warning me-us of preditor humans - cicles of violence - in lincoln park, tremont the gulls wo

Autos have, and are, destroying Cleveland. This pedestrian bridge used to join neighborhoods over active rail road tracks.  The bridge is still passable, but the tracks lack activity, so why hike up the stairs?

And the neighborhood now? 

A trip...

HE WHO GOES FORTH WITH A FIFTH ON THE FOURTH WILL NOT COME FORTH ON THE FIFTH-

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY 2009

WE LOVE YOU ALL  - EVEN GLOWBALL

YOGI GUY

The tax burden in Cuyahoga County keeps mounting, recession or depression notwithstanding.

I have a hard time understanding how the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP) can give $100,000 to get something on the ballot but can’t it support what it wants on the ballot.

Does Jimmy Dimora deserve the privilege of being considered innocent until proven guilty? I don’t think the Plain Dealer believes so.