Meet with a couple visting from Dayton to research her family--specifically, the Fish Family, one of the original settlers in Cuyahoga County. It helps that the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood [1] retains some of the architecture and landmarks that can help her trace her family and provide a touchstone.
How many of us, will be able to have that comfort ten, twenty, thirty years from now??
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I have much respect for Roldo and I believe he is right on FitzGerald [2], but he also has a huge blind spot on Rokakis, Frangos and the shadowy Greater Cleveland Partnership crew that run the parking racket, and now, gambling racket, and the straw buyer HUD/CMHA flipping [3] and demo for developers [4] and fake "Transformation Plan" [5] racket.
There are a lot of rackets in this town and they are not getting the scrutiny deserved by the federal authorities. I also can't believe the timing of Bill Mason's crackdown on Internet Cafes --all to serve the already not-so lucrative downtown casino...
And, is Roldo is confused? : On Mason BFF Pat O'Malley [6]mentioned further in this Cleveland Leader Post for his WKYC role [7]...to my knowledge Pat O'Malley was County Recorder. I don't recall a stint as County Auditor...but I could be wrong. Wish it was not so hard to go back and reconstruct the past in this town. It helps to have a little institutional memory and, sadly, we can't count on the media for that...
(WKYC should also mention that their other "expert" Mansfield Frazier has a con history --and his wife, too--
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/03/former_cuyahoga_county_childre.html [8])