Last week, the kids were treated to a magic show from a fabulous neighbor in Brooklyn Centre. Now, I have more than one "seer" in the group of kids in this neighborhood, but one family, especially, has become the resident "genius" family in the 'hood ranging from little Lily on up to her brainiac brothers, their mechanically-inclined father and their fierce supermom, the defender of the clan.
The boys immediately honed in on the "tricks," and clued me in on some of the golden rules of magic--namely, watch the other hand and never perform the same trick in front of the same audience. These kids should be put in charge of watching our political back, because we are being subjected to the same old tricks here in NEO.
This time around, Neighborhood Revitalization Partners will be pulling a disappearing act on Brooklyn Centre after they use our money to acquire properties, put up illusionary housing and then--presto--they will blame the City of Cleveland for not watching their bad magic as they saddle us with a sanitary nightmare.
Funny thing, this trick has been performed before in Toledo and Akron and the councilman pretends that he hasn't caught on. I was heartened today to see that the PD's Becky Gaylord picked up on one tool the City has up its sleeve--receivership. [1] The question, now, is why hasn't the city used good magic to dispel the bad magic??? I am sure that Cameron and Luis would spot the NRP deception right away. So, why don't our "leaders" get it?
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[1] http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/becky_gaylord/index.ssf?/base/opinion-0/1212827577320931.xml&coll=2