I recently met with Marcia West, Regional Organizer for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), in Washington, DC, to explore how economically distressed communities should respond to the foreclosure and housing crises in America, to expand credit access for working-class residents - to learn what leaders of Northeast Ohio may do to improve access to loans for housing and community development for us common folk. The short answer is "Expand the Community Reinvestment Act to Bring Billions of Dollars in Safe and Sound Investments to America's Neighborhoods" - go to Expand CRA to learn more and contact your representatives... SPREAD THE WORD!

CRA encourages banks to respond to a variety of needs in low- and moderate-income communities, including the financing of affordable rental housing, sustainable homeownership, small business creation, and economic development projects.

I cannot believe that the local court system cannot figure out that there are not any attorneys working for the Cleveland Bar Association who are taking on Pro Bono representation for the indigent and neither is the LEGAL AID SOCIETY when it comes to PROPERTY TAX FORECLOSURES.

THE POOR CANNOT GET FAIR LEGAL ADVICE TO ASSIST THEM IN THESE PROPERTY TAX FORECLOSURES BECAUSE THE COSTS OF THE ATTORNEY IS OFTEN MORE THAN THE TAXES IN ARREARS PLUS FEES.

It's 9:31pm now....there are posts noted for after 1030pm...and Something is NOT RIGHT with times/blogs/posts...

Whatever happened to the loud and obnoxious garage bands of the 60's? It seems that breed of gutter rock, in your face, call the police street music is dead. There was a time when you could drive through any neighborhood on a summer day and hear some band somewhere playing to the neighbors as though they were big rock stars. I know. I was one of them.

i went to victim services per the prosecutors courts brochures and instructions papers per the assault and menacing by sammy catania and prosection and showed the paper to employees and requested someone to go to court with me to support me - the employees didn't know what i was talking about - at that point i knew catania must realy be connacted to some very corrupt folks at the justice center - so i called someone that knows - that went through the process and he told me to ask for eric - i asked for eric and all of a sudden the person knew what i was asking for and set down with me

12/03/2010 PROBATION CONDITION JOURNAL TEXT - PLEASE RESUBMIT THE PROBATION REPORT. MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS APPEARED ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT AND MR. BLACK MANY OF WHOM WERE UNRULY IN COURT. 12/03/2010 HEARING SCHEDULED: Event: SENTENCING HEARING Date: 12/10/2010 Time: 3:00 pm Judge: STOKES, ANGELA R.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

What the hell does the NEO sewer district think they are doing acknowledging a Consent Decree w/ the DOJ and US EPA (rogue agency).  They will drive the cost of doing business in Cuyahoga County and Cleveland to other regions of the state (if we're lucky) or completely outside of our State borders.  I'm certain I read the estimate correctly today from the PD when one of the Sewer District reps stated our sewer bills (not just water) will increase to $1,000 by 2035.  That's roughly 10x's my current bill.  The US EPA has the authority to change compliance li

“In a free society we're supposed to know the truth,” Paul said. “In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.” “This whole notion that Assange, who's an Australian, that we want to prosecute him for treason. I mean, aren't they jumping to a wild conclusion?” he added. “This is media, isn't it?

LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday that there were some references to UFOs in "yet-to-be-published" confidential files obtained from the U.S. government.

In an online chat hosted by the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper, he also said that no one has been harmed by his organization's release of troves of secret documents.

You should check your exhaust vents from your hot water tank to your chimney and inside your chimney wall for the chimney liner to see if it is not deteriorated or closed off for any reason... if for any reason it's broken or deteriorated...you could end up with Carbon Monoxide poisioning....

for lily and all woman that stand up to the "out of order court system"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sOeY6ZVG2U

This is a GOOD IDEA - Forum provides ethics training to businesses to fight corruption

Published: Wednesday, December 01, 2010, 10:00 PM - Peter Krouse, The Plain Dealer

Joshua Gunter/ The Plain DealerSteve Dettlebach, U.S. attorney for the northern district of Ohio.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When federal prosecutors began to work with the Greater Cleveland Partnership on ways to encourage ethical business practices in the wake of local corruption scandals, they heard a stunning story.

During a trip abroad to recruit business, partnership representatives were told by a Dutch company that Cleveland wasn't a place they were interested in coming to because they believed it to be corrupt.

I Shopped At Phoenix Coffee Yesterday - I Do Every Day I May - They Have Good Karma!

And Great Coffee! Buy Local

After spending practically a lifetime in and around Ward 14, I have watched so many changes, political manuevers, transitions from homeowners and transient tenants; while also sustaining the faith that somehow the days of long ago with small businesses filling the storefronts, every family on the street knowing each other because of the sense of good old fashioned community building was sustained by the residents, and most significantly, because American Pride and the American Spirit had yet to be raped, deprived, and abused so heinously over the last 4 decades...