breaking news - "alias sam" "YASSER A JAWHARI" gas station in tremont - arrested by f.b.i. for selling illegal drugs  - stoled  $20,000.00 from gillota the owner - see previous posts below.............

"IF IT AIN'T BROKE YET, MAKE IT BETTER" sam has a record - "nor was it Sam's records. Councilman Cimperman apologized

With this news The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site, we may need to begin including a warning - "This click will take you to a NYTimes article. If you are at or near your monthly limit of free access, think twice before clicking".

How much would you pay to access a PD story on cleveland.com?

Ah, the times they are a changin'!

Starting in January 2011, a visitor to NYTimes.com will be allowed to view a certain number of articles free each month; to read more, the reader must pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the print newspaper, even those who subscribe only to the Sunday paper, will receive full access to the site without any additional charge.

Executives of The New York Times Company said they wanted to create a system that would have little effect on the millions of occasional visitors to the site, while trying to cash in on the loyalty of more devoted readers. But fundamental features of the plan have not yet been decided, including how much the paper will charge for online subscriptions or how many articles a reader will be allowed to see without paying.

Image courtesy Cleveland Memory - A boy delivers an issue of the Cleveland Press newspaper to a house in 1957.

Speak out against CMSD's Transformation Plan.

Here are the dates & times for the upcoming CMSD Board Community Meetings:

During an emergency a 2-Meter band receiver could save your life or that of a loved one.  You may also hear ham radio operators providing on the scene emergency communications during times of disaster. Often you will hear a ham operator reporting on conditions long before the general public has been advised of the situation via the normal news media.

Phew, the Cleve Orch dodged a bullet… Now we can sleep knowing that Severance Hall will not become an abandoned and empty place for scrappers to loot. But right around the same time, we can read about Richard Florida’s admission that some cities are just too damaged to play anymore. You can bet Cleveland is on his list. His solution? Move away… run, run, run as fast as you can.

Tremont School Library was the forerunner of Jefferson Branch. The Library operated from a single room framed annex in the school yard of Tremont School from December 1911 until December 1918. photo 1916 CPL collection.

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I met an old friend for drinks at Nighttown, the other night. Nighttown is definitely one of my old real NEO friends' favorite East Side places to gather, and has been for decades, for many good reasons... starting with a great owner (in the video above) and staff, excellent, consistent food, and the world's best jazz. Open every day, from 11 AM-2AM, the ambiance is as good as it gets, as well... for a club inspired by the Red Light District of Dublin.

Interesting, Nighttown is also the home of The Press Club of Cleveland, The Press Club's Hall of Fame and Visual Archives... lots of related information is linked here... the video above introduces the Press Club Hall of Fame, hosted at Nighttown, which includes our own new media idol Roldo... since 2004.

  Never Surrender - Flag Flying Above USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i

Yellowstone National Park has been rattled by more than 250 earthquakes in the past two days following a period of 11 months of quiet seismic activity in the park.

The image shows a retrofit seismic support on I 215 in San Bernardino, California near the San Andreas Fault.  CalTrans has studied all of the California highway structures and retrofitted the system with earthquake safety features in many locations across the State.

 A contractor has been inscribing coded references to Bible verses on rifle scopes for years.

AP – Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, cen

W. 65th Street in 1922

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Earthquake Threat Lurks for United States, Too

 AP – People beg for food and water outside a supermarket in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Troops, … Where Are the Supplies?

Report: FBI illegally collected phone records

WASHINGTON – The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday