Hard to believe that it was 32 years ago that the first tax abatement for the National City Bank building at Euclid & E. 9th Street became a central issue in the defeat of a mayor. Presently, its new owners are seeking a $1,489,500 deduction in its value for tax purposes.

There are thousands of structures like this in NEO.   We don't even notice them anymore.   This one has a nice slate roof, and oh, did I mention the wrap around porch?. 

Here come's my bus, got to go....to a sustainability lecture...I think the topic is embedded, ah, emedded apathy?  no, that's not right.. .

Thanks to REALNEO's lmcshane for pointing out one of the most interesting developments in the American "sustainability movement" ever - what appears to be Chicago's real news source, The Chicago Reader, broke the news, September 4, 2009, that "The Green Mayor's Green Policy Maker Leaves for Vancouver". This is the story of former Cleveland and Chicago area sustainability guru Sadhu Johnston, now set to become the deputy city manager of Vancouver.

RTA tried a pathetic attempt to avoid solving a problem by trying obfuscation that really should fool no one.

TODAY IS VOTING DAY IN CLEVELAND OHIO....

video - QUEST, ministries booth, tremont arts & cultural festival - fund rasier for realneo-coop-

FUND RAISER FOR REALNEO - COOP - QUEST, ministries booth - vegetarian health foods drinks - or anything like art etc., tremont arts & cultural festival - sept. 12-13, 09 - 11am to 6pm-

norm, jeffb jeffs susan deb lurua everyone bring your any kind of vegetrain foods or whatever like art jewlery etc., to sell for a fund raiser for realneo-coop- lets email or talk about-

REALNEO COOP - THE Cesar Chavez OF CLEVELAND - THE WORLD - REALNEO-COOP WILL START WHERE CESAR  CHAVEZ LEFT OFF.........realneo-coop union - affilate of the afl-cio or other unions - or form own union - norm cesar roulet-

The Real Coop Local Food and Info proposal submitted to Cuyahoga County, for new economic and workforce development in Northeast Ohio, is designed to create 1,000s of new jobs in Northeast Ohio in career fields as diverse as journalism, communications, engineering, building trades, farming, food processing, warehousing and transportation.

You can sure feel the tension on my street and in my neighborhood, because some neighbors started speaking up about problems in the neighborhood and with other neighbors, who are causing harm. While my street has quieted down, there is bad energy here and directed from surrounding streets, from which teens have come to start fights here.

I sort of don’t pay much attention to the Plain Dealer sports pages. But it’s hard not to read them since there’s so little else to read in the paper. So last week I caught Bill Livingston’s spanking of pitcher Cliff Lee.

Max Eternity - From the Think Progress website it is been reported that in just one day, more than 200 former Obama staffers, combined with 13,000 Obama volunteers and 23,000 Obama donors, signed a petition sponsored by the Progressive Change Committee, which stated in part that a healthcare bill without a public option "would not be change we can believe in." 

South African Boerboel and Cane Corso

"Calls to boycott Obama's speech to kids offer a disturbing lesson in paranoia 

Who is responsible for keeping our neighborhood sidewalks and empty lots clean?  I walked from my son's house on Trowbridge on Sunday to St.

VICTORY IN ALCORN COUNTY MISSISSIPPI !!

• Posted by Grizz on September 6, 2009 at 12:30pm
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Unexpected smell of space

Rookie astronaut Kevin Ford says space has a smell — and he'll never forget it.

If nothing else, today proved to me the power of magic realism.  Nelson Cintron is a good man, a kind man and a man gifted with the power to transform.  He is not a perfect man, but like all of us, when he tries, he can perform magic. 

WKYC’s Tom Beres remains one of the few serious reporters on local television. That said, it’s shameful that his “Between the Lines” Sunday show too often has conflict of interest written all over it.