Hello folks, I'm back with open source resources you can point and click.

How do you learn about Linux and some of the open source software? Where do you begin?

Google it, Yahoo it, Dogpile it, if you are a web cruiser.

"Do we posses sufficient courage, compassion, and creativity to stave off chaos in defense of a just, sustainable society?"

That is the question? With so many voices shouting in cyberspace, what's the point?

Apple tree by board-up on Terrace Drive, East Cleveland

Follow-up to "The Changing Landscape of Public Advocacy: Citizen-Community Priorities and Web 2.0" Midtown Brews with Meet The Bloggers...

Alas, we had a website and now it is gone. More hocus-pocus and bogus politics in Brooklyn Centre.

EC Obama Field Office Manager Jessica Byrd and East Cleveland activist KMaCK

This news from NYC: Failed Deals Replace Boom in New York Real Estate

and there's this news: Under Strain, Cities Are Cutting Back Projects

 

Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ballroom dancing in the early 20th Century - those were high times.

From the definitive text on the subject of the Dance Marthons of the 1920 and 30s, Carol Martin

During the memorable August black out of 2005, my neighborhood suddenly came alive with a festive spirit of cooperation and joy. We noticed the stars, sat on our front porches, and shared food, while the kids played in the streets. Tim knows.

Join us Thursday afternoon for Midtown Brews with Meet The Bloggers...
The Changing Landscape of Public Advocacy: Citizen-Community Priorities and Web 2.0
Date: October 2, 2008
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Live Video Broadcast and Chat Conversation 6:00PM - 7:00PM (EST)

 

Hello one and all,

What a find in northeast Ohio, a web site about change needed today and tomorrow. I live in Lorain Ohio a city hard hit by industry closings. It is now all about the flow of money, keeping bang for the buck and managing to build something sustainable.

DebFEE Suther Lie #2

"We don't have a budget problem in Bay Village"

Straight from the ... uh ... candidates' mouth (I would have used the old salt "horses mouth" but I don't want to stir up another 'pig in lipstick' controversy). Said loud and clear at debate #2.

It used to be the American mantra. If you needed something, you made it. You didn't wait for it to be built in China. America, we are standing in a hole. Begging Washington for more money is not going to get us out of the hole.

We Americans are at the threshold. There is no turning back after November 4th. Please read Barack Obama's address to the American Library Association given in 2005.

Here's the article in Crain's Cleveland just published Sept 26, little more than 4 weeks before Elections...

Environmentalism: Growing food in your yard, naturally, to feed friends, family and others around you

 

An excellent report, "Casino Impact on Midtown" by Ed Morrison on the economic impact of a casino in the Midtown area.

Timely and relevant information to clearly understand the ramifications of Issue 6, which promotes a future downtown casino as a workfarce development and job creation effort by the City of Cleveland. Issue 6 has now been approved to be placed on the Nov ballot.

The Changing Landscape of Public Advocacy: Citizen-Community Priorities and Web 2.0

Topic: "2008 Presidential Campaign Issues: Growing the Economic Viability of Women"

Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008

Time: 9:00AM to 9:15AM Networking, Coffee & Bagels

Live Video Broadcast and Chat 9:30AM - 10:30AM (EST)

You don't need to know anything about an artist, his inspiration or the construction of his art to love it.