Court Voids Campaign Spending Limits for Nonprofits

This image is on its side - the reality is 90 degrees counter clockwise.  but that doesn't matter.   For a web site, the landscape view is easier to project on a 16x9 screen. 

The afternoon light across two silos (one riveted, one cast in place concrete) at St Mary's Cement in Cleveland, Ohio put the helical staircase shadow spectacularly on the concrete silo.  Every detail goes to the focus of the sun.

New York Times - “YOU Gotta Be Tough” was a popular T-shirt slogan worn by Clevelanders during the 1970s, a grim period marked by industrial decline, large-scale population flight and an urban environment so toxic the Cuyahoga River actually caught on fire. These days it still helps to be at least a little tough; a fiercely blue-collar ethos endures.

Bill Maher @ The Huffington Post - President Obama has identified all the problems with the health care system, but there's one tiny issue he refuses to tackle, and that's our actual health.  And get this: Surgeon General Benjamin had previously been a nutritional advisor to Burger King. The only advice a "health expert" should give Burger King is to stop selling food.

Bad credit $99 down. I am parsing the big picture about cleveland. 

Eric Boehlert writes about his fears of the climate being created by the right-wing forces regarding our President. He sees and feels Dallas 1963.

 I first wrote a blog post on BSB in March of 2008 titled "Someone is going to get hurt".  It was in response to the veiled race baiting of the heated presidential primary.

hi claude -all - i need your help-
i have been advocating for " seven out of the fifteen twdc board members should be low income - to avoid corruption and have deversity - the by-laws should be rewitten to include this"
the only way the wonderfull vested interest folks won't be able to control twdc and our money is to have low income board members - and if you do research many of the top boards that pass out the power and money like mental health etc., have a fifty fifty ratio of board members - 50% are consumers of the services -
so why not twdc-

New Courtwatch Document.

Macuga, Liddle & Dubin, P.C.

Well, I guess that at the present time those of us who were hoping to get TWDC and the Long Range Planning Committee behind helping out with getting some great outdoor recreational facilities and pocket parks in the Tremont neighborhood, might just have to settle for a little spot with a nerf ball and net. 

A realneo member contacted help to report that the header image was loading in the Comment and Reply body fields... I was having the same problem in Firefox, but not in Safari.

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It recently came to my attention that one of the most serious sources of pollution in Cuyahoga County is literally in my back yard. Less than two kilometers upwind from my home are the coal and natural gas fired external boilers at the power plant shown above, at University Hospitals, operated by Medical Center Company (MCCo), polluting the surrounding neighborhoods since the 1930s.

Hi Everyone,

How is it six Senators from states that don’t have even 10 million people tell the people of the United States of more than 300 million that they can’t have the kind of health care they need?

In Ward 14, both candidates who emerged from the primaries seem to have strong 2nd party affiliations.  While both are registered Democrats, has their 2nd party affiliations helped them get out of the mire of the current corruption sweeping local democratic politics?  Will their affiliations help or hurt?  Does it make them more "independent?"  Are 3rd parties ever again going to be able to gain more traction in the political system?  Anyone else find this interesting?

The Plain Dealer this morning headlined a major public give-away as a “$54M injection” for the Wolstein Flats project. private development, SUPPOSEDLY.

Pressure Point will fizzle without community

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 Cleveland, OH/Pittsburgh, PA: The September Fine Art & Antiques online auction by Aspire Auctions, Inc., starts Friday September 18th and lots close over a three day period (Sept. 24, 25 and 26) because there are 1242 lots in thirteen categories including paintings, works on paper, sculpture, silver, porcelain & ceramics, fine watches, fine jewelry, glass, orientalia, decorative arts, furniture, books/maps & autographs and oriental carpets.

 Cleveland, OH/Pittsburgh, PA: The auction of the collection created by Muriel and Noah Butkin grossed $1,052,664.00 last weekend at Aspire Auctions. The auction benefits the Cleveland Museum of Art.  

Why Phillip Morris would bring Carl Stokes’s name into a discussion of a dull mayoral race is beyond me. Stokes wasn’t in any dull mayoral elections. Not in 1969. Not ever.