The Social Sciences Dept. of the Cleveland Public Library is facilitating a non-fiction book club.  Our next discussion will be held on June 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM.  We will discuss the book entitled, "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing," by Ted Conover.  All book club members may register and pick up their books in the Social Sciences Dept.   All questions may be directed to the Social Sciences Dept.

The Social Sciences Dept. of the Cleveland Public Library is facilitating a non-fiction book club.  Our next discussion will be held on June 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM.  We will discuss the book entitled, "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing," by Ted Conover.  All book club members may register and pick up their books in the Social Sciences Dept.   All questions may be directed to the Social Sciences Dept.

I ventured downtown Monday and was shocked by what I saw. Or what I didn’t see. Cleveland – a virtual ghost city. At 11 a.m. At a crossroads of downtown at East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue.

 

This blog post and the subsequent comments bear reading.  To help folks to find it, I am reposting here.  Henry G--please confirm that this will be permalinked.  The comments don't get printed in the paper.  Will the comments, therefore, be lost someday?  To Ward14 Angel--may I reprint the full comments here?

A big day tommorrow as we received confirmation today that tomorrow the Stanford Homes project will begin to be taken down.  Lighting Demolition has won the bid and from the City of Cleveland and will be managing a deconstruction/demolition to try to harvest as much of the 2x4s and plywood etc... as possible.

The six partially constructed townhomes are located on Stanford Avenue just off of Pearl Road in between Memphis Avenue and State Road.

"A commitment to truth requires a commitment to social justice"

Noticing a bit of traffic today to the Chris Kennedy facilitates total collapse of NEO report from March 21, 2008 on REalneo, I Googled "Chris Kennedy news" and sure enough,  Mr.

State of Ohio Development Dept. has awarded a $12,500 grant to the EZ Corp. for toilet paper. Company officials had warned that the company could shut down as early as June 1 without the state’s help.

There’s been a multi-million dollar holdup and the police are doing nothing about it. The bandit – Alcoa - world’s leading producer of aluminum and aluminum products. Hard to believe. Or not.

Being caught 'brown handed' is like getting caught red handed except that you are caught being a pollut-o-crat.....as in brown fields and and as in the antithesis of Green.

In an effort to continue to clean up our city, our roving patrol at BSI captured another photo of a local business polluting our great land.  See Buckeye Sustainability Institute' NorthCoast Green Spieler Blog for the hot shot!

I look forward to your thoughts!

  
By Captain Eric H. May
Intelligence Editor
The Lone Star Iconoclast
 
Iconoclastic Insight

"Information is doubling faster all the time. It took from the time of Jesus to the time of Leonardo for one doubling of knowledge. The next doubling of knowledge was completed before the American Revolution, the next one by 1900, the next one by 1950, the next one by 1960. You see how [it keeps] moving faster? Now knowledge is doubling every eighteen months." "With all these new bits, bytes, blips of information, no model can last long because models only include the bytes of information that were

The three Cuyahoga County Commissioners date at City Council on the Med Mart/Convention Center became a laugh and love in. Nary a contrary word could be heard.

Ward 13 Councilman Joe Cimperman stated, “I can not put into words my frustrations with the Building and Housing Department when it comes to inspections."

Tremont West Development Corporation fails
to address long standing parking problems
by Jerleen Justus

Plain Dealer editorial staffers have agreed to wage reduction and furloughs in exchange for a one-year moratorium on layoffs.

Tonight, REALNEO moved to a new web host.

If you see the location of the site as "http://linode.realneo.us", don't worry: you've got the same site, it just means that you're still being redirected through the old address. Domain name changes take time to propagate through the net, and the updates haven't yet reached your computer.  (You can try clearing your DNS cache, if you're anxious, but it'll eventually pass.) If you see the normal URL, great.

With so much trendwise, associated content, spying, spamming, paranoia, writing of the sort that is so hastily posted as to be unintelligible (punctuation and sentence structure is there for a reason), and because Max posted Annie Leonard's Story of Stuff video again to RealNEO, I thought I would share this series of documentaries from BBCTwo:

"It’s a matter of values. Our values have been out of whack. We keep enriching new development. We keep expediting the death of existing development."

NB: don't click on this - there's nothing more to read here - read Roldo

What’s the problem with tax abatements, tax exemptions and tax incremental financing (TIF), all incentives that reduce property taxes?

FYI - from the tremont list. I also saw this guy yesterday and again this morning (Saturday) about 10:30am near W 44th & Whitman. He didn't approach me either time. -Jonathan W 44th ________________________________ From: "tremontleaders [at] yahoogroups [dot] com" To: tremontleaders [at] yahoogroups [dot] com Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 1:07:17 PM Subject: Young Man Posing as Honeywell Security Rep Casing Houses in Ohio City Posted by: "David Mehring" david_s_mehring [at] yahoo [dot] com david_s_mehring Sat May 16, 2009 9:35 am (PDT) There is a young man casing houses in Ohio City and Tremont.