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LESSON to be learned from typing the wrong email address:

A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where

The Tax Poem

Tax his land, Tax his bed,
Tax the table, At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor, Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes, Are the rule.

Tax his work, Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts, Anyway!
Tax his cow, Tax his goat,
Tax his pants, Tax his coat.

Tax his ties, Tax his shirt,
Tax his work, Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.

Tax his cigars, Tax his beers,
If he cries, Tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his gas,

Throughout all of the centuries past, there has always been a few powerful and

enlightened men and women who have discovered the SECRET of how to tap the

Cosmic Mind and receive help from the most Powerful Force in the Universe. Some

of these enlightened ones have been able to contact this Force through meditation,

New Form Of Humans Being
Made? DNA, Cellular Upgrades?
6-17-4

Owner of Hilliard Square Theater looking to sell historic Lakewood building so it can be restored

Where's Ray Shepardson? It's time to restage Jacques Brel! Or maybe some depression era plays.

“I don’t agree with Schwarz that protest is futile. I think that every voice that is raised has its effect. My opinion is that if you have convictions, you shouldn’t be afraid to express them” (Elmer Price, We, the People: A Play in Twenty Scenes [New York: Coward-McCann, 1933], 138).

media Blackout!

Surplus U.S. food supplies dry up

By Bryan Ray for
USA TODAY

Tommy, left, and Terry Shoulders are identical twins and Cleveland Police Vice Squad sergeants. The panhandler wandering the food court at Tower City was loud and aggressive. Cleveland cop Terry Shoulders offered two options: Get lost or go to jail. The beggar hiked down Euclid Avenue toward East Fourth Street, where he began intimidating an old man. Suddenly the same cop, now out of uniform, was back in his face. How did he do that? "Hey, man," said the panhandler. "You just threw me out of Tower City. What the ...?" The panhandler wasn't seeing things.

My favorite choreopgrapher, Liz Lerman now has some video online. Here she speaks about her process:

I was thrilled to see all sorts of green sprouts and now colors appearing in our yard this week - and the header of the day features some of the first daffodils on Daffidil Hill, in Lakeview Cemetery - a few blocks from my house in East Cleveland.

I'll let you know when and where are the best flowers in my part of town - you let us know what's popping up around you - let's have a REALNEO virtual garden tour!

Miles Avenue Drive in Theater (of which I posted a photo on Realneo in 2007) – is history.

Yesterday's daily ethical transgression--Lottery Director Dolan's distribution of tickets to a state trooper--was discussed and my sister, the artist, referred me to the work of Mark Lombardi.

It's how conflict of interest makes for slippery slopes.  I hope that I don't offend any of the wrong people by mentioning the reference.

Plain Dealer editor Susan Goldberg won’t be joining political free-loaders at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction dinner. We don’t know about PD publisher Terry Egger.

 April 1, 2009  If you are interested in buying bare root nursery stock - maybe you could post your interest as a comment here on Realneo and we could carpool or Pick Up for you.  It is about 50 miles to Perry.   (I telephoned to confirm that Mr. Hines is working  this year- 2009 -  too!)   jeffb  Note: below is a re- post from spring 2008

 I would like to post what I hope to be an item of interest to everybody here.

I plan on creating an amenity that the Collinwood neighborhood (and Cleveland) needs.

I am opening a cafe - it will be called the Waterloo Cafe.

It will feature a menu that emphasizes local agriculture.  The cafe will be a combination coffeehouse, cafe, and bar/nightclub in the burgeoning Waterloo Entertainment District.

• Concrete Is Remixed With Environment in Mind
• Smog-busting paint soaks up noxious gases
• Permeable Asphalt
• Solar School Roofs

If we're gonna do these things, let's get 'em right.

More discouraging words about the Medical Mart planned here by MMPI and its use of $1 billion tax dollars – a furniture mart in plan.

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March 30, 2009

Please join us on a fundraiser to remind NE Ohio of a progressive past and help reinvigorate a promising future.  Prior to the Civil War and emancipation, "Hope" was the code name for Cleveland for emancipating slaves seeking support in the final stop before Canada

 One of the unsung heroes of Cleveland journalism quietly ended a long broadcast career here last week with no fanfare.

There is plenty of opera in Cleveland, though not all of it is live. Now technology allows us see and hear MET performances, almost as if we were there. Severance Town Center is no Lincoln Center, but the tickets are a lot cheaper.

I would like to give someone in NEO Two Free Tickets to a Metropolitan Opera performance of La Sonnabula (The sleepwalker) music by Vicenzo Bellini, Italian libretto by Felice Romani.
Pre-recorded and screening Wednesday April 1, 7 pm at

Banks Starting to Walk Away on Foreclosures

Sally Ryan for The New York Times

Mercy James’s rental property in South Bend, Ind., was in foreclosure, but a sheriff’s sale was canceled at the last minute.