Read it and decide for yourself, whether publicizing hole in ATT site, but not email addresses was illegal www.wired.com/opinion/2013/07/dont-hate-the-crime-hate-the-person-how-weevs-appeal-affects-all-of-us/ and potential impact on all of us.

Thanks to Korbi Roberts for this enlightening video and to Cleveland Area History:

 Norm Roulet created a community of interest to gain the attention of Peter B. Lewis.  Norm saw Peter B. Lewis as the only prominent philanthropist in Cleveland, who could SEE through the bullshit and con artists in this town - and THINK to make positive change.  

http://realneo.us/community-of-interest-links/dear-peter

Trains and dinosaurs - why do kids love them?  Do they know something adults have forgotten? Remember the magic:

http://www.nationaltrainday.com/s/

http://www.americansteamrailroad.org/event-spotlight.aspx

Location

 Note the gas cans on the front porch -vacant and unsecured house sits across street from the councilman's own mother-in-law.  Kids are in and out of this house.  Scary.  Kids who torch houses are known as "lightning bugs."

Photo by: Laura McShane

Mark Naymik has an editorial today and has solicited tweets from key council folk like Joe Cimperman meant to make him feel like a hardball reporter...insane. 

Life goes on.  The city continues to move.  Yesterday,  it was sunny and warm.  I was able to take the train to University Circle, and to swim at CWRU.  And, then I walked along the empty bike lane that runs up Fairhill through the Doan Brook watershed.  Flags were at half-staff at the Baldwin Water Plant.  Shaker Square was decked out for the holidays. 

Please help hold city officials accountable and stop disinvestment of services in Brooklyn Centre:

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-aldi-move-to-steelyard-and-stop-pus...

There is gross misuse of federal funds.  City of Cleveland provides incentives to corporate interests and developers but does not help communities retain services and allows use of federal monies to destroy historical fabric of a neighborhood. 

Lined up for Thanksgiving turkey and fixings at WSEM Brookside Center. The line was two blocks long.

Michelle Alexander spoke to a capacity crowd at John Hay auditorium on Thursday, Oct 25th. 

The City of Cleveland has torn up Fulton Rd. for close to a year now with the reconstruction of this important north-south artery--why are the electric lines NOT channeled underground as promised? 

At a dinner conversation the other day, I was told by a person who works with area businesses that the City of Cleveland can condemn a property --regardless of the building condition-- if the water bill is in arrears--true?

I would not be surprised:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/nyregion/arena-developer-rethinking-condemnation-of-houses.html

Cleveland's third official TEDx event, TEDxCLE 2012 will take place from 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. on Friday, April 20, 2012 in the Cleveland Museum of Art's Gartner Auditorium. At TEDxCLE, Cleveland's innovators will speak on a variety of topics in order to highlight areas in which Cleveland is excelling and reinventing itself. This is the first time the event will be held at CMA. Tickets for last year’s event sold out in two hours and we plan for a sellout crowd of 685 this year.

Speakers have been confirmed and are listed below:

Mortgage Fraud--two of the largest players were indicted yesterday and the story was relegated to a back page and players get a slap on the wrist:

"The magnitude of this crime is hard to fathom," Mason said. "A total of 453 homes, 358 of which fell into disclosure, were part of a master scheme to bilk the banking and real estate industries out of funds."

http://www.lamson-sessions.com/OurHistory.html