Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 17:24.
Have you completed the City of Cleveland PUBLIC PARTICIPATION SURVEY???? Allegedly these were completed and submitted last year....Very interesting... Don't recall receiving the option of participating....
Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 04:15.
I recently met with Marcia West, Regional Organizer for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), in Washington, DC, to explore how economically distressed communities should respond to the foreclosure and housing crises in America, to expand credit access for working-class residents - to learn what leaders of Northeast Ohio may do to improve access to loans for housing and community development for us common folk. The short answer is "Expand the Community Reinvestment Act to Bring Billions of Dollars in Safe and Sound Investments to America's Neighborhoods" - go to Expand CRA to learn more and contact your representatives... SPREAD THE WORD!
CRA encourages banks to respond to a variety of needs in low- and moderate-income communities, including the financing of affordable rental housing, sustainable homeownership, small business creation, and economic development projects.
Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 23:34.
I cannot believe that the local court system cannot figure out that there are not any attorneys working for the Cleveland Bar Association who are taking on Pro Bono representation for the indigent and neither is the LEGAL AID SOCIETY when it comes to PROPERTY TAX FORECLOSURES.
THE POOR CANNOT GET FAIR LEGAL ADVICE TO ASSIST THEM IN THESE PROPERTY TAX FORECLOSURES BECAUSE THE COSTS OF THE ATTORNEY IS OFTEN MORE THAN THE TAXES IN ARREARS PLUS FEES.
Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Fri, 12/03/2010 - 16:54.
Would you send a card to a disabled veteran???? Please support this request...Thank you all for your consideration! Here are the details for you to take action...May God Bless! Merry Christmas Everyone!
Joshua Gunter/ The Plain DealerSteve Dettlebach, U.S. attorney for the northern district of Ohio.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When federal prosecutors began to work with the Greater Cleveland Partnership on ways to encourage ethical business practices in the wake of local corruption scandals, they heard a stunning story.
During a trip abroad to recruit business, partnership representatives were told by a Dutch company that Cleveland wasn't a place they were interested in coming to because they believed it to be corrupt.
Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 00:38.
After spending practically a lifetime in and around Ward 14, I have watched so many changes, political manuevers, transitions from homeowners and transient tenants; while also sustaining the faith that somehow the days of long ago with small businesses filling the storefronts, every family on the street knowing each other because of the sense of good old fashioned community building was sustained by the residents, and most significantly, because American Pride and the American Spirit had yet to be raped, deprived, and abused so heinously over the last 4 decades...
November 30, 2010 -- The National Research Council, at the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has launched a study to strengthen the scientific basis for incorporating sustainability concepts into EPA’s decision-making. “Today I am formally requesting President Cicerone and the National Academies convene a committee of experts to provide to the U.S. EPA an operational framework for sustainability that applies across all of the agency’s programs, policies, and actions,” said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson at an event held at the National Academy of Sciences’ Koshland Science Museum. NAS President Ralph Cicerone and Bernard Goldstein, chair of the committee that will conduct the study, made remarks as well.
Wow! November 30th was an amazing day for the EPA. Not only are we in the midst of commemorating four decades of accomplishments in protecting the health and the environment, but Administrator Jackson also made a landmark speech at the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Science on the future of the EPA. That future is sustainability. The Administrator laid out her vision to a packed house of luminaries from across the spectrum, from academia to industry, to environmental groups.
Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 11:25.
2010 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement
"Well-conceived, effectively implemented environmental protection is good for economic growth… A clean, green, healthy community is a better place to buy a home and raise a family; it’s more competitive in the race to attract new businesses; and it has the foundations it needs for prosperity." – EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, March 8, 2010
Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 20:29.
More valuable than all the steel we mill, Cleveland has forged from our blighted, industrial, rustbelted, toxified, sprawling fruited-plains some of the most innovative, transformational music ever heard on Earth, since long before we gave birth to Rock and Roll.
Submitted by Norm Roulet on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 06:13.
TheLoop21.com's senior financial/political reporter and blogger Devona Walker observes on her blog, "This is a classic Depression for Black America, and few appear to be paying attention. Just look at the numbers." She goes on to point out, for Ohioans:
In several states, Michigan and Ohio for example, African-American unemployment is expected to exceed 20% in 2010
Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado, Mississippi, and New Jersey — the unemployment rate for Blacks was at least 2.5 times higher than that of whites
At the top of our broken Democratic political, social, environmental, and economic pyramid-scheming is President Obama, who has "turned out to be such a political dud as chief executive" that our "blue-state financial misery continues", along with other blue-states, and that "deepens the ideological crisis for American liberalism" worldwide. Even billionaires traditionally supportive of Democratic party interests and candidates appear to be seeking "alternative brands to Obama himself."
I quote above two excellent columns published online this week, coming from opposite directions, analyzing the challenges Obama faces ahead, mid-term into his presidency, if he seeks any hope of winning a second term in office in 2012 - The Second Wave, by conservative writer Michael Gerson... andSaving Progressivism from Obama, by liberal writer Robert Kuttner.
Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 15:04.
I have noticed on Cleveland.com that one poster has-on multiple occassions, cited SPECIFIC TARGETS that "SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED"... perhaps when there are over a hundred blogs on one article the FEDS get tired of reading pissed off citizens anonymously posting trite comments...but sometimes...the bloggers are whistleblowers who are giving you direct hits...LET'S MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE NOT OVERSIGHTED!
Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 14:57.
I believe that a lot of bloggers and whistleblowers are hinting about more connections to the FBI & PD...but under realistic observations...the connections, fraud, and endless list of investigations in multiple directions is mindboggling to any one investigator, reporter, or citizen...
Submitted by ANGELnWard14 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 12:27.
READ ALL ABOUT IT...compliments of badlawyernyc blogs...mafia, corruption, and lawyers....aren't we a stupid community who have been abused by these elected officials for all too long?
