Clevelanders over the years have taken over the Yankees, the Knicks, the Nets, the Rangers, Madison Square Garden. If sports, why not the book industry. Well, not quite that ambitious but Bill Gunlocke who gave Cleveland the alternative paper The Edition, has started a blog and wonders if New York City is really a Book City.

I haven’t read the 300 page plus consulting report on management and efficiency of Cleveland government and I probably won’t. I leave it to others. I know it won’t touch the one revenue source that Cleveland should tap if it had any concern for its citizens. It is out of the question. Won’t happen.

Were there failures or absence of institutional and community structure that helped make the mass murderer of Imperial Avenue get away with the killings so easily? Yes, there were.

Robert Maschke Architects is pleased to sponsor the arrival of a traveling exhibit featuring winning and top submissions from the d3 Natural Systems international design competition.   The exhibition will be on display at 1point618 located in Gordon Square at

The reason we don’t know why the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority dumped its chief executive Adam Wasserman is because the real leader of the board – John Carney – believes it’s none of your business.

Ran into an old friend this morning at University Hospital where we older people are likely to meet. Boy was she angry. At Dennis Kucinich, a favorite of hers.

 I want to thank all who signed up for our Toys 4 Tots drive. As of 11/06/09 the final turn in date we had over 350 children on our list.This was over 100 more then last year. Thanks to all who helped make this happen. But due to finacial restraints we here at Clark-Metro are asking for CHRISTMAS RAPPING PAPER DONATIONS. Even a roll can help us give the children of our community a better Christmas. Donations will be taken at 3167 Fulton rd. in the Lin Omni building. Always feel free to call Adam Umek at 216-624-3811 Cell  or at office 216-938-8942.

Could the pathetic condition of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party give us a Republican for the first County executive? Is the Pee Dee already pushing a Republican, the out-of-county son of Cleveland Indians’ owner Larry Dolan for the top spot?

It didn’t even take a day for the Pee Dee to setup the next pillage and plunder of Cleveland.

Cleveland Browns fans may be angry with Randy Lerner and the Cleveland Browns football team but that didn’t stop them from contributing $10.9 million to help him this year.

Roger Stone, a Republican PR hit man, took quite a shot at Pee Dee editor Susan Goldberg, on the Issue 3 coverage: “PD Editor Pimps for Casino Gambling.”

The biggest story this day after the election isn’t approval of County government reform or approval of a monopoly casino for a billionaire.

I have removed a recent posting on a Dan Gilbert blog. I mistook a blog by another Dan Gilbert. I apologize for the error.

October 7, 2009, we began our sixth year of ongoing, expansive, free, open source content management and global knowledge sharing, community building, social networking and collaboration on REALNEO. See posting Number 1, REALNEO Development Plan, from October 7, 2004, here, for links to many source documents from the planning and development of REALNEO, since 2004.

Congratulations to all REALNEO members, from day one to today! We've come a long way, since 2004, and our outcomes run far deeper than is seen on the surface of REALNEO. Six years is an eternity, in the world of social computing - we're about 8 months younger than Facebook, and a paradigm beyond - we are Real Co-op!

Residents of Old Brooklyn

 If you want your Old Brooklyn neighborhood to become like Slavic Village ( forclosure capital of the world, astronomical crime rates, spiraling property values, vacant store fronts, exodus in fear, no festival, no plan, no vision ) vote for the incumbent Brancatelli.

If you want to protect your property and have someone in office who will work for you to keep your neighborhood safe and great, vote for Olga Sarbinowska Cleveland City Council Ward 12.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich urges all in Ward 14 to vote for Rick Nagin for City Council

www.naginforcouncil.com/index.html

Everyone says so...Rick Nagin is best for Ward 14

http://www.naginforcouncil.com/index.html

Stampede, stampede, stampede.

Driving from Cleveland up into the eastern Heights, today, I noticed how different the political signs are in the most affluent part of the Cuyahoga County, compared to in my lowly 'hood... and how illegal. While there are quite a few pro-Issue 6 signs on front lawns of fancy houses, in the lofty Heights, where the pro-Issue 6 signs are most prominent is on public property, from Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights east.

A former Michigan state trooper tells a different story of Dan Gilbert’s arrest on operation of gambling business than the Cavs owner has been peddling to the news media. Gilbert has made it seem a minor episode, best forgotten.

Wonder if the Pee Dee will headline this story: Four billionaires have “loaned” $240,000 to the former disgrace Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. One of them our casino king: Dan Gilbert.

It's not all gloom and doom--here are some uplifting images from a grey day in Cleveland.