As I've mentioned previously, many of my six years with REALNEO to date have been spent in pursuit of a core research question - that economic development and community development can become equated under a frame of quality of life and place enrichment.  This has been proposed previously and backed by many of my theoretical pieces.  Now, as I shift to operationalization of the theory, it becomes more important to request feedback and input from the variously communities

.the tower of babble is now featuring Cuyahoga county's own Jimmy.

The City of Cleveland annually now pays $202,700 more in property taxes on Browns stadium as the Browns pay the city to rent the stadium all year.

The Plain Dealer, hot and heavy on corruption, today buries the fact that a man the paper says could replace Jimmy Dimora story has been indicted on bribery charges and theft-in-office, has relatives in political jobs, and has business relations he won’t talk about.

Hypocrisy - thy name is Sam Miller.

Today, for the first time in recent memory, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published a balanced, forward thinking editorial about local government, corruption and leadership failure in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. It was written by Christopher Evans, who is a member of the Editorial Board.

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WARD 14 Be Ready for a Busy Saturday....

2 Events offered to community...

1) Roberto Clemente Park Dedication and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony 11:15 am to Noon. Mayor Frank Jackson is expected to be there.

Its been some time since I've blogged here, but I'm back.  I'd thought I'd post a short but sweet entry on the importance of litter prevention and associated laziness factors to overcome as well as the importance of cleanup after the fact.  Many parts of Cleveland have been greened and treelawned at a tremendous rate and its heartening to see.

Bad economic news keeps hitting Ohio and Cuyahoga County. The newest data  from researcher George Zeller concludes “the rate of layoffs in Ohio continues to increase very sharply and at an alarming rate.”

The Plain Dealer got the headline and photo it wanted today with County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora’s “temporary” abdication of his chairmanship of the County Democrats. It will be a long “temporary.”

I’m against any public money going into an aquarium for Jeff Jacobs who now must be a big-time multi-millionaire. Let him buy his own.

Photo credit: New York Times

Dust off your Jean Jacques Rousseau NEO--Google "social contract" Cleveland, and, then, "social contract," Atlanta.

The game here will all start to make sense--after you PLEASE READ:

Atlanta Is MakingWay for New Public Housing, New York Times

The landscape is a source of inspiration.  Here are some photos meant to inspire on a dreary Monday morning for the world and NEO.

Another attempt to spin off REALNEO...only with strings in all the right places...

Norm--Chris reminds me that it took Einstein years of working in obscurity to finally get recognition for his ideas...I suppose you should take the attitude that imitation is the sincerest form of praise, but these spin-offs are just that...spinning...spinning..around and around...to nowhere.

I watched the video on cleveland.com on Bob Frost's attempt to speak directly to County Commissioners, where Frost questioned Dimora's ability to rule on stuff, being that everyone and their dead-ancestors round here know where 'ol Jimmy is heading for 5-10 years.

Tim Hagan, deflecting the political hammering from the head of the "de-facto" Republican Party in this city, responded back with something like, "...this isn't North Korea..." harrumph harrumph...(okay i made the harrumph part up).

Interesting....

The movie 'Money As Debt' will be screened at the Beachwood Library.  Information on this screening is scarcely available anywhere on the web.  Find out more about the movie, here.  There will likely be a discussion following the screening of this thought provoking movie.

Excerpts from  the review of 'Money As Debt' at Populist America>

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I wonder what our ask would be?

If we're going to ask for money, we need a focused proposal.
To make such a proposal, we need some agreement on what our goals are.
To establish goals, we need some agreement on What is and What should be REALNEO.

Over the past 20 years, I've spent most of my "professional" time as an entrepreneur, with world-class expertise conducting multi-dimensional, multi-client relational comparative data and best practice analyses of any aspects of the world's largest and best global enterprises, environments and systems, and developing and consulting on innovations and total quality improvement. This work has generated a wealth of knowledge on large general systems, with a unique expertise in information systems and telecommunications. REALNEO is a product of this highest level expertise, drawn from the best practices of the best organizations on Earth. What REALNEO has developed for Cuyahoga County - what has been generated out of the REALNEO-generated Real Cooperative - takes general systems innovation to a whole new level of making us the brightest greenest place on Earth. So, we really do have a purpose to Cuyahoga County owning the Breuer, and the vision is beautifully expressed in this great rendering above, to be REAL COOP citizen headquarters of the open source capital of this brightest greenest state of Earth.

Join us the first Friday of every month for networking at the Bier-Markt. FREE appetizers and nonalcoholic beverages.

Parking available in City of Cleveland lot on West 26th Street for $5.00. Parking may also be available in the West Side Market lot on Lorain Avenue. Please do not park on West 25th Street before 6:00 p.m.
 

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The Old South Side Community Coalition is now up and hard at work in the Tremont Community.  We met at the Jefferson Branch Library last night for our first public meeting after ten of us got together and decided that the present community organization did not have our best interest at heart.

I’ve been rummaging around in old stuff trying to put some old writings in some order. I came across a column from June 1988 that I’ll repeat below.