"78% of the homicides in the City of Cleveland are African American Males murdering each another!" was the small print I first noticed on the flier stuck between the bars on Snag's Glenville door, when I stopped by the other day. 

Here are the handouts will be providing at this evenings meeting.  For meeting details see the previous post at:

http://realneo.us/content/near-westside-public-meeting-cleveland-city-council-%E2%80%93-2009-ward-redistricting-process#comment-9741

Thanks to our community partners for assisting in getting the word out for this meeting.

Regards,

Brian Cummins
Cleveland City Council, Ward 15

This paper takes that notion to task.

NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DOES DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME SAVE ENERGY ...

and

Extended Daylight Saving Time Not an Energy Saver?

What do you think? Rise with the sun?

Maybe we need some roosters in the city.

This is Toronto

This is Toronto on Smog
 

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In search of a Medical Mart mathmatical formula…
…and more details!

See full post at Brewed Fresh Daily here.

Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, Iran, and moved to Whittier, California, with her family in the 1970s. She later attended the University of California at Berkeley where she met and married a Frenchman.

Location

 Cleveland Committee on Corporations, Law & Democracy
c/o Peace House, 10196 Magnolia Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone: 216-371-1175 Email: ClevDemocracy [at] aol [dot] com
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The Water Front

Film showing and discussion with the
producer, Curtis Smith.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Mac's Backs: 1820 Coventry Rd., Cleveland Heights

Water is the liquid gold of the 21st century. While

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

Online registration not required but helpful: http://www.cesnet.org/evtView.asp?evtID=163. Ask about sponsorship opportunities: http://www.cesnet.org/conNew.asp

Location: McNulty's Bier-Markt

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Panel Discussion: "Transportation: How We're Moving Economic Development"

Moderator: Howard Maier, Executive Director, Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA)

Panelists:

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Sponsored by SE Blueprint, Inc. and Boundless Flight.

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Sponsored by SE Blueprint, Inc. and Boundless Flight

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New organization needs help.

Barb McKay in Tremont asked me to post a notice regarding an upcoming BOZA variance meeting regarding two properties on West 8th.

Meeting:

Monday, March 9, 2009, 9:30am, Room 514

City Hall BOZA, 601 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Your participation or letters are requested.

Here's the story:

On W. 8th there sits two properties - one lot is vacant and the other lot has a house with violations that have not been addressed since the change of ownership (developer purchase)

A lot of folks will want to further write off downtown Cleveland after the recent violent shootings of two Clinic employees.  The violence can happen anywhere.  It's time that we looked harder at ourselves.

WHAT:
A community meeting to share information with the public pertaining to the approved Charter Amendment that requires Cleveland City Council to re-divide the City into wards using a population-based model with a ratio of one ward to every 25,000 residents. Estimated population figures compiled by the US Census Bureau and other reliable sources are being used to estimate population, which hs now been determined as 427,000, requiring a reduction of 2-wards from 21 to 19.

WHO:
Near Westside Cleveland City Council Members.

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This was your NEO

This is your NEO on FFOEF

In recognition of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), free tax preparation and electronic filing will be done for qualifying individuals at the event referenced on the attached document and briefly noted below.

Event: EITC VITA Super Refund Saturday for families earning $41,646 a year or less

Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009 Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm.

Location: Virgil Brown Center , 1641 Payne Avenue , Cleveland , Ohio 44114

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Why would MMPI (Medical Mart Properties Inc.), the firm chosen to build and operate the medical mart and convention center, already be offering to subsidize the first 25 occupants of the Cleveland med mart?

And why is MMPI saying that it will be diverting business from its other spots to Cleveland?

Is business that bad already?

I also don’t like MMPI’s executives saying that these new $1 billion facilities will “live or die on the success of the health care market place.”

This all makes me even more nervous than I was about this debacle of the deal.

Long-time Cleveland writer John Ettorre at a journalism meeting this week asked Susan Goldberg, Plain Dealer Editor, whether the newspaper might be losing some male perspective because several top editors were women. Not the most politically correct of questions but it could have elicited a valuable exchange.

Goldberg instead was sharp in her response before an audience of a meeting sponsored by the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalist, according to Crain’s Cleveland Business:

So you may think that investing in a medical mart is something Cleveland just has to do. That’s what they said about so many things that I’m not going to list here but you know the money that’s been expended on downtown this and that over the last 20 years in Cleveland. Cleveland wasn’t alone. Other cities did the same. Now here’s a study of the same kind of “investments” made in St. Louis and how much it has helped that city. How many jobs, how much economic activity did it produce? Who actually benefited from the public give-away of our money?

During the first anti-trust trial between the city of Cleveland and the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. (CEI), I walked up to the company’s former chairman Elmer Lindseth. He had been attending the trial as a spectator. I asked the 78-year old retired executive if he ever had expected to see the day that the corporate leaders of CEI would ever be brought into a court of law by the city. He hesitated to answer. I asked him if maybe he didn’t want to respond. He smiled and said, “The times are different and things change.” Things do change.

Don't give up, yet...A few more weeks, and Cleveland can celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and then we are home clear once the film festival starts!  The winter of 2008-09 is almost, almost, almost over...  

Find a sunny, south-facing wall and hold on.  We will all be okay!

Ed was as furious as I can ever remember seeing him, as he shouted "the process is broken".

Ed was so right.