I was reviewing emails from last week and read, from the EPA, "EPA Proposes Tightening Standards for Lead-Safe Renovation Practices and Lead Paint Dust to Protect Children", which reports "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is marking National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week by announcing several actions the agency proposes to take to prevent lead poisoning."

Do you remember hearing anything in Northeast Ohio about last week being National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week? 

Obama Declares Swine Flu a National Emergency

emergency status allows officials to bypass federal rules,
respond more quickly

bend over ... we aim to please

ORIGINAL CAPTION: submitted by George Hiscox

Wow Man!! did you see that??????????

It was on the front page of the Plain Dealer for Saturday October 24, 2009. The second headline read, "Green idea for Oberlin: a sustainable arts district".

 Again, it seems that somebody had their ears on at the OSS meeting last Monday night.

This morning I arose to find Treehouse business owner Tom Leneghan and Jason Beudert on College Avenue with a truck load of orange cones, yellow tape and laminated signs stating "Tremont Resident Parking Only."

They were attempting to block off street parking for residents before the bar's sports patrons began arriving. 

Okay, for once, JeffB and NormR--we can agree that aersol art can be a thing of beauty--I am including here an image, I shot while in college at Miami University of Ohio. 

Long live the REVOVOLUTION!

 At the Old South Side Community Coalition meeting on Monday, October 19, 2009, in crowded room (standing room only), Tremont residents gatherd to once again discuss their concerns relating to parking and noise issues arising from the onslought of the up-scale restaurant/bars/nightclubs that plague their neighborhood. 

the REAL horror show

ORIGINAL CAPTION: submitted by Nate Dampier

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Being in this environment must be therapeutic.   Cleveland's social serviced should consider aerosol therapy.

Some Choices...A Lot Easier

Some choices are harder than others. This one is a lot easier.

Our Ward Councilman Brian Cummins is the better candidate...by far. You be the judge.

What is sustainability for Cleveland? Recently Major Frank Jackson lead an acclaimed three-day “Sustainability Summit,” which brought together 700 excited business people, students and environmental activities in feel good optimism while the Jackson-lead city government slogs along to Cleveland’s oblivion as usual.

"I think Ohio can be the next Silicon Valley", said Cleveland Foundation President and "former head of North American research and development for Panasonic" Ronn Richard, for a November 2007 Cleveland Plain Dealer article titled "German solar company plans HQ in Cleveland". The PD then reported: "For months, the Cleveland Foundation has sent teams to Europe in an effort to sell Ohio to solar and wind turbine companies as the right place to manufacture."

Today, less than two years later, the PD reports "IBC Solar to leave Cleveland for San Francisco." "The company has maintained its one-person U.S. headquarters here since February 2008." "Cleveland Foundation President Richard hadn't given up Thursday evening. He was to meet with Buntain today to talk about the company's decision -- and what it will take to keep a presence in Ohio."

I was quite breathtaken when I scanned the list of contributors to Issue 6 - the NEOCON ploy to restructure Cuyahoga County - published today in the primary communications vehicle for NEOCON 6, the Cleveland Plain Dealer. 

Disgraced, bankrupt National City Bank contributed $30,000 for Issue 6 - in Federal Bail-out funds, must be.

The article reports "The primary authors of Issue 6, County Prosecutor Bill Mason and Parma Heights Mayor Martin Zanotti, lent $5,000 each to the cause."

I had an opportunity to talk with Cummins about the voter registration and Democratic party allegations being leveled by the Nagin campaign and he convinced me that just like the "Loner" charges, they are unfounded.  He voted by absentee ballot while serving in the Peace Corps and had registered right after high school.  In Cleveland, he voted with provisional ballots after having moved back.  Furthermore, Cummins is the candidate endorsed by the Cuyahoga County Democrats.  I found that hard to believe given Nagin's stance that he had worked for decad

Steve Rosen: CIA, FBI paranoid about Mossad

By editors [at] jpost [dot] com">E.B.

Fox News: Israeli Spyring 

Please review the following PDF documents made available to me from ODOT District 12.

ODOT has informed Public Officials that no noise walls will be constructed in the first innerbelt bridge phase 1.

This is specific to the west side of the highway in Tremont from University Ave. to the north and Branch Ave. to the south.

The W 14th street I 90 ramp had an accelleration lane added on the Innerbelt Bridge after the bridge was built.  The accelleration lane added weight and cantilever forces on the trusses which the Bridge was not originally designed to withstand.  

The Social Sciences Department of the Cleveland Public Library is facilitating a non-fiction book club.  Our discussion will be Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM in the Social Sciences Department.  We will discuss the book entitled, "Sex, Lies, and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation," by Shaun Assael and Mike Mooneyham.