Tony Brown and Steve Litt take a turn in front of a camera to discuss the impending sale of the Cleveland Playhouse to the Cleveland Clinic. The video is so poor that Brown comments asking for our forebearance. I really couldn't hear much at all, but IMHO Philip Johnson's design is worth saving not for design, but for the horrible waste of embodied energy.

I fired up the Cleveland.com website and read an article written by the Ohio Division of Wildlife: Poacher writes an apology for spotlighting deer. The guy was found guilty.  I skimmed through it reading the actual written apology and he "...put many people's lives at risk" on Nov. 20, 2008 when he and two other adults engaged in spotlighting deer from his vehicle in Guernsey County"

What the hell is "spotlighting"?

So what can Cleveland do to turn itself around?  That was the same question that many citizens in Atlanta were asking thirty years ago.  It breaks down to the issues and the solutions:

Issues:

HUNDREDS AND OR THOUSANDS OF PHONES LAND LINES ARE NOT WORKING IN TREMONT AREA CLEVELAND, OHIO AND OR OTHER AREAS SINCE THURSDAY MAY 21, 09 SAYS ATT BECAUSE OF CABLE PROBLEMS AND OUR PHONE IS ONE OF EM - ATT REPRESENATIVE SAID OUR PHONE SHOULD BE WORKING FOR CALLS SUNDAY MAY 24, 09 - ANYONE ELSE WITHOUT PHONE SERVICE- I WAS TOLD AT 5 AM  TODAY FRIDAY THAT I COULD CALL AT 8 AM AND REQUEST REMOTE ACCESS CALL FORWARD SERVICE TO ANOTHER NUMBER SO WHEN SOME ONE CALLS OUR OUT NUMBER  THE CALL WILL COME TO OUR OTHER WORKING NUMBER AND WITH OUR VOICE MAIL IF WE'ER OUT-

Cleveland Housing Judge Raymond Pianka orders Wells Fargo Bank not to sell foreclosed homes

Posted by slivings [at] plaind [dot] comMay 21, 2009 23:21PM

Judge Raymond Pianka

Cleveland Housing Court Judge Raymond Pianka on Thursday ordered Wells Fargo Bank to temporarily stop selling any foreclosed homes it owns in the city.

GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY KICKS OFF MONTH-LONG COMMUNITY TOOL DRIVE
Donated items will be used to help eliminate poverty housing 

It’s time somebody had some sense. Major League Baseball may have struck the first blow to end the life of Chief Wahoo.

The Social Sciences Dept. of the Cleveland Public Library is facilitating a non-fiction book club.  Our next discussion will be held on June 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM.  We will discuss the book entitled, "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing," by Ted Conover.  All book club members may register and pick up their books in the Social Sciences Dept.   All questions may be directed to the Social Sciences Dept.

The Social Sciences Dept. of the Cleveland Public Library is facilitating a non-fiction book club.  Our next discussion will be held on June 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM.  We will discuss the book entitled, "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing," by Ted Conover.  All book club members may register and pick up their books in the Social Sciences Dept.   All questions may be directed to the Social Sciences Dept.

I ventured downtown Monday and was shocked by what I saw. Or what I didn’t see. Cleveland – a virtual ghost city. At 11 a.m. At a crossroads of downtown at East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue.

This blog post and the subsequent comments bear reading.  To help folks to find it, I am reposting here.  Henry G--please confirm that this will be permalinked.  The comments don't get printed in the paper.  Will the comments, therefore, be lost someday?  To Ward14 Angel--may I reprint the full comments here?

A big day tommorrow as we received confirmation today that tomorrow the Stanford Homes project will begin to be taken down.  Lighting Demolition has won the bid and from the City of Cleveland and will be managing a deconstruction/demolition to try to harvest as much of the 2x4s and plywood etc... as possible.

The six partially constructed townhomes are located on Stanford Avenue just off of Pearl Road in between Memphis Avenue and State Road.

"A commitment to truth requires a commitment to social justice"

Noticing a bit of traffic today to the Chris Kennedy facilitates total collapse of NEO report from March 21, 2008 on REalneo, I Googled "Chris Kennedy news" and sure enough,  Mr.

State of Ohio Development Dept. has awarded a $12,500 grant to the EZ Corp. for toilet paper. Company officials had warned that the company could shut down as early as June 1 without the state’s help.

There’s been a multi-million dollar holdup and the police are doing nothing about it. The bandit – Alcoa - world’s leading producer of aluminum and aluminum products. Hard to believe. Or not.

Being caught 'brown handed' is like getting caught red handed except that you are caught being a pollut-o-crat.....as in brown fields and and as in the antithesis of Green.

In an effort to continue to clean up our city, our roving patrol at BSI captured another photo of a local business polluting our great land.  See Buckeye Sustainability Institute' NorthCoast Green Spieler Blog for the hot shot!

I look forward to your thoughts!

  
By Captain Eric H. May
Intelligence Editor
The Lone Star Iconoclast
 
Iconoclastic Insight