With so much trendwise, associated content, spying, spamming, paranoia, writing of the sort that is so hastily posted as to be unintelligible (punctuation and sentence structure is there for a reason), and because Max posted Annie Leonard's Story of Stuff video again to RealNEO, I thought I would share this series of documentaries from BBCTwo:

"It’s a matter of values. Our values have been out of whack. We keep enriching new development. We keep expediting the death of existing development."

NB: don't click on this - there's nothing more to read here - read Roldo

What’s the problem with tax abatements, tax exemptions and tax incremental financing (TIF), all incentives that reduce property taxes?

FYI - from the tremont list. I also saw this guy yesterday and again this morning (Saturday) about 10:30am near W 44th & Whitman. He didn't approach me either time. -Jonathan W 44th ________________________________ From: "tremontleaders [at] yahoogroups [dot] com" To: tremontleaders [at] yahoogroups [dot] com Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 1:07:17 PM Subject: Young Man Posing as Honeywell Security Rep Casing Houses in Ohio City Posted by: "David Mehring" david_s_mehring [at] yahoo [dot] com david_s_mehring Sat May 16, 2009 9:35 am (PDT) There is a young man casing houses in Ohio City and Tremont.

Do you recognize propaganda when you see it? The Pee Dee had a perfect display of it in today’s newspaper.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2_Fwhsl7i8

Three Cleveland building inspectors charged with extortion

Posted by pkrouse [at] plaind [dot] com May 15, 2009 10:13AM

How an artist sees the world ...

Apologies can do wonders for the soul :)

Norm,

For you to say you never know what I am talking about is not very nice.

I would also like my 500 dollars paid back, you extracted from me over the past year.  I do care about you, but I need the cash.  Perhaps you'll get a finders fee for all

the great planning and work you've done.  But we need to talk about the intentional misdirections you gave me on the day of the Social Media Club event, 

Architecture that can float is now very much in vogue.

It takes a world renowned visionary and creative genius like Richard Fleischman to take the complexities of saving and transforming our regional economy, landscape and society and express that in one clear, elegant statement.

The Vision for Cuyahoga County is clear - The world's first "Digital City" and the "Greenest Place On Earth".

The Wolstein East Bank project is in limbo but that hasn’t stopped the City of Cleveland from feeding Scott Wolstein $1.4 million for land for a future walkway and park along the Cuyahoga River in the Flats.

 Over the last few weeks there has been a bit of friction between different users and different viewers at Realneo.   You can observe this friction in some of the comments at Realneo, and if you look closely you can see it in who hasn’t recently been commenting or seen at Realneo.

By NICHOLAS CASEY

Taya Gray for The Wall Street Journal

Indio Chief of Police Brad Ramos examined a foreclosed, bank-owned home on Indio's Ozark Court on M

I've written for some time about the importance of Education as the most fundamental need for our region.  Specifically, we need our programs to be intergenerational, experiential, and service-based.   More heartening news comes down the news wire just recently, reported on MSN Careers and local

The cost of travel is prohibitive now, so why not make the most of the opportunity to travel a short distance and meet your neighbors across the river and over the dell?

Two upcoming events--highlighting Cleveland's walkable neighborhoods--are worth noting: the Tremont Trek, on Saturday, June 20th, and the All-Access Tour of Brooklyn Centre and Old Brooklyn neighborhoods, on Saturday, July 18th. 

The most valuable donation that you can make to Merrick House  in 2009 is a half an hour of your time.