I'm pleased to see a candidate for East Cleveland City Council has joined REALNEO... finally, someone to talk with about politics on the East Side. Welcome, Ephraim Abdullah, Candidate For East Cleveland City Council, Ward 3 - Tell Us Your Vision.

Recently Roldo has hammered away at the Greater Cleveland Rapid Transit Authority for raising fares and cutting the circulator busses.   The head of the RTA indicated that they needed to save money to make their budget.  

This afternoon, on Payne, behind the Greyhound station, there was a constant queue of about 8 or 10 busses idling - while - I assume - they waited for their schedule to role around on the clock. 

This week these colors are actually out of date here in NEO.  I took the images about 3 weeks ago, and was distracted until now so I didn't get them up on Realneo (Rn) in a timely fashion.   Anyway, here they are as a colorful counterpoint to the dreary stuff - mine included - which has been in the header lately.  These absolutely spectacular flowers grew out of the gound under the Geauga sun.  Rn people - users I know - raised, watered, cut and brought these flowers to my camera.  Very cool.

But how does Mother Nature do this color?

Each of the aprox 25 houses on this block had boarded front doors, no one was home.  These were very efficent housing units.  But not now.  What went wrong?

At around 5 PM, on September 23, 2009, WKYC Channel 3 news reported "shocking and disturbing photos, allegedly of incumbent Mayor Eric Brewer, are being circulated in the community, The Investigator Tom Meyer has learned." Photographs that appear to be East Cleveland Mayor Eric Brewer in woman's clothes, some that are pornographic, have apparently been circulating in East Cleveland for over a year - reportedly many years - and been broadly published by the mainstream media since the 23rd.

On the 24th, I was called by one of the mayor's confidants and told to watch out for retaliation. It seems that Mayor Brewer told the confidant he thinks I distributed the pictures of the mayor. I am not the only person being targeted by such paranoid delusions.

Dear Cleveland Cavaliers,

As you well know, 100,000,000s of people look up to you as community leaders and role models - these are responsibilities you accept as sports and public figures who are intentionally "in the news", for profit.

When my friend Kieth called and asked me to come over, last Thursday night, I could tell by his voice something was very wrong. When I arrived, he looked in shock - he told me his youngest son's mother had called to say their child had shot a mail carrier in Maple Heights.

It recently came to my attention that one of the most serious sources of pollution in Cuyahoga County is literally in my back yard. Less than two kilometers upwind from my home are the coal and natural gas fired external boilers at the power plant shown above, at University Hospitals, operated by Medical Center Company (MCCo), polluting the surrounding neighborhoods since the 1930s.

For the 30+ years of my life spent in Northeast Ohio, in childhood and as an adult, University Circle has been at the center of my universe. What Place is at the Center of Your Universe?

Keeping with recent discussion on Realneo about being a tough cookie in discussion and also about targeting certain advertizing images to certain geographical locals. 

Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, until bread crumbs are slightly browned but tomatoes still hold their shape.

(Save the tomato seeds and juice and add to/or make soup for another meal)

Bon Appetit

a word from me, Jeff Buster:  This dish is really delectible.   I can easily eat half of this recipe.  So if you are trying

South African Boerboel and Cane Corso

Again the colors of the day are perfect.   In a few days these colors will be obsolete.  All local grown. 

Boy this no-cost concept  for public education, civic amusement, or community entertainment has gone out of Style.

Our civic space has become totally prostituted.  

You pay about a half a C note to watch ads on the jumbotron at an Indians Wahoo Jacobs Progressive Gateway Corporate RICO mind control event.

Same at the Quicken Loan Arena. 

And lets not forget Roldo's favorites, the Lerhner's Browns FOOOOOOTBAAAALLLL !

More perfect color for this September 2, 2009 day in NEO!

As Jeff Buster reported on REALNEO, this summer there was some severe weather activity in the Shaker Heights area, where  my parents live, that took down a huge number of huge trees.

Please see credit/correction for this sage statement here on Realneo.  Thanks Jerleen

From seed to the table.   Get ready to consume vegetables - because they are ripening in high gear for the next few months.