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Houston we have a problem - Its the City of Cleveland Building & Housing Department - Pay to playSubmitted by Henry Senyak on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 01:52.
Its amazing to me to watch all the corruption. Building & Housing has been a real problem for years. I wonder how much it cost the destroy the Giglio household? Here is the Plain Dealer story. Remember Channel 19 covered this last summer, or the Channel 19 editorial last month. The M.O.B. rap group. See how ODOT handled it. Now here is how the Chicago Style Democratic political machine would do it. Or one of Chicago's finast Alderman would be part of pay to play.
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is a long standing joke
ask someone about the effort to get them to use palm pilots to upload data and accurate reports....
Doesn't Building and Housing work for Frank Jackson?!?!
The media has been praising Frank Jackson like he is Jesus... and I have to wonder why.
Let me see... Cleveland isn't firing anyone at city hall. Is that a good thing?
So Jackson didn't spend much leading Cleveland... did he spend anything right?
The coverage of this story so far is looking for the bad guy - the PD LOVES these big developers so it couldn't be their fault... and they love Frankie so it couldn't be his fault. Let me guess... the problem is just a few fat, dumb, drunk city employees who are masters at deceiving their bosses and scamming the region's biggest developers... yea right.
PD reporters - stop breaking bread with the crooks in town, and start breaking heads... you are all going to be fired by your bosses soon enough, may as well go down with s fight and self-respect... the community will carry you forward after the carpetbaggers leave (we shall not carry them forward, you may be ASSURRED... not that they actually live here anyways!).
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stonebridge - 2007 entry SBS
A group calling themselves SBS short for Stop Building Shit has a great blog on construction and design "issues" in Cleveland. They covered the Stonebridge problems in 2007. Check out Something Missing?
Yes at the time I saw this I wondered, how did that pass inspection. Uh... now we know.
And you may recall that if the westbank of the Cuyahoga continues to slide eastward into the river, Stonebridge residents may be blasted with millions of gallons of sewage. Freetimes covered it:
Up A Creek
The PD covered it:
Irishtown Bend collapse could halt Cuyahoga shipping according to Army Corps
And yes, K&D was the supposed savior of the Breuer Tower. Still pending I would guess. In case you don't recall, the Commissioners when asked by their project manager (remember this property was to be razed so the county could have new offices) was told not to publish the sale of the building outside Cleveland, so a notice was posted in the PD, Crain's and that's it. K&D knew from the start that they would be the sole bidder. I tried to find a notice on the county website that the property was up for bid, but the website is so convoluted that it required verbal direction from Adrian Maldonado, then director of the county's office of diversity and procurement - now this one?) to eventually find it. The entire process was convoluted.
I wonder if, like the current banking BS, our entire government might not come crashing down and blast more than Stonebridge with a ration of shit.
a view of Cleveland - City View a microcosm
Imagine that this story about City View shopping squalor is a microcosm of our global ecomomy meltdown - crap built on crap - a view of Cleveland:
Then ask yourself if it is still a "good idea" to allow this sort of thing (dressed up as a Medical Mart) to be installed in downtown Cleveland. Place your bets folks because we don't need to legalize or privatize gambling in Ohio - we're already well into a statewide casino schema.
Imagine the Cuyahoga caving in from both banks - bulkheads not restored on Irishtown Bend, Forest City shoehorning their project onto the eastbank and straightening the river to do so... what happens if the river just caves in at that point?
T. S. Eliot - The Dry Salvages
Photo of slope subsidence, Irishtown Bend Sewer
This shows (one of several locations) the 4 foot high subsidence directly over the main west side sewer collector at Irishtown Bend. The entire hillside up towards W25th Street is visibly unstable along this stretch of roadway. And the area has historically been unstable, that's why there are no buildings on it. The NorthEastOhioRegionalSewerDistrict ( NEORSD) has installed a dozen or so slope inclinometers (a drilled well with a slope indicator in it) to monitor the subsidence.
In my opinion, (I have a little geology training) this entire area could slip into the Cuyahoga River at any time. And if that happened, much of the sewerage from the southerly portion of the West side of Cleveland would dump untreated into the River and into Lake Erie where, three miles offshore, the Cleveland water intake crib sits.
We would be fine, however, because the Water treatment plants could just add more chlorine! So, this approaching problem can wait - it makes more sense to spend a billion and build the MEDCON now!
shut up, put up, obey
Now Jeff, how could you suggest such a rational thing as spending money to address this issue?
Here in Clevehoga the modus operandi is keep you nose to the grindstone, blinders on, say nothing, just obey...
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just pretend it's not there.....gAd....
PD corruptly misrepresents all corruption as "County"
For those few of you who still read the PD, always keep your eye out for little lines inserted in just about any article that attempt to associate just about anything screwed up in the Region to "FBI Investigation of Corruption in Cuyahoga County"... like with coverage of the corrupt City of Cleveland building inspectors who work for Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson... headline: "K&D Group manager charged with bribing inspectors; case has tie to county corruption probe". How is the "County" the story here?
The story is "K&D Corruption Runs Wide And Deep: Corruption Investigation of Mayor Jackson's City Hall Continues!", and that story is published all day every day on REALNEO, all over town.
And in today's "Editorial", by the "Editors"... "Bratenahl's citizens deserve explanation for how things went so wrong: Plain Dealer editorial"... about the corrupt Police Chief and Mayor of Bratenahl, the issue becomes Peter Lawson Jones' problem... with the "subliminal" little seduction-line "If the mayor didn't know, that's only a slightly smaller problem -- one reminiscent of County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones' response to news that a former county recorder wasted $1 million a year: "We all had a sense something was wrong."
The Mayor and chief of Bratenahl are corrupt because that is how the powerful people of Bratenahl want it... sort of like having personal get out of jail free cards... (ask the Chief about all that... see how many rich people have gotten DUIs in Bratenahl... he may be looking to bargain).
The inspectors at City Hall are corrupt because that is how Frank Jackson and his funders want it.
AS FOR THE PD - WE GET IT... YOU'VE TEFLON COATED JACKSON AND ARE TARRING AND FEATHERING JONES.
Elisabeth Sullivan - GOOD JOB - NICE TO HAVE YOU IN TOWN - Real nice. So that is what selling out looks like.
Go back to DC.
We get your point, you are pandering to the business establishment, Ronn Richards and the Cleveland Foundation, Brad Whitehead and the FFOEF, and are endorsing all their candidates for everything and destroying everyone that doesn't fit that model... you are out to get the County government and especially Peter Lawson Jones, making you biased and entirely irrelevant to this community, and part of the "Quite Crisis".
Get your act together... this type of bad news is not what anyone in the community really wants.
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