Roldo--the PD is also in collusion with the corrupt CMSD adminstration bleeding our public schools.  The Buildings Commission is a fraud and a farce.  We have no media to protect and serve the public interest in NEO.
 

The FBI should be investigating business interests of the PD - they are the center of all corruption here, now.

Disrupt IT

McShane: Citizens can't expect the Pee Dee to do monitoring for them. It's unfortunate but it just won't get done. Years ago, a top lawyer from Jones & Day told the U. S. Civil Rights Commission that the business community had an agreement with the Pee Dee that it would print nothing the business community didn't want public in reference to the Cleveland schools. It was an statement, made in public. That person is long gone but the relationship can't be very far from what he expressed at that time.

It's a shame.

  Then, it's blood on all of their hands.

Despite looking like a prison, Lincoln West High School has committed teachers and students who work hard.  It will never be a fight to stay in their community for these students, when the district treats the infrastructure, staff, and students like garbage. 

Instead, it's a fight for survival--to get out and stay out.  It's sad, because these students are exposed to the blending of cultures we need in our society to be a productive society.  The Plain Dealer defaults to the richest, greediest segment of our society to what end?
 

A while back, I inquired of the PD what percentage of their advertising came from banks. They would not divulge.

I pointed out that they seemed, for years, have given a journalistic-scrutiny-free-pass to banks as these same banks plundered the community in the areas of credit cards, car loans, real-property loans and the concomitant repossessions and foreclosures, all the while racking up fees.

The PD is deeply conflicted, I concluded, by its very business model, dependent as they are on obtaining revenue from the same parties they should be reporting on honestly and fairly. They are their own advocates first, and the community's someplace after that, certainly after the advertisers.

I think that re-doing county government now would only give further cover to those who have been working the system for years. It would be better to do a thorough investigation and house-cleaning, recapture assets from the wrong-doers and their retirement plans, reduce the size of the government, which should after the cleaning operate way more efficiently, and then, and only then, ponder whether another form of government structure would be an improvement.

Tim, I agree.  I think it is awesome when people who have differed on one topic can agree on another. 

I agree with Tim.  I plan to vote no on both Issue 5 & Issue 6.  Neither side has done a credible enough job in explaining this to the electorate, possibly on purpose?  kd

Issue five keeps it on the table.

I wish I had time to look at each person on the list…but those people should be accessible for public input. That should be demanded actually and a public forum as well. What they come up with voted on not handed down.

I’d like to see reform kept on the table and also encourage that into regionalism.

I have trouble seeing everything following into some historical paradigm according to Roldo.

Now is not the time to make drastic changes.  In my opinion let the investigation find the corruption and weed it out of the current system before changing anything.  Fix what is wrong, don't throw away everything, only get rid of what is corrupt. 

Although, in theory, regionalism sounds like it could decrease government spending by consolidating political positions, I am not convinced that it will be good for people that live in the inner city areas.  There is too much animosity towards those who are receiving services paid for by tax dollar by those who are working and paying taxes, so I can't imagine that taxpayers would want to vote for anything that would benefit the non taxpayer.  My fear of regionalism is that the haves will take more for themselves and leave the have nots even further behind. 

I personally know people who received help in the past and by receiving that help they were able to get themselves out of poverty.  Without that help they most likely would not have been able to become successful.  I don't know if regionalism would even prevent people from getting help, but I fear that it would or could.