CLEVELAND - The Cuyahoga County Coroner reports deaths by prescription drugs and heroin overdoses have risen by 79 percent in the city of Cleveland and by 176 percent in the suburbs over the last five years."Four people in Ohio die everyday from a prescription opiate overdose. And what happens is, when you lose your supply of prescription opiates, you turn to something that is actually cheaper and more available, and that's heroin, " said Dr. Christina De Los Reyes, the Chief Clinical Officer for the ADAMHS board in Cuyahoga County.

Aspire Auctions, located on the web and headquartered in Cleveland Ohio, is about to celebrate 10 years in business. Starting on Larchmere Blvd. in Shaker Heights, the company started out with three people and now has a fulltime staff of 11 and two locations. The auction house moved to it's current location in the historic Bloch Building in Downtown Cleveland three years ago and has a second location in Shady Side near Pittsburgh PA. 

Fresh coconut milk and meat on the roadside across from the beach - prepared by the locals with a machete and a curved table knife -  the REAL thing...

Surf is just liquid Solar Power.....cutting right on this wave....

Kite boarding - color me there

Now, the city of Boston has been forced to go one step further than merely acquitting those charged -- they have had to respond to Glik's own lawsuit against them. As part of the settlement, Boston will pay Glik $170,000 in damages and legal fees, thus sending a warning to law enforcement that they will be watched and recorded by the public, as well as a warning to cities and states who will disobey the Constitution.

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The Cleveland Division of Police Narcotics Unit arrested four suspects during two separate warrant executions Friday.According to Cleveland Police, crews executed the county search warrants at 1116 Rowley Avenue and 1250 Riverbed.Police arrested James Taylor, 37, of Cleveland from the Rowley Avenue location.  The remaining three suspects, Jennifer Chappell, 37,  James Morgan, 42, and Mark Devinney, 41, were arrested at the Riverbed location.All four individuals were arrested for Violation of State Drug Law

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 Doing my Saturday night rounds, I come to the stop light where I want to take a right turn - and very faintly on the sidewalk I think I see what I think is a votive candle flickering - I look up and it's in the quiet hands of a young black man.   

BIG MESSAGE HERE, I immediately realize.

Then everyone in the car says: It's got to be for Trayvon!

Wow!

Beautiful!

 Why didn't I think of this?   A local ordinance that requires a million dollar commercial insurance policy in order to have a public assembly or public march?   Why not a 10 million dollar policy limit if the march is really controversial?   

 Cuyahoga County   Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell 

just appropriately ruled for the low bidder on the Brown's stadium concrete work. So, I thought, maybe here's a judge who is doing his job.  I Googled him. 

"Knowing love, I will allow all things to come and go. To be as supple as the wind, and take everything that comes with great courage. My heart is as open as the sky. Life is right in any case."

Lessons learned only mean something if CHANGE is effectuated to prevent the same mistakes in the future..... Who do you believe is capable of transforming Cleveland's (underground) politics beginning in 2014? 

Do we have anymore "ED FITZGERALD" types who have been FBI guys that are willing to take on the unethical regime at City Hall? 

Do we have any citizen groups willing to disrupt politics as usual in Cleveland City Hall? 

Must not be significant in the accountability scheme.......intriguing....just visit missingmoney.com and input a search....see if you or your agency is owed money lost in the shuffle! 

OPEN CHESS

Every day in the Social Sciences Department

(Home of the Cleveland Sports Research Center)

Request a chess set available at the reference desk, 5th floor, Louis Stokes Wing.  For more information, please contact the Social Sciences Department 216-623-2860.

Cleveland Public Library

MEDICARE INFORMATION FOR SENIORS

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 10 a.m. to 12 noon

Are you mystified by Medicare?  Confused by your coverage? Visit Main Library - Louis Stokes Wing on March 27 to get information and resources from a representative of the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Informtion program (OSHIIP). Topics covered by OSHIIP include:

* Medicare health coverage for seniors and for people under age 65 with disabilities

NEW YORK (AP) — It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad.Now, intimate details of 132 million people who lived through the 1930s will be disclosed as the U.S.

CLEVELAND - A parishioner of a Cleveland church has chosen a unique way to get the message out about reopening close churches.The parishioner, who attends St. Wendelin, has purchased space on an electronic billboard on Carnegie Ave.The message reads, “Bishop of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese, reopen our church doors! Reopen our parishes! Now!”

The Social Sciences Department of the Cleveland Public Library will hold their non-fiction book club discussion on Thursday, April  12, 2012 at 12:00 PM in the Social Sciences Department (Sports Research Center).  We will discuss the book entitled, "The WHORE of AKRON: One Man's Search for the Soul of Lebron James." (Scott Raab)

THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLIC IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND THE REGION! WE DO APPRECIATE YOUR DEDICATION, DILIGENCE, AND DETERMINATION IN DISRUPTING CORRUPTION ON OUR BEHALF! 

Many of us ARE aware of the personal sacrifice, the ongoing requirements, and the vicious cycles you are mitigating to accomplish your mission of protecting the public at large from dishonorable and unethical public servant practices. Moreover; we appreciate your desire to "clean up" the ugly that has permeated our region for TOO LONG! 

Cleveland Plain Dealer has an editorial that says "Legal Aid needs a funding lifeline"..... Who will step up and help this very imperative organization that protects the legal rights of the low income families in our community at large?

CLEVELAND - About 80 Cleveland police officers from all over the city fanned out across the second district Tuesday night in a show of force against crime.According to Commander Keith Sulzer, the mild weather this winter has contributed to an increase in crime. "Not anything to be too alarmed about," he said. "But there's been an increase and we're going to address it with what we have, as much as we can."The officers spread out into seven west side neighborhoods, including Ohio City, where there have been a lot of car break-ins recently.

The following U.S. volcanoes are known to be above normal background (elevated unrest or eruptions) or have shown activity that warranted an Information Release (for example, an earthquake swarm).
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The City of Cleveland has proclaimed 2012--the Year of Local Food. 

What major food and energy initiatives has the City rolled out?