Life goes on.  The city continues to move.  Yesterday,  it was sunny and warm.  I was able to take the train to University Circle, and to swim at CWRU.  And, then I walked along the empty bike lane that runs up Fairhill through the Doan Brook watershed.  Flags were at half-staff at the Baldwin Water Plant.  Shaker Square was decked out for the holidays. 

Michelle Alexander spoke to a capacity crowd at John Hay auditorium on Thursday, Oct 25th. 

Seating is FREE but registration required at http://www.oibc.org

October 25, 2012 Cleveland, OH: Olivet Institutional Baptist Church 8712 Quincy Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106 Time: TBA Contact: Rev. Leah C. K. Lewis, lcarol [dot] leewis [at] gmail [dot] com http://newjimcrow.com/guides.html

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World Have Your Say--the popular BBC radio show will broadcast from Nighttown on Friday, October 19th. 
Stay tuned on http://www.nighttowncleveland.com/menus.htm

Norm Roulet captured the last visit in 2007:
http://realneo.us/WOrld-Has-Its-Say-In-East-Cleveland

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In a rare show of common sense, the Plain Dealer actually heeded the comments posted to a story:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/09/clevelands_glut_of_vaca...

When this came out--I felt the usual nausea: the Plain Dealer printing propaganda to support the Land Bank, though the numbers were so obviously bogus.  I have been banned at the PD, so I rarely comment anymore.  I chocked it up to the same old...

Cleveland's media has gone too far in their attempt to control public thought and opinion. 

Urban Homesteading by Rachel Kaplan offers some invaluable advice for neighbors who want to improve their community:

Work to answer these questions for yourself and your family-

TAX LEVY TROUNCED: 7 TO 3! 
15-MILL SCHOOL TAX LEVY WAS TROUNCED 7 TO 3 IN VOTE CAST BY AUDIENCE WHO WATCHED LIVELY DEBATE AT LIL AFRICA, 6816 SUPERIOR AVENUE, CLEVELAND, DURING THE EVENING OF AUG. 30, 2012! 
 
The above shows how the results of the vote at the August 30, 2012 debate, organized by the Imperial Women Coalition, were reported on the Facebook page of the SAVE JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL campaign. 
 

The City of Cleveland has torn up Fulton Rd. for close to a year now with the reconstruction of this important north-south artery--why are the electric lines NOT channeled underground as promised? 

I will post more photos soon--I am compiling images from my neighborhood for a Brooklyn Centre bicentennial celebration 1812-2012.  The little girl above may not appreciate the significance of Independence Day until she is older--her family emigrated from Burundi.  It has been very typical for new Americans to arrive via the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood.

Thank you today for a beautiful ceremony and a great family event. For all history buffs--Woodland Cemetery is a must visit destination. The Woodland Cemetery Foundation and today's volunteers put together a very special and touching family event.

The woman's activist son had been helping others fight to keep their homes, possibly the bank was retaliating, the auction was scheduled even though she'd been told an executive would work with her, but the community rallied behind her; and lo and behold, they changed their mind. Even worked out new payment arrangement so she pays less.

www.americablog.com/2012/06/breaking-victory-for-minneapolis-mom.html

We live on this body of water.

It's beautiful and blue and inviting, but I am afraid of it. Do I really want to eat fish out of Lake Erie?  (The answer is NO).

At the same time, I am definitely fooling myself, if I think that the fish or other food sold to me at the West Side market or even by a higher end purveyor has any better provenance.

The re-imagining hype towards promoting local food, healthy living and reversing "food deserts" looks like a huge ruse to me (a tax strategy for land holding and covering up failed real estate investment schemes). Sure--it all sounds hunky-dory and idealistic, and there are some elements of the "vision" that have merit, but large-scale food production in NEO is not feasible. 

Repubicans worth reading about: Washington Post OpEd as syndicated by Detroit News.  Hopefully Plain Dealer will pick up on this OpEd.

http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/2012/04/28/the-problem-with-republicans/

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Taking a break from the usual fare here--I will share a book with REALNEO.  At the recommendation of a young girl, I ordered Good Fortune by Noni Carter through the library.  I was hesistant at first.  I'll admit that I am weary of the recently popular, go-to thematic choices for young adult literature--vampires, gangs, and slavery.

A beautiful night for CLE--as the heavenly choir of St. Olaf performed for a capacity crowd of 700+ at Mary Queen of Peace (formerly Our Lady of Good Counsel) in Old Brooklyn.  For Old Brooklyn and Brooklyn Centre residents--getting there was as easy as a brisk winter's walk.

Please watch this video and witness the stupidity of our Landmark Commission and Council representatives:

Ohio EPA Extends Public Comment Period Regarding Draft Air Permit for
Cleveland Public Power’s Proposed Gasification Plant

The public comment period concerning a draft air permit for a proposed municipal solid waste gasification plant in Cleveland has been extended to February 23, 2012.

The public testimony of the Ohio EPA hearing held at Estabrook included exhaustive research by Claude Cornett.  This testimony is available here:
http://www.cornettenv.org/1-9-2012-ComPermitIncin.htm

Other comments submitted for the record will be updated to this site once the Ohio EPA mails the testimony to me.

The exhibit ended on January 1st, 2012--Hardship to Hope: African American Art from
the Karamu Workshop.

I live very close to Brookside Park, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park--I can walk to all of  these great public amenities, which in my mind, makes my neighborhood an appealing and liveable place. 

Cleveland Public Power is requesting an Air Pollution Permit from the Ohio EPA to construct an INCINERATOR at 3723 Ridge Rd. --it will impact entire region including suburban areas of already toxic and polluted Northeast Ohio airshed.

See attachments http://realneo.us/system/files/520659-1.pdf

 or click link below and enter permit P0107767 and click GO--50 page pdf is attached here.

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