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With deference to a certain soon to be former US Senator from the state of Idaho…
For the record, so there is no doubt, I occasionally use profane terms and have been known to be sexually unchaste (at least in my misspent youth).
Thus ends my confession.
But how an weak individual is that unnamed Senator from Idaho for not [...]

… Oh Lord.
So said Phil Collins back in the day when Sussudio was something that we thought made sense.  But just like Sussudio was just gibberish leading nowhere, so is the current state of the local CuyCo GOP leadership and today Ralph King has hit it on the head.  Here’s an excerpt from today’s worthy post talking [...]

Pass the turkey, the stuffing and…
the absentee ballots?
That very well could be the new Thanksgiving tradition if you’re from New Hampshire and plan on celebrating the annual family gathering somewhere other than your own homestead.
Here in South Carolina (where we’re rounding out a few days of r’n’r), the big news this morning in political circles is [...]

In my consulting career I’ve been asked to put together a goodly amount of RFPs (Requests For Proposals) on behalf of my clients.  Usually they’ve got some kind of problem that needs to be resolved and they look to the best and brightest in a particular field to tell them how the problem can be solved and how [...]

The other day I posted about what I perceived to be the futility of attending a CuyCo GOP Central/Executive Committee meeting to discuss a proposed party platform.  My senitments were that it was already a done deal and that the folks who opposed the platform (mostly because they wanted to offer amendments, etc.) wouldn’t be [...]

Tonight I should be at the RPCC platform meeting/convention, but given the limited value placed on input from the party’s rank and file members, I figured it might make more sense to work a little bit later and hit the keyboard when I got home.  If somebody has an update on tonight’s RPCC meeting, please [...]

If building a new convention center in Cleveland to lure a medical mart is such a wonderful way to make money for our community, why isn’t some wealthy business person or company (who got to be wealthy business people or companies based on their business acumen) telling the city, “I’ll build the convention center and [...]

From the Sunday Plain Dealer - a murderers’ row of our under-performing employees:
 

 
Top Row, from left: Bay Village Mayor Deborah Sutherland, Beachwood Mayor Merle Gorden, Bentleyville Mayor Michael Canty, Berea Mayor Joseph Biddlecombe, Brecksville Mayor Jerry Hruby, Broadview Heights Mayor Glenn Goodwin, Brook Park Mayor Mark Elliott, Brooklyn Mayor Kenneth Patton, Brooklyn Heights Mayor Michael S. [...]