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The new slogan for the Cleveland CONvention Center.

At least that’s what the Cuyahoga County Commissioners decided to tell county resisdents today in a 2-1 (Dimora and Hagen yes, Jones no) absolutely expected vote after the second of two “public” hearings on the issue of raising the county sales tax by .25% to support a CONvention center in hope of drawing a new medical mart to the community.

I say that the hearing was “public” because of its utter inaccessibility.  Both today’s hearing and the previous one last week were held during the day, in the center of downtown (the library) where inexpensive public parking is limited.  Add to the premium placed on the parking and then take into account that many of the usually available meters were bagged (along with all of the parking on the street that separates the current CONvention center from the current COUNT-hee-hee Building - also known as Franz Pastorius Blvd. ~ who the hell knew that?) and this county resident after having spent a half hour looking for a place to park (and couldn’t find one within five blocks!) decided to bag it and head back to work.  Public? my ass.

Not that it really would have mattered - but it would have been nice to offer my two cents as opposed to the gushing support that came from those int he community that so desperately need to look like they’re doing something to make this community better.

So the tax and spenders are going to continue to tax away anyone even remotely interested in doing business in Cleveland - ah, just another day in the NRZ (No Representation Zone).