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Amazing what can happen when the government gets out of the way and the free market is able to work it’s invisible hand. The fishwrap reports this AM that an agreement is near on the Wolstein project for the Flats East Bank and that the deal hinges on relocating that harbinger of American freedom - […]

…so says Cleveland Cuyahoga Port Authority attorney Steven Kaufman about Judge John Corrigan’s instructions to the Port Authority to “settle quickly with landowners” that have refused to be bullied by Scott Wolstein’s usurpers of private property rights.
Here’s an excerpt from today’s story in the fishwrap:
A probate judge declared that developer Scott Wolstein “made a lot […]

…at least that’s what an e-mailer was asking me this morning.
I was starting to rely on you for coverage. I haven’t seen anything in the paper or on the news and at least could get some idea of what was going on from you. What happened to your eminent domain coverage?

Good question. […]

This story from Cleveland.com speaks for itself…

Port Authority member skipped property reports
Posted by Tom Breckenridge May 23, 2007 15:23PM
Categories: Breaking News

A member of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority board says he didn’t read two key reports before voting at a hastily called special meeting in late 2005 to declare the port’s intent to take properties […]

I don’t really care to be an actor in an ongoing narrative that I’m doing my best to provide you the reader with a fresh perspective about, but today host Dan Moulthrop’s weekly regional reporters’ roundtable on The Sound of Ideas caused me to place a call to the station in hope of having my […]

Since the the local fishwrap actually reported on this case today (Mayor Campbell’s appearance drew a crowd), I’ll spare you the update.
But does it bother you that Scott Wolstein has enough money to finance doing business in Russia and the Ukraine, but requires at least $70 million in public subsidy to develop something in his […]

I just got back from spending the morning listening to former Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell’s testimony in the Flats Eminent Domain case. I left at the mid-day recess and I would be shocked if the Honorable Ms. Campbell’s visit to Judge John E. Corrigan’s courtroom will be exclusive to today. Her testimony […]

I’m not a real estate agent, but I’ve always been told that a property is much more valuable when it has views of the water.
Well now that Scott Wolstein with the help of unelected governmental muscle has torn down a bunch of buildings that once blocked river views for some in the Cleveland Flats, shouldn’t […]

News today that the ever struggling Myers University continues to drown in its own sea of debt and mismanagement.
But today I bring you a message of hope - I can save Myers University.
My plan to save Myers University will spur economic development and keep our community’s incestual network of non-profit and government chugging toward the […]

Next week local property owners will be fighting for the right to continue owning their own property in the face of an astonishing land grab on the part of an uber-developer in cahoots with the city of Cleveland and the Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Authority - and nobody seems to care.
Since the local fishwrap seems […]