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Putting out the RFC

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 […]

I gladly stand corrected

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 […]

“Grasp ankles and tuck”

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 […]

The more things don’t change

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 […]

Eat a burrito on Tuesday….

Chipotle is donating all of its sale proceeds tomorrow, Tuesday, July 24, to the Cleveland Scholarship Programs. The Cleveland Scholarship Programs provide scholarships to students from all of Northeast Ohio. So go to your local Chipotle and get a burrito or two or three tomorrow.

The Distinguished Gentlemen & Miss Honey

“I aim high,” all 20 roar, using their hands to shoot 20 imaginary baskets.
“I will never, never, never, accept failure,” they boom, shaking their heads, “because I’m destined for greatness.”
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“Do y’all smell that?” he asked the audience. “It’s the smell of fire! Destiny’s burning in the fumes. Young lives just being consumed. […]

Rousing the Rabble: Schools

What’s 1700 into 4500? Mathematically it can be explained as 0.37777778. Or as 37.8%. In Cleveland it can also be explained as complete and utter FAILURE!
You see, in August 2003, 4500 kids started their freshman year in Cleveland’s public high schools. 1700 out of the 4500 graduated in 2007. Nationally, about one-third of all public […]

A new convention center is not worth the risk

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 […]

Handmaidens to the intelligensia

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. […]

Memo to local leaders - hire these guys

As a Clevelander one of the things we’ve come to expect is the inability of our elected officials and those in positions of power (the Intelligensia) to accurately account for their use of public funds.  In recent years that’s meant that the Cleveland Public Municipal Metropolitan Memorial Regional North Shore Insert Name You Think Fits […]