(Original art by J.E. Hargate) Does destroying 40 mature trees in the Cudell Commons Park urban neighborhood to make way for an elementary school constitute an assault on its residents? The tree canopy helps to protect urban residents from the dangerous effects of the climate crisis. We know the tree…

My name is Arthur Hargate, I live in Little Italy in Ward 6 of Cleveland and I am writing to provide public comment on the NorthCoast lakefront plan in response to its presentation to the public on July 27, 2023. I am supplementing and reiterating much of the public comment…

July 3 and 4, 2023 were the two hottest days ever recorded on Planet Earth. June 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. If you still deny that the planet is warming and that we are deep into a global climate crisis caused by human activity, you have no ability…

A local media outlet here in Cleveland is running a series of articles analyzing and bemoaning what they observe to be the breakdown in civility in today’s political discourse. I agree it’s gotten to be a pretty rough and tumble game, replete with crude adolescent name-calling, vicious personal attacks and…

Public Comment to Cleveland City Council: My name is Arthur Hargate. I live in Ward 6 in Little Italy. I am writing to express concern over the firing of Tessa Jackson from her position as the City of Cleveland’s Economic Development Director. First, this is a matter that should be…

TO: Cleveland City Council I am writing to express concern about the Special Improvement District (SID) requested by University Circle, Inc. (UCI). I live in Little Italy. While Little Italy is presently not included in the proposed SID, residents of Little Italy are well familiar with and sensitive to the…

I urge City Council to maintain its focus on Community Benefits legislation that benefits all Clevelanders in the face of intense lobbying pressure, hysterical scare tactics and baseless predictions of economic gloom and doom from the business and property development communities, if all Clevelanders should actually come to benefit from…

My name is Arthur Hargate and I live in Cleveland’s Ward 6. I am providing public comment regarding reports in the press that the Justin Bibb administration is promoting legislation in City Council that authorizes $1.5 million to be spent with an outside consultant for a 10-year operational strategic plan…

Gee whiz, do we see a pattern here? Banks failing. Trains derailing, creating environmental crisis and threatening people’s health. Record oil company profits and rampant corporate price gouging fueling inflation. More gouging and market manipulation creating an affordable housing crisis. Man-made climate crisis driving severe weather that wreaks havoc on…