PinnedWe Are All Under AttackStacy Stevenson totally nailed it on Jonathan Capehart’s MSNBC Sunday Show yesterday when she said, “We are all under attack.” Democrats have been outthought, outmaneuvered and outmuscled for the last 40 years as Republicans have methodically put the pieces in place to wage culture war in our country to allow…Politics2 min read
PinnedStop This Tax “Abasement”Dear Council President Griffin and Mr. Epstein, I am writing to you to provide public input on the reauthorization of Cleveland’s Residential Tax Abatement program. …Economic Development6 min read
Apr 14A NIMBY, and Proud of ItMy wife and I moved to Little Italy in Cleveland almost a decade ago after living not far away in the same house in Cleveland Heights for nearly forty years. We downsized and sought a more walkable, urban environment, and on balance we really like it here. Not long after…Real Estate Investments6 min read
Apr 9Clevelanders Are Mad as HellI am hopeful a new era of civic activism is upon us. People here in Cleveland are totally fed up with our government squandering tax dollars with boondoggle projects as power broker attorneys, developers, consultants and contractors get fat on our money with rapacious and resident subsidized public and private…Development3 min read
Mar 28More Mindnumbing City BureaucrapDear Councilman Griffin, Mr. Epstein and Ms. Huang, I am writing to express my shock and concern at the manner with which the Board of Zoning Appeals (BOZA) on March 21, 2022 reached its decision to deny a request for rehearing / reconsideration by the Hessler Community regarding the zoning…Bureaucracy2 min read
Mar 14Cleveland’s A Plum!If you don’t remember or have knowledge of that unfortunate, civically nauseating, obsequious and corporately driven slogan, consider yourself lucky. …Poverty3 min read
Mar 7Economic Extraction from Cleveland’s NeighborhoodsDear Cleveland Councilman Blaine Griffin and Mr. Jeff Epstein, City of Cleveland Chief Integrated Development Officer, The links below are to Senator Sherrod Brown’s recent remarks about private equity’s predatory practices in the housing market here and around the country and an excellent article that appeared today in Cleveland.com about…Poverty3 min read
Jan 28Affordable Housing in ClevelandThank you, Councilman Griffin, for the opportunity to share my observations and suggestions with you and the Mayor’s Action Center on the issues of affordable housing and private sector investment in the City of Cleveland (City.) I spent 40 years in management positions in the environmental business and think I…Affordable Housing6 min read
Jan 22Wake Up Cleveland!I read recently about two new “market rate” apartment buildings proposed for the Hough neighborhood near us. Hough is a Cleveland neighborhood that is classically described as “underserved,’’ as they say here in the polite civic parlance. Hough’s been neglected because many poor people live there, and poor people have…Real Estate4 min read
Jan 9More Density! More Vibrancy!In a span of just nine days around Christmas this year there were four car-jackings at gun point here in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland. In one incident a young woman was shot twice when her car was stolen; it appears she’s going to be okay. The suspect’s age…City Planning5 min read