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I can barely afford a starter apartment, and here we are talking about starter houses.

^I thought they were building a hotel at UC? Is that project on hold?

And Fred Nance will sit back and smile, as his financial future will look even more rosy than before.

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Um, probably a lot of people

Yeah, I just read Final Crisis #7. Guess Batman's "soul" is still alive or something. At least at Marvel they pretended Captain America (Steve Rogers) died for real. Of course, since he died there have been a number of Captain Americas including: 1. Ultimates Captain America Steve Rogers (alternative universe) 2. Bucky is the new Captain America (normal universe) 3. A time displaced Captain America Steve Rogers appeared in the Avengers/Invaders mini series (normal universe). 4. The Captain America of the 1950s who THINKS he's Captain America Steve Rogers has resurfaced (normal universe). 5. A reincarnated Hawkeye very briefly put on the costume (normal universe) But even with all that, Steve Rogers, the true Captain America, has been and is dead since his assassination. No soul reincarnation bullsht, no Superboy Prime beating reality's walls so that he's reincarnated, no it-was-a-clone/robot/dream. He is, for now, legitimately dead. Final Crisis 7 was such a cop out, and the whole new Batman Cowl series will just be moot when Bruce Wayne's soul flutters back to the present.

^What I do know from my teacher friends is that presently it is very difficult to expel the bad kids even if they're on the phone in class, screaming out racial epitaphs at each other, listening to music, intimidating students and teachers, fighting with each other and security guards (from what I understand, attacking teachers are expellable offenses but I have heard mixed things on this), etc. I think explulsion should be automatic for virtually all of these acts (or at least if repeated a certain number of times), and then while the concern would be where they go next (different schools, on the streets, juvenile detention centers/halfway houses/some kind of "home", etc), at least the rest of them, perhaps the majority of the class, along with the teachers will be spared this insanity and get the education without feers of reprisals from these parasites.

The reality is you've got to save the ones you can.

I wish Mr. Sanders wouldn't be afraid of offending people and just focus on the real problem with Cleveland Public schools. Many kids don't want to learn; other kids are afraid of learning or else they'll be considered sell outs. And a lot of their parents refuse to parent. Instead of Mr. Sanders cracking down on teachers, security, and technology, THIS is what he should be focusing on. It's not like if a bunch of Westlake and Beachwood and Hawken teachers started working at the Public Schools there would be any real difference. Perhaps some nominal one, but things would not improve until the kids get their act together and the parents start giving a s**t. Now how Mr. Sanders can go about doing so - how I have no clue. Perhaps saving the ones you can is a start i.e. isolating the quality students, the ones who would succeed if not for peer pressure or fears of being abused by their peers. Certainly etiquette rules that go beyond dress codes i.e. no cell phones, no talking back to the teacher, no fights or else an immediate suspension or expulsion. Didn't the DC Schools' Superintendent (or whatever the title is) do something similar with good results?

Everyone loves blaming the US for all the world's problems. It's so pathetic.

Breaking Benjamis, Him, and AFI

Aw, I didn't realize the Starbucks at Richmond mall is closing. That's too bad.

I know, you'd think these proponents of so-called "family values" would be for actually raising their kids right. I guess for many of my fellow Republicans, "family values" really doesn't mean much more beyond god, guns, gay bashing, and anti abortion agendas.

Instead of being praised, people are actually upset with this guy. This is what happens when people speak the truth. http://cbs13.com/local/nevada.chancellor.education.2.917428.html Backlash Erupts Over NV Chancellor's Comments LAS VEGAS Republicans have sharply criticized university system Chancellor Jim Rogers' comments about parents in his State of the System address. Rogers, who has been fighting Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons' proposed drastic budget cuts to higher education, took aim at an apathetic public in Friday's speech. "Your only relationship with the education system is to ship your unprepared kids to school, not with the expectation of success, but with the demand that an education system, inadequately funded, develop and/or repair children that you as a parent did not prepare for school or support while your children attended school," Rogers said. In a joint statement, Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Amargosa Valley, and Nevada Republican Party Chair Sue Lowden said it's unfair to blame parents for education failures. "Jim Rogers owes every caring parent in the state a public apology," they said. "For Chancellor Rogers to blame the failure of the government-run education system on parents is nothing short of outrageous." Andy Matthews, vice president of communications for the conservative think-tank Nevada Policy Research Institute, said legislative spending on higher education increased 60 percent between the 2002 and 2007 fiscal years. "Chancellor Rogers provided an outstanding example of what happens when Nevada's public officials choose to engage in finger-pointing at the expense of taking responsibility or offering innovative solutions to our fiscal challenges," Matthews said in a statement. Rogers, in his address, said parents might have to face tax increases and sacrifice so that their children can go to college. "You have to take part in your child's education," Rogers said. "Your responsibility does not stop as they walk out the door to catch the bus." State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, said in a statement that some sacrifices, including cuts to education, might be necessary. But Horsford said Gibbons' proposed overall 36 percent cut to higher education is "too much." Under the governor's plan, the cuts would be roughly 50 percent at University of Nevada campuses in Las Vegas and Reno.

So Batman died in Final Crisis #6. For any comic book fans out there, who do you think will be the new Batman? There are a lot of potential replacements: Nightwing (Robin #1), Jason Todd (Robin #2), Tim Drake (the current Robin) Hush (and old friend/now wacko enemy of Bruce Wayne, Bane (the guy who broke Batman's back), Azrael (who replaced Batman in after Bruce Wayne's back was broken), Batgirl, Dr. Midnight (would be my choice), a member of the International Group of Heroes (or whatever they're called), and so on... And of course Bruce Wayne will return eventually, but at least in the interim, there will likely be a replacement.

"Linton said he was dismayed that Tower City was eliminated despite "very little" discussion about the project with county officials or MMPI. He was critical of the county for picking a site without a public discussion of the cost and design analysis MMPI presented to city, state and county leaders in private on Thursday." Waaaaaaaa :cry:

I have some friends in Shaker Square who have lived there for a couple years now and they've never had an issue (I had asked them about the area when I was deciding where to live).

yee old english

What's the latest word on the calcium chloride issue? That story pretty much disappeared.

"It's a trap!"

evidently the cleveland.com mutants aren't all that happy about this. how shocking

To celebrate, Jimmy Dimora, using his nefarious Burger King disguise, is now partying it up at the Great Taste China Buffet on Euclid.

that has got to be the FUNNIEST picture I've ever seen. My applause to you, freethink. I've got to show it to some people now. Greeener, hah, looks like you cut yourself off:)

They're probably discussing which buffets still accept Dimora's patronage.

what a clusterf*&k "Beres will have a complete report for Channel 3 News at 6 p.m. and updates at wkyc.com as they become available." Here's the complete report. Fred Nance continues to be a shining star for the Cleveland law firm Squire Sanders as he and Cleveland's much maligned leaders again fail to pull their collective heads out of their a$$es.