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Personally I think some of the best pierogi's come from European Delights on State right off 480 in Parma. Big and delicious!!! Also, the Little Polish Dinner (that's the real name) on Ridge and snow in Parma is pretty good.

Well I just wanted to give everyone an update. I ended up at metro lofts. After a month I wanted to give a quick review of the place. The Good: Fellow tenants are pretty quiet. No one is up partying late and it seems to be a very professional crowd at the building. The space is a great price for what you get. I have a huge 1 bedroom for 700 a month. Pretty decent in my book, plus I have my own washer dryer! The county hospital is literally right next door, but you don't get much noise from it. During the day you get an ambulance or three, but at night I rarely hear anything. It is a dog friend building and a lot of the people do have dogs. You occasionally get a minute of dog barking at night, but it is pretty quiet. ML overall is in a great location, no so much walking wise, but driving. You are within a 2 minute drive to every single major rd in NE Ohio. I do a lot of traveling, so that is reallllly nice. It totally isn't Tremont, but they are trying to market that area as it is, be aware. The Bad: The place isn't necessarily poorly taken care of, but they don't exactly stay on top of it. My place needed a good cleaning when I moved in (which the management company should have done that in my opinion), but with a couple of hours and some kaboom, the place cleaned up great. The neighborhood directly around the lofts isn't bad. Just your typical Cleveland neighborhood. A couple of streets in each direction after that and it gets a little more lively, but I haven't felt weird or bothered walking around at any time of the day or night. Overall a decent place if you are looking for industrial style living and don't want to spend a fortune. I attached some pictures of the place. If anyone is thinking of these places in the future and would like a more detailed review, please feel free to PM me and ask as many questions as you would like. Thanks again UO community...

I appreciate what you are saying, but my situation is a little different. I actually own a house, but it is being rented right now. This is a quick move and if I wasn't out of town on business for the last 8 days I would have signed a lease 2 weeks ago. This let me "shop" around a little. Also, I am not sure I want to buy another house. It was a lot of work and I don't know if I have time for that in the short term. That is why I would like to take a year and think it through instead of rushing.

Ok, round two of questions. Thanks again people for all the help so far. I am going to look at Chelsea in Tremont, West Virginia in OC, Tower Press in chinatown, a couple of houses in Tremont and this place: http://cleveland.craigslist.org/apa/1818280673.html It's on E60 and St. Clair. (not sure about that hood) Any recommendations or reviews on any of those places?

I could and thought about it, but I do work in the southwest suburbs of the county.

I am not against a multi-family home. Though I did spend the last 4 years in a single family home in O.B. I kinda wanna change it up a bit, but I would happily move into the right multi. I am more than open to suggestions. My Armageddon plan is metro lofts. They weren't bad enough for me to flat out hate them, but I certainly didn't love them either.

Yeah, it does have a dorm feel and that makes me nervous. Most, if not all, the reviews say the same, which is a shame because the apartments are pretty nice and the view is simply amazing. Does anyone have any experience with Chelsea on w14?

Well I went to see a couple of places yesterday. Metro lofts: location isn't as bad and the area feels very safe. The building itself has a ton of potential, unfortunately it misses on a ton. There was carpet in most of the units, which makes it feel cheap. The kitchen felt cheap and from the mid 90's. Good price, lot of space, but left there uninspired to live there. Painters building on w26: another could have building. They had the original office safe as a closet in the master. Oooo, what could have been with this building. Again, poorly maintained and poorly done. Tremont lofts: awesome building, awesome spaces, but a little way to pricey for me. Cheapest 1 bedroom was 1100. If teachers made more, I would live there. Tower press: didn't get to get in, miscommunication with the office, but the building looked great and the felt extremely safe. I am probably going to go try to view it again. Stonebridge: I like the building a lot, but the sheer amount of negative reviews about the building scare me, anyone have any insight on the place? So I am back to square 1, I fear I may end up at metro, just cause to isn't bad and it's cheap. Any more suggestions would be great. Thanks.

So metro and tremont place are looking better and better. Thanks for the help people...

Thanks KJP, I am looking at metro lofts, painters lofts, tremont place, and tower press tomorrow. Any safety issues anyone know about these places?

Thanks guys, i like the scranton rd loft. I am semi familiar with the hood, minus being by metro health. Does anyone know if that Is that a fairly safe area? Any ideas of places like that in a little safer hood? I can not find anywhere asiatown lofts, can someone point me in a good direction or good website? I am going to call the CDC tomorrow?

I have looked there, not sure if it will work though. Anyone have any opinions on this place: http://cleveland.craigslist.org/apa/1749207451.html Or this one: http://cleveland.craigslist.org/apa/1796019608.html

Well not to get to much into it, but I need to find an apartment pretty quick. I would like to stay on the westside of the city. My needs are: Garage or parking for a motorcycle pet friendly (he is a small dog) 1 bedroom, but 2 would be a lot better My wants are: washer/dryer in unit fireplace (I know) Neighborhoods I would want to live in: Asiatown, Ohio City, Tremont, Detroit Shoreway. I spent the last 4 years in Old Brooklyn before my temporary move to the exurbs. I would like to stay out of OB, just so I can try something different, but if there is something neat there I would gladly go back. Truly I would like to find something kind of cool and unique. Maybe a floor of an old warehouse or something. I saw on here once that someone had a friend that rented one for $600 a month. That would be awesome to find. I am extremely handy and don't mind something that I could customize or something that is quirky. My target to spend is 750 with utilities, more if I don't have to pay for gas. Even more if I don't have to pay for anything. Let's see what you have UO!

95% of the time it really comes all down to parenting. Teachers can make a subject matter interesting, they can inspire, they can push a kid, but it starts with the kids understanding that education is important and that starts at home. If you want to fix education you have to target the PARENTS and kids early. We need more head start type of programs that are more encompassing for the both adult and child. Until you address the root problem lengthening the school day/year, adding classes or testing more is meaningless.

Private schools have higher parent involvement and can kick out bad or under performing students.

The main reason it is illegal is it puts an unfair burden on the local instead of the state. The state does this by paying all its bills and with the money left over it divides by the number of students and tells schools this is how much it cost to educate a kid in Ohio. This of course is illegal. The local levies have to make up the remaining cost. In Cuyahoga County the average per pupil cost is around $9,500, they state picking up around 20-35% of that. Now, a districts wealth determines how much actual state funding the schools gets and here is the real shady part. As the poster stated above, levies are for a fixed dollar amount, not rate. This means you can never collect more from the tax payers than what they voted on, no matter how many people move in or the property value (H.B. 920). Now, if a district has property values going up (which most did up until 2 years ago) the state decreased their funding because property values were going up. This is called phantom revenue. Because districts cannot collect more when values go up, they were actually loosing money by increasing housing values. This is why districts are CONSTANTLY going back to voters year after year. Strickland’s H.B. 1 address a lot of these issues and a ton of other educational issues. It really was a HUGE win for education in Ohio. It phases out phantom revenue over the next 5 years. It also created a schools advisory committee to find out how much it actually cost to educate a student and then have the state pick up at least 65% of the bill. H.B. 1 also extends the school year by 20 days, though those days will be phased in over a number of years. Other states fund education the same way, just get more money from the state. Arizona I believe picks up 75% of the bill and local only pays the remaining. Also, most states the school board votes to increase property taxes, not the voters. Hope this helps the conversation

I looked around, but couldn't find any news about what is going on with the W6/Superior Parking Garage. It is all fenced off. Just curious what they are doing with it...

I am sure that other tablets will eventually be better. But for the most part the ipad does exactly what I want it to do. Surf the web and buy shop online. The biggest complaint, which I already new about, was the lack of flash. I am hoping there is a work around for Hulu and other comparable websites. As for the lack of multitasking, it really isn't that noticeable. The pad remembers where you are at and goes back when you reopen the program. Like I said before it is fassssssst. Overall 3 days of CONSTANT playing and I am more than happy with the money I spent. I will probably buy an HP as well and make the pad the lady's device. Like I said before I am a PC/Linux person, that's not going to change, but I am more than happy with the pad. Does it do everything? No, but it does a lot of what I want it to do.

Well board, I got an iPad today. Little awkward to type on for long periods of time, but overall pretty amazing. The response time is incredible. I am pretty happy so far with it. We will see how long I can survive on it without flash.

They started online streaming. It can be found here: http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/CityofCleveland/Home/Government/MayorsOffice/tv20/watch http://www.cleveland.com/cityhall/index.ssf/2010/03/city_of_cleveland_public-acces.html

Stripping mining in Old Brooklyn. Got this email last week, thought I would post it:

This was a press release, so I think it is ok to post the entire article, sorry if it isn't. They inked a 5 year deal for 5 meg and 5 meg down N band system to provide free WIRELESS access to the community. Great job to Mr. Kelly for making this happen. They have an ambitious launch date of Sept 1. to tie in with the new school year. http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/Home/News/OldBrooklynNeighborhoodfreewirelessnetwork/tabid/809/Default.aspx

What's with the pillars?

Cleveland has being doing this for a long time, ALL large school districts do. Cleveland school of the arts, Cleveland school for business, Cleveland school for nursing, Cleveland school for..., heck we used to have a magnet FLIGHT school here. The problem with magnet (I'll even throw charter schools into the mix) is they get to cherry pick the good students. If those students don't work out/problems, they are sent back to the public schools. That is exactly why you have schools under performing so well like South. All that is left are the kids that cannot perform. That is the foundation to the Sanders transformation plan, to break the concentration up and spread them among the other schools. Will it work, in the short term yes, but after a while another set of schools will become the dumping ground. It unfortunately is human nature to do that, the save the kids you can mentality. The best thing CMSD district can do is pump money into prek-3 education, that is when the resources can make the most difference. I don't know all the inter workings of that district, but it seems like they need to merge child services and early childhood education into one all inclusive new department. Urban problems require different solutions then those of their suburban counterparts. You can move the kids around all you want, but at the end of the day they have to go home to a hostile, generally undereducated environment.

3231, I assume you are a part of this movement. I hope it works out well for you, but I know the barriers and laws regarding school, specifically dealing with management company's. It is a up hill battle the entire way, most of it with start up funding after ODE approval. I did email the organization offering my assistance, I hope to hear back from them. I assume NWS (which looks like a off shoot of intergenerational schools) are partnering with Breakthrough Charter Schools management company. Good move, I am interested to see how that sakes out (for the entire collective). Though I am generally anti business people trying to break into and run schools, two different worlds.