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Phillip Morris at it again, what is with this guy does he have some sort of personal vendetta against Cleveland... Phillip Morris: It's a new reality in Washington; in Cleveland, not yet by Phillip Morris/Plain Dealer Columnist Tuesday November 11, 2008, 4:31 AM Did we really just do that? Seriously! There is no use in pretending that adjustments will not be required. We're living a Rip Van Winkle moment. A tall, skinny, African-American man will soon be walking his dog on the White House lawn and waving from the steps of Air Force One. That's real stuff. So how does America pinch itself, and align a dream with a reality? Barack Obama isn't David Palmer. This isn't the television show "24." Obama is president-elect of the United States. Like all presidents, of course, he will soon be forced to deliver or watch the bloom fall off the rose. But the political, cultural, and emotional shockwaves his election has triggered will take years to fully understand. Things no longer are so black and white. http://www.cleveland.com/morris/index.ssf/2008/11/phillip_morris_its_a_new_reali.html

What has happened to the timeline on the medmart? Has it been put on hold until after the election is out of the way? I know they were supposed to pick a site a while ago and that was allowed to lapse, but have they put together anything?

This is just lazy journalism isn't it? They're running an article that nobody had to put any time or research into, just reprint people's comments. Is this a respectable newspaper? I do not get the newspaper just read the online version, was this on the front page of the paper? I will admit they did make it seem a lot more positive this time.

Mister Greenberg, I am a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, one of the cities you have in you're "Don't Go There: The Travel Detective's Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World". I'll try to keep all personal attacks aside as I comprehend you're motive is selling books. First let me give you my background. I'm 29 years old, have a masters in Architecture, am married to a professional photographer, own a house, make an above average salary, am white, and grew up in the suburbs. I moved to Cleveland five years ago and have fallen in love with this city against all odds. The bad rap given to Cleveland is generally given by people that have left this county or people who want to make an easy buck writing sensationalist stories. Cleveland's crime has been greatly reduced this year by an initiative set forth by our current Mayor to break down on violent crimes. The economy is rough as the history of manufacturing leaving is all too well known and we are a victim of that. That being said we are making great strides in Medicine, the World Renowned Cleveland Clinic is here, and biotech enterprises... "Twenty health care startups in the Minneapolis area had attracted $289.9 million by Sept. 30 this year, while 26 Cleveland-area companies had attracted $152.4 million, according to the BioEnterprise Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report for the third quarter." Also we are feeling the credit crisis as is everybody else, but many new housing units have come on the market in the last couple of years in the downtown region alone. Office vacancies remain low and before the credit crisis multiple new office buildings were in the advanced planning stages. I'm spouting off factoids about the good parts of our city, and am a realist when it comes to our problems. But guess what we are moving forward, we are not the same downtrodden city of the past. Books like yours focus on our negatives and make people miss the positives. I realize that there has to be some city that is the butt of all jokes but I assure you we are not that city any more. Below I've compiled a not exhaustive list of great amenities you shouldn't miss here in Cleveland. If you would love to come back to this city I love, I would be delighted to take you on a tour of some of the great things we have. If not, as I understand that would contradict your book, than I'm sorry that you're "must miss" made you miss a must see city. I left the list off as I posted one similar on the .bomb website and you all know the things I'm talking about. It was extensive though.

I wrote him. If nothing else it made me feel better. Also I noticed a lot of posters on Cleveland.bomb sticking up for the city.

This is good news. I'm not so naive to think that things are going to magically be repaired with NCB, and I doubt that they won't combine with PNC, but I really think the fight that is being put up is good for the American people in general. They shouldn't be able to strike blows to anybody's local economy when they are trying to fix the national economy. I think they should be questioned and be forced to provide the needed backup to why this happened, how it happened, and that this will be a transparent process going forward. If it takes time it takes time, they should do what's right.

Here is the authors email address, let's send him some lovely thoughts on C-town. [email protected] Might not be bad to find his publisher and cc them also.

Do you think there is a chance they don't understand the fact that as they chase people away from Cleveland, they will have less subscribers? Could their entire corporation possibly be that dumb?

It seems like they are searching this stuff out now. This is not reporting the news, this is not even necessary. I will say though that her comment at the bottom to send this guy emails should be taken seriously by everybody on these boards.

I figure this is the best place for this question. I filled out my absentee ballot today, and I'm wondering why Tim Hagan is running unopposed for County Commissioner. It says for full term commencing 1/2/09. He is the only one listed. Right below this is the other county commissioner race. Is this a formality for something? I'm confused, please God tell me that he is not really running unopposed for another term! Of all the county commissioner the only one that should stay is PLJ. Somebody let me know what the heck this is all about.

Is there anything we can really do? Are we going to just get screwed over? Is this above our heads and understanding and so we might be missing why this is so great for "our" economy? I mean at this point it seems like our elected officials are putting up a stink but can we gripe to anybody else? Does anybody have G.W's direct #? :?

Actually Chicago was just blasted not that long ago on national news, as the new "deadliest city" in the U.S.

It seems that since the update people's posts are posting with about ten blank lines in front of them and than below a line. Hopefully it will show up in this post. ALso the quick reply box runs off the end of the page.

I'm going to play devil's advocate for a second. It seems for us that are so pro-Cleveland that we take things in the worst light a lot of times. Now Philip Morris's diatribe was just crap, that we can all agree on, but it does seem whenever various stories come out we feel that they are an attack on Cleveland, even though possibly they were not intended for that. I think a lot of times we feel we are on the defense even if we need not be because we think everybody is trying to dig on the city. I have commented on proabably every positive story on the .bomb website noting that this is what we need more of so I definitely know that they do champion good stories about the city sometimes. There has been a lot of negative press lately, due in large part to the economic downturn and I think for one second we just need to say some of this negative press is just reality and not a dig on our beloved city. In accepting this reality hopefully we can move past fighting the PD and try to fight the issues that are creating the negative press, as much as we can.

It's actually been amazing that for what seems like an eternity nothing has been going on, crime wise that is.

I'm in.

This is a load of crap, something has to be done. Has the deal already been signed on the dotted line, and does that matter, is there anyway this can be turned around, or at least investigated?

Loves It, those pics are high quality. Made me double take, that's here in C-town? Awesome.

Oh great now I'm probably going to have to wait in a line a mile long to get my slovenian smoked sausage. :-) It would still be worth it.

Can you change my user name to SergeViteli for a little more anonymity. Thanks

There's a great Mexican/hispanic place on Madison, Villa y Zapata. It looks a little sketch on the outside but the food is great. There is another one on W 25th I believe, but I've never been to that one. Oh yeah parkview definitely has the best "bar food" I've ever tasted.

I know this is no where close but my dentist on Chagrin, in Beachwood/Shaker, is very very good. And the best thing about him is his name... Dr. Smilovitz, he was born to be a dentist.

Yeah isn't this the same thing that got the warehouse district going. Rehab old buildings, start as rental, and as many of my friends down there have been telling me, people are starting to flip the buildings to condo now that it's past the x amount of years.

Sorry about that, I added the agenda portion, I don't think that we have any burlesque joints in the neighborhood.... yet!!

The AIA is hosting a tour of Detroit Shoreway, here is the info. Wednesday September 24, 2008 Revitilization: The Gordon Square Arts District : The Urban Design Committee's Annual Event 5 to 9 pm Registration @ 5:30 An evening of fun, food and Exploration Battery Park Model Open House Social at Reddstone with Appetizers Bust Tour of Eco Village/Zone Rec. Center Tour of Cleveland Public Theatre Hard Hat Tour of Capitol Theatre Walking Tour of Gordon Square Arts District Bus Tour of Battery Park Open Panel Discussion and Food at Reddstone Event goes from 5:00 - 8:00 with Discussion after. Registration: Before 9/17 Members $25. Non $30 Students $10.00 After 9/17 - before 9/22 Members $40 Non $ 45 Students $25 RSVP [email protected] Location: Detroit Shoreway District Time: 5:00 to 9:00 PM Email: [email protected]