tedolph

The building wasn't very pretty...was it: http://www.cardcow.com/233763/f-freiberger-library-western-reserve-university-cleveland-ohio/ I didn't realize there was a building there to begin with. Now there's an understatement. It was as ugly as Sin.

I can't imagine Boreas/al would have said something like that. Totally out of character.

This is the old Freibuerger Library site. I wonder if the foundation is still there> I know the steps and some marble masonry still are.

What are you going to do with the tens of tousands of high school drop out, functionally illiterate, criminal justice system records 18-40 year old men stuck in poor neighborhoods who don't have jobs and will never become biomedical engineers or technicians. This is a cop out. 20 years ago Chicago was dying under what's her name. Philadelphia was dying under Goody or whatever his name was and NY was dying under the guy before Guliani. Each one of those cities turned itsef around with new dynamic leadership. Detroit did not. Look at it today (altough I like thier new mayor). Cleveland did fturn itself around for a while under Mike White, stumbled with Jane Campbel and is dying under Frank Jackson.

Touching upon the brain drain section for a moment, did you notice how many of the people Larkin talked about came to Cleveland for school and fell in love? I really feel like Cleveland's lack of a large university has compounded the brain drain by not bringing an influx or preserving the current stock of young intelligent people, when compared to Ohio State or University of Cinncy. I am fully behind CSU expanding as damn big as the want to. I have tried adding up Case, JCU and BW but there are similar sized schools in Cincy and C-Bus too, in addition to the big institutes. So I think they end up being a wash, I know that Cleveland students go to Akron and Kent too. But I don't think they do anything to draw people into the city or entice them to stay in the region. Jobs are king after you graduate, I also realize that. So it's a chicken and the egg deal on how to keep/attract young people to the city. I would bet that CWRU brings in more people from outside the country (and maybe outside the state) than all the other colleges and universites in the state combined excluding Ohio State.

Mayor Prosperity is the right man at the wrong time. I think he would have been great in the 60's or the 70's watching out for the little guy, rooting out corruption, balancing the budget, etc. He just doesn't have the skill sets we need now. We need someone who really understands business. If we don't get Cleveland's economy turned around in the very near future, I fear we will be on an irreversible path to Detroit. The neighborhoods are starting to become uninhabitable. This is a result of lack of low skilled, minimum wage manufacturing jobs. Mayor Prosperity just doesn't get it. We need 10's of thousands of these jobs. High tech is good and necessary, but it isn't going to do that. We need a mayor Daley, or even a Mike White. this LED fiasco is just an example of his lack of basic business skills.

""Why don't you want to incarcerate violent criminals?" Sir, this is not what I sad AT ALL.. ' Of course it wasn't. I just said that to bait you-surprised you took it.

As respectfully as I can I must say that this attitude is simplistic. I remember seeing a statistic for one of the distressed Cleveland neighborhoods (I think some young girl had been kidnapped, raped and killed) indicating that there were hundreds of registered sex offenders within one mile of the body and it would take police an inordinate amount of time to interview all of them rather than use other investigative tactics. Can you imagine, hundreds of registered sex offenders. How many felons convicted of violent crimes do you think it takes to ruin a neighborhood? We have to lock these people up permanently. BAd prison food is not going to deter them. Hard matresses is not going to deter them. Guns are not going to deter them. They have already given up on their own humanity. The only thing we can do is lock them up. Well, as respectfully I can reply.....it may be "simplistic"...but it can work and has shown that it works. There are times when answers to given problems are easier than we think if all would do their part. Because of our block watching, we were able to evict tenants from an apartment building that were a growing and potentially bad problem. The building was cleaned up...but requires ongoing watch and we cannot afford to sit on our laurels with a place like that---and nearby residents know it. Sometimes there is no Lone Ranger that's going to ride in and save the day...that Lone Ranger is within all of us to do our part to watch and not hide in our homes getting doped up with television and eats. Again, getting involved to make a difference does not mean everyone has to chose to get strapped. Lastly, it is no more simplistic an idea than thinking arming everyone will solve the problem either. I really do not want to have my 82 year old Mother having to worry about whether or not she will have to engage herself in a shoot out! ok EC, so you got the animals evicted from one apartment building so they can go and terrorize another building in the next neighborhood. So you solved your immediate problem what does this solve overall? I am a block watch "coporal" (I call our block watch Capitan "General"). we live next to a large park and cleaned out the homeless who were burglarizing the adjacent homes and intimidating the housewives and children. Make no mistake, we solved our problem by moving it to the next park on the bus line. Why don't you want to incarcerate violent criminals?

As respectfully as I can I must say that this attitude is simplistic. I remember seeing a statistic for one of the distressed Cleveland neighborhoods (I think some young girl had been kidnapped, raped and killed) indicating that there were hundreds of registered sex offenders within one mile of the body and it would take police an inordinate amount of time to interview all of them rather than use other investigative tactics. Can you imagine, hundreds of registered sex offenders. How many felons convicted of violent crimes do you think it takes to ruin a neighborhood? We have to lock these people up permanently. BAd prison food is not going to deter them. Hard matresses is not going to deter them. Guns are not going to deter them. They have already given up on their own humanity. The only thing we can do is lock them up.

Sigh.

"Wait.... Are you saying that Ronald Reagan (i.e. "he who shall not be questioned") nominated a commie liberal to our Nation's highest court? Hmmmmm.... I am going to have to look into some of Reagan's other "associations" / appointments. This is pretty damning evidence that he too may have been a commie liberal." It was a big secret- Reagan was a Closet Commie.

Don't get me started. It starts at the top. That is all I will say.

What an awful thing to say about Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito ;) You know who I was talking about......Kennedy!

Actually, the citizens are never given a chance to vote on "prisons". The legislature plays that card close to their vest becase they know the citizens would vote overwhelmingly for massive prision construction and then there would be no excuse for letting animals go free.

You are correct. Threat of punishment is not a deterrent to A-hole idiots, no matter how stiff the penalty. That is why animals need to be permanently incarcerated. That way they only get to commit one (or three) crimes. Thus, permanent incarceration is a deterrent. It deters a criminal from committing a crime if he is incarcerated. Here is the dirty little secret. 90% of the crimes are commit ed by 9% of the criminals. Permanently incarcerate those 9% and 90% of the crime goes away. Also, make the prisons as appealing as possible. Make it a place A-hole idiots want to go to, and stay in! Eliminate parole, eliminate time off for good behaviour, add on time for bad behaviour. If you think this is not possible, please be advised that the Sup. Ct. with all its commie liberals just ruled that states can keep perverts incarcerated beyond their sentence if they are a danger to the community.

Lots of concealed carry permits in Detroit. Don't get me wrong, things would certainly be worse if Detroiters couldn't arm themselves but the real solution is to put animals in a cage, permanently.

"There are a lot of guys out there who should be in prison, but they just haven't been caught yet. " I am sorry to say that you are wrong. I will bet my last dollar that the animal that did this has a rap sheet a mile long and has done things like this before. The only solution for people who have demonstrated their inability to live in a free society is permanent incarceration. Give them everything, TV, hookers, whatever, but get them into human warehouses as soon as possible and keep them there. I do not understand a society that will not fulfil its first public obligation, segregation of criminals. Even primitive societies understand this. If you don't think this is realistic look at those states that have "three strikes and your out" laws. Washington state does and it has made a serious dent in violent crime. I could get into the motivations for why some people prefer the present system which victimizes the law abiding citizen, struggling neighborhoods, etc. but I can't find my tin foil hat right now. Incarceration may cost more, but its worth it!

Hope this doesn't hold true for off shore wind farms: "Amid much good news for wind--an onging global surge in wind energy installations, the go-ahead from the U.S. government for the immensely controversial Cape Wind project--comes a report detailing a sharp rise in wind operating costs and poor performance relative to other countries. Prepared by the independent business intelligence service Wind Energy Update, the Wind Energy Operations & Maintenance Report finds that current O&M costs are two or three times higher than first projected and that there has been a 21 percent decrease in returns on investments in wind farms. O&M costs were found to be especially high in the United States, "now the world's largest wind power market." Based on surveys, the report estimates average world O&M costs at 27 U.S. cents per kilowatthour, which compares with the 20 c/kWh at which costs roughly equal the value of U.S. wind production credits. The report says that while close to 80 percent of the world's wind turbines are still under warranty, "this is about to change." R&D is focusing especially on gearbox reliability: "Many gearboxes, designed for a 20-year life, are failing after six to eight years of operation" more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/wind/trouble-brewing-for-wind

I hope we don't lose those trees.

Does for me, pasta with octopus or eels. Can't remember what they called it. It was good though.

Blew up in his face. No surprise here.

As I think back, I haven't seen this adjective used to describe topography. Should I have? Does this mean it's hilly? Pervert.

Told you so. The deal will not go to Sunpu-Opto. Mark my words!

Thanks very much, saved me a lot of reading. Another question. If the subway had been finished, how would that have affected CincinattI today? Although I haven't been there in many years (live in Seattle now) I though it was a very attractive city, more like a miniature New York than Cleveland is. Seems like a subway might have kept Cincy growing or are the dynamics different than Cleveland, were a subway also did not get built?

Chagrin river road was supposed to be a parkway and part of the Emerald Necklace but Hunting Valley refused to authorize Metroparks to connect the North and South Chagrin Reservations. This would have by now resulted in a complete Necklace, encircling the City of Cleveland, its suburbs and one of the best bicycle tours in the nation. It is my hope that the new Metroparks Director will seek this end as I believe the time may be right. There is very little left to connect and there have been some incremental additions to that end.