When the financiers for the triangle project in UC backed out, I began wondering is City Hall less friendly to developers now vs. when Jane was in office?

It just seems like the momentum for large and small project announcements has significantly slowed this year.  I realize it is one thing to announce a project, another to put a shovel into the ground.

 

So, is this just my perception?  I have to admit, I was a big Jane fan, so that might color my opinion as well.

 

Also, if there is some validity to my observation, was Jane too generous with tax money to developers, and Mayor Jackson more prudent?

 

Just wanted to start the discussion

I will trade you a Jane AND a Jackson for one Daley!

Neither of them impress me, really.  However, at the moment, Jane is looking better to me in that, wacky & pie-in-the-sky as some of her ideas were, she at least she said something.  Jackson isn't doing anything.

As much as I am nnot a big Jackson fan (nor was I of Jane...even less actually), I won't say he isn't doing anything.....he just doesn't plaster his face and a big cheesy smile all over the TV.  I have a friend that works closely with his cabinet (he is a consultant) and he says there are many things going on but Jackson chooses not to make big news out of them until they actually materialize.  What you ask?  My friend says he can't say......

Since Jackson took office, The westside has become a blood bath. Five kills in the last two months. and those are murders that media covered, i wonder about the unknowns. i can't wait to the crime report for 2006!

Since Jackson took office, The westside has become a blood bath. Five kills in the last two months. and those are murders that media covered, i wonder about the unknowns. i can't wait to the crime report for 2006!

 

Are you blaming Jackson for that?

Yes and No, Jackson campgain on crime levels of 2005 and now there is more of it in 2006. and he has been quiet the whole time. hell he has been quiet about everything, and when he does talk, his anwser 50% of the time is "i don't know nothing about it."

 

but i know that, its money, the gun laws and other things.

 

Who else is there to blame?

Since Jackson took office, The westside has become a blood bath. Five kills in the last two months. and those are murders that media covered, i wonder about the unknowns. i can't wait to the crime report for 2006!

 

How can jackson be blamed for this.  There are way to many "if" to blame it totally on Jackson.

 

How can jackson be blamed for this.  There are way to many "if" to blame it totally on Jackson.

 

ah c'mon MTC, he should have been there to tell the guy to turn down the music before he killed the two artists.  You're way too easy on the mayor.

From what I'm hearing, Jackson is decent but could be better. Comparatively, he's supposedly much better than Jane. When Jane was in office, everyone went to Ronayne if they wanted to get something done.  --this is what some intelligent and unbiased insiders tell me.

As much as I am not a big Jackson fan (nor was I of Jane...even less actually), I won't say he isn't doing anything.....he just doesn't plaster his face and a big cheesy smile all over the TV.  I have a friend that works closely with his cabinet (he is a consultant) and he says there are many things going on but Jackson chooses not to make big news out of them until they actually materialize.  What you ask?  My friend says he can't say......

 

Fair point.  Jane loved face time, there wasn't a camera or ribbon cutting (even for the famed R&RHOF skateboard park) she didn't love.  She was good at making a spectacle over little things... Frank may be more pragmatic and behind the scenes... maybe.  But at some point, the populace needs to get a sense the mayor is doing something, and so far, Frank isn't giving me that feeling at all.

I actually kinda like them both; I worked in City Hall for a while when Campbell was mayor and Jackson was Council President. They're very different kinds of leaders, which I certainly don't think is a bad thing for Cleveland (alternating leadership styles from time to time). One thing I'll say in defense of Campbell is that, as much as people complained about her neverending publicity efforts, I think this also worked to increase the visibility of initiatives in Cleveland. Between the two, I would definitely choose Jane to promote the city outside of the region; I can't imagine Frank Jackson would wow the U.S. Conference of Mayors, etc. That being said, I've heard Jackson is up to some interesting stuff - I just wish he'd share it with us!

 

If Ronayne (Chris; Natalie did some interesting things for the city as well) was the man behind the curtain, why don't we just elect him?

 

 

^That might be the plan.

Look at how many former Campbell staff members now work for him at UCI.

I would probably vote for him.

 

 

What does everyone think about this cat removal deal Jackson has proposed?

I understand there are probably many feral cats out in the city, but is this a good way to spend a million dollars? I read a comment in the paper that suggested if many of the cats were gone, perhaps there would be an increase in the rodent population.

Besides, you never hear of a pack of cats attacking mailmen or kids.

I wonder if this will become what the garbage can naming rights were to Campbell.

Just wondering.