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I think the time is right to start branding the great lakes as such. Especially with the west drying and burning up and the growing problems on the east coast and Gulf of Mexico, which will only get worse. Imagine our area being thought of as being on a "vast inland freshwater sea."
So the PD and Cleveland.com want us to dream big? They want us to embrace their “big idea” of a regional sales tax to pay for sports stadiums and a refurbished airport. And if we don’t just love their idea, they think we are de facto losers.
Dream big? Embrace bold ideas? Really?
Many who live here NE Ohio are getting just a little bit tired of being chastised by breathless, bloviating local civic boosters when we won’t wildly support their neoliberal “economic development” schemes that primarily benefit regional elites and fat cat oligarchs. We’ve all witnessed closely and firsthand here in NE Ohio the cosmic lie that “trickle down” economics really is. It’s a vile scam that enriches the top income earners and holders of immense wealth, and that’s it. The only thing that trickles down is contempt for average people.
Truly bold ideas that would likely garner immense public support but are yet to be offered by civic “leaders” in NE Ohio are addressing endemic poverty, providing affordable housing for the middle class and poor people, properly funding urban public schools, promoting community wealth-building as opposed to rapacious investor economic extraction, ending the plight of the unhoused, rapidly restoring the tree canopy to protect a vulnerable urban population that has been ignored and discriminated against, fixing systemic racism in our local healthcare system leading to disastrous health outcomes for people of color, reducing disproportionate infant and maternal death rates for people of color, building up an anemic public transit system that underserves low income people, making the non-profit industrial complex serve its host neighborhoods and public schools, providing more living wage, family sustaining jobs, implementing community based anti-racist policing, stuff like that.
But the PD and Cleveland.com focus on catering to the billionaire-owned, blood sucking sports franchises and glitzing up an airport that preferentially serves regional elite. These may be high priorities for the region’s elites, but they are not high priorities for most taxpayers and voters.
And stunningly, they look to a regressive regional sales tax to fund the scheme, so that low and middle income people get the pleasure of paying a larger share of their income than the wealthy to build fancy sports palaces and a swank airport they can’t afford to use.
No wonder Cleveland proper has so dramatically lost population and remains one of the poorest big cities in the United States. Our civic “leaders” do their absolute best to routinely transfer more wealth up to the already wealthy. “Public private partnership” has come to mean public money is used to grow private fortunes.
People in the area don't warmly embrace certain "bold ideas" from our civic "leaders" because the ideas themselves are morally deficient at their core and selectively serve the interests of the region's posh, powerful and privileged.
Let’s hear some bold ideas for a change that actually help the people that live here struggling to just make a living, make ends meet or get the slightest bit ahead.
Not as respectfully to this elitist idea as I would like, but quite sincerely,
Arthur Hargate
My writing to council is a request to re-name the USA GASTATION on w.117th. near Lorain Ave., Cleveland Ohio.
Re-Naming the USA GASTATION on W.117th near lorain ave. in cleveland, ohio can help
end the arson crimes from the gas stoves / gasoline crimes put on people / banks / Justice center.
The United States of Americans should create healthier tittles for
People / Employers / Employees / Businesses / Companies.
The TV News stopped the deadly acts of gasoline.
Thank council for helping to end pollution / for helping to end arson crimes.
Council 15
A virtual document will be created and shared allowing those who have interacted with any phase or level of government and the outcomes... be a praise, a concern or criminal behavior by the government and whomever
To end the thefts of spoken voice phone messages to
C.R.O's - Clients Rights Officers.
A request to council to re name Cleveland, Ohio health board to end the spoken voice theft to phone messages.
Why the adverb RUSH should be taken off the title of the Ortiz Rush Playground in Cleveland, Ohio.
The traffic on W.74th Madison Ave. is or was speeding beyond the Capacity of the people.
The playground neighborhood can stop being mistaken to be the issues of the Russian Country Lifestyle.
The playground is in the American Country of the city of Cleveland Ohio. and should not be mistaken to be Russia.
Thank you for Honoring the request to take the adverb RUSH in the Playground.
Council 15.
As we all know, the library security team works hard in the efforts to maintain the safety and order within these spaces. The officers as well as the leadership team are challenged day to day with the same issues that are faced by any other local enforcement team working within our city. Though non commissioned and unarmed they do a remarkable job dealing with maintaining the libraries patron code of conduct as well as working together with men and women of our Cleveland division of Police. The Officers in the library are all state certified security professionals who are also training in CIT response. They assist in handling mental health, vagrancy and low level crime in which they rely on the response of Cleveland police. With the lack of applicants and the low numbers police in Cleveland these library officers are task with responding to calls for service at the branches. The library has 26 branches spread from east to west and cannot run lights and sirens as police officers do.
Imagine being able to increase you security forces within your Cleveland public library. Commissioned officers are privileged to a lot more trainings and service techniques that provide a broader scope into dealing with citizens in our city. If the library would have its own officers commissioned the time response to serious matters has now been decreased. This would allow our Cleveland police forces to focused more on streets without being overwhelmed to respond to our libraries. This means the library can handle 70% of its calls for service without taking forces from our streets where the violence has increased significantly.
Commissioning the library security staff to me is an awesome idea that will contribute to the relief and sense of security of the community. Knowing where you can go and feel safe is an important factor these days. Also having officers who can meet a threat of deadly force or domestic terrorism is a key element in providing a safe environment for our scholars and those who are the future of our city state and country.
People fear for their life at the library because of Weapons/ Vapes/ Pepper Spray from Security Guards/Auxiliary.,
It is a unspoken fear implied from the Security Guards/ Auxiliary that the library is not a safe learning environment for the library members and the security guards are armed and dangerous.,
ready to Spray./ Injure./ Vaporize.
The Library is a environment for learning, the library members should not have to fear
Killing/Vaporization/Spray &/or injury because of the Security Guard'/ Auxiliary' Weapons/Vapes/ Pepper Spray.
The final thought is a request for the library Security Guards / Auxiliary to stop carrying
Weapons/Pepper spray on person in the library.
The library members are not allowed to carry weapons,
and the Security Guards / Auxiliary should not be allowed to scare the library members away
because of Weapons/Vapes/Pepper Spray.
The security guards not being allowed to carry weapons/Pepper Spray can create less injuries/
Less Homicides/Less Murders.
Thanking the city to make the Library environment a murder less/less Homicidal / injure less environment by way of Weapons, Vapes/Pepper Spray not being allowed in the Library.
Council 15.