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		<title>Gateway&#8217;s $3.2 Million Budget Bargain for Teams in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 6, 2010&#8230;  The Gateway Economic Development Corp., the non-profit entity that operates Progressive Field and Quicken Arena, has set a budget of $3,275,873 for 2010.
As a result of Gateway’s near bankruptcy a few years ago the two team owners decided to “save” Gateway from bankruptcy by agreeing to pay operating costs. They now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gateway Costs Taxpayers $100 Million Plus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 6, 2010&#8230;  Taxpayers continue  to pay dearly for the run-over costs from Gateway. Cuyahoga County sent a check  of $2,493,426.93 but that was only a small portion of tax funds that now total  far more than $100 million paid for bond borrowings in the  1990s.
Payments last year  put the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want a Just City Tax&#8230; Try Admission Tax on Sports Events, Fair and Proper</title>
		<link>http://www.besthostsreviews.com/ReadRoldoBartimole/2009/11/want-a-just-city-tax-try-admission-tax-on-sports-events-fair-and-proper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 24, 2009&#8230;  The most reasonable tax for Cleveland City Council to raise income would be a special admissions tax on all events at Progressive Field, Quicken Arena, and Browns Stadium.
Why?
The reason is mainly because none of the teams pay any property taxes on their sports facilities. Not a penny.
They ride FREE.
Somehow Mayor Frank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth about Gilbert&#8217;s Gambling Charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 19, 2009&#8230;  Dan Gilbert, Cavs owner and seeker of a monopoly casino here, laughed off a question about a felony gambling charge against him at the City Club debate here today. He described it as a minor infraction by an 18-year old.
USA Today in 2005, however, described it as an $114,000 betting scheme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ratners Deal with Russian Oligarch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Ratner and Forest City Enterprises made a deal with Russia’s richest man for the New Jersey Nets and a major Brooklyn project called Atlantic Yards.
The project was facing financial difficulties.
A Brooklyn community organization, headed by Daniel Goldstein, which has been fighting the development, sent out an email denouncing the deal. The project includes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wise to Combine LeBron James and a Gambling Casino?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the National Basketball Association will own casinos is reason for a NO vote against the casino issue on the November ballot.
I can’t understand how NBA chief David Stern can look the other way when one of his franchise owners combines basketball in Cleveland with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abatement on Trial, But the Vote was Rigged</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 10, 2009&#8230;  Mayor Michael White almost helped derail tax abatement in the late 1990s, when his brutal attacks to portray Cleveland teachers as greedy backfired.
White’s nasty nature almost cost him the issue.
The Cleveland Teachers Union counterattacked against White. The union took to the streets and collected an amazing 33,000 signatures to put the [...]]]></description>
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