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		<title>Gund Grant to Cleveland Schools&#8230; Such an Irony</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 28, 2010&#8230;  Think of the irony of it. The Gund Foundation is giving the Cleveland schools $2.5 million of dollars, according to a Page one story today in The Plain Dealer. Isn’t it ironic &#8211; or at amusing &#8211; or a dime on a dollar &#8211; that the Gund family took MANY millions [...]]]></description>
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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>Former Cop&#8217;s Arrest Story Differs from Dan Gilbert&#8217;s Version</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 30, 2009&#8230;  A former Michigan state trooper tells a different story of Dan Gilbert’s arrest for operation of a gambling business than the Cavs owner has been peddling to the news media. Gilbert has made it seem a minor episode, best forgotten.
Gilbert, a billionaire of the mortgage business and owner of the Cleveland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Shill Dennis Eckart Backs Monopoly Casino</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 26, 2009&#8230;  Former Congressman Dennis Eckart has joined the party. He’s backing Issue 3. That makes it almost unanimous – every shyster in town is backing a monopoly casino for a billionaire.
What a wonderful town this is.
Eckart, a former Greater Cleveland Growth Association (now Greater Cleveland Partnership) top boss, played a liberal politician [...]]]></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>How Much Money is Lost to Abatement?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 22, 2009&#8230;  Civic corruption comes in many forms.
We have been hearing a lot about corruption these days. However, the focus is very narrow. Unnecessarily so.
The Plain Dealer simply ignores the corruption that makes today’s hyper Cuyahoga County sleaze activity look minor league. Even little league. We’re going to talk about multi-million dollar corruption. [...]]]></description>
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