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		<title>Can You Spare a Dime for Randy Lerner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 7, 2010&#8230; The City of Cleveland has refinanced Browns Stadium bonds to the tune of $183,856,270.35 in two refinancing deals. Did Randy Lerner say thanks? I don’t think so. And because I know no one will report this: The City of Cleveland from its deflated general fund also had to pay $850,000 into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billionaire Lerners Make Forbes Richest in World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 11, 2010&#8230; You may have noticed in The Plain Dealer this morning that the City of Cleveland will refinance $65 million in bonds for Browns Stadium. You also likely noticed that the interest rate will be going up. Taxpayers get ready. Because of the poor fiscal state of the city, Moody’s rating service lowered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>County Santa (Tim Hagan) Very Good to MMPI in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 24, 2009&#8230; Santa Claus came often and generously to MMPI this year. It’s not a one-night trip in this case. Eight times – from May to December &#8211; he (played by Tim Hagan) dropped $333,333.33 checks into the Chicago firm bank account. No need to send receipts. It’s a standing fee negotiated by that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMPI Gets More, County Spends Another $600K on Medical Mart Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 19, 2009&#8230; Cuyahoga County has paid MMPI another $1,240,799 in addition to the monthly fees of $333,333.33 according to figures from the County Auditor’s department. The monthly fees have cost County taxpayers some $2.3 million to MMPI. As I noted earlier, MMPI collects this each month as a fee and gives no details of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMPI Gets $1 Million Every Quarter with No Details</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 18, 2009&#8230; I find the way MMPI bills Cuyahoga County for its monthly “fee” an example of bad management taken to extreme. The billings tell the County nothing of what MMPI does for its healthy fee. Here’s what the entire “invoice” from MMPI says as a description of what it did for $333,333.33 – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plain Dealer&#8230; Propaganda, Fake Crusading</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When The Plain Dealer editorial board gets Dan Gilbert, Mayor Frank Jackson, Council President Marty Sweeney, Greater Cleveland Partnership boss Joe Roman and Squire-Sanders managing partner Fred Nance in one room you know the bullshit is knee high or higher. The result of the meeting: a free Page One ad for Gilbert’s desired casino and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Cleveland Pays Way More Stadium Taxes Than Browns Pay in Rent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 28, 2009&#8230; The City of Cleveland annually now pays $202,700 more in property taxes on Browns Stadium than the Browns pay the city to rent the stadium all year. Isn’t that some kind of generosity or maybe gross corruption? Although Browns Stadium is owned by the City of Cleveland it must still pay property [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Med Mart &#8211; &#8220;We Need It.&#8221; Remind Me Why. Please</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did The Plain Dealer actually think that Cuyahoga County Commissioners would really insist MMPI pay property taxes? God.  The PD has kept itself innocent all these years.  And it remains naïve and innocent.  Like Bernie Madoff. I also love the PD editorial on Sunday.  The headline is “One piece at a time.”  It’s the subhead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Medical Furniture Mart at $1 Billion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More discouraging words about the Medical Mart planned here by MMPI and its use of $1 billion tax dollars – a furniture mart is in the plan. Here’s what MedCity News, a publication that deals with “health care as an economic engine of American cities,” says of MMPI’s plans for Cleveland&#8230; “When you try to [...]]]></description>
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