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	<title>Read  Roldo . com &#187; George Forbes</title>
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		<title>Broke My Rule and Crain&#8217;s Shows Why I Shouldn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 19:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I broke my standing rule about saying something nice about anything or anybody. Always disappointed soon after.  I praised the Crain’s Cleveland Business daily blog recently. I don’t take that back. And I still congratulate the weekly business magazine on its 30th birthday. BUT…
Crain’s did a series on some Cleveland’s most influential (their selection) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Taxpayers of Cleveland &amp; Cuyahoga Have to Always Carry the Cost of Institutions that Serve a Much Wider Area of Northeast Ohio?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 21:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 6, 2010&#8230;  I read in the New York Times Friday that plans are being formulated to redo Progressive Field. Who knew?
A Gateway official says, however, that there is no big redo coming. Further, at this point, both teams leasing sports facilities are responsible for capital improvements.
But don’t you know that it is coming: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Things to Get Off My Chest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 21, 2010&#8230; Wait a minute now. I read where “public-private collaborators” have announced that University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic are telling vendors that they better locate in the Euclid Avenue Corridor.
I really don’t have an argument against trying to get more medical businesses to locate in the city. But the threats came over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Young&#8217;s Death Reminds Us of Our Poisonous Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 27, 2010&#8230; I’m saddened by the death of former Cleveland school board member Ed Young. His story goes to the heart of why Cleveland is the way it is. With sour and destructive politics. Personally and civically.
It is why we have such a severely damaged politics. And city.
In the mid-1980s Young represented the possibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics Breeds Bitter Racial Stereotype&#8230; Call &amp; Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 2, 2009&#8230;  The Call &#38; Post has always been used as a political tool. It has a great history of standing up for blacks, especially when white newspapers didn’t give a shit about blacks.
That’s why it’s troubling to see a racist stereotype used to attack a black person in the weekly newspaper.
I’d suggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacobs-Ratner Fight Continues with Issue 3 Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 27, 2009&#8230;  Damian Guevara in the Cleveland Scene last week had a take on the Issue 3 that has been neglected by most, including me, but touches on a damaging game among Cleveland developers. They vie among themselves for advantage no matter what the cost to community.
It has cost us plenty over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAACP&#8230; Civil Rights or Plaything of George Forbes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 16, 2009&#8230;  Does anyone believe that the Cleveland chapter of the NAACP is a civil rights organization and not the plaything of old man George Forbes?
The chapter on Friday endorsed Issue 3, a monopoly casino for Dan Gilbert, Cavs owner. Gilbert was on hand for the gift from the once civil rights organization, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ritz-Carlton Asks for Two More Tax Reductions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 4, 2009&#8230;  Signs continue to suggest disaster for local government as property taxes are ready to tumble. Tower City folk are seeking more reductions in the property value of the Ritz-Carlton.
The downtown luxury hotel had enjoyed a 20-year, 100% tax abatement. Back on the tax rolls it now asks for reductions via a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Let the Vultures In?  Woof, Woof</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s how honest Jeff Jacobs is.
Back in the late 1980s when his dad, Dick Jacobs, was taking millions in subsidies thanks to George and George, I learned that Jeff wanted to take over Lakeview Terrace, a public housing project overlooking Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River. It fit his Flats plans.
I called one of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got No Car? Walk, Why Don&#8217;tcha</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 12, 209&#8230;  The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority ( GCRTA, RTA for short) has decided to cut the services to the most transit-dependent. Not enough money, they say. Can’t you just accept that? What are you crying about?
You know things are tight.
Our leaders, however, found $168 million – so far – for “needs” [...]]]></description>
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