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		<title>MMPI&#8230; It Never, Ever is Enough, Is It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 5, 2010&#8230; The $800 million plus insured by the quarter-percent extra sales tax by Cuyahoga County Commissioners wasn’t sugary enough for MMPI and the Chicago Kennedys. So the Ohio State Legislature added more sweeteners to the deal. The County is collecting some $40 million a year on the tax passed by Tim Hagan and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here We Go Again&#8230; More Money for Billionaires</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 3, 2010&#8230; MMPI of Chicago is closing in on $100 million kitty thanks to hard-pressed Cuyahoga County taxpayers. Thanks, Timmy and Jimmy. The Medical Mart quarter-percent tax passed by Tim Hagan and Jimmy Dimora with acquiescence of Peter Lawson Jones (the guy who can’t take public transportation home but needs a special tax-paid driver) [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Solution Where New Cuyahoga County Officials Can Meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 28, 2010&#8230; I have the perfect place for the new Cuyahoga County Council to meet. It shouldn’t cost a penny. County taxpayers already paid for construction. And even to furnish it! It’s a building the County constructed in Jacobs Field. It’s not far from the present County Administration building. The building wasn’t even in [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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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 FROM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interest on Med Mart Tax is Kicking Income Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 23, 2009&#8230;  Cuyahoga County expects the Medical Mart fund to be at about $80 million by the end of this year. That’s a few million dollars less than expected because sale tax revenue has been down. However, that doesn’t include investment earnings that add to the fund. The interest rate presently earned on County [...]]]></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>It&#8217;s Fair Taxes for Honest City Revenue, Stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 12, 2009&#8230; I haven’t read the 300-page-plus consulting report on management and efficiency of Cleveland government and I probably won’t.  I&#8217;ll leave it to others.  I know it won’t touch the one revenue source that Cleveland should tap if it had any concern for its citizens. It is out of the question. Won’t happen. [...]]]></description>
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