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		<title>I&#8217;ve Got a Bridge I Want to Sell You&#8230; Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 7, 2010&#8230; Why not get in line? Cities, counties, all levels of government are giving it away. So why shouldn’t American Greetings get in line. Crain’s Cleveland Business is reporting today that the Brooklyn, Ohio Company seeks to relocate because the city raised its city tax a half percent. Governments are giving away – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMPI Playing with Cleveland, Cuyahoga County</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 17, 2009&#8230; I talked with MMPI’s Mark Falanga after a three-hour Council briefing to ask a simple question. Did MMPI expect to build a private medical mart on public land at no cost? MMPI’s Falanga told Council that among a number of possibilities examined, MMPI wanted to build its Medical Mart on the Mall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randy Lerner Gets $10 Million from Cleveland Fans, Non-Fans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cleveland Browns fans may be angry with Randy Lerner and the Cleveland Browns football team but that didn’t stop them from contributing $10.9 million to help him this year. In October, Cuyahoga County taxpayers slipped another $1.2 million to pay for the Browns Stadium. The Browns are 1-7 this season. And a pretty putrid 1-7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing What We Don&#8217;t Need, Not Doing What We Need</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November, 1, 2009&#8230; Stampede, stampede , stampede. That’s The Plain Dealer’s editorial push on Issues 3 &#38; 6, as it was on Gateway, as it was on Browns Stadium, as it was on the Medical Mart and as it is on the monopoly casino. What do they have in common? Build – Build – Build. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plain Dealer Calls for More Economic Development Voodoo?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 11, 2009&#8230; If Dan Gilbert had even a smidgen of real interest in Cleveland and its people he would show it by volunteering to pay property taxes on Quicken Arena. Don’t make this bet unless you’re on the Plain Dealer editorial board. We are being offered – again – a lot of nonsense about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More of Your Money Flows to Rich Guy + Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 16, 2009&#8230; The Plain Dealer this morning headlined a major public give-away as a “$54M injection” for the Wolstein Flats project. Private development, SUPPOSEDLY. You call that an injection? I call it a transfusion. Below I repeat something I wrote when the project was first announced back in 2006. At that time the public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plain Dealer Egging on an Unnecessary Road Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 13, 2009&#8230; We have a problem Plain Dealer. The monopoly newspaper has been pushing hard for the so-called Opportunity Corridor. The problem is that the co-chairman of the push is Terry Egger, publisher of The Plain Dealer. He’s a walking conflict of interests. Multi-millionaire Egger is a board member of the Cleveland Clinic, likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Park Building &#8211; From Tax Reduction to Tax Abatement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 5, 2009&#8230; I was passing by the Park Building on Public Square and Ontario Street recently and stopped to ask about the new condominiums promoted for the old office building. The Park Building is historic in many ways. Its handout says, “The Park Building, one of the most elegant buildings in Cleveland, offers the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Jacobs &#8211; He Loved Money, But Also Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 5, 2009&#8230; Death is the great equalizer. Even multi-millionaires have to participate. It is not optional, as Woody Allen once said, Americans seem to believe. Dick Jacobs was well-regarded in Cleveland because he helped the Cleveland Indians win a couple of American League pennants and go to the World Series. For that, many believe [...]]]></description>
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