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		<title>MMPI&#8230; It Never, Ever is Enough, Is It?</title>
		<link>http://www.besthostsreviews.com/ReadRoldoBartimole/2010/06/mmpi-it-never-ever-is-enough-is-it/</link>
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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) delivered [...]]]></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>Medical Mart Money Piling Up at County</title>
		<link>http://www.besthostsreviews.com/ReadRoldoBartimole/2010/04/medical-mart-money-piling-up-at-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 3, 2010&#8230;  Cuyahoga County taxpayers in these depression-like times have paid $91 million into the fund for the Medical Mart deal. Does anyone notice?
The Plain Dealer, our news media of record, appears to have forgotten that we have a near – or more &#8211; $1 billion project. The Med Mart has slipped off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuyahoga County Keeps Taking Extra Millions from Taxpayers</title>
		<link>http://www.besthostsreviews.com/ReadRoldoBartimole/2010/03/cuyahoga-county-keeps-taking-extra-millions-from-taxpayers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 5, 2010&#8230; The quarter-percent sales tax for the medical mart has now cost County taxpayers $87 million. MMPI, Tim Hagan and his Kennedy friends thank you all. Keep it coming, says Tim.
This is to fulfill the agenda of the Greater Cleveland Partnership. The corrupters of our civic life mentioned in my post below. The [...]]]></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>Interest on Med Mart Tax is Kicking Income Up</title>
		<link>http://www.besthostsreviews.com/ReadRoldoBartimole/2009/11/interest-on-med-mart-tax-is-kicking-income-up/</link>
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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 money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMPI Playing with Cleveland, Cuyahoga County</title>
		<link>http://www.besthostsreviews.com/ReadRoldoBartimole/2009/11/mmpi-playing-with-cleveland-cuyahoga-county/</link>
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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>Class Warfare by Supposedly Inconsequential Taxation</title>
		<link>http://www.besthostsreviews.com/ReadRoldoBartimole/2009/10/class-warfare-by-supposedly-inconsequential-taxation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 14, 2009&#8230;  You don’t understand the power and cost of small, supposedly inconsequential taxes on “little people” in contrast to taxes that hit the “big people” unless and until you total up the cost. Then only blindness hides the truth.
The latest “little taxes” – on various sales – show that Cuyahoga County has [...]]]></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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