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	<title>Read  Roldo . com &#187; Sam Miller</title>
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		<title>Sam Miller is the Funniest Man in Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 21, 2010&#8230; My best laugh on a trip out West for warm air came when I read online Sam Miller’s tribute to himself as part of Cleveland Magazine’s take on Cleveland’s most powerful people. Sam’s powerfully funny. He may have lost a few steps at 88 years old but he’s still got the great [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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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>Tax Reform Should Go Beyond Corruption Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s going to be an investigation of the integrity of commercial property appraisals here, we ought to also probe tax reductions awarded to downtown property owners by official County and State of Ohio agents. County Treasurer Jim Rokakis, concerned about the validity of commercial property appraisals because of the corruption charges involving County Auditor [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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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>Property Value Reductions to Slam Cleveland, Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 2, 2009&#8230; A filing by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Partnership/Tower City Avenue LLC &#8211; i. e., Sam and the boys, have asked for a value reduction on parcel number 101-23-101F. It is ever so with the Tower City bunch. Reduce my taxes, please! The filing asks a reduction of $105,736 in the value of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Cheap Can You Get?  Pretty Damned Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 1, 2009&#8230; Rich people HATE to pay taxes. They pinch pennies. They squeeze real hard. If you don’t believe me, this information will convince you. Or nothing will. Here are some of the richest people in Cleveland worried about paying taxes on $17 more of what they consider an unfair tax valuation of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RTA Getting Out of the Transit Business&#8230; Really</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 19, 2009&#8230; The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) is planning to drop “Transit” from its name. You can tell that because it keeps eliminating transportation for people. In fact, it can change its name to the Greater Cleveland Downtown Pleasing Authority. At least that’s the way it seems to me as Joe Calabrese, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Hypocritical Can Sam Miller Get Before We Laugh Him Out of Town?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 26, 2009&#8230; Hypocrisy &#8211; thy name is Sam Miller. Forest City Enterprises Co-chairman and Treasurer Sam Miller says he’s willing to donate to the Cleveland libraries if budget cuts are made by the State of Ohio. Sam says that he will donate to keep libraries in poor areas open if the cuts are made. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Med Mart Mess Continues Our Civic Sleaziness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend wrote me to say she had one drink at an E. 4th new street restaurant. The bill: $13. She questioned it. The server proclaimed, “This is DOWNTOWN.”  Downtown? Downtown Manhattan, you mean? I bring it up only because E. 4th Street’s development rests upon oodles and oodles of tax subsidies. And now one [...]]]></description>
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