Little Italy development and Lakewood

[Dan Alaimo]

Here's an article from Cleveland.com/Plain Dealer/Advance that Jay Foran shared on FB about the rejection of a Little Italy project which references Lakewood.
I noted that the Steven Litt article mentions the Detroit apartments and not the One Lakewood deal.
I'm curious about others' observations.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/06/ ... -litt.html

[Bill Call]

Here's an article from Cleveland.com/Plain Dealer/Advance that Jay Foran shared on FB about the rejection of a Little Italy project which references Lakewood.
I noted that the Steven Litt article mentions the Detroit apartments and not the One Lakewood deal.
I'm curious about others' observations.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/06/ ... -litt.html

I read the article and had the same thought.

The writer mentions local opposition to various development plans in the Cleveland area but makes no mention of the single most notorious development, One Lakewood.

You see the same outline in the Plain Dealers reporting on open records law. The paper has done a lot of reporting on the issue over the last two years but never once mentioned the City of Lakewood’s efforts to hide public records. To my knowledge they never reported the judge’s admonishment of the City or the award of legal fees to the plaintiffs.

The failure of the local media to cover the Hospital debacle presented an insurmountable obstacle to our efforts to save the Hospital and $70 million in cash and investments.

I understand their reticence. The Cleveland Clinic is Cleveland’s last remaining world class corporation and local officials are loath to challenge it. That’s a shame. The failure of local officials to speak out and to act has done a great deal of damage.

The failure of the Plain Dealer to report on the issue is a betrayal. Get used to it; they are not going to change.

[Jim O'Bryan]

Here's an article from Cleveland.com/Plain Dealer/Advance that Jay Foran shared on FB about the rejection of a Little Italy project which references Lakewood.
I noted that the Steven Litt article mentions the Detroit apartments and not the One Lakewood deal.
I'm curious about others' observations.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/06/ ... -litt.html

I read the article and had the same thought.

The writer mentions local opposition to various development plans in the Cleveland area but makes no mention of the single most notorious development, One Lakewood.

You see the same outline in the Plain Dealers reporting on open records law. The paper has done a lot of reporting on the issue over the last two years but never once mentioned the City of Lakewood’s efforts to hide public records. To my knowledge they never reported the judge’s admonishment of the City or the award of legal fees to the plaintiffs.

The failure of the local media to cover the Hospital debacle presented an insurmountable obstacle to our efforts to save the Hospital and $70 million in cash and investments.

I understand their reticence. The Cleveland Clinic is Cleveland’s last remaining world class corporation and local officials are loath to challenge it. That’s a shame. The failure of local officials to speak out and to act has done a great deal of damage.

The failure of the Plain Dealer to report on the issue is a betrayal. Get used to it; they are not going to change.

Stay tuned...

You will love the new Lakewood Observer, Volume 15 Issue 11.

You will see what our professional media does when given all the room they need.

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[Richard Baker]

Interesting, the article addresses declining population as an issue and the necessity of high-density developments so that an overstaffed, overpaid and over benefited employees who staff the government bodies that overspend may continue unabated. Or, the alternative will require the City of Detroit's solution, Democrat's bare earth taxation policies.

What is disgusting is that municipal governments will provide more than adequate police protection for these overpriced, tax abated and high density of middle-class millenniums while sacrificing protection to lower income and minority areas with high crime rates. Money talks, welfare and low-income walks unless it an election year for the pathetic opportunist elected to office.

What is purposely missing in this article is the fact that Cuyahoga County as a whole is losing population, not only in Cleveland but most of the municipalities in the county. Why is there the great white flight out of the county? It obviously can't due to high income and property taxes, mediocre school districts, poor services, embarrassing street surface conditions, corruption, nepotism and high crime rates.

After all, Cuyahoga municipalities want to smother you with socialism’s redundant services provided at multiple government levels, parental legislation, form over function idiotic projects, money solves everything and assistance for the losers of society, criminals, drug addicts and fifth generation welfare recipients that don't want to work and expect those that labor every day to support their family with the “you owes me” attitude to support their shiftlessness and drug addiction.

What can we say about the City of Lakewood the 7th largest city in Ohio without a hospital? The Democrat mayor and city council didn’t do this out of stupidity, that would be an insult to the stupid. I refer my case to an English parliamentarian that said, “I would never accuse my government of being corrupt when ignorance would suffice.” However, in Lakewood’s case, it wasn’t Ignorance that eliminated the hospital, it was corruption that requires the investigation by the federal government. Don’t expect the same level of corruption at the state’s department of injustice to seek justice, the don’t know the meaning of the word.

Jim, if the forum referencing the declining population disappeared with my comments that included facts that questioned the direction the City of Lakewood is going was not deleted. I’ll beg you to accept my apology and I’ll take you out to dinner to prevent the duel.

[Jim O'Bryan]

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Jim, if the forum referencing the declining population disappeared with my comments that included facts that questioned the direction the City of Lakewood is going was not deleted. I’ll beg you to accept my apology and I’ll take you out to dinner to prevent the duel.

Nothing has been deleted from this forum for over 2 years. And that was over legal items.

It has to be their somewhere.

Go to profiles, and click on posts by this person, they should all come up.


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