The Observation Deck

I often wondered why the Plain Dealer never has anything to say about Lakewood Library unless it is something negative. This editorial about East Cleveland Public Library gives us a hint:

http://blog.cleveland.com/pdopinion/200 ... inkup.html

It is not the quality of the service that matters or the efficiency of the service or the cost effectiveness that matters. It is regionalization.

Bill,

You are absolutely right about this. Regionalism at all cost despite all facts is the mantra for the PD and it has been for about 10 years now. We would not have a new library if we were regionalized.

John Brennan

Bill Call wrote:I often wondered why the Plain Dealer never has anything to say about Lakewood Library unless it is something negative. This editorial about East Cleveland Public Library gives us a hint:

http://blog.cleveland.com/pdopinion/200 ... inkup.html

It is not the quality of the service that matters or the efficiency of the service or the cost effectiveness that matters. It is regionalization.

the Lakewood Public Library has better hours.

Cleveland and Cuyahoga have inferior hours.

Bill:

It all about feral civic phantoms of the Wood, one of whom has been nesting at LPL and attempting to extend the library's marketing and mind share through use of the DIY post-professional LO experiment.

For several years my civic and library goals have been published and on record: “The Lakewood Observer's Hyper-local Dojo: Self-Defense and the Ecology of Civic Engagement. Here are key goals:

Goals

Create a municipal revolution in civic chops and community norms through a retro-experiment in Polis. That is to say, enact the myth of the whole community in the central location, i.e. an independent, economic, social unit with strict boundaries.
• Reject anonymity, cynicism and neighborhood anomie.
• Build from Jim O"Bryan's - I Love Lakewood website of the 90s.