Atrios wrote yesterday:
The Forgotten Foreclosure Crisis
I’m going to kick this dead horse for awhile because it’s really pissing me off. They had 75 billion bucks to do something about foreclosure crisis. They didn’t need President Snowe to sign off on anything. The program they implemented didn’t work. Does anybody care?
Excellent question, Professor Black.
According to [...]
Evidently the New County Politics is going to to require the same old iron stomach.
As opponents of Issue 6 before the election, Democrats FitzGerald, Rokakis and Jones have no business running for executive, said Parma Heights Mayor Martin Zanotti, who was a leading advocate of the reform measure.
“It would be the ultimate hypocrisy to have [...]
Somehow this has escaped the Plain Dealer’s notice, but the immediate impact of our new County Charter will be an annual payroll increase of something like $700,000 for the new array of elected and appointed officials.
Q. What city not far from Cleveland has all of the following:
A county governed since 1984 by a home rule charter, with an elected County CEO, an Assistant CEO responsible for economic development, and a fifteen-member county legislative branch elected by district?
An established downtown casino industry?
A downtown waterfront free of industrial and port uses, with [...]
Thanks to Erick Trickey, here’s the draft county charter petition that you read about in the Plain Dealer Tuesday morning.
Interestingly, it says “CONSENSUS DOCUMENT 6-4-2009″ right on the front page… which means it’s been floating around since Friday, right?
There are no names attached to the document, so we unwashed masses are still left to wonder [...]
The Plain Dealer’s big “analytical” comparison of county agency spending (Cuyahoga County agencies have more workers, less productivity than others in Ohio, Plain Dealer analysis finds) is such a misleading, misdirected mess that it’s hard to know where to start. What can you say about an “analysis” of comparative productivity and payroll efficiency that:
Doesn’t [...]
The PD says my Councilman, Brian Cummins, is very upset about the ward redistricting plan that’s being circulated to Council members by Triad Research. Brian explains why in more detail at RealNEO, where the comments include calls for a neighborhood campaign to defend Brian, the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood, and/or Ward 15 from the redistricter’s axe.
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Yesterday was the twenty-first full day of the Obama Administration. So far the President has taken no public actions to institute the foreclosure moratorium he promised, or to stop foreclosures in any other way… though the White House has told the press that they’ll let us know about their foreclosure strategy “in a couple [...]
Yesterday was the fourteenth full day of the Obama Administration. So far the President has taken no public actions to institute the foreclosure moratorium he promised, or to stop foreclosures in any other way.
Meanwhile, here in Cuyahoga County:
In the first eight business days after Obama took office (through last Friday), 366 new foreclosure cases [...]
Yesterday was the seventh full day of the Obama Administration. So far the President has taken no public actions to institute the foreclosure moratorium he promised, or to stop foreclosures in any other way.
Meanwhile, here in Cuyahoga County:
In the first five business days after Obama took office, 234 new foreclosure cases were filed in Cuyahoga [...]