Callahan’s Cleveland Diary

Ed Hauser, the laid-off LTV engineer who became Northeast Ohio’s most important champion of open government — mostly by showing up at meetings of obscure public bodies with his video camera and relentlessly researched citizen testimony — is dead of a heart attack at 47.

This is a huge loss to the people of Northeast Ohio.

If you knew Ed and his work, there’s nothing more to say.  If you didn’t, here’s a start…

• Friends of Whiskey Island 
• Tributes from his friends and colleagues at REAL NEO
• Ed’s REAL NEO blog
• Ed’s Meet The Bloggers interview
• “Citizen Hauser” film
• Whiskey Island at Green City Blue Lake
• Cleveland Magazine, May 2008

Thanks for everything, Ed.

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