Cleveland Every month in Cleveland, the Vacant & Abandoned Property Action Council, convenes. All the seats around the giant meeting room of the Neighborhood Housing Services were filled with rows of chairs surrounding them, packed as well. Sandwiches and cookies were available, but this was not a group of people who were there for the …
Going House to House in Cleveland with the Western Reserve Thriving Communities Institute
Cleveland When you sit down with Jim Rokakis, who directs the Thriving Communities Institute as part of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy, and his chief lieutenants, Frank Ford, Senior Policy Adviser and numbers cruncher, and Special Project chief, Jay Westbrook, you realize there’s over a 100 years of experience in wrestling with the problems – …
Republican Kooks Come from Kook Culture
Cleveland I read Karl Rove, the long time George W. Bush political mastermind and Svengali. He writes a regular column for the Wall Street Journal. He is an interesting voice for the Republican establishment or what’s left of it. In the wake of the Alabama election he has taken a fascinating position. First, he back …