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Who Killed the Flats?Larry Durstin In the summer of 1991, Bart Wolstein summoned then Cleveland City Councilman Bill Patmon to his corporate offices in Beachwood for a luncheon meeting to talk about various city projects. During the meeting, Wolstein led Patton to a large, scale model of the Flats East Bank, an exact and elaborate replica of the area as it was that summer.
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Straight Talk on Guns and CrimeMansfield B. Frazier One of Frank Jackson’s first acts as mayor was to institute a youth jobs program, reasoning that if underprivileged Cleveland kids had some way of making a few legal bucks it would help to keep them out of trouble. Read more... |
The Unfortunate Resurrection of Barbara Byrd-BennettRoger T Jones  With almost stealth-like invisibility, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, the former Cleveland Schools’ CEO, has slithered back into Cleveland from her new home in Solon, Ohio to become an executive-assistant in the College of Education at Cleveland State University.
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The Forgotten MassacreDan Drost60 years ago one of the most important events in shaping the modern Middle East took place in the tiny Palestinian town of Deir Yassin - yet few Americans are aware of it. Read more... |
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The Passionless Church on the RiseChristopher GreenAt Pastor Paul’s Gleaming House of Worship, a Donation and a GOP Vote Will Save You 
The strong smell of Chlorine greeted devotees and spectators alike as they entered Westlake’s cavernous Church on the Rise (COR) this particular Wednesday. Read more... |
Ohio paper endorses untested computer voting machinesGuest Writer
by Bob Fitrakis
The notoriously pro-Republican Columbus Dispatch is on another of its bizarre crusades to make Ohio safe for illegally manipulated computer voting machines by using the tactics pioneered by the tobacco, nuclear and Big Oil companies. Read more... |
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Larry Durstin
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The second day of the New Year brought another spectacular performance by Lebron James — 32 second-half points punctuated by three long jumpers in the final 90 seconds to seal a 98-94 victory over the vastly improved Atlanta Hawks. But overlooked in what the Cavaliers hope turns out to be the beginnings of a successful 2008 portion of the season was the role played by the team’s embattled backcourt, which over the first two months of this campaign has been, arguably, the most inept backcourt in the NBA.
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 With the American media capturing whatever Britney and Paris did last night and where items one week old are treated as ancient history, Elvis Presley – who would be 73 this month — remains nearly as popular as ever. Why?
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