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Because Thee original avenue of Cleveland's west side is and was west superior Ave.,
and shouldn't be mistaken to the slums of Detroit, Michigan.
Detroit Ave. is being beautified in Cleveland, Ohio and Cleveland, Ohio should get acknowledged for the
modern buildings and houses being built in thee city of Cleveland., rather than Detroit, Michigan.
My asking of council is for the Detroit Ave. to be return to the original name West Superior Ave.
Remembering thee Superior bridge to and from w. superior was and is in the original city of Cleveland's books.
Thank you for honoring Council 15 of my asking to city council, to return the Avenue' name in Cleveland, Ohio to
West Superior... to get away from the slums of Detroit, Michigan.
As the legal battle ensued, the reality of corruption within the Justice Center became painfully clear. Judge Jennifer O'Donnell dismissed the criminal charges against the assailants in favor of a case brought against Mark in municipal court, showing a blatant disregard for the truth. Further manipulation came to light as the city prosecutor's office, led by Judge Cassidy, attempted to coerce Mark into accepting a plea deal for a crime he never committed. Despite the immense pressure, Mark stood his ground, placing his trust in the justice system to see the truth and deliver justice.
The assailants, with a dark history of criminal behavior ranging from animal neglect to scamming the city, were allowed to roam free, evading accountability for their reprehensible actions. The support that was supposed to be provided by the justice center, city prosecutor's office, and police was instead utilized to shield a psychotic family from facing the consequences of their hate-fueled attack. The true victims in this tragedy, Mark and Kelly, were left to question where justice truly lies in a system that seems designed to protect the wrongdoers rather than those in need of protection.
As the shadows of corruption loom over the once-hopeful couple, one cannot help but wonder if a federal investigation into the Justice Center is the only way to uncover the truth and bring about the justice they so desperately seek. Kelly and Mark's story stands as a chilling example of the failures within the system and the urgent need for reform to prevent others from suffering a similar fate. Where is the justice for the victims when those tasked with upholding it betray their duty and let the guilty walk free?
I think the time is right to start branding the great lakes as such. Especially with the west drying and burning up and the growing problems on the east coast and Gulf of Mexico, which will only get worse. Imagine our area being thought of as being on a "vast inland freshwater sea."
So the PD and Cleveland.com want us to dream big? They want us to embrace their “big idea” of a regional sales tax to pay for sports stadiums and a refurbished airport. And if we don’t just love their idea, they think we are de facto losers.
Dream big? Embrace bold ideas? Really?
Many who live here NE Ohio are getting just a little bit tired of being chastised by breathless, bloviating local civic boosters when we won’t wildly support their neoliberal “economic development” schemes that primarily benefit regional elites and fat cat oligarchs. We’ve all witnessed closely and firsthand here in NE Ohio the cosmic lie that “trickle down” economics really is. It’s a vile scam that enriches the top income earners and holders of immense wealth, and that’s it. The only thing that trickles down is contempt for average people.
Truly bold ideas that would likely garner immense public support but are yet to be offered by civic “leaders” in NE Ohio are addressing endemic poverty, providing affordable housing for the middle class and poor people, properly funding urban public schools, promoting community wealth-building as opposed to rapacious investor economic extraction, ending the plight of the unhoused, rapidly restoring the tree canopy to protect a vulnerable urban population that has been ignored and discriminated against, fixing systemic racism in our local healthcare system leading to disastrous health outcomes for people of color, reducing disproportionate infant and maternal death rates for people of color, building up an anemic public transit system that underserves low income people, making the non-profit industrial complex serve its host neighborhoods and public schools, providing more living wage, family sustaining jobs, implementing community based anti-racist policing, stuff like that.
But the PD and Cleveland.com focus on catering to the billionaire-owned, blood sucking sports franchises and glitzing up an airport that preferentially serves regional elite. These may be high priorities for the region’s elites, but they are not high priorities for most taxpayers and voters.
And stunningly, they look to a regressive regional sales tax to fund the scheme, so that low and middle income people get the pleasure of paying a larger share of their income than the wealthy to build fancy sports palaces and a swank airport they can’t afford to use.
No wonder Cleveland proper has so dramatically lost population and remains one of the poorest big cities in the United States. Our civic “leaders” do their absolute best to routinely transfer more wealth up to the already wealthy. “Public private partnership” has come to mean public money is used to grow private fortunes.
People in the area don't warmly embrace certain "bold ideas" from our civic "leaders" because the ideas themselves are morally deficient at their core and selectively serve the interests of the region's posh, powerful and privileged.
Let’s hear some bold ideas for a change that actually help the people that live here struggling to just make a living, make ends meet or get the slightest bit ahead.
Not as respectfully to this elitist idea as I would like, but quite sincerely,
Arthur Hargate
My writing to council is a request to re-name the USA GASTATION on w.117th. near Lorain Ave., Cleveland Ohio.
Re-Naming the USA GASTATION on W.117th near lorain ave. in cleveland, ohio can help
end the arson crimes from the gas stoves / gasoline crimes put on people / banks / Justice center.
The United States of Americans should create healthier tittles for
People / Employers / Employees / Businesses / Companies.
The TV News stopped the deadly acts of gasoline.
Thank council for helping to end pollution / for helping to end arson crimes.
Council 15
A virtual document will be created and shared allowing those who have interacted with any phase or level of government and the outcomes... be a praise, a concern or criminal behavior by the government and whomever
To end the thefts of spoken voice phone messages to
C.R.O's - Clients Rights Officers.
A request to council to re name Cleveland, Ohio health board to end the spoken voice theft to phone messages.
Why the adverb RUSH should be taken off the title of the Ortiz Rush Playground in Cleveland, Ohio.
The traffic on W.74th Madison Ave. is or was speeding beyond the Capacity of the people.
The playground neighborhood can stop being mistaken to be the issues of the Russian Country Lifestyle.
The playground is in the American Country of the city of Cleveland Ohio. and should not be mistaken to be Russia.
Thank you for Honoring the request to take the adverb RUSH in the Playground.
Council 15.