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2006-04-10T02:30:24Z

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Cleveland Aquarium

2006-02-28T16:29:13Z

Hey all,
I was interested to know what the general opinion was about building a new aquarium in Cleveland. We haven't had one in so long and I think it would be a great addition to our city.
Here is a link to a group who could use support if you are interested...

http://clevelandaquarium.org/

Ta

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Because you care about Northeast Ohio and her future ...

2005-11-02T22:18:19Z

Because you care about Northeast Ohio and her future ...

We're working on "putting community back into neighborhood" by helping residents creatively transform the neighborhood where they live through grassroots efforts

Are you interested in possible being involved? If so please send me a message via Tribe with your email address (this way we avoid web critters who gobble email addresses and spue out spam) and I will get back to you with the details

Thanks,
Frank
Urban Paradoxes
440.331.2398

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So sad...

2005-10-27T14:33:25Z

I've been excited about the prospect of a revitalized Cleveland, but I'm not seeing a committment or application of smarts going towards it. Cool Cleveland is lame, business is leaving, and we've decided to move out West for better opportunities. I really wish the best for Cleveland, I just think it's going to have to sink even more before anything serious is done. There are some good organizations out there, the ULI, Canal Corridor Project, even Eco-City Cleveland when it's not immersed in its own hipness.

I'll miss Cleveland.

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ACTION Cleveland -- June 4

2005-05-24T12:58:01Z

Please attend. We need your participation in the process. Details are under "Event" listing.

Frank

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New urban blog postings from Urban Paradoxes

2005-02-05T18:47:24Z

After a long absence the Urban Paradoxes and Flânuer blogs are back. "The New Urbanism: Co-opted" can be found at http://urbanparadoxes.blogspot.com and a new series on Cleveland, her neighborhoods, along with some thoughts at http://Flanuer.blogspot.com. I invite you to check them out and add your comments. If you find them interesting there each blog provides an opportunity for subscribing.

If you want more information on Urban Paradoxes, please check out the web site @ http://www.urbanparadoxes.com. And please let me know what you are thinking about Cleveland and The New Urbanism.

Frank

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Revisioning Neighborhoods

2005-01-10T21:40:12Z

An opportunity to make an impact! If you live or work in any of the following neighborhoods and want to participate in "re-visioning neighborhoods" session please send me a "private message" via Tribe. Be sure to include your neighborhood and email address/phone number. I will respond with follow-up information. Other neighborhoods will be added over the coming weeks.

+Downtown (including Wharehouse, Gateway, Playhouse Square districts and the Reserve Square-Galleria districts)
+Glenville neighborhoods
+Wade Park-East Blvd-Magnolia neighborhood
+Harvard-Lee-Kinsman neighborhood
+West Park: Rainbow
+West Park: John Marshall
+West Park: Kamm's Corners

Frank
Urban Paradoxes

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Greens/Reformers/Libertarians

2004-11-02T07:12:02Z

You can vote Green/Reform/Libertarian AND send W back to his scruffy ranch in Texas: votepair.org

Nader plugged it Oct. 9: http://news.votepair.org/archives/2004/10/ralph_nader_poi.html

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But was it ever great?

2004-10-02T18:24:42Z

I’m working my hardest at getting out of this area. I was born here and I’ve always lived here. In my lifetime this area has never been great. It’s cold and gloomy and most of the people I come across are grumpy (probably due to lack of sunlight). It is slim pickings in the job market. Oh and the taxes! Don’t even get me started on taxes. My property taxes are just about to price me right out of my home! It’s just crazy. This area just doesn’t seem to have much to offer.

I work for one of those big corporations and I’ve been applying to every internal job posting trying to get ahead. I have a boss who doesn’t want me to get ahead and tries to squash every job opportunity like a bug when it comes my way. I’ve been looking on Monster and CareerBoard and the other job sites and there isn’t much. I was told by one that had a job posted that they received 700 replies to the one job posting.

I have recently started to look for employment in Arizona, New Mexico and California. At least the weather is nicer and there is sun. My goal is to leave Ohio as soon as possible. When I move from here I think the only thing I will miss is my beloved Cinematheque.

Ahh…that was my 2 cents. It probably wasn't what you wanted to hear but it is how I feel about this area.

What can we do to make Northeast Ohio a nice, friendly, sunny, affordable, happy place to live?

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Thank God!

2004-05-04T20:58:54Z

Perhaps Cleveland escaped, unbeknownst to herself, a remaking of downtown and the Flats that would have tore asunder the very heart of Cleveland’s soul. Read “New Improved Brooklyn” in the current issue of New York Magazine (May 3, 2004, p. 28 f.) that talks about what Bruce Rathner and Forest City along with the Department of city Planning are doing to the heart and soul of Brooklyn.

Frank
Urban Paradoxes

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Taxohio: Ohio Jumps to Third Most Taxed State

2004-04-09T04:36:10Z

Taxohio: Ohio Jumps to Third Most Taxed State

The Tax Foundation released their most recent analysis of taxes from state to state. Ohio jumped from 14 to 3 in terms of relative taxation. Only NY and Maine have higher taxes.

Could this situation be contributing to our precipitous decline?

New Data Show How Your State Ranks in Taxes

Major Increases Shift Assessment Of Where Burdens Are Lowest;
Ohio Jumps to Third Highest

By NANCY KEATES
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
April 8, 2004; Page D1

When Eloise Warfel retired last year, she and her husband started to think about where they wanted to live for the rest of their lives. Her heart led to Mississippi, where a daughter lives, but Tennessee seemed a better choice, given its reputation as a tax haven.

So when Tennessee raised its sales tax last year -- making Ms. Warfel, 61 years old, worry that big-ticket items, such as a car, would be too expensive -- she was almost happy about it. "We could no longer see the benefit of living there," she says. She and her husband now plan on moving to Mississippi.

As many states close their budget gaps by raising taxes, an important factor in the calculus of where to live is shifting, particularly for retirees or people with an option of choosing between neighboring states. In the past year, 20 states raised taxes significantly in one way or another. That comes on top of significant tax increases by 18 states in 2002, the first such raises at this level in almost a decade.

All of this activity has caused major changes in the rankings of state-tax burdens, according to a study released yesterday by the Tax Foundation, a conservative-leaning Washington, D.C., research group. The foundation ranks states from one (highest tax burden) to 50 (lowest burden), based on income, sales, property and other state and local tax-collection data, culled from, among other sources, the Commerce Department and projections from the Congressional Budget Office.

Some states, such as Alaska, are perennial low-tax havens. Others have moved significantly in the rankings in recent years. Partly because of a controversial sales-tax increase last year to 6% from 5% -- as well as cigarette and motor-fuel tax increases -- Ohio jumped to the No. 3 spot in 2004 from No. 14 in 1999.

On the high end, New York ranked as the least tax-friendly state -- residents pay an average of 12.9% of income in all state and local taxes -- and Maine came next, with residents paying 12.3% of their income in state and local taxes. (If it were a state, Washington, D.C., would have earned second place on this year's tally.)

Of course, most people don't base where they live on taxes alone. Family, work and climate are the most important factors. And most of the states' increases followed cuts during the 1990s, when state coffers were flush with cash from a booming economy. But every year approximately one in seven Americans changes residences, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and tax advisers and real-estate agents agree that taxes are becoming more of a consideration.

Retirees and soon-to-be retirees are increasingly interested in tax changes, says E. Thomas Wetzel, president of the Retirement Living Information Center Inc., in Redding, Conn. As a result, the center now lists up-to-date state-tax data on its Web site.

Sometimes it's not policy changes alone that cause states to move in the rankings. Take California, which fell to a midrange No. 26 on this year's survey from No. 11 in 1999. One reason for the state's lower ranking this year is that it chose to borrow heavily instead of raising taxes to plug its budget gap, says the Tax Foundation's Bill Ahern. The other reason: The technology bust hit California harder than just about anywhere else -- and drastically reduced capital-gains and income tax collections there.

Other notable changes include Idaho, whose one-percentage-point sales tax increase in 2003 helped cause it to jump up eight places to No. 11 from 2002. And a half-point hike in personal-income-tax rates for the top bracket last year helped move Connecticut to No. 9 this year from No. 12 two years ago.

Iowa, conversely, has chosen to cut spending instead of raising taxes; in fact, the state continues to enact tax cuts that were legislated before the state's recent fiscal downturn. This has helped it move down to No. 27 from No. 18 in 2002.

States that are conspicuously keeping their taxes low are attracting more interest. Real-estate agents in New Mexico are ecstatic about the recent personal-income-tax cut that has helped keep the state out of the top 20 for the past two years. "I think it's making a big difference" in attracting buyers, says Nick French, who manages Sotheby's International Realty in Santa Fe.

It did for Julie and Jerome Miller, a homemaker and health consultant, respectively. While they say lifestyle is the main reason they plan to move to New Mexico from California this May, Mrs. Miller, 42, says New Mexico's lower rates sweetened the decision, because the couple had been hit so hard by property-tax increases in California. "If it had been the opposite, and the taxes were higher in New Mexico, we wouldn't be moving," she says.

Yet figuring out the best state to live in for tax reasons can be even more complicated than doing your own tax return. States, cities and other municipalities have a wide range of taxes, fees and other levies that make comparisons tricky, which makes your personal situation all the more important when weighing the advantages of one state over another. How vulnerable are you to a high income tax? Is avoiding an estate tax an important concern? How much will you be affected by high property taxes?

John Farber says he never would decide where to live based primarily on taxes, but when the 48-year-old entrepreneur moved recently to Rhode Island from New York, he was surprised with the tax increases that followed him there, making the cost of living in his new domain higher than he expected. As a result, he already is eyeing next-door Massachusetts -- once nicknamed "Taxachusetts," but now ranked a respectable No. 36 on the Tax Foundation's list. (Credit the lower income and property tax rates the state enacted years ago.) "Anyone confronted with the difference would have to consider it," he says. "It's part of the calculus."

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Um hi ... lol

2004-04-08T09:01:51Z

K well Im Dan! 19.m New to this tribe. I havent been on for like a while. Ive been busy taking care of my aunt and drawing out blueprints for a project Im doing.
Ok, so what ideas should we post?
Um... well how does everyone feel for the gay marriage ban amendment? Pro or Anti? I feel that we should stop looking at it as a gay agenda and start looking at it as more of equal human rights.... well im gonna go, byeness

Dan

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Local Heros

2004-03-14T06:04:49Z

When was the last time you patted someone on the back that was in the military, police force, fireman, or another that does a job that makes a difference on how we live?

~brian~

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Meet-Up 3/20 @ Dave & Busters

2004-03-11T15:01:07Z

The NE Ohio and GREAT AGA!N Tribes are planning a meetup at Dave & Busters on March 20, 7:30. If you can make it, please RSVP vis this post, or the similar one at NE Ohio, not both.

Hope to see you there.

f.

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GEAUGA LAKE RETURNS !!!!!!

2004-03-11T14:52:42Z

SANDUSKY -- Cedar Fair, the company that owns the Cedar Point amusement park, announced Wednesday that they are buying Six Flags Worlds of Adventure in Aurora for $145 million.

Video: Park will not keep animal attractions
The park will be renamed Geauga Lake, which was its name for over 100 years until Six Flags bought it in 1995.

Six Flags purchased the adjacent SeaWorld property in 2001 and merged the two parks together. The company expanded the park with new roller coasters and thrill rides, but hasn't been happy with attendance or profits at the park.

Six Flags will still own the animals at the park and will probably move them to other Six Flags parks. Cedar Fair does not have plans to have animal attractions at Geauga Lake.

Admission prices for Geauga Lake have not been set yet, but Cedar Fair says they still have plenty of competition from other entertainment choices in the area.

Six Flags season pass holders will be honored or pass holders can have a full refund if they wish.

Geauga Lake is scheduled to open May 1.

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Taking Control

2004-03-11T00:05:26Z

We cannot change unless we survive, but we will not survive unless we change.

The tag line of this web-log says it all, and it is about time that we begin to take it seriously. We can rest with the doomsdays who tell us all about the region’s “quiet crisis,” or we can rest with those who are forever spouting great designs for the future that have no feet on solid ground. Neither is an acceptable course of action if we are too survive – no, let me rephrase that, the region will survive, although with a diminished quality of life – Neither is an acceptable course of action because the first offers no solutions and the second offers pie-in-the-sky solutions that are too nebulous to do anything with.

There is a third alternative and that’s for those of us in the trenches who DO care about the region’s future to take control of it. We need to stop delegating responsibility and take the responsibility upon ourselves. TeamNEO, BioEnterprises, The Future Fund, and their ilk, can only go so far without our involvement. The reason organizations such as Cleveland Tomorrow and Cleveland Growth, and their ilk, are such dismal failures is because we at the grass-roots allowed personal agendas – big business agendas – status quo agendas – political agendas – to take over through our lack of involvement, and our failure to demand accountability. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

I do not have the exact answers for change, but we can find them together. And, if enough of us come together we can force the change. I do have one suggestion, let’s use the Internet to discuss changes necessary, and how to make these changes happen. Let’s use the power of the Internet to forge an alliance of like minds rising out of the trenches to bring about change in Northeast Ohio.

Please join with me to change NEO by posting your ideas right here at GREAT AGA!N. Feel free to start new threads if you wish.

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New Paradigms

2004-03-08T11:55:39Z

A new topic has been posted on IdeasMatter:NEO <http://ideasmatterneo.blogspot.com/>. Please be sure you are reading the March 7 posting.
Briefly the post suggests that the old paradigms of doing business no onger work in the Hyper Age and suggests areas in which new paradigms are needed.

As always, feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

F.

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Implications of the Tribe Name: Great Again

2004-03-04T19:25:57Z

I have a problem with the name of the tribe -- "Great Again"... Why do you believe that Northeastern Ohio isn't great now?

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Area

2004-03-04T00:14:57Z

Hi everyone! I just joined this particular tribe a few minutes ago, and I was just wondering if anyone was even close to me at all. I'm in the Youngstown area, about 15 minutes from the PA border. I think I saw some Clevelanders in here, but maybe I'll get lucky with a few other Y-towners. :)

Thanks for the listing... I didn't know this tribe existed, actually!

Cashmere

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Ideas Please

2004-02-28T13:14:51Z

Here is the opportunity to express yourself and your ideas. To keep things simple let's start a new thread for each topic.

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