Bill Mason’s office has just officially become more powerful than the office of the Ohio Attorney General. The Independent has filed multiple public records requests to view Bill Mason’s text messages (Mason is sly enough not to leave a paper trail of emails to be requested) but Mason’s team says, “No-ho, muchacho.” As you may [...]
Amidst all the dreary news about Marty Zanotti & Co’s ongoing silent coup, perhaps you missed the bit of good news in local politics that occurred on the East Side last week: Bill O’Neill announced his candidacy for Congress, setting up a Fall rematch with blowhole/philanderer/Al Borland look-alike Steven LaTourette. O’Neill is a Vietnam [...]
Chris Ronayne, president of University Circle Inc., to the tune of $185,000 per year, was a co-chair of the Issue 6 campaign last November, whose passage created a county council seat which pays $45,000 a year, to which Ronayne seeks election, while still working for UCI full time, collecting both salaries, representing a district which [...]
July 28, 2008. That’s when it started. That’s the day over 100 FBI agents raided the public offices of Cuyahoga County to kick-start a sweeping investigation of corruption that reaches inside the highest offices of Greater Cleveland. And still their targets, “Public Offical 1” and “Public Official 2”—also known as Jimmy Dimora and [...]
Politically and legally speaking, the week of January 18, 2010 will not soon be forgotten. In a one-two punch, democracy took a crushing hit. With Monday’s memory of Martin Luther King Day still fresh, Tuesday welcomed a conservative anti-health care reform candidate to the seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy. His election single-handedly [...]
HERE’S THE DEAL. Get comfy. . .this might take a while. Let me chat-you-up about an issue that pushes a whole bunch of hot buttons for all the wrong reasons. I’ve given it a lot of thought, maybe you haven’t. Maybe . . . just maybe, you will. Same-sex marriage was a tough [...]
A sleek and trendy franchise from New York has graced Cleveland with its arrival. Well, Buffalo NY, but let’s give it a shot. The Chocolate Bar sits on Euclid, posing at the mouth of E. 4th as if saying, “Hello. I’m fabulous. Enter me.” What a great location – Cleveland actually looks like [...]
There’s a very interesting depiction to be found over a gas station in Cleveland. It shows Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, sodomizing Uncle Sam. The caption reads “Don’t worry America, Israel’s got your back.” It is my understanding that someone has filed a complaint and asked that this depiction be removed. This [...]
