Councilman, Cleveland City Council (2006-2013), Ward 14, representing the near-west community of Clark Fulton and portions of the Stockyards, Brooklyn Centre, Tremont and Ohio City neighborhoods.
My Soap Box
Your understanding of the impact of IMMIGRATION?
I responded to Your understanding of the impact of IMMIGRATION?: For a good primer on considering immigration in Greater Cleveland see: Immigration Path to...
Your understanding of the impact of IMMIGRATION?
There has been a growing interest and call for immigrant friendly policies and a proactive initiative to welcome immigrants to greater Cleveland. There is also a growing consensus for the need to fix our broken Federal...
Coping w/ groups of youth...neighborhood nuisances
I responded to Coping w/ groups of youth...neighborhood nuisances: Group of youths...all it takes is one with bad behavior and there goes the neighborhood...or...
Coping w/ groups of youth...neighborhood nuisances
Councilman has a run in with 12 youth...example of a growing trend of disrespectful and apparent unsupervised teenagers? Is this something new? What are your experiences and solutions to neighborhood nuisances?
Are local development organizations effective?
I responded to Laura McShane: Laura, You're pretty deep into the weeds on ranting against specific individuals and not really...
NO--I returned to CLE in 1992 and began involvement with Tremont West as a volunteer and then hired briefly to help apply for grants. At the time, Tremont was still reeling from arsons and disinvestment due to... Continue reading
Should Cleveland help fund Housing/Demo Study?
I responded to Gregory Soltis: Greg, Yes, I believe I'm familiar with the project and his work (Chuck Scaravelli). I believe...
Councilman Cummins, Have you seen what St. Clair-Superior Development Corporation is doing to rehab homes from the land bank? Basically they have a developer who (for the same cost as demolishing the homes), turns... Continue reading
Are local development organizations effective?
Cleveland City Council is in the middle of a three day hearing regarding the budget, expenditures and impacts from our utilization of the Federal government's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding. The funds...
Should Cleveland help fund Housing/Demo Study?
I responded to Should Cleveland help fund Housing/Demo Study?: To help in understanding the City of Cleveland's strategies for stabalizing and improving housing...
Should Cleveland help fund Housing/Demo Study?
I responded to Should Cleveland help fund Housing/Demo Study?: My understanding of the RATIONAL FOR DOING A STUDY - there are more terminally blighted...
Should Cleveland help fund Housing/Demo Study?
This represents the beginning of a response to constituents regarding my eventual vote regarding the City of Cleveland's participation and contribution of $50,000, to a proposed study to analyze and document the linkage...
Conversations I Am Following
- Your understanding of the impact of IMMIGRATION?
- Coping w/ groups of youth...neighborhood nuisances
- Are local development organizations effective?
- Should Cleveland help fund Housing/Demo Study?
- Renewal of the sin tax, expires 2015 &Pro Sports
- Blog Post: Sustainability through a Dirty MRF?
- City seeks public input on the Cleveland...
- Blog Post: Reactive or proactive preservation?
Organizations I Am Following
- Brian Cummins is just getting started
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