Yes, some pols have used the issue to feather their and their friends businesses via front/make-believe construction and consulting firms. So you want peace, as they say, give a little justice.īusiness has had plenty of government help by the city, county and state. Somebody’s getting screwed but not those who take advantage and are allowed to take advantage by the powers that be. So fronts now to operate in cities that are essentially black controlled on the specious claims of being screwed. This is ass-backward because for oh so long the people left in these poverty areas haven’t been given the necessary help and opportunity by those businesses – and labor unions. Someone will use the opportunity as an opportunity. You try to put a road – nickname it Opportunity (but never say for whom) – through an impoverished area and expect the deprived to say, please take what you want. This ass-backward thinking is what keeps Cleveland back. Will there be any balance in the coverage about a road pushed by an elite committee co-headed by PD publisher Terry Egger? Or is this a done deal? So I wonder (really I don’t) if the PD will get another academic to talk about some of the drawbacks of “OPPORTUNITY” Corridor. No one ever says anything about killing the later virus. Business and civic leaders play a heavy-handed game, too. He wants to “kill the virus,” I guess, of politics. You mean, Tom, there’s politics going here? And with only $350-million at stake?īier uses the word “virus,” a rather explosive word today. He intimates that they will pressure businesses “to employ particular people, to form partnerships or subcontract with particular other businesses, to make contributions to certain parties, and so on.” I’d like a little more balance, even on this issue.īier decries the desire for input by the Council members from wards through which the $350-million (a cost he doesn’t mention) road will travel from East 55th Street to Cleveland’s cultural, educational and medical center. However, I don’t see him attacking on the tremendous waste that has gone into the private sector in town. He has long been earnest and urgent about the troubles of Cleveland. Bier gets space in the PD because he talks their talk but can be cited as an independent voice, an academic voice. Bier’s fretting about Opportunity Corridor. On the next editorial page, the PD follows with a frantic op-ed column by Tom Bier, Cleveland State University’s urban affairs executive in residence. Maybe it’s helping to make it up.Īll you have to do is read the Sunday PD lead editorial, “Reluctant reformers,” to hear the gnashing of teeth over the dead-in-the-water Cuyahoga County reform package amid a corruption scandal.
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