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Question of the day: Where was this real NEO championship sporting event held today?

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 01/09/2010 - 21:30.

Sleders in Northeast Ohio

Why do citizens of Northeast Ohio pay $ millions a year in taxes to subsidize professional sports teams, exercising, entertaining and enriching few, when we are a community of so many? In Northeast Ohio, we have four spectacular seasons offering residents every imaginable sporting and recreational opportunity for the taking. We don't need to pay taxes to watch strangers having fun.

Where was this truly championship Northeast Ohio realNEO sporting event held today?

sledding on plastic

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 10:13.
sledding on plastic

image jeff  buster 01.02.10 snow disc sledding

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Past, Present, Future

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 18:54.
Past, Present, Future

 

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Cleveland bridges at sunset

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 17:16.
Cleveland bridges at sunset

image jeff buster cleveland bridges from Lorain bridge at sunset

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New Years Fireworks

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 11:22.
New Years Fireworks

ingenuity 2007 image jeff buster

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Co-exist bumper sticker by Peacemonger.org

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 12:29.
Co-exist bumper sticker by Peacemonger.org

Peacemonger.org copyright on clever co-exist type made from symbols of different religions and viewpoints - except not any anti-diest symbols.coexist bumper sticker copyright peacemonger.org

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2009 Holiday Lighting Display at GE Lighting & Electrical Institute, Nela Park, East Cleveland, Ohio, in Snowfall

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 06:00.

2009 Holiday Lighting Display at GE Lighting & Electrical Institute, Nela Park, East Cleveland, Ohio, in Snowfall

Christmas Eve, my family drove across East Cleveland (all 3 miles long) to Nela Park - The GE Lighting & Electrical Institute - to see their remarkable, historic Holiday Lighting Display and share some photos on REALNEO. While beautiful at the time, the conditions were not quite right to truly show-off the lights and season.

The conditions were perfect tonight.

2009 Holiday Lighting Display at GE Lighting & Electrical Institute, Nela Park, East Cleveland, Ohio

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 12/25/2009 - 00:11.

Photo of Santa lights from 2009 Holiday Lighting Display at GE Lighting & Electrical Institute, Nela Park, East Cleveland, Ohio

One thing that makes East Cleveland unique is the annual Holiday Lighting Display at GE Lighting & Electrical Institute, at Nela Park. A tradition since 1925 - and many of the decorations seem to date from then - this holiday lighting display runs through New Year's Day.

Question of the day: does it make sense to build public-subsidized housing near pollution?

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 06:00.

New government-subsidized market-rate Tremont Pointe development located next to Mittal Cleveland Works steel mill and expanding I-490 freeway, in the toxic Cuyahoga River valley

The 2002 Canadian scientific report "Air pollution induces heritable DNA mutations" finds "Integrated steel production generates chemical pollution containing compounds that can induce genetic damage." And, the 2009 German report "Long-term exposure to traffic-related particulate matter impairs cognitive function in the elderly" finds "chronic exposure to traffic-related PM (particulate matter) may be involved in the pathogenesis of AD (Alzheimer's Disease)"

So, who thought it was a good idea to spend $43 million of scarce government and quasi-public funding to build Tremont Pointe government-subsidized housing, located within scent and fallout of the Mittal Cleveland Works Steel mill, and other highly polluting industry of the Cleveland Flats, and directly adjacent to the I-490 freeway, planned to have increased polluting traffic through expansion as the "Opportunity Corridor"?

Oriental Influence?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 10:12.
Oriental Influence?

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Christmas Smoke - Cleveland, Ohio

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 02:49.
Christmas Smoke - Cleveland, Ohio

cleveland skyline with coal smoke 12.10.09 image jeff buster

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Clark Avenue piers remaining 2009 - by RAG

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sun, 12/06/2009 - 18:37.
Clark Avenue piers remaining 2009 - by RAG

Original image courtesy RAG - link here.  Very dynamic image! Lots of excellent telephoto in this shot.

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Tarp Station

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 21:43.
Tarp Station

cargill cleveland

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It's a Wonderful Life

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 11/28/2009 - 08:09.
It's a Wonderful Life

 Main Street --Frostburg Maryland

"We will demand that our leaders take us and this property serious and FIX IT" - "Citizen" Ed Hauser, May 26, 2006

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 03:40.

Front signage for Cleveland Coast Guard Station

In reviewing REALNEO for material on the historic Cleveland U.S. Coast Guard Station, to accompany these November 25, 2009, photographs and Thanksgiving Day Pans of the Coast Guard site, I came across the May, 2006, REALNEO discussion "COAST GUARD IDEAS" about what should be done with the site... with a lengthy vision from "Citizen" Ed Hauser.

Happy Thanksgiving REALNEO

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 16:40.

Exquisite decay.

On Thanksgiving eve, a little over a year following the death of Ed Hauser - the primary community activist for preservation of the National Historic Landmark Dyer Coast Guard Station, on Whiskey Island - I went Hauser Way to photograph this best location in the nation, to share with you on Thanksgiving day. Enjoy.

Mosaic "blankets" on concrete benches

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 11:25.
Mosaic "blankets" on concrete benches

The fluid, fabric like effect of these mosaic covered concrete benches is attested to by the fact that I drove past them twice and thought that the mosaics were curing blankets placed over the concrete benches to keep in moisture while the concrete set.

 The multi bench installation is under construction now at a new community center on E116th on the inbound side of Shaker Boulevard.  

Anyone know the artist/installer?image jeff buster 11.09

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Imperial 11

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 17:47.
Imperial 11

Original image of 11 women courtesy Plain Dealer - story on Cleveland Prosecutor vs County Prosecutor.  Did Cleveland Prosecutor fail to advance indictment?

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tractor trailers - door to door

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:13.
tractor trailers - door to door

tractor trailers at rest stop image jeff buster

You are looking at the reason why there will not be a new ocean/Lake Eire container port for Cleveland, or any other Great Lake city.   These owner/operated trucks get frieght from the Atlantic, or the Pacific, to anywhere in North America weeks earlier, and a lot cheaper, than any frieght which travels the St. Lawrence Seaway.

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Women missing others

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 23:04.
Women missing others

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The Real NEO Post-Citizen-Hauser Era, Year 2: Learning The Meaning Of "The Process Is Broken!"

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 14:15.

Citizen Ed Hauser smiling, at AJ Rocco's in Cleveland Ohio

Citizen Ed Hauser, Victorious In The Battle Of Whiskey Island - "Ask Not What Your Planet Can Do For You..."

It has been a year since Northeast Ohio lost our selfless civic activist "Citizen" Ed Hauser, silencing the great voice in the community saying that "The Process is Broken".

November 14, 2009 - the one-year anniversary of Ed's death - a group of family and friends came together on the beautiful Whiskey Island Ed saved, before a late Autumn setting sun, to toast a glorious man, and mourn a most cursed and horrible year in Northeast Ohio without Ed.

What does the dawn hold for this long-suffering region, in the second year without Citizen Hauser?