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“Complete and Green” ordinance is incomplete.

Mark W. Schumann Cleveland, Frank Jackson, Kerry McCormack, legislation, Opportunity Corridor, streets 0 Comments September 6, 2020

https://www.thelandcle.org/stories/cleveland-city-council-introduces-ordinance-to-improve-street-safety-for-vulnerable-road-users Paige Bennett’s recent article in The Land highlights Cleveland’s new “Complete and Green Streets” ordinance (676-2020) that was recently introduced by Councilman Kerry McCormack. According to the article this ordinance “has been in the works for two years and has already been reviewed by several groups.” Jacob VanSickle, the Bike Cleveland guy, had a […]

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What’s up with “Operation Legend”? We don’t know.

Mark W. Schumann Black Lives Matter, Calvin Williams, Frank Jackson, lying, Operation Legend, Operation Relentless Pursuit, Portland, protests 1 Comment July 24, 2020

I spent half an hour listening to Frank Jackson and his people. I am still not entirely sure what the hell they said.

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Abolish Means Abolish

Mark W. Schumann 0 Comments July 23, 2020

Let People Talk When someone says “abolish the police!” and you think that’s going too far, a good answer is “Wow, I think that’s going too far, and here’s why.” A bad answer is “So what she really means is reform the police.” I’m seeing a shit ton of the latter around news and social […]

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Williams must go.

Mark W. Schumann Calvin Williams, Community Police Commission, consent decree, police use of force 0 Comments July 3, 2020

Just so everyone is clear, Calvin Williams lied. (The Scene article is excellent.) I have three things to say about this. 0. I called it, exactly a month ago. This wasn’t complicated at all. When dozens of videos of the same event consistently don’t show the thing that the Chief of Police says happened, it […]

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68% of what? And other questions.

Mark W. Schumann City of Cleveland, Darnell Brown, Frank Jackson, Ohio Court of Appeals, public records, Waste Collection 0 Comments June 15, 2020

I can’t believe I have to file a whole-ass lawsuit just to get the City to answer a really simple question. But here we are.

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BLM Demands

Mark W. Schumann Black Lives Matter, consent decree, police, police use of force 0 Comments June 7, 2020

It’s time to stop blaming Republicans for things that are entirely in the control of “liberal” and “progressive” Democratic politicians.

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Speaking of buttholes

Mark W. Schumann Black Lives Matter, democracy, education, Frank Jackson, land value, tax 0 Comments June 4, 2020

Here’s the thing about being a really poor North American city. You have two options really. https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/mayor-frank-jackson-says-cleveland-is-perceived-as-butthole-of-the-world/95-0a1ac81d-d59f-4405-9bfb-ce0be0cbb1da The first one, we’ve tried for at least 41 years now. (I’m starting with late 1978 because Default Night was such a landmark.) It doesn’t fucking work. We should stop doing it. The second one, even though it […]

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Leadership in a pandemic

Mark W. Schumann COVID-19, pandemic, President 0 Comments May 26, 2020

How would leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic be different if we had a President who was actually interested in doing the job? Since it’s not a reality show? A thoughtful President would pull their best people together for about three days and get an eight-page report (or something like that) on the most urgent problems […]

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Why Democrats keep losing

Mark W. Schumann Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Green New Deal, Matthew Yglesias, Medicare For All, podcasts, Senate, The Weeds 0 Comments May 26, 2020

It’s not like we didn’t know this already, but it’s galling that currently sitting US Senators of the Democratic Party *like* the filibuster rule because it stops progressive legislation.

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Recycling: is anybody doing this?

Mark W. Schumann recycling 0 Comments May 22, 2020

It’s bizarre that China stops taking plastic and cities are just going “oh well” and that’s the end of it.

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