At the City Club recently, Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson-Jones suggested that the first priority for the County goverment was "economic development", and that's why the Commissioners and Fred the Fixer Nance were working so hard to be able to pay a wealthy developer from out of state to build and operate a public-private pirate ship here in Cuyahoga.

On a warm day last fall when I saw the bent-down, litter-stuffed, driven-over, broken-off streetlight pole just off Euclid in East Cleveland the warm rusty stub of metal struck me as an appropriate sculpture representing all of Cuyahoga County.  I have a series of photos of street light poles in similar condition.

The photo above is a sculpture representing us here in NEO.  Venerable.  Street wise.  Asses.

We will spend millions on fantasy economic "partnerships"  while our infrastructure is a disaster. 

What business enterprise in its right mind would move to Cleveland when our street lights, and much of our infrastructure is a wasteland?