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Saturday, November 5th, 2011It’s another well deserved tribute to the excellent quality of so many residences in Cleveland Heights. On Friday, November 1, I attended a meeting in Columbus of the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board, which was considering, among others, the application I wrote and assembled with help from neighbors and Cleveland Heights experts proposing the [...]
Get Your Mary Dunbar Yard Sign
Thursday, September 29th, 2011Yard signs are popping up all over town. To request your “Elect Mary Dunbar, City Council” yard sign, click on “Volunteer” above, fill in the electronic form, and check the yard sign box. Your sign will soon be delivered free of charge to your home and inserted in your front yard. Certain placement restrictions apply, [...]
Presentation on September 27
Sunday, September 4th, 2011Come to the Lee Road Library at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 27, for a public meeting about a new historic district for Cleveland Heights – the Shaker Farm Historic District. The meeting will feature a presentation by a representative from the Ohio Historic Preservation Office on what becoming listed as an historic district on [...]
Why Cracking Down is Good
Monday, August 15th, 2011The August 2011 issue of Scientific American has an article entitled “How New York Beat Crime” that discusses how in the past two decades New York achieved the largest and longest sustained drop in street crime ever experienced by a big city. It has nothing to do with solving underlying problems of income inequity, poor [...]
A Kindness
Monday, August 15th, 2011A few years before the Peace Corps assigned me to St. Joseph’s College, Sasse, in West Cameroon, Father Cunningham, a Mill Hill missionary, was made principal of the school and ordered to take back control from unruly students. Father Cunningham hired Mr. Tansinda to be Master of Discipline. The two of them figured out who [...]
Why Bicycles Matter
Monday, August 1st, 2011Let’s be honest: I have found that the Cleveland Heights Bicycle Coalition could be a full-time job, because there’s so much to do to encourage and facilitate bicycling in our city! Fortunately, lots of people embrace this cause and want to help.
Bicycle Events
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011The Cleveland Heights Bicycle Coalition, of which I am a co-founder, is an action-oriented group. Our program at 7 p.m. on July 20 on bicycle commuting at Denison Park was well attended, and many of the people present tried loading their bicycles on to an RTA bus to facilitate commuting.
Bicycle Friendly Community Application
Thursday, April 1st, 2010On February 18, 2010, on behalf of Cleveland Heights, I submitted a Bicycle Friendly Community application to the League of American Bicyclists. I had great input and support from Cleveland Heights City Hall, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), and local bicyclists and bicycle advocates, as listed in the application.
Green Jobs
Friday, October 23rd, 2009On Wednesday, October 21, I attended the celebration of the opening of the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry and Solar Cooperative at 540 East 105th Street. These businesses are the first of many planned to create jobs and wealth, primarily in six neighborhoods around University Circle. They have backing and support from the Cleveland Foundation, key University Circle institutions, relevant specialists [...]
Plain Dealer Voters’ Guide
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009The Plain Dealer has compiled an online voters’ guide. For your convenience, here is a link to it: cleveland.com/voterguide. At this site, you will find my answers to Plain Dealer questions and the answers of the other candidates, too.
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