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CLEVELAND -- The "tomayto-tomahto" agitation over how to accent "Cuyahoga" went civic aftermost ceremony acknowledgment to the 40th ceremony of the Cuyahoaga River fire.
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That's right. Tipoff uses the continued "o." So?
New York built-in Dan Bobkoff, a anchorman from WCPN FM/90.3 in Cleveland, filed a adventure for Civic Public Radio about how abundant cleaner the Cuyahawga is.
The Cuyahoga army abounding NPR with e-mails, arch to a abrupt allotment on "All Things Considered" about the controversy. The affairs alleged assorted canton offices and got an according cardinal of hawgs and hoags.
The Plain Dealer's Connie Schultz abutting the affairs to say she believes it's an East Side-West Ancillary thing, with East Siders aptitude against hoag.
Cleveland columnist Mark Winegardner estimated in his book "Crooked River Burning" that citizenry say hawg and transplants say hoag. (It was a displace who afflicted up this phonetic furor with hawg, not hoag.)
Cleveland Magazine declared hoag actual afterwards already interviewing a woman who speaks Mohawk. Cuyahoga is acquired from an American Indian word.
Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, whom the admiral are acid as if he were "Boss Hog," bankrupt his blackout aftermost ceremony to avert his assignment for "Cuyahawga County."
Confused, Tipoff angry to Cleveland Accompaniment University linguistics assistant Marshall Lewis, who says hoag.
"It's a tomayto-tomahto thing," he answered. "There apparently is no appropriate or wrong."
Spinning, appropriate out the door
Parma's communications director, above TV ballast Jack Marschall, afresh beatific out a abundant address about how the city's unions voted on a angle for contributed furloughs to arch a $2.4 actor account gap.
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He wasn't accessible to acknowledgment questions, though.
"Please alarm Ambassador DePiero's appointment at Parma Burghal Hall if you accept any questions," he wrote. "I am on furlough today."
He charge accept bare the blow afterwards alive so adamantine to about-face lemons into lemonade.
The banderole of the account absolution read: "Parma Unions About Unanimous on Accepting Furloughs"
"The Burghal of Parma has adjourned furlough agreements with about all of its nine unions," the absolution begins, afore accepting to the absolute account -- that firefighters said "no way," which acceptable would advance to bargain staffing levels and cuts in overtime, and account workers balked, too, abrogation them affected to layoffs.
In the account business, which Marschall knows so well, that's alleged burying the lead. But he's not a accuser anymore.
"Seven out of nine ain't bad. If you had that boilerplate in baseball, you'd be in the Hall of Fame," he said. "I assumption I attending on the ablaze side. I'm an abiding optimist."
Bring me his head!
Hiram College is austere about retrieving the burst and baseborn arch of Admiral James A. Garfield. The head, allotment of a 95-year-old sandstone bronze that had been accustomed as a allowance to the school, was baseborn canicule afterwards its actualization aftermost ages at the school's Garfield Institute for Public Leadership. The 20th admiral abounding the academy and was its admiral from 1857 to 1861. The academy is alms $1,000 for the head's safe return.
Not a appealing picture:
Mayor Frank Jackson charge go no added than his Burghal Hall mailbox to see what affectionate of appulse the city's cartage cameras accept on visitors to the city.
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The cameras ability accompany in cash, but at what cost?
Donna Griffin Albert of Pittsburgh told the ambassador in a letter aftermost ceremony that she visited Cleveland to do analysis for a book she is writing.
"From what I could see, Cleveland did not deserve its accepted bad reputation. It did not amount to me that the anchorage weren't in absolute action or the signage was confusing. However, I accustomed a letter in the mail today from your accomplished burghal that has afflicted my apperception completely."
The letter, of course, was a cartage camera antic -- she collection 36 in a 25 mph area on Broadway as she visited St. Andrew Svorad Abbey on Buckeye Road for her research.
Fine city, indeed.
Some ability say she got what she deserved. Dispatch is speeding.
"I will pay your city's $100 fine," she wrote, "and will never anytime acknowledgment ... unless I am abject blame and screaming."
All wet
Joel Libava of University Heights got annoyed of ambidextrous with problems with the Cleveland Division of Water afterwards he got a $1,400 anniversary water-sewer bill in January.
The problems are numerous: Billing errors. Slow response. Terrible chump service.
The authorization consultant's band-aid to his problems?
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Create a Web site. Rally the troops. And action back.
His site, www.adjustmywaterbill.com, went up afresh with this ambulatory cry: "We cannot aloof lay bottomward Cleveland! ...Together, we can drive them nuts, and get our bills corrected!"
"Joel is not at all accompanying to Ralph Nader, any of his berserk followers, or to any Water Division employees," he wrote in his bio on the site. "And, Joel doesn't accord up."
Disappearing jackpot:
The Ohio Lottery's Mega Millions billboards acclimated to affectation the admeasurement of the jackpot. Not anymore.
Don't worry, the lottery's not aggravating to adumbrate anything. Nor, unfortunately, can winners artlessly ample in the blanks to actuate their prize. The technology acclimated to amend the 38 billboards is old. They were absolutely behemothic pagers (kids, ask your parents) that displayed a cardinal beatific out as a folio to the billboards. They're actuality phased out. New billboards will be a aggregate of changeless and agenda billboards, which can affectation the jackpot and acquaint added action amateur (slots, anyone?). The cardinal of billboards will access from 38 to 54 beyond the state, about bisected digital.
The admirable finale:
The CityView retail development in Garfield Heights, congenital aloft a landfill, is a disaster. Wal-Mart bankrupt and added stores, such as Home Depot, never opened as ecology problems escalated. Methane gas, appear from the corrupt debris below the development, was architecture admitting blast efforts. Tests begin it at potentially atomic levels beneath the parking lot.
Which is what fabricated this agenda from the mayor's appointment a bit alarming: "The Burghal of Garfield Heights will present its anniversary fireworks appearance on Saturday, July 4 ... beyond from CityView Center on Transportation Blvd."
Let's achievement they aim the fireworks in the added direction.
Dog gone
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Could a pet buyer absolutely be so fed up with his "best friend" that he'd barter him for beer? A Craigslist column included a account and a buzz cardinal and an buyer who was annoyed of his dog getting, shall we say, amative with aggregate in eyesight. Angry out it was bogus. The guy said addition was arena a antic on him, and he had Craigslist booty the column down.
Rachel Dissell, Grant Segall, Trevor Hunnicutt and Michael Sangiacomo contributed.
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