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Friday, April 14, 2006

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Newsmakers: Jim Rokakis, Cuyahoga County Treasurer; Bill Ryan, president & CEO of the Center for Health Affairs. Rokakis says the Cleveland Clinic has failed to abide by a pledge it made a year ago to donate $10-million in cash and in-kind services to the Cleveland Municipal Schools. The non-profit Clinic, like other non-profits, is not subject to local real estate taxes, a major source of revenue for the schools. Rokakis will discuss what’s happened, or not happened, since the pledge was made. Ryan, who heads a regional trade association for northeast Ohio hospitals, will make the Clinic’s case.

Roundtable: Joan Mazzolini, reporter, the Plain Dealer; Richard Osborne, editor, Ohio Magazine; Kevin O’Brien, columnist, the Plain Dealer.

Kicked Off the Team: Mayor Frank Jackson has fired the man he hired to be Cleveland’s chief of Regional Development. Michael Montgomery was appointed, but never got a chance to start work when it came to light that he’d been arrested for soliciting the services of a prostitute when he worked for the city of Oakland, CA in 1999. The search for a new development czar is underway.

Immigration Again: Whether you call them illegal aliens or undocumented workers, they’re at the center of a heated debate. Demonstrators supporting lenient immigration laws have taken to the streets nonstop in hopes of influencing the outcome of the immigration debate in Congress.

Gas Prices: It’s not even the summer driving season yet and already gasoline prices are flirting with three dollars per gallon. Unrest in some oil-producing countries drove oil prices near the 70-dollar mark earlier in the week, and drove prices at greater Cleveland as high as $2.89. Optimistic forecasts say the price will average around $2.60 through summer.

What to do About Iran: Iran this week announced plans to ramp up its production of enriched uranium. Iran’s interest in uranium enrichment prompts worries in the West that Iran is planning to build a nuclear bomb and observers have suggested the U.S. is formulating military strategy to prevent that. Iran says it wants to use uranium to generate electricity.

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