November Already!

Wow, its November already. Not only is it November, but it is the END of November. This is Turkey week here in the US with Thanksgiving coming this Thursday, November 26th.

The last few months since my last posting have been somewhat of a whirlwind for me, with many things happening. My blogs many premise was to talk about Cleveland and support our city, but I think I may change that moving forward. Not that I am changing my position on wanting to make Cleveland a better place, but I think I need to focus on me for a little while, start with improvements in my own back yard before trying to help everyone else.

But before shining the spotlight on the things I need to do, I should summarize a couple of things that I think Cleveland has done recently that are truly positive. First of all, changes were passed at the recent elections to restructure our county government. This was much needed and hopefully the opportunity to get rid of the old school corruption that the county has had for so many years and give the county a new start. I will be watching this closely as I think it is one in a number of steps that will take Cleveland where it needs to be.

Secondly, the state of Ohio finally passed the Casino issue. Cleveland will be getting a Casino. I know there are many views on this, and there are also many opinions on the wording of the actual issue. But Cleveland and Ohio needed to do something. Millions every month leave the state, we aren't going to change that unless we support casino's. I do have to say though, in looking at the statistics prior to the election, what I found most interesting is that of the approximate 50% who where planning to vote against it, 27% just didn't believe in gambling. Now isn't that interesting. They don't like gambling, so nobody else should get it? Even if it brings money to the state that is so very much in need. There are lots of things I don't like to do, should I vote they all get banned??? I think this is crazy. Basically only 23% of the state was actually against it, 27% just didn't want it for themselves and the rest wanted it. Yet it took 10 years to get something passed. Meanwhile millions (and over that time billions) went out of the state!

Lets hope things get better.