Word: clevelandism
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Also, civic reputations have a long half-life. Chicago has had wondrous architecture for years, but it is still identified with Mob wars and the sort of political machine that urges its followers to vote early and often. If Dan Rostenkowski happened to be from Cleveland, would commentators on his fall have said that he couldn't shake the Cleveland way of doing things...
...abundant as flame wars. One site offers a Unabomber theme song, another invites people to attend an upcoming online birthday party for Kaczynski, and a third gives away free "Official Unabomber" screen savers that include "fashion tips" and other surprises. "It's dynamite," promises Corey Deitz, the Cleveland FM-radio jock who helped create the computer program...
These anxious words instantly struck a chord. Forty-one American newspapers and magazines reprinted them. Letters and phone calls flooded the office of Cleveland Press editor Louis Seltzer to tell him he had put his finger on our gravest crisis with his editorial--in the summer...
...replacing red nosed liberals who specialize in patronage. But these changes are having their consequences. Not only are politicians like Frank Wolfe allowed to speak out, but we are loosing a piece of our city. The political culture that has characterized Boston for decades, separated us from any other Cleveland or Topeka, is slipping away...
DIED. CARL STOKES, 68, former big-city mayor; of cancer; in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1967, when only 37% of Cleveland's electorate was black, Stokes was elected mayor with 50.5% of the vote. His distinction as the first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city would eclipse the subsequent highs of his life: stints as a TV anchorman in New York City and as ambassador to the Seychelles...