A View of Cleveland From The Eastside

Random News Stories

Christmas has come and gone and now New Years is coming up. I just wanted to talk about a few things in the news.

The Cleveland Indians are coming back to local TV! The Indians signed a deal with Time Warner cable. A whopping 20 games will be broadcasted on our local WKYC channel 3 (In HDTV) while the rest will be on a cable station. For all the details you can go here. While I am excited that baseball games are coming back to a local free station after 4 years, I wonder if I will be able to see the rest of the games as I am a DirecTv user and not a local cable user. Hopefully this deal will give more exposure to the Indians as well as generate more support for the team. I do not want to see a repeat of last year where we almost did not sell out the home opener.

I thought this following article was pretty interesting. I did not know that student based EMS groups were growing. Both UD and JCU seem to have better programs then what we currently have but I ask is it really necessary? I can not imagine the insurance, equipment, and teaching costs. Furthermore both JCU and Case are not in rural areas where we expect EMS to arrive 10 minutes after a call. I think offering a class is one thing but do we really need this?

There seem to be a rash of police shootings locally but here is one in New Orleans as well. Now to me this latest one in New Orleans could have been resolved with out the suspect being killed. Just with the amount of man power there I would figure someone could have jumped the suspect from behind to take him down. I was not there and do not know nearly all the details so I can not pass judgement. The police have said that what occurred was that one of the officers tried to do that and then the suspect lunged at him with his knife and that is when three other officers opened fire. What I hate most about these stories though is that the media as well as the general public takes a quick stance against the police officers. Sometimes this is deserved for example when a man was beaten in New Orleans a few months ago. But in Cleveland especially we have people calling our police officers ‘murderers’. I think that is completely ridiculous and when ever it is a white cop who shoots a black suspect the cop is automatically racist. These people get paid worth crap for what they do and I do not believe for a minute that there are officers who get up and think lets see who I am going to shoot today. Furthermore I am sure that they make mistakes but that is expected when you have only a few seconds to decide whether or not to shoot. The least we can do is give them respect and wait for the investigation to occur before we judge them. In society we presume innocence until proven guilty but that doesn’t seem to apply to cops. Why?

Here is a little heard news story. While most of the news about the Catholic Church recently has been negative and in recent years all we have heard about is church closings and priest shortages, here is an example of the strength of the Catholic Church. Furthermore you never hear that the Catholic Charities is second in donations to those in need and you never hear about how many new members the church brings in a year. The church has been hit hard but is no where as bad as people may believe.

Here is an interesting article about the growing gender gap in College. Now this may not be what you think. Apparently more women than men are matriculating into universities. How come I don’t see this at Case?

I hope everybody has a wonderful New Years!