Posted by June 01, 2007 08:33AM
People are already joking about basketball hangovers and grumbling about the officiating, and the story of the day is unquestionably , with LeBron James unquestionably the star. And the The Indians made sure it's a bleak day in Detroit today, Here are some of the editors' other favorite stories from The Plain Dealer:Avon and much of Northeast Ohio's safety forces Regina Brett too. Cleveland's own Paul Newman to help needy students go to his alma mater, Kenyon College.
As many as and with them ( ). A at University Hospitals. A paint company to bribing an ODOT inspector, and And in what may be the weirdest story of the day, in city parks when they're not fighting fires.
Rainbow Babies Children's Hospital for young teens on the theme Buckle up ; ethnic-beat reporter Robert L. Smith describes how a Painesville businessman when word went round of an immigration sweep; two grocers Secretary of State Jan Brunner is asking her predecessor's employees Cleveland's Planning Commission will downtown; the city and the state designed to cost less than $400 a year to heat (analysts say ); the Lakewood landlord ordered to stay in his rundown building and the Ohio Senate
Connie Schultz says women of all political stripes by the U.S.
Supreme Court. The Editorial Page says Congress , which limits lawsuits to a relatively short period. Heinen's and the Cleveland Clinic are and ChoicePoint, the data collection firm that lost a lot of sensitive data to identity thieves,
There are other sports, y'know: We report state high school and finals ( ) with a sidebar on the Memorial tournament and -- well, it all comes back to basketball, , and , and , and -- and .
We watch the and listen to TACO, crunching tacos and preparing a concert. And Friday Magazine sends a Baby-Boomer to do a boy's job, Tony Brown says he had fun anyway.
Can we please, PLEASE do something - as a society allowing these things to continue to happen - about these DUI people and the way they seem to slip through the "system"?
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In the "Cheers and Jeers", there is a "GENIUS" who decides he's too drunk to drive his car, so he steals a Golf cart and drives it 7 miles to a Wedding.
..drinks more.
..then gets "pulled over" returning to the Golf course.
While this is an amusing situation - hey, I laughed about it, it's like an SNL skit - THE FACT IS that this friggin' guy has 3 - yes, 3!!!
!! - DUI's now.
Hey, I'm all about second chances in this life - everyone makes mistakes and nobody's perfect...
But, c'mon!!!
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How in the hell does that happen?!
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! How does anyone EVER get more than one and still be allowed to breathe our oxygen?!
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So, can we PLEASE do SOMETHING about Coconut's like this so that my Fiance, our son and our new baby due in November will not be headlines that read,
"Family of 4 Slammed Head-On and Killed By Drunk Driver Going Wrong Way On Off-Ramp Who Turns Out to Be Multiple Offender Who Somehow Had 15 DUI's And Nobody Seemed To Do Anything About It!
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