Ed Morrison · Pittsburgh’s G-20 investment

July 1st, 2009

It’s hard not to make the contrast.

While Cleveland’s leadership struggles with a corruption probe, Pittsburgh prepares for the G-20 meeting this September.

When will Cleveland’s leadership imagine something more?

Pittsburgh firms fork over a half million dollars for G-20 summit

Addendum:

Philip Morris captures the sinking feeling:

I know this is not the best time for hyperbole. But this whole Greater Cleveland experience is starting to feel apocalyptic.

If I were a hotshot 25-year-old who had just pulled into Cleveland hoping to chase my fortune and fame, I would be having some serious reservations right now.

“Who are these people?” I’d be asking.

This town seems to be hurtling toward ancient-ruin status, all the while mocked by the promise of our world-class hospitals and our beautiful view of the lake.

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2 Responses to “Pittsburgh’s G-20 investment”

  1. John Polk Says:
    July 2nd, 2009 at 11:55 am

    Organizations, businesses and institutions don’t lead. People do. The success or failure of organizations is attributable to the people who lead and govern them.

    By most objective standards of measurement, our organizations and institutions are failing. Yet they remain largely in the hands of the same group of oligarchs who have run and governed them for the past 15 years.

    Despite their increasingly obvious incompetence, and the role they’ve played in enabling the current culture of corruption, these same leaders continue bumping and stumbling along, largely unaccountable for the results of their machinations.

    Which can only lead to the conclusion that our institutional leaders are doing what their overseers want them to do, and that the community’s decline is irrelevant compared to the gains being achieved by the beneficiaries of the status quo.

    It is too much to expect that the federal investigation into county corruption will accomplish much. If the previous investigation into the kleptocracy which was the White Administration is any indicator, a few lower-level guys will take the fall, together with a few contractors who were dumb enough to get caught on a wire.

    The big players, the real corruptors, will skate. Because as has been the case for centuries, the biggest crooks have the best lawyers…

  2. Ed Morrison Says:
    July 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    Cleveland’s kleptocrats.

    Nice ring.