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Following the Money

By |Cities, Cleveland, Commentary, Uncategorized|

It doesn’t sit well to find out that civic leaders, making more than $1.7 million in annual salaries and advocating that taxpayers pay $13 million a year for 20 years for sporting facilities, have only donated $20 to their cause.

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