Breuer office tower--another obligatory public hearing

cleveland.com: Weblogs: "The Cleveland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will hold a free public forum on Thursday, Oct. 26, for a discussion on whether a downtown Cleveland office tower designed by the famous Modernist architect Marcel Breuer ought to be razed or renovated."

I don't know if there are any other city or county governments out there that are so wasteful. Here's another hearing we need to spend our time attending because our elected officials don't manage too well. Wasting this asset makes us look sort of foolish, again. Why do we let them embarrass us? Why do we let them compromise basic principles of thrift, conservation and heritage? A third-world country on a spending binge is the only correlation I can make to our Cuyahoga County management.

I think another issue we need to bring up is the existing County Administration Building, and how we spent extra for it when we built it so that it would be expandable. Why haven't we heard anything about the fact that it can have extra floors and banks of elevators added, as was planned when it was designed?

Yet another issue is why the county government is expanding into growth-and-acquisition mode when everything else is contracting.