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Cliff Baechle


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I'm here pretty much every weekend evening and from time to time with additional news reports.

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Books I've Read
Books Read in 2009

Nightfall-Nelson DeMille
The Book of Lies-Brad Meltzer
Denial-Stuart Kaminsky
The Paperboy-Pete Dexter
Blood Lake-Frank McConnell
As Summers Die-Winston Groom
Seize the Day-Saul Bellow
The Thin Man-Dashiell Hammett
Gimme Rewrite Sweetheart-John Tidyman


Books Read in 2008

The Muse Asylum-David Czuchlewski
The Moving Target-Ross MacDonald
The Stranger-Alfred Camus
Appointment in Samarra-John O'Hara
The Cure of Rocky Colavitoo-Terry Pluto
A Gun for Sale-Graham Greene
A Cure for Dreams-Kaye Gibbons
Protect and Defend-Vince Flynn
Apple to the Core-Marc Lovell
Retribution-Stuart Kaminsky
Midnight Pass-Stuart Kaminsky
Nothing to Lose-Lee Child



Books Read in 2007

The Best-Kept Secret by Les Roberts
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
Wild Turkey by Michael Hemmingson
Call For The Dead by John LeCarre
Catalina by W. Somerset Maugham
Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein
Funny Papers-Behind the Scenes of the Comics by Elaine Scott
O Pioneers!  by Willa Cather
Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherford
Southwesterly Wind by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant



Books Read in 2006

The Dubliners by James Joyce
Who Knew by David Hoffman
The 8:55 to Baghdad by Andrew Eames
The Master of Rain by Tom Bradby
The White Russian by Tom Bradby
In and Around St. Petersburg  (Russia)
The Hermitage
Peanuts-The Art of Charles Schulz
History's Last Stand by Gerald and Patricia Del Re
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
End of the Drive by Louis L'Amour
Under Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Personality Links

Billboard distractions
Sunday 03-07-2010 9:44pm ET
Is it just me or are billboards becoming wordier?
 
And the longer it takes a driver to read everything on the board, some in small print, the greater the chance that driver will end up in in a wreck.

There's a lot of talk about how cell phones distract drivers. But billboards have been doing it for a lot longer.

And how many billboards do you pass wondering what the message really is and what the sponsor wants you to do about it?

That big billboard south bound on I-77 for years just said 'Goodyear.'

Certainly that was an easy message to understand. I have no idea what it's about now or who the sponsor is.

Too many words.
Belching is Good for Cleveland
Sunday 01-03-2010 8:15pm ET
Driving along I-77, there's nothing quite as nice as seeing the hot flame shooting up from a blast furnace. 

And the smoke belching from the stacks. 

It means the mill is turning out steel.  And that's good for everyone here.
Imperial Avenue Horror
Sunday 11-22-2009 9:20pm ET
In a long career reporting news, the story of 11 deaths at a house on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland's southeast side is probably the most horrifying local story I've had to tell. 

Man's inhumanity leaves us confused and sickened. 

All we can do is hope that this is the bottom of the scum pond and offer prayers for those who died and their families.