Cleveland Sustainability Czar

(Cleveland, Ohio) Mayor Jane Campbell's liberal environmental leanings are undoubtedly the basis by which she decided to create a "sustainability programs manager" to educate city government employees on the concept of sustainability. At a press conference this week, the mayor announced her intention of being "kind to the environment and gentle on the pocketbook."

"This is an opportunity to experiment on a very large scale," she said.

So, the mayor has inaugurated a very large scale environmental experiment in a city that within the past year has been gasping from significant budget shortfalls. In addition to troubling layoffs in fire and police protection and a disastrously poor public school system, the mayor even cut back on the city's recycling program. Mayor Campbell is obviously much smarter than I am because, in my opinion, the last thing Cleveland needs is a very large scale environmental experiment.