THE OTHER STORY DOUG CLIFTON ISN'T TELLING: THE SECRET WAL-MART SUBSIDY

It's now been 178 days since the Plain Dealer last mentioned the $32 million in Federal tax credit financing planned for the Steelyard Commons project. It's been 54 days since the paper editorialized that Steelyard developer Mitch Schneider "asked for no subsidies".

It's been 33 days since the Sun News revealed that the secret subsidy plan is still alive and well.

It's been 24 days since this weblog quoted a Port official saying that the Port-created entity which controls the public subsidy, the Northeast Ohio Development Fund, is "not subject to public records or open records or sunshine laws."

But the PD, that fierce defender of open records and sunshine, remains eerily silent. No stories, no indignant editorials. Nothing.

Do you think it's because Judith Miller is in jail?