WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET FIRED, CONTINUED: In a comment on my last post about the mysterious continued employment of CEOGC director Middleton, the anonymous "Mike" says:

check the initial plain dealer article on this. it identifies ms. middleton as the sister-in-law of louis stokes. hmmmmm. any further explanation necessary?

"Mike" is right, sort of. The PD article he's talking about is no longer at cleveland.com, but it's in the Library database here. (You need a library card to get to it.) It comes with this correction:

The following published clarification appeared on March 15, 2005: A story on Page One on Sunday about the Head Start agency in Greater Cleveland described Executive Director Jacqueline Middleton as Louis Stokes' sister-in-law. She once was married to the brother of Stokes' wife, but the two divorced years ago.

What does this tell us? Your guess is as good as mine or "Mike's".