OK... I've crawled out from under my rock to address the fact that I practically blew my morning coffee out of my nose when I read this in today's fishwrap. I'm glad the Mayor didn't sign the letter, because there's no way he wrote it. Memo to the Mayor's staff -- if you're ghost writing for your boss, it helps if you write in their voice. "Waxing poetic..." seriously, you expect me to believe those are his words? comment by Wendell Robinson

I'm not crazy about him myself, mainly because I don't know what the hell he's been up to all this time. I agree with you that he needs to communicate more about what he's doing with the residents of Cleveland. I know what Sherrod Brown and George Voinovich are doing because I signed up for their electronic newsletters. Why doesn't Frank Jackson have one of these? I don't know, or maybe he does and I just can't find it on the labyrinthine city website... comment by Christine Borne

I, too, don't think we need a glitzy, pie in the sky Mayor. BUT, we do need some one with some {Fill in the blank}. We need totally new leadership. Period. comment by Joel Libava

Maybe my standards are too low, but I'm impressed with Jackson's work on the city budget. This was the result of a sustained effort by the city that required leadership to execute. Contrast this with Jane Campbell's debacles on the Poverty Summit, Adopt-A-Can and the other high-visibility but no results efforts from her administration. comment by Justin Balack

If leadership equals communication (and I think it does), his inability or refusal to communicate frequently and well equals a failure of leadership. Period. comment by John Ettorre