1	How a Burning River Helped Create the Clean Water Act 4.17.15 (Allegheny Front)
2	The fable of the burning river, 45 years later Washington Post 6.22.2014
3	After the flames: The story behind the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire and its recovery (Plain Dealer 1/4/2009)
4	Cuyahoga River Fire From Cleveland Historical
5	“Burn On, Big River…” Cuyahoga River Fires The Pop History Dig
6	Cuyahoga River from Wikipedia
7	History Day Website on The Cuyahoga River Fire
8	Growth of The Cuyahoga River: The Ebb and Flow of the River
9	Don’t Fall in the River

11 Cuyahoga River Online Exhibit from the Great Lakes Industrial History Center.

13 Along the Cuyahoga Audio Program from WCPN

Remaking the “Q” Cleveland.com 12/13/16

Remaking the Q

Here is what Quicken Loans Arena could look like, from Huron Road, after a $140 million renovation paid for by taxpayers and the Cavs.The Cleveland Cavaliers

Quicken Loans Arena, home of LeBron and the Cavs, to get $140 million makeover

Karen Farkas, cleveland.com

The Cavs will split the cost with Cuyahoga County, the city of Cleveland and Destination Cleveland. Continue reading.

NBA All-Star game coming to Cleveland, perhaps by 2020, Cavaliers say

Karen Farkas, cleveland.com

The Cavs have been promised the big event — which draws celebrities and millions of dollars in tourist spending — once the arena is renovated Continue reading.

See plans for the Q transformation

Karen Farkas, cleveland.com

The Q will undergo a $140 million renovation that is expected to extend the life of the 22-year-old arena for another 18 years. Read more

Who will pay for the Q renovations and how?

Is Quicken Loans Arena overhaul worth your tax dollars? Consider these points as you decide (ANALYSIS)

Ohio’s Home-Rule Amendment: Why Ohio’s General Assembly Creating Regional Governments would Combat the Regional Race to the Bottom under Current Home-Rule Principles

Cleveland State Law Review:

Ohio’s Home-Rule Amendment: Why Ohio’s General Assembly Creating Regional Governments would Combat the Regional Race to the Bottom under Current Home-Rule Principles

Law review paper written by Jonathon Angarola

The link is here

Eliot Ness aggregation

1 Eliot Ness in Cleveland From the Cleveland Police Museum

2 Eliot Ness from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland

3 A Bad End For a Good Guy. Did Cleveland Kill Eliot Ness?

4 Cleveland’s Untouchable by George E. Condon

5 Eliot Ness Biography from the Ohio Historical Society

6 Eliot Ness in Cleveland from Cleveland Memory

The Van Sweringen aggregation


1	The Vans. . .Veni, Vidi, Vici by George E. Condon
2	Van Sweringen Brothers from Wikipedia
3	Depression Derailed Van Sweringen Express PD 6.2.1996
4	“Enter the Van Sweringen Brothers”
5	Chapter 15 The Years Were Good: The Autobiography of Louis B. Seltzer
6	Terminal Tower – Opening Day
7	Cleveland’s Terminal Tower: The Forest City Acquires a Metropolitan Image
8	“Train Dreams” by Pete Beaty from Belt Magazine
9	Deferring Dreams: Racial and Religious Covenants in Shaker Heights, Cleveland Heights and East Cleveland, 1925 to 1970 By Marian Morton

10. “Invisible Giants: the empires of Cleveland’s Van Sweringen brothers” first chapter

Invisible Giants: the empires of Cleveland’s Van Sweringen brothers By Herbert H. Harwood

Charles E. Ruthenberg and Socialism in Cleveland

1	Socialist Municipal Administrations in the Progressive Era Midwest: A Comparative Case Study of Four Ohio Cities, 1911-1915 by Arthur E. DeMatteo
2	When Cleveland Saw Red by John Vacha
3	Socialist Party of Ohio– War and Free Speech
4	Charles E. Ruthenberg: The Development of an American Communist, 1909-1927
5	Charles E. Ruthenberg from the Plain Dealer 1/21/96
6	May Day Riots of 1919
7	Guilty? Of What? Speeches Before the Jury
8	Charles Ruthenberg

Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones aggregation

1	Toledo’s Golden Rule Mayor by Elaine Whitfield Sharp
2	City Flourished Under Golden Rule of Jones – Toledo Blade 12/15/99
3	Visionary mayor used Golden Rule in business, politics – Toledo Blade 9/24/99
4	Samuel M. Jones Biography
5	Samuel Jones Chapter in “The American mayor: the best & the worst big-city leaders”
6	Golden Rule Jones, Late Mayor of Toledo
7	Samuel Jones from The Arena Magazine 1906