Category: Policies

The Cuyahoga River was so polluted, it used to catch fire. Now it’s making a comeback, NPR Oct 12, 2024

Firefighters stand on a bridge over the Cuyahoga River to spray water on the tug Arizona as a fire, started in an oil slick on the river, engulfs docks in Cleveland on Nov. 1, 1952.
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The Cuyahoga River was so polluted, it used to catch fire. Now it’s making a comeback

by Scott Neuman, NPR October 12, 2024
https://www.ideastream.org/2024-10-12/the-cuyahoga-river-was-so-polluted-it-used-to-catch-fire-now-its-making-a-comeback

Nick Mileti, the most energetic and imaginative promoter in Cleveland sports history, dies at age 93 by Bob Dolgan 8/22/24

Nick Mileti, center, is shown during a press conference in 1972 where the then-owner of the Indians announced that manager Ken Aspromonte, right, had been rehired to a multiyear contract. Former Indian Rocky Colavito, who was named to the coaching staff, is at left. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nick Mileti, the most energetic and imaginative promoter in Cleveland sports history, dies at age 93
by Bob Dolgan 9/22/24

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Reflecting on the state of the Cuyahoga, its future, 55 years after infamous fire – Ideastream June 21, 2024

A 1952 fire on the Cuyahoga River. There is no known photo of the 1969 blaze which launched a national movement towards protections for the nation’s waterways.

Reflecting on the state of the Cuyahoga, its future, 55 years after infamous fire
by Zaria Johnson, Ideastream, June 24, 2024

The link is here
https://www.ideastream.org/environment-energy/2024-06-21/reflecting-on-the-state-of-the-cuyahoga-its-future-55-years-after-infamous-fire

Irishtown Bend Park design features unveiled Park concepts to pay homage to early settlers by Ken Prendergast – March 20, 2024


Design features of the Irishtown Bend Park include the Coal Docks site featuring foundation remnants of the Erie Railroad Coal Derrick and the Iron Power Building, Sanborn Fire Insurance maps show. Such workplaces employed Irish and other immigrants 100-150 years ago. This is at the north end of the planned park, next to the Cuyahoga River and the Detroit-Superior Bridge (Plural)

Irishtown Bend Park design features unveiled
Park concepts to pay homage to early settlers
by Ken Prendergast

The link is here

https://neo-trans.blog/2024/03/20/irishtown-bend-park-design-features-unveiled

Just where did the Cuyahoga River reach Lake Erie when people like Moses Cleaveland arrived?

 

Cuyahoga River Cleveland, Ohio
The mouth of the Cuyahoga River was once located at the end of this ‘Old River’ segment between Edgewater Park and Whiskey Island

Just where did the Cuyahoga River reach Lake Erie when people like Moses Cleaveland arrived?
by Peter Krouse, Cleveland.com, December 27, 2023

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The 3-Cs: Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati How do they compare? WOSU Oct 30, 2023

The 3-Cs: Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati How do they compare? WOSU Oct 30, 2023

Here’s the link

 

(This episode originally aired on Oct. 30, 2023.)

The arrival of Amazon, Google and Intel to central Ohio has given Columbus a boost over Cleveland and Cincinnati. How does the capital city stack up compared to Ohio’s other major metro cities?

Today on All Sides, we’ll compare and contrast Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.

Host:

Mike Thompson, WOSU chief content director of radio
Guests:

Brent Larkin, Columnist for Cleveland.com/Former Editorial Director at Cleveland Plain Dealer
Liz Blume, Principal, Blume Community Partners Consulting Firm
Kevin Cox, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Geography, The Ohio State University

https://www.ohiochannel.org/video/all-sides-10-30-2023-b-how-do-ohios-major-cities-rate-against-one-another

Ohio’s State Issue 1 has failed, Cleveland.com Weds August 9, 2023

Ohio’s State Issue 1 has failed
Cleveland.com, Weds August 9, 2023

By Andrew J. Tobias and Jake Zuckerman, jzuckerman@cleveland.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio’s State Issue 1 has failed as voters rejected Republican lawmakers’ attempt to make it harder for the public to propose and approve changes to the state constitution.
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Turning Cleveland into a freshwater capital by Brent Larkin July 23, 2023

Burke Lakefront Airport, pictured from the air at the 2015 Cleveland National Air Show, is one of the city’s impediments to full use of its lakefront. With intensified lakefront planning both by the city and county, that could change. (Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer) The Plain Dealer

Opinion by Brent Larkin, The Plain Dealer, July 23, 2023
Turning Cleveland into a freshwater capital
The failure to provide meaningful access to and to build an economy around all that freshwater has been one of this community’s longest-running failures.

Now that may be changing — in a major way.

The link is here

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