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Joe Posnanski story on Cleveland Cavs and LeBron James 6.20.16 (NBC) Some of the Best of 2016: Long Form Essays of Note (plus other content) Drowning in Dysfunction: How the Cleveland Water Department is Failing its Community, Violating Rights (WEWS-TV5) 12/22/2016 Returning to Ohio How a small, Midwestern town has changed over the decades—and where it aims … Continue reading “Some of the Best of 2016”
Can’t You Hear the 1948 Whistle Blowin’ 10.27.16 (New York Times) Cleveland Indians in 1948: A Story of Integration 10.24.16 (New York Times) Everything You Want to Know About Swing State Ohio, But Were Afraid to Ask 10.20.16 (Fortune) “Heart of Steel” Series from Plain Dealer About Steel Industry in Cleveland … Continue reading “News Aggregator Archives: FEATURE area 2016”
The pdf is here “The Scourge of Corrupt and Inefficient Politicians”: The Citizens League of Greater Cleveland By Marian Morton Cleveland’s self-styled enemy of “corrupt and inefficient politicians”1 was born in 1896, inspired by what its founders considered the disastrous state of local politics. For more than a century, fueled by righteous anger and empirical … Continue reading ““The Scourge of Corrupt and Inefficient Politicians”: The Citizens League of Greater Cleveland By Marian Morton”
Giant Concrete “Jacks” Will Replace Lake Erie Barrier Damaged by Hurricane Sandy (Cleveland.com) Major Renovations Coming to Edgewater Park and Euclid Beach Pier (Cleveland Scene) Ohio Minimum Wage Increasing 5 Cents to $8.15, in 2017 (Cleveland.com) Cuyahoga Community College’s Effort to Retain and Graduate Students Working, Report Says (Cleveland.com) Ohio, Long a Bellweather, is … Continue reading “News Aggregator Archive 13 (7/1/16 – 10/2/16)”
CLEVELAND: ECONOMICS, IMAGES, AND EXPECTATIONS by Dr. JOHN J. GRABOWSKI (PDF of article is here) INTRODUCTION Why do cities grow, thrive, and sometimes fail? What holds them together and makes them special places—unique urban landscapes with distinctive personalities? Often we fix on the “image” of a city: its structural landmarks; the natural environment in which … Continue reading “Cleveland: Economics, Images and Expectations by Dr. John J. Grabowski”
Local Public Policy Issue Forums 2015-2020 League of Women Voters-Greater Cleveland From the 19th Amendment to the Occupy Movement: Women’s Social Movement Activism A talk by Heather Hurwitz, Lecturer, Sociology, CWRU Tuesday August 18, 2020 at 7pm For more on forum, click here The video is here “Shine a light on Dark Money” Tuesday, August 11 … Continue reading “League of Women Voters-Greater Cleveland Public Policy Issue Forums 2015-2020”
1 Regionalism in Northeast Ohio-Material on the Subject From the Past 10+ Years 2 Regional Government vs. Home Rule by Joe Frolik 3 Regional Government vs Home Rule by Joe Frolik (pdf version) 4 Northeast Ohio Regionalism from the Plain Dealer 5 Cuyahoga County Government History Through 1980s 6 Home Rule 7 David Abbott Talks … Continue reading “Regional Government vs. Home Rule aggregation”
11 actions Ed FitzGerald, Cuyahoga County’s first executive, will be remembered for Cuyahoga County experienced an eventful four years under Ed FitzGerald. (Jackie Borchardt, Northeast Ohio Media Group) PrintEmail By Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on December 31, 2014 at 3:24 PM, updated January 01, 2015 at 7:12 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio — Today is … Continue reading “11 actions Ed FitzGerald, Cuyahoga County’s first executive, will be remembered for Cleveland.com 12/31/2014”
Ohio Dumps the PARCC Common Core Tests After Woeful First Year (Plain Dealer/NEOMG) U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Clears the Way For Ohio Congressional Redistricting Reform (Plain Dealer/NEOMG) U.S. Supreme Court Overturns EPA Rules That Closed Coal Fired Power Plants (Plain Dealer/NEOMG) Developers “Dream” Venture Could Be Big for Lakefront (Crain’s Cleveland Business) Ohio Online Charter … Continue reading “News Aggregator Archive 11 (1/1/15 – 6/30/15)”
Michael D. Roberts was a reporter for The Plain Dealer in the 1960s and covered many of the events in that decade including the Vietnam War. He later edited Cleveland Magazine for 17 years. The .pdf is here Cleveland in the 2000’s By Michael D. Roberts Since the end of World War II, Northeast Ohio … Continue reading “Cleveland in the 2000’s by Michael D. Roberts”