The Election’s Over: What did the voters say? a forum on 11/13/18

The video is here:

Tuesday November 13, 2018 at 7pm

5th floor auditorium at InfoCision Stadium Welcome Center
University of Akron, 375 E Exchange St, Akron,  44304
Free and open to the public
A panel of experts will analyze the results of the 2018 midterm elections and what can be expected regarding voting rights and other issues based on the composition of the houses of government.

Moderated by M.L. Schultze, former WKSU news director and reporter,
Dr. John Green, Interim President, University of Akron,
Greg Moore, Former Exec Dir, NAACP National Voter Fund,
Michael Douglas, Editorial Editor, Akron Beacon Journal
Cosponsored by Bliss Institute, University of Akron, Akron Beacon Journal/Ohio.com, LWV-Akron Area, LWV-Greater Cleveland, Common Cause-Ohio

Regionalism in Northeast Ohio-Material on the Subject From the Past 10+ Years

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Proposed Revised Cuyahoga County Map 2012 (NEOMG)

Regionalism in Northeast Ohio-Material on the Subject from the Past 10+ Years

History of Cuyahoga County Government

From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (1810-2011)

History of Northeast Ohio Regional Government

From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (thru 2009)

Reports from the Plain Dealer

A Region Divided – Plain Dealer Report (2004) (currently unavailable)

A Region Uniting – Plain Dealer Report (2007) (currently unavailable)

Cleveland.com brought back some links in the above series here

Articles

A New Cleveland Without Borders Plain Dealer/NEOMG January 25, 2004

What’s Stalling Regionalism is Rampant Self-Interest on All Parts Cleveland Scene May 26, 2004

Regionalism in Louisville Working, But Black Political Power Dwindles Plain Dealer/NEOMG August 26, 2007

You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide Cleveland Magazine September 2007

New Ohio House Speaker, Armond Budish, Vows to Push For Cities; Regionalism Plain Dealer January 5, 2009

How Cuyahoga County Reform Effort Turned Into Political Turmoil Plain Dealer/NEOMG September 13, 2009

Mayor Jackson was Re-Elected, But Will He Lose Power to the County Executive? Plain Dealer/NEOMG November 08, 2009

County Government Reform is Likely to Happen in Stages Plain Dealer/NEOMG November 9, 2009

Cuyahoga County Pushes Regional Health Plans Plain Dealer/NEOMG March 30, 2010

Ed FitzGerald Stirs Regionalism Talk in Cuyahoga County Executive Race Plain Dealer/NEOMG April 21, 2010

Threats to Town Halls Stir Voter Backlash Wall Street Journal June 8, 2011

Cuyahoga County Offers Services in Pursuit of Regionalism Plain Dealer/NEOMG June 2, 2012

Cleveland Suburbs Let Regionalism Enter Through the “Back Door” Plain Dealer/NEOMG October 9, 2013

Four East Side Suburbs in Cuyahoga County to Study Merger Plain Dealer/NEOMG June 22, 2011

Merger For East Side Suburbs Off the Table For Now Plain Dealer/NEOMG July 17, 2013

Mergers Among Northeast Ohio Communities Unlikely, Despite All the Talk and Collaboration Plain Dealer/NEOMG April 29, 2014

Northeast Ohio Leads the State in Landing Loans and Grants For Shared Government Services Plain Dealer/NEOMG April 29, 2014

Promoting Regionalism. Can Communities Save Through Collaboration? Cleveland.com 8/18/16

Pooling community services, sharing taxes key for Greater Cleveland’s viability, panel says Cleveland.com 8/19/2016

5 problems facing Cuyahoga County and how regionalism can address them Cleveland.com 11/15/2016

Cuyahoga County’s high taxes prompt discussion about consolidation Cleveland.com 4.22.19

Indianapolis surged under “Unigov,” while Cleveland just clunked along: Cleveland 2030, A Way Forward, Cleveland.com 7.8.19

What might be different today if Cleveland and Cuyahoga County had merged decades ago? 7.12.19

Economic woes spawned by coronavirus crisis resurrecting talk of
mergers, regional cooperation 5.4.2020

Opinion

Focusing Better on Big Picture: Concept of Regionalism Grows on Local Leaders: Joe Frolik Plain Dealer/NEOMG February 12, 2006

The Ripening of Regionalism: Editorial Plain Dealer/NEOMG April 29, 2007 (currently unavailable)

Chris Ronayne Calls For Metro Government Cleveland Magazine April 2009

It’s Time For the 59 Jurisdictions That Comprise Cuyahoga County to Committ to a New Principle of Government: Thomas Bier Plain Dealer/NEOMG June 18, 2011

Consolidation Question Should Be Uppermost of Voters’ Minds: Joe Frolik Plain Dealer/NEOMG June 19, 2011

Redraw Cuyahoga County to Erase Duplication and Save Money: Joe Frolik Plain Dealer/NEOMG August 18, 2012

A Smarter Cuyahoga County Takes Shape Under the Crayons of Amateur Mapmakers: Joe Frolik Plain Dealer/NEOMG September 15, 2012

A Continuing Conversation of Regionalism: a Complex Topic Without a Central Thesis WestLife April 27, 2013

The More We — as in Small Municipalities — Get Together, the Happier We’ll Be: Brent Larkin Plain Dealer/NEOMG August 13, 2013

Use Cleveland-East Cleveland Merger to Build a Regional Approach to Problem-Solving: Brent Larkin Plain Dealer/NEOMG December 21, 2013

Regionalism is a Sensible Alternative to Raising Local Taxes: Editorial Plain Dealer/NEOMG August 22, 2014

What Population Loss is Costing Cleveland — and Why It Matters: Brent Larkin Plain Dealer/NEOMG June 19, 2014

A Tale of 273 Cities: Jason Segedy April 14, 2014

Regionalism in Parma, Parma Heights and Brooklyn – – Bland Word, Intelligent Concept:editorial April 20, 2015 Plain Dealer/NEOMG

Video

Northeast Ohio Regionalism Forum w/Armond Budish, Cuyahoga County Executive and Eddy Kraus, Dir. of Regional Cooperation, Cuyahoga County June 17, 2015

Cuyahoga County: Past, Present and Future Growth. Lecture by Thomas Bier, Cleveland State University May 17, 2012

Dave Abbott, Executive Director of the Gund Foundation, on Regionalism in Northeast Ohio (Video) City Club April 24, 2014

Here Are 4 Interesting Thoughts on Regionalism From Gund Foundation’s Dave Abbott Plain Dealer/NEOMG April 25, 2014

“Regionalism and Shaker Heights” Aug 18, 2016 Issues facing almost all of Northeast Ohio’s suburbs

“Regionalism and the West Shore Communities” forum Nov 14, 2016. Panel discussed current initiatives in the delivery of services in Cuyahoga County. They explored possibilities for future cooperation and responded to audience comments and questions.  

Policy Report

“Cuyahoga County Government: A Blueprint for the Future” Citizens Committe for County Government Reform April 30, 1996

“Cuyahoga County Government Reform: A Means for Jobs and Economic Development?” Collaboration by Cleveland Bar Association, Cleveland State University and League of Women Voters-Cuy Area June 8, 2004

“Regionalism: Growing Together to Expand Opportunity to All” Kirwan Institute: The African American Forum on Race and Regionalism 2005

Northeast Ohio Regional Economic Revenue Study February 2008  (website)

Report of the Commission on Cuyahoga County Government Reform November, 2008

Doctoral Dissertation

“Regionalization of Cleveland’s Municipal Services 1950-1977: The Process and the Politics” by Mary Babcock Stavish 1994

Policy Proposal on Regionalism From County Executive Ed FitzGerald

Policy Proposal from Edward FitzGerald: Director of Regional Collaboration (2010)

 

Newton D. Baker Aggregation

Collection of material on Newton D. Baker

1 Newton D. Baker: Cleveland’s Greatest Mayor By Thomas Suddes

2 Newton D. Baker – The Civil Warrior (documentary)

3 Remarks by Thomas F. Campbell Upon the Occasion of Newton D.  Baker’s Induction into the City Club’s Hall of Fame May 18, 1987

4 Newton D. Baker from Foreign Affairs April 1938

5 Civitism

6 Newton D. Baker, as an Aide Remembers Him

7 Newton D. Baker from the Plain Dealer 9/26/1976

8 Newton D. Baker by Philip W. Porter

9 Transcript of Newton D. Baker’s famous League of Nation’s Speech delivered 6/28/1924

10 Mayor Tom’s Successor, The World’s Work Magazine, 1914

11 Newton D. Baker Biography by C. H. Cramer

12 Video from the Newton D. Baker Symposium April 19, 2015

13. Newton D. Baker Eulogy Delivered by Raymond D. Fosdick in 1937

14. Baker Wins! Front page from Cleveland Plain Dealer November 8, 1911

15. Newton D. Baker and the Adult Education Movement

16. Walter Lippman on Newton D. Baker 12/28/1937

17. Samuel Gompers debates with Newton D. Baker about “Right-to-Work” laws in 1922

18. Baker : Trained Administrator by Frederic C. Howe

19. Baker on the Fifth Ballot?

20. Recollections of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker by FQC Gardner

21. What Joseph M. Proskauer said about Newton D. Baker in his 1950 Autobiography

Tom L. Johnson Aggregation

1 Tom Johnson: Progressive Reform for the Common Man (Video)

2 Cleveland: “The City on a Hill” 1901-1909

3 A Couple of Giants: Mark Hanna and Tom Johnson

4 Tom L. Johnson, America’s Best Mayor (documentary)

5 A Ten Year’s War by Frederic Howe

6 Tom L. Johnson by Robert H. Bremner

7 Confessions of a Reformer by Frederic Clemson Howe

8 Cleveland’s Johnson by Eugene C. Murdock

9 The Double Life of Tom L. Johnson

10 Cleveland’s Johnson: Elected Mayor by Eugene C. Murdock

11 “My Story” The Autobiography of Tom L. Johnson

12. Biography of Tom L. Johnson by Carl Lorenz

13. Tom Johnson’s Obituary in American Magazine

14. Tom Johnson and Henry George

15. “Cleveland’s Johnson: The Cabinet” by Eugene Murdock

16. “The City on the Hill: Tom L. Johnson and the Mayors influenced by Henry George” a talk by Dr. Alexandra Lough (Video)

 

Interview With George L. Forbes, Former Cleveland City Council President (1973 – 1989) – Video

 forbes-and-voinovichforbes_george_l_19791979 CSU


Left to right councilmen Richard Harmody, Michael Zone, George Forbes. 1964 CPL

George L. Forbes was the longest and perhaps most powerful City Council President in Cleveland history, serving from 1973 – 1989. He was interviewed for Teaching Cleveland Digital on August 21, 2013. This is part six of a multi-part interview with Mr. Forbes and covers the 1980s when he was President of Cleveland Council, his relationship with Mayor George Voinovich and his campaign for Mayor in 1989. Produced by Michael Baron. Cameras by Jerry Mann and Meagan Lawton, Edited by Meagan Lawton, Interviewed by Brent Larkin.

part 1
 

part 2

part 3

part 4
part 5
Part 6
 
© 2013 Jerry Mann and Teaching Cleveland Digital.

“How to Reduce Gun Violence in Ohio” a forum on September 12, 2018

Wednesday September 12, 2018  7pm
“How to Reduce Gun Violence in Ohio”

The video is here:
Here is the Cleveland.com preview
The flyer is here

Panelists:
Dr. Daniel J. Flannery, CWRU, Director Begun Center for Violence Prevention, Research and Education

Andrés González, Chief of Police, Cleveland Metro Housing Authority

Mike Henne, Ohio State Representative (R) 40th District

Michael J. Skindell, Ohio State Senator (D), 23rd District

Moderator: Peter Krouse, Public Interest and Advocacy Reporter, Cleveland.com


Peter Krouse

Cost: Free & Open to the Public  7-8:30pm
Tinkham Veale University Center, CWRU Campus
11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland OH 44106

Co-sponsored by the Case Western Reserve University Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Greater Cleveland Alumnae Chapter, League of Women Voters-Greater Cleveland, Cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer
Corporate sponsor: First Interstate Properties, Ltd.

Waste and Recycling in Cuyahoga County a talk on August 30, 2018


The flyer is here
The video is here

Waste and Recycling in Cuyahoga County or 

why you cant “wish-cycle” your way to sustainable waste management

Thursday August 30, 2018 7pm

A talk by Diane Bickett, Executive Director, Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District

Fairview Park Library
21255 Lorain Rd, Cleveland, OH 44126
Free and open to the public
Cosponsors: Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com, CWRU Lifelong Learning,
League of Women Voters-Greater Cleveland.
Corporate sponsor: First Interstate LTD
Teaching Cleveland Digital