Cleveland City Council leadership (i.e. President Martin Sweeney) is circulating a list of eight of the Charter Review Commission’s 116 recommendations to be considered by Council Tuesday for inclusion on the November ballot.
The list includes tying the size of City Council to 25,000-person wards, as of next year’s election.
It also includes:
Shortening the period between final [...]
John Strok points out that this deserves some repeating (from Crain’s):
Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones has scheduled two public forums to discuss the proposed convention center and medical merchandise mart complex.
The first forum will be 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the Cleveland Heights Community Center. The second is scheduled [...]
So, in case you’re one of the five other people who’re still wondering what happened to that ferry, the London (Ont) Free Press ran a five-part series in May about Port Stanley’s ownership and dredging problems.
Like I wrote the other day, having seen the place close up I doubt that it’s a wonderful idea to [...]
I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere in the last two days including here, and somebody should:
Stephanie Tubbs Jones is being remembered today mostly as an East Side figure, a black community representative. But Congresswoman Jones held elected countywide office for fifteen years before “going home” politically in 1998 to fill Louis Stokes’ Congressional seat. Following [...]
I’m back.
On Wednesday we left the Point Pelee area (now forever to be known in our family as The Mosquito Coast) and headed 250 miles north to Tobermory, at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. Half of our trip was on Highway 21, known as the Bluewater Highway because [...]
Got an hour to kill with the wifi in a Williams coffeehouse in London, ON while the battery’s charging, so…
After two days hanging around Point Pelee and Leamington, the Tomato Capital of Ontario, we got up this morning and drove east on Highway 3 along the Erie coast to London. Highlights of the day so [...]
We’re leaving later today for a week of camping in Ontario. No medical marts, no foreclosures, no Charter Review, and very little screen time. I’m sure the withdrawal symptoms will abate after the first couple of days.
I might post a couple of times, depending on wifi opportunities. But more likely not. See you in a [...]
A fine example of objective, dispassionate, but above all professional Cleveland journalism.
P.S. To be clear, the yellow journalism reference in the title of this post is about the PD’s headline, not the story. Joe Guillen’s story is basically factual, though it skates around some big, obvious points — like the fact that $536 million is [...]
The suspense is over! And here’s the shocking news from the GCP’s Convention Center / MedMart site selection committee:
They’re recommending Sam Miller’s Tower City site, and…
The price tag will be closer to $600 million than the $400 million that the County Commissioners have told us is the absolute, cross-their-hearts-and-hope-to-die, swear-on-their-mothers’-graves maximum public contribution they’ll allow.
But [...]
There’s a mistake in the Charter Commission’s Final Report to City Council. It’s in the “possible language” associated with Recommendation 30, the Commission’s proposal to tie the size of City Council to a standard ward population of 25,000.
Recommendation 30’s “possible language” (on page 30 of the Report) reads:
§ 25 DIVIDING THE CITY INTO WARDS
The [...]