Cleveland’s historic Legal Aid Society surges with the pandemic
The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland is helping low-income people deal with layoffs, health bills and other challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Horizon seeks to plant new $3m early childhood center in Cudell
Horizon Education Centers aims to open a new, high-quality child care center in an area that needs one, but some neighbors oppose replacing a neglected orchard.
Voting is plentiful and fairly peaceful on election day
Lines were minimal at some Cuyahoga County polls and up to an hour long at others, but voting activists report no malfunctions or harassment here on the climactic day of a contentious, confusing election season.
Voting is huge and fairly smooth in Cuyahoga County with a week to go
There’s still plenty of time for a crazy election season to grow even crazier. But, with a week of voting to go, officials and activists are feeling more confident about a big turnout handled pretty smoothly under the circumstances.
Voters flock to vote early in chaotic election year
“Morning, morning!” Regina Adams exclaimed to two guards about 7:20 a.m. while becoming about the 55th person in line outside the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. “It’s a wonderful morning to vote!”
The pandemic separates artists from audiences and unites them
Kate Blaszak looked up from her printout at Hedge Gallery and broke into a smile that her mask couldn’t hide. “I see it on your wall!”
Resilient owners of Half Moon Bakery feed Clark-Fulton and beyond
At lunchtime lately, many hungry people stride past a vacant storefront across from MetroHealth’s expanding Main Campus, enter the adjoining Half Moon Bakery and carry out crisp empanadas, rich Cubanos, sweet pastelillos and other treats.
Cleveland startup makes masks a new way
A masked worker in a brightly lit factory in southwest Cleveland is lining up a spool of cotton in a machine to make more masks.
The pandemic postpones a beloved Labor Day parade and compounds labor’s challenges
During a tough and maybe pivotal year for American workers, it figures that the 50th edition of Cleveland’s nationally influential Labor Day festival has been postponed.
Cleveland becomes a parkland as trails and greenspaces multiply
Cleveland is a cleft land, and not just because of the Crooked River. For centuries, railroads, highways, ravines, utilities and more have barricaded us from each other and from our waterways, which didn’t attract us anyway. A confusion of roads and bridges high and low have linked us and kept us apart.
