Cleveland officials have spent months hashing out how to spend a portion of the $511 million in federal stimulus money from the American Rescue Plan Act. But what do residents want the money used for? The Land and Cleveland Documenters put in a public records request to find out.
Richard Starr, a political newcomer who ran unsuccessfully to be Ward 5 city councilman in 2017, will face off against recently appointed incumbent Delores Gray in the Nov. 2 general election. Despite its proximity to Cleveland’s relatively affluent downtown, the Central neighborhood, which makes up most of Ward 5, has remained one of the city’s poorest areas.
After Basheer Jones gave up his council seat in Ward 7 to unsuccessfully run for mayor, State Rep. Stephanie Howse will face a familiar opponent, scandal-battered former council member TJ Dow, who beat her for the seat in 2008.
City Council candidate Rebecca Maurer filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission claiming that a PAC controlled by Kevin Kelley gave a max donation to her opponent Tony Brancatelli, then coordinated in-kind donations with him that surpassed limits.
Cleveland City Council’s habit of invoking legal technicalities that alter the normal process for passing ordinances may seem mundane or bureaucratic, but it raises questions about why the rules exist if they are almost universally disregarded and how these practices bear on government accessibility and civic engagement.
Trucks, trailers and cranes will soon occupy parts of Forest Hills Park and Gordon Park, but they’ll leave the parks new and improved after years of work.
The latest step in a decades-long push to revitalize Cleveland’s lakefront got a boost Monday when Cleveland City Council approved the funding for a preliminary study into a new pedestrian land bridge connecting North Coast Harbor to the mall atop the Huntington Convention Center downtown.
As election day voters headed to their polling locations, The Land caught up with city council candidates in four of the city’s hotly contested council races. Here’s what we saw.
Civic engagement and voter turnout throughout Cleveland’s wards have been a mixed bag going into the primary election. Mail ballot requests and returns have generally increased citywide from where they lagged in 2017. And some progressive newcomers say their grassroots campaigns have seen on-the-ground interest in city council elections, but some of their incumbent counterparts remain wary.
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