In partnership with Cleveland Print Room, the Cleveland Museum of Art presents Improper Frames at Transformer Station, the museum’s satellite location in Ohio City’s Hingetown neighborhood. On view from February 14 through […]
Economic development reporter Mandy Kraynak recaps The Land’s top 10-most read stories published this year, the impacts they’ve had in Cleveland neighborhoods, and any updates that have happened since.
For years, hospitals and public policy wonks have been engaged in an ongoing debate over whether nonprofit hospitals provide adequate benefits to the community to make the tax breaks they receive a good deal for taxpayers. That debate is further complicated by the history of racist policies like redlining that still affect Clevelanders today.
An Ideastream analysis of Cuyahoga County fiscal records shows that the clinic owned at least $2.4 billion in tax-exempt property countywide as of 2018 assessments. If that property was taxable, it would contribute about $84 million to government coffers annually.
This past week, The Land writers Grant Segall and Michael Indriolo took home honors with the Press Club of Cleveland’s All Ohio Excellence in Journalism awards.
Cleveland City Council created a coalition of government leaders and advocacy groups to dismantle systemic racism in the city when it declared racism a public health crisis two years ago. Since then, the coalition leadership says the group has met monthly in secrecy.
Cuyahoga County officials say they’re committed to reducing health disparities through through economic development, but some local racial equity experts and community stakeholders question whether the county’s initiatives are having a real impact.
Snow fell outside last Saturday, but the mood was warmer inside the Amour Du Christ Church on Clark Avenue where a few of Cleveland’s Congolese refugees braved the cold for a health clinic.
Since declaring racism a public health crisis nearly two years ago, county government has shuffled departments around internally and directed resources in attempts to reverse decades of disinvestment in communities of color. Is it working?
The pandemic has been an unprecedented challenge wrought with suffering and heartbreak for many community health advocates, but it has also underscored the trust-building nature of their work.
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