OK, so Issue 6 — a new county government charter — passed in Cuyahoga County, thanks to a staggering money disparity and shameless, slanted shilling from the Plain Dealer. It would be nice if anyone on that side of the issue would recognize that unbalanced resources and not the inherent [...]
Yesterday, we reported on Lakewood Mayor Ed FitzGerald's entry into the Cuyahoga County Executive race. FitzGerald seems to have targeted more than just Central and Executive Committee members as a number Dems we talked to (including Dems who would be, shall we say, "underperforming") got the mailing. Whatever [...]
While there have been numerous endorsement announcements from the Fisher for Senate campaign, little has been made about the ones received by Jennifer Brunner. For instance, the endorsement of Cuyahoga County State Rep. Mike Foley. Foley, who represents one of the county's most progressive districts, threw his support behind Brunner [...]
Michael Skindell, the term limited State Representative from Lakewood, announced to a group of Democratic activists this week that he will be seeking the seat currently held by State Senator Dale Miller. Miller has been informing friends and politicos on the west side of Cuyahoga County that he will be [...]
Although I am far from a "young" Dem, I stopped in at the Cuyahoga County Young Democrats meeting tonight at La Boca, a Hispanic-flavored restaurant in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. I ran into CCYD president Curtis Thompson last Saturday and he invited me to come, so heck, why not?
First of all, [...]
According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Daniel Burns, former Cleveland schools administrator, indicted:
A former top Cleveland schools official approved $160,000 in bogus printing equipment purchases and service fees, then shared the money with a vendor he had done business with for years, prosecutors say.
A Cuyahoga County grand jury on [...]
Lakewood Councilwoman-At-Large Nickie Antonio became the third entrant to the race to replace term-limited Michael Skindell for the 13th Ohio House District. According to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections website, Antonio is the only candidate to officially pull petitions, although Democrats Dan Brady and Antonio's Council colleague, Tom Bullock [...]
I promised I would give my take on the meeting that took place November 17 to discuss reforming the Cuyahoga Democratic Part, a meeting I got myself up at an ungodly hour to attend. So here goes.
There’s been an undercurrent of conversation about reform within the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party [...]
The county government reform that has taken hold in Cuyahoga County appears to be spurring another reform movement in the county's Democratic Party. This movement, however, is not being led by Acting Party Chair Pat Britt, but rather a trio of activists with a variety of ties to key party [...]
It's no secret that Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are known globally as ground zero in the foreclosure crisis. Now the CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland says fed researchers see weak state regulation of mortgage lenders in Ohio earlier this decade as largely responsible for the [...]
