Lake Erie might be Cleveland’s greatest asset. But while the city has built attractions on the lakefront, they have felt disconnected from downtown for decades. Now Cleveland is poised to make the most of the North Coast. The city has created a North Coast Development Authority that can raise hundreds of millions of dollars in private capital and government grants to shepherd big, complex projects to fruition. And it is spending $10 million in stimulus money to get four projects started. That includes $3 million to begin engineering on a land bridge from the downtown mall to the lakefront, and $1.5 million for design work to improve and expand the East 55th Street fishing pier. Perfect timing, as the lake warms and Clevelanders flock to beaches and parks. -- Laura |
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Guardians at Baltimore Orioles: Guardians blast three home runs, rally for 12-8 win against Baltimore Northeast Ohio weather forecast: Sunshine, warmer temps continue |
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The Irishtown Bend project aims to stabilize a hillside in Ohio City and transform it into a 17-acre park. (John Pana, cleveland.com) |
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Waterfront projects: Cleveland City Council on Wednesday approved $10 million for four projects aiming to improve the city’s waterfront, reports Lucas Daprile. The four projects -- Irishtown Bend, expansion of an East Side fishing pier, Euclid Creek Greenway and the Northcoast Connector project -- will receive funding through the American Rescue Plan Act. Southeast CLE help: Home repairs, help for small businesses and redevelopment are on the horizon for Cleveland’s struggling southeast side. City Council approved Mayor Justin Bibb’s plan to use $15 million in federal aid from the American Rescue Plan Act to boost the Mt. Pleasant, Union-Miles and Lee-Harvard neighborhoods, reports Courtney Astolfi. Today in Ohio: An advisory legal opinion from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost could bolster public facilities seeking to block transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their assumed gender identity. We’re talking about how Yost argues cisgendered men would take advantage of looser bathroom separation policies to “victimize women and girls” on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast.
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Dark money appointment: Gov. Mike DeWine has named Dan McCarthy, a former top aide who led a political nonprofit used by FirstEnergy to help fund the House Bill 6 bribery scheme, to the Ohio State Racing Commission, reports Jeremy Pelzer. McCarthy, who now works as a state government lobbyist, has been involved with horse racing in the past, though critics say the governor shouldn’t have appointed someone with past connections to dark money. Fracking state parks: On the first day under a new legal regime, the state received eight applications to drill for oil and gas under state lands, reports Jake Zuckerman. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is in the process of posting non-confidential portions of the applications online. Debt limit: U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan spent the evening before a House of Representatives vote on President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s budget deal urging his reluctant colleagues to support it. Sabrina Eaton reports Jordan says he’s making private pitches for the deal to GOP Congress members, and gave a House Republican Conference meeting a rundown of why he supports it. The House voted to approve the deal later Wednesday. Chinese tariffs: U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown wants to close a loophole in trade law that exempts packages valued at under $800 from U.S. duties, taxes and fees, reports Sabrina Eaton. More than 2 million of those parcels enter the United States each day, according to Brown. He calls it “a backdoor way” for Chinese companies to ship goods to the United States without paying tariffs. Recreational marijuana: A bipartisan pair of Northeast Ohio lawmakers are sponsoring a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana, including allowing up to six cannabis plants to be grown per household. Laura Hancock reports House Bill 168, called the Adult Use Act, is awaiting its first committee hearing in the Ohio House Finance Committee. Issue 1: Care about state Issue 1, the proposal to make it harder to change the Ohio Constitution? Andrew Tobias explains how to give money to the groups for and against the proposal. The “yes” and “no” campaigns also have sections of their websites where Ohioans can get involved more generally, such as requesting yard signs or helping the campaigns canvass voters door to door. |
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Trevor Elkins: After serving jailtime and completing probation early, former Newburgh Heights mayor Trevor Elkins is hoping to return to public office. Kaitlin Durbin reports Elkins launched a campaign to be restored as Newburgh Heights’ mayor in a nearly three-minute video over Memorial Day weekend. Controversial sermon: For Avery Arden, the chance to go to Mass at St. Raphael in Bay Village on Sunday was special, a trip back to a childhood spent growing up at the church. Then the service turned into a controversy. Arden interrupted the Mass and challenged the words of the church’s pastor, the Rev. Timothy Gareau, who said during his homily that the Catholic Church was “under attack” when referencing a pro-LGBTQ nonprofit, Molly Walsh reports. Cleveland’s Promise: A group of fourth-grade students are fighting during gym class, reports Hannah Drown. They need a mediator – and Zoey has completed her peer mediation training, a course offered through Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s conflict resolution program Winning Against Violent Environments. Bridge cam: Cleveland.com wants to make your summer boating easier. We worked with the Music Box Supper Club in the West bank of the Flats to mount a camera pointed at the Norfolk Southern railroad lift bridge, Laura Johnston reports. |
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Wellness centers: While residents in the Bedford and Richmond Heights areas can no longer get surgical or emergency services at closed University Hospitals facilities, they will be able to take healthy cooking classes or learn to beat stress starting this fall. Those are among the programs that will be provided at UH Community Wellness Centers set to open in the former UH Bedford and Richmond Hospitals, reports Julie Washington. Sports gambling: Ohio’s sports-betting companies took in $521.7 million worth of bets in April, a sharp decline compared to the huge start the state had in January. Sean McDonnell reports the total was down from the $738.6 million bet in March, which was a bounce-back month for sports betting. Ohio saw $639.8 million bet in February and $1.1 billion bet in January. |
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Mistrial: A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge did not purposely cause a mistrial in the case of three people charged with kidnapping, torturing and killing a woman in 2019, a judge has ruled. But Cory Shaffer reports that retired Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Janet Burnside’s decision undercuts the public explanation that her colleague, Judge John Russo, had given about the text message his bailiff sent that resulted in the mistrial earlier this year. Inmate caught: An inmate who escaped from Summit County Sheriff’s deputies Tuesday in Akron while being taken to a doctor’s appointment has been captured by the U.S. Marshals Service, Molly Walsh reports. Jason Lyle Conrad, 39, was captured at approximately 9:40 a.m. Wednesday while trying to flee from officers near Aqueduct Street in Akron. 16-year-old killed: A 16-year-old with gunshot wounds was found dead at an abandoned school in the city’s Woodland Hills neighborhood. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office identified the teen as Damarion Whitsett, reports Olivia Mitchell. Road rage: Authorities on Wednesday arrested a Columbus man and accused him of committing a road-rage slaying on Interstate 76 in Norton earlier this month. U.S. marshals said officers picked up Dacarrei Kinard, 30, on a warrant at his mother’s home in Columbus. Voyeurism arrest: A Parma man who ran an unlicensed daycare was arrested Wednesday and has been accused of spying on an 11-year-old girl, police said. Jeremy W. Bahner, 39, is charged with voyeurism, Olivia Mitchell reports. |
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BorderLight: The 2023 BorderLight Fringe Festival will feature more than 100 local, regional, and national performances, reports Joey Morona. The event will take place in and around Playhouse Square on Aug. 3-5. 'Shooting Stars': The movie version of LeBron James’ origin story truly is an ensemble film that is as invested in LeBron (Marquis “Mookie” Cook) as it is with his lifelong friends and teammates, reports Joey Morona. But it also happened that one of those kids would grow up to become arguably the best basketball player in the history of the sport. That presented its own set of challenges, beginning with how do you find someone to play James? PBS: Mike Thomas is one of nine home cooks to appear on Season 2 of PBS’ “The Great American Recipe.” Paris Wolfe reports the show, which airs on Mondays starting June 19, was created to “celebrate the multiculturalism that makes American food so vibrant and unique.” |
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