It was supposed to be a Target. Now Cuyahoga Executive wants to build a jail on a Garfield Heights site. Before Chris Ronayne was elected Cuyahoga County executive in November, he rejected the county council’s plan to build a jail on a toxic site on Transport Road in Cleveland. Now Ronayne has picked a Garfield Heights site once slated for a $90 million office-and-retail project, anchored by JCPenney, Target and Lowe’s. The site is 11 miles south of downtown Cleveland, just across I-480 from the former City View Center, which was built atop a landfill. The chosen site for the $750 million, 1,900-bed facility is 72 acres, with no known environmental concerns. It didn’t make the county’s original list of 28 possible sites in 2021, but was added on after the county gave owners an opportunity to pitch their own property. For Ronayne’s pick to fly he must overcome concerns that the property is too far from the downtown courthouse and would burden city officials and attorneys. Council will vote. -- Laura |
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A rendering shared by Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne shows how he hopes to use property at Granger Road and Transportation Boulevard in Garfield Heights for a new county jail. He will formally introduce his plan to County Council on June 20, he told cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer's Editorial Board on Monday, June 12, 2023. (Cuyahoga County) |
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New jail: Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne has selected a plot of land in Garfield Heights as his preferred location for a new jail and said he will introduce plans to buy it – and potentially how to pay for it – to council next week. Kaitlin Durbin reports Ronayne picked the site for its large size, central location and shovel-ready condition. Issue 1: The Ohio Supreme Court has handed a limited victory to opponents of State Issue 1 by ordering Republican state officials on Monday to rewrite ballot language summarizing the measure’s effects. Andrew Tobias reports the decision, issued by the four Republicans who hold a majority on the seven-member court, orders the Ohio Ballot Board to fix an error in the ballot language that incorrectly described the minimum number of voter signatures amendment campaigns must collect to qualify for the ballot. Tobias also explains the discrepancy over how many voters in all 88 counties would be required to sign petitions. Today in Ohio: Ohio’s minimum wage might still be $5.15 an hour and casino gambling still would be illegal if Ohio had a 60% threshold to change the state constitution. We’re talking about the citizen initiatives that never would have been enacted under State Issue 1 on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast. |
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Social media: Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted are pressuring state lawmakers to adopt new rules requiring kids younger than 16 to obtain parental permission before signing up for a social-media account as legislators hammer out a state budget. Under language inserted in the governor’s and the Ohio Senate’s budget plans, social-media companies and owners of similar websites would have to set up a system to verify that every Ohioan creating a new account is at least 16 years old, reports Jeremy Pelzer. Cliff Rosenberger: A federal judge rejected a request from ex-Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger to be formally acknowledged as a victim of ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s bribery and racketeering scheme, reports Jake Zuckerman. Had U.S. District Judge Timothy Black heeded Rosenberger’s request to be designated as a victim, Rosenberger would be entitled by law to perks like possible restitution or an opportunity to speak at Householder’s sentencing. East Palestine: The state of Ohio will soon offer zero-interest, forgivable loans of up to $1 million to businesses hurt by the East Palestine train derailment last February, reports Jeremy Pelzer. It’s the first time that the state is offering direct financial assistance of this type to business owners or other residents who suffered economic losses after the Feb. 3 derailment sent toxic chemicals into the nearby air, water, and soil. |
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Museum hike: A hike with Cleveland Museum of Natural History staff offers the chance to see things you wouldn’t otherwise notice and learn things you wouldn’t even think to ask about, reports Peter Krouse. The museum, which owns or manages 65 natural areas across northern Ohio, hosts such field trips from time to time, with one of the next opportunities coming up June 24 at its Sawdust Preserve in Ashtabula County, south of Geneva. Sunny streak: We’ve ended our 21-day dry spell, falling short of the 25-day stretch in 1977. How nice was it? Zachary Smith reports there were just seven days when the temperature reached the 80s, with a high of 87 on May 30, in comparison to 12 days in the more pleasant 70s, one in the 60s, and on May 14 the high was just 58 degrees. Cleveland’s Promise: A month into their Dancing Classrooms instruction, Almira Elementary School fifth graders were, for the most part, progressing nicely. However, to help the students in Mr. Whelan’s class participate comfortably and distinguish who was dancing in the inside and outside circles, they would be re-introducing “connectors” – colorful ropes that allow students to track their movements without physically connecting to their partners. |
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Football HOF: The Hall of Fame Village is adding another NFL great to its board of directors, Jerome Bettis. Sean McDonnell reports “The Bus” played in the NFL for 13 seasons, starting with the Los Angeles Rams before spending 10 years with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Money Talks: There is a wealth of wisdom that Darnell Mayberry’s mother, through a life of trial and error, hardship and triumph, openly shared. In her own words, 75-year-old Alberta Mayberry, who retired after a career as a librarian and a U.S. diplomat, explains her financial struggles and philosophy. |
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Tax fraud: The owner of an Akron tax preparer business used customers’ personal information to bilk the government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent tax returns and coronavirus relief money, some of which he stole from clients, reports Adam Ferrise. Mustafa Ayoub Diab, 39, is charged in federal court in Akron with theft of government funds, wire fraud, bank fraud, aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting. Officer hospitalized: An off-duty Cleveland police officer was hospitalized Sunday after a person attempting to steal his car slashed him in the head with a screwdriver, John Tucker reports. At about 4 p.m., two people attempted to steal the officer’s vehicle at his home on West 123rd Street. Pregnant girlfriend killed: A Cleveland man was sentenced to life in prison Monday for killing his pregnant former girlfriend and letting her body decay on his balcony while he helped her family search for her. Bennie Washington Sr., then 39, spoke to the mother of Audreonna Barnes, who was 18, nearly every day after her July 2021 disappearance and feigned heartbreak, reports Cory Shaffer. |
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Moulin Rouge: “Moulin Rouge” will always be a love-it-or-hate-it proposition. It was true of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film, and it is true of the Tony Award-winning “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.” Joey Morona writes that the stage production, now playing at the KeyBank State Theatre in Playhouse Square through July 2, takes everything you loved (or hated) about the movie and dials them up a notch or two or ten. More drama! More dancing! More romance! More singing! The Cure: The Cure has always done things differently, and 45 years into their career, they are still forging their own path, writes Malcolm X Abram. They been teasing a new album, “Songs From a Lost World,” for a couple of years now, and the tour, “Shows of a Lost World,” which arrived after a thunderstorm at Blossom Music Center is named for the as-of-yet unreleased album. Taylor Swift: Laura Johnston took her daughter to see Taylor Swift in Detroit. It was the night of her life, with 65,000 enraptured fans in sequins, fringe and clever T-shirts, sharing friendship bracelets and adoration Macarons: Karen Bosworth used her talent for cake baking and decorating to earn some extra cash when her kids were growing up. Her daughter, Marianne (now Shumaker), learned the art of confections at her mother’s side in the family’s kitchen. The family found the small former Winterich flower shop, with its attached greenhouse – built in the 1890s --and did the renovations themselves on nights and weekends, to open KB Confections nearly 11 years ago. Yadi Rodriguez and Brenda Cain report the shop is heralded for Greater Cleveland’s best macarons, according to Yelp reviewers. Ask Yadi: When you are done with your cart at Aldi, and someone comes by, do you give it to them or extend your hand waiting for them to give you a quarter? Yadi Rodriguez tackles grocery cart etiquette in her latest advice column. Ask Lucas: A reader asks Lucas Daprile what to do after her brother-in-law continues to use his late mother’s handicap parking pass. Duck Tape: The Avon Heritage Festival (formerly the Duck Tape Festival) is scheduled for Father’s Day weekend, June 16-18. The three-day event will be at Avon’s Mercy Health Stadium, 2009 Baseball Blvd., reports Paris Wolfe. New brewery: The Richfield Brewing Co. is breaking ground today on Broadview Road, with a target opening next spring, reports Marc Bona. Andrew Ritterbeck, a veteran brewer at several Ohio breweries, will be in the brewhouse and part of the ownership team, led by Mike Lytz. Dancing Wheels: Dancing Wheels Company & School is performing “Legendary Ladies of Jazz” for their annual gala on June 16, reports Paris Wolfe. Vocalists and musicians represented are Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone. RV Rocking: One question Jeff and Patti Kinzbach are regularly asked is “How long are you going to do this?” On this week’s episode of “Rocking the RV Life,” the Kinzbachs answer that question and share five reasons why they have no plans to stop. |
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