WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2023 |
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The West Side Market draws customers from across Northeast Ohio. But the century-old, city-owned landmark has fallen into disrepair and has been losing vendors and revenue in recent years. So while the city has handed over control of the market’s day-to-day operations to a new nonprofit, that nonprofit says it needs the city to contribute to $40 million in basic renovations to repair the roof, fix electrical-code violations and meet modern food-safety standards. Some City Council members object, arguing that millions of dollars would be better spent in poorer neighborhoods. Check out this cutting tweet from Councilman Charles Slife: “All Cleveland neighborhoods need investment, even the areas people from suburbs don’t visit once a month to play city.” The debate is far from done. - Laura |
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Cleveland officials have long grappled with how to improve the century-old, city-owned West Side Market. |
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West Side Market: The City of Cleveland is preparing for a showdown over whether it should spend millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds fixing the West Side Market or direct that money to additional investments in the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods. Paris Wolfe and Lucas Daprile report an unofficial compromise between the city’s executive and legislative branches proposed spending $15 million on the market, but legislation introduced to City Council was less specific. Today in Ohio: Gov. Mike DeWine said Monday that he would sign a bill allowing an August special election to decide whether it should be harder to amend the Ohio Constitution. That’s despite the fact that two Republican and two Democratic former governors say it’s a bad idea. We’re talking about taking power away from the people on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast.
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Ohio budget: State lawmakers could open the door for Cuyahoga County and other large counties to get more sports gaming facilities under language included in the latest version of the state’s two-year budget bill. Jeremy Pelzer reports the revised bill outlines spending $88 billion on a litany of other things as well, including a significant expansion of Medicaid coverage, $1 million for security for next year’s solar eclipse, and millions of dollars to a variety of Northeast Ohio organizations and initiatives. Biden reaction: President Joe Biden is running for reelection in 2024. Whether that’s a positive development depends on whom you’re asking. Sabrina Eaton rounds up Ohio politicians’ reaction. Effective legislators: A new ranking from the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University evaluates how successful individual Congress members were at moving their legislative agenda items through Congress over the past two years. Sabrina Eaton reports Cincinnati’s Brad Wenstrup ranked third among the 222 Republicans who served in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2021 and 2022. See the list. Seat belts: The Ohio House has for now scrapped a proposal from Gov. Mike DeWine that would allow police officers to pull over drivers for failing to wear a seat belt or properly buckle in their child. Jake Zuckerman reports both are currently classified as “secondary” offenses, meaning they can’t be the basis for their own traffic stop but can be ticketed if a driver is pulled over for a separate “primary” offense. |
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Wage theft: Cuyahoga County is considering new legislation to protect workers – especially low-wage earners – that will bar contractors from doing business with the county if they engage in wage theft or payroll fraud. Kaitlin Durbin reports that businesses wouldn’t even qualify for contracts if they’ve been penalized or debarred for violations within the past seven years, and current businesses caught cheating workers out of wages could have their contracts revoked and be banned from future contracts for up to five years. Grad schools: Ohio State, Case Western Reserve and other universities were ranked among the top 50 schools in the 2023-24 U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate Programs Rankings released Tuesday. Zachary Smith has the list. Senior prank: A senior prank seems to have created concern and stirred confusion amongst Greater Cleveland schools through misinformation spread on social media, reports Zach Mentz. On Tuesday morning, a Twitter account named @Shaker0nline (with a zero) impersonated @ShakerOnline (with an O) and said Hathaway Brown School, an all-girls private school in Shaker Heights, had bought nearby Laurel School, an all-girls K-12 school that also offers co-ed early childhood education. Garden protest: Third- and fourth-graders rallied in front of Onaway School in Shaker Heights to protest the planned relocation of their beloved native pollinator garden beds, writes Susan Brownstein. The native garden, which comprises four beds in front of the school, was installed in 2016 but looks like a weedy mess to those in the Onaway community who would like to relocate the garden. |
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Community benefit: A new report found that Northeast Ohio hospitals provided nearly $2 billion in community benefit in 2021, a 5% increase from 2020, reports Julie Washington. The $2 billion figure does not include community benefit derived from Medicare shortfalls — the difference between the cost of care and the smaller amount Medicare pays — and bad debt. |
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5-year-old stabbed: A Bedford woman was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for stabbing her 5-year-old daughter to death last year, reports Molly Walsh. Cuyahoga Judge Nancy Margaret Russo sentenced Menokka Karr Nealy after Nealy pleaded guilty last week to involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault and child endangerment. Conviction overturned: A federal appeals court overturned the conviction of a Cleveland man who talked about plans to ambush police officers to steal their weapons and build a militia. Adam Ferrise reports the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, last week found that a jury wrongfully found Christian Ferguson guilty because he never took any real steps to carry out the plan. Voter fraud: A Shaker Heights attorney who made several small donations to former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns has been accused of voter fraud charges. James D. Saunders, 56, is charged with two counts of illegal voting, a fifth-degree felony, in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, reports Cory Shaffer. Carjackings: A Cleveland teenager is accused of helping commit four carjackings within a three-hour span last week, with three incidents downtown and two victims from out of town. Brandon Hubbard, 19, was arrested April 18, reports John Tucker. |
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Barry Manilow: On Aug. 24, Barry Manilow is bringing his standards to Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Malcolm X Abram reports Manilow is the best-selling adult contemporary artist of all time, according to Billboard. San Diego: In San Diego, California, for a week, Laura Johnston and her family rented a Jeep Wrangler, cruised the harbor, took a trolley tour, visited the zoo, marveled at Legoland and SeaWorld, explored Coronado Island, hiked Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, kayaked to sea caves, saw seals, played tennis and swam in a thankfully generously heated pool. The city offers plenty of ways to play and make memories. |
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