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As Cleveland City Council Begins Redistricting, Concerns About Ward Boundaries and Representation Rise
“I’m kind of waiting to see the map like everybody else”
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At Recent Panel, Sports Stadium Financing Experts Warn Against Massive Public Subsidies for Cleveland Browns
“There’s zero evidence in 30 years of peer-reviewed academic research that a professional sports team in a city generates any substantial jobs, raises wages, raises income, raises property taxes”
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Cleveland Okays $2 Million to Try and End Unsheltered Homelessness by 2025
The ‘House for Every Neighbor’ program aims to “rapidly” rehouse 150 unsheltered homeless people by the end of December
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Council’s Proposed Short-Term Rental Law Could Rattle Cleveland’s Airbnb Market
Legislation would ban stays over 30 days, require hosts to acquire a license, limit the number of guests, and restrict the amount of short-term rentals in any given area/building
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Cleveland City Council Hesitantly Approves More Money to Fund Lakefront Study
While making it clear members would like to be more involved in the lakefront process
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‘These Are the Cleveland Browns’: Council Proposes Legislation Holding Browns to Art Modell Law Amid Stadium Negotiations
As the Haslams eye land in Brook Park for a dome, Cleveland City Council stakes its claim on the proceedings
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Cleveland City Council Passes Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
“They had 17 weeks to do that,” an organizer who was among those who spent months demonstrating at council said
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Rebecca Maurer Gives Impassioned Speech in Favor of Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at Cleveland City Council
The speech came hours after council president Blaine Griffin issued a statement saying the body would not consider the resolution
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Cleveland City Council Cuts Meeting Short as Protestors Once Again Call for Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
Council approved new rules for public comment before protestors overwhelmed the Chambers
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New Cleveland Curfew Laws Go Into Effect After Council Passes Stricter Penalties For Parents
“You want to have kids? Be responsible for them”
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Cleveland City Council Approves Citywide Fiber Optic Network Project, Aims to Further Bridge Digital Divide
Sifi Networks aims to fit Cleveland with a complete fiber network by 2030
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Polensek Introduces Legislation to Amp Up Penalties on Parents of Curfew-Breaking Teens as Kia and Hyundai Thefts Continue
“Parents, you have to keep an eye on your children,” County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley told Old Brooklyn residents recently