Friday, April 10, 2020
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Friday, April 10, 2020
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Loretta J. Mester took office on June 1, 2014, as the 11th president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Dr. Mester began her career as an economist at the Philadelphia Fed in 1985, and has been attending meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee since 2000, when she was named senior vice president and director of...
Friday, April 23, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Paving the Way for Downtown's Future
Joe Marinucci will retire from the Downtown Cleveland Alliance (DCA) at the end of April, after serving as President and CEO since its inception 16 years ago. Created in 2006, DCA manages services within a district that stretches from the...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Breaking the Silence: A New Tradition of Public Comment in Cleveland?
The lack of public comment at Cleveland City Council meetings has been a source of resident anger and frustration for decades. Except for a brief time in the 1920s and 1930s when the city was under a city manager form...
Friday, April 16, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Missing from History: Black Suffragists and the Right to Vote
Last year, the United States commemorated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Women and men of all races, ethnicities, and identities fought for—and against—women’s right to vote. The national movement that led to the women's right...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
A La Calle: People, Protest, and the Road to Restoring Democracy in Venezuela
The crisis in Venezuela has been making headlines for years. As violence erupts in the streets, people without food, water, or electricity have been fleeing the country in droves. Unsustainable economic practices compounded by Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian reign has created...
Friday, April 09, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
The Forum of Football: Browns Alumni’s Platform for Social Equality
Cleveland Browns' teammates Andrew Hawkins and Joe Thomas are co-hosts of the popular The ThomaHawk Show podcast in addition to their current roles with NFL Media. An undrafted wide receiver out of Toledo, Hawkins started his professional football career with the...
Tuesday, April 06, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
In America and other Western democracies, older industrial communities are in a painful process of economic transition. These geographic regions were once economic powerhouses, but have experienced a decline in manufacturing, and a subsequent decline in local economies, property taxes,...
Friday, April 02, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Democrats Divided? The Future of the Democratic Party
For the first time in more than a decade, the Democrats control the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Their majorities in congress are exceptionally slim, requiring them to govern and legislate with unity—which they don’t always...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Learning Disrupted?: The Future of K-12 Education after a Pandemic
This March, many Ohio students will return to the classroom for the first time in a year, after schools first shut down because of COVID-19 last spring. Teachers, administrators and parents have worked tirelessly to educate these students, but most...
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