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Friday, August 15, 2014
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Ralph String started collecting political memorabilia when he was eight years old. His parents brought him home a few Alf Landon buttons from the last national political convention in Cleveland: the 1936 Republican National Convention held at the Public Auditorium. Nine hundred items and 41 years later, he donated The Cleveland City Club Collection, which...
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The City Club of Cleveland welcomed panelists from Cleveland State University and Cleveland Metropolitan School District on August 7th, 2014. Taylor Watson, Michael Sterritt, La-Shaune Gullatt, Anne Galletta, Ph.D., Jayme Thomas, and Carly Evans all displayed their work on analyzing the causes of underachievement in their district through a survey of 9th grade students. Their...
Friday, August 08, 2014
Amy Hanauer Prepared Remarks City Club of Cleveland, July 25, 2014 Note: Citations are hyperlinked to the original source. When theme in paragraph remains the same, readers can assume it is the same source as the first link. Thanks Paul. I just wanted to start by saying that if you’re ever looking for someone to...
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Ok, friends, it’s time for a little game we like to call “Name the speaker.” We’ve got two speakers from the last two weeks. Chances are you didn’t see both. On July 18, Rebpublican Senator Rob Portman addressed an audience heavily weighted to the political right. The following week, think tank founder Amy Hanauer of Policy...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
It is no secret that Cleveland was hit hard by the foreclosure crisis. Subprime/predatory lending, robo-signing, foreclosures themselves, and a rise in vacant and abandoned properties made an example out of Cleveland. All this, coupled with Cleveland’s existing population issues, ensured that our city became a blatantly visible victim of the meltdown. Though the problem...
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Think back to the summer you were 16. What was on your mind? How best to spend your school-free months? Holding down a summer job? How about how to change your community for the better? This summer, the Cleveland Council on World Affairs (CCWA) is hosting a youth delegation from Iraq through the US Department...
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