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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
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...
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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...
Monday, July 14, 2014
It started with a quiet announcement, that Cuyahoga county's Creative Workforce Fellowship was to be temporarily suspended, pending a review by the funder. Few noticed, until Belt Mag founder and editor-in-chief Anne Trubek started a minor ruckus online and on her Facebook wall. She eventually deleted the Facebook post, but not before generating a little...
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