If you’re trying to email Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, don’t use his public account—he’d rather conduct public business via his private email: WDMason13@aol.com Last month, The Independent learned that Martin Zanotti was copying Mason on confidential documents related to the county government transition using Mason’s private America Online email. We sent in a [...]
The Cinematheque is screening a cult film festival during the Cleveland International Film Fest? Man I hate the timing of this, but I’m going to try to make it out for a couple shows nonetheless and you should do the same. Here’s the skinny: The screamingly funny 1936 anti-marijuana screed REEFER MADNESS and the 1975 [...]
24 years ago a cruel and violent murder occurred in the sleepy hollow of Berea and next month, the killer is up for a parole hearing. The family needs your help to keep him locked away. There was never much doubt about how things played out that day in 1986 when 13-year-old Robyn Field [...]
Bill Mason, Parma councilman Tom Regas, and assistant county prosecutor Reno Oradini go way back. As Mason was appointed to higher office by his side of the Democratic machine, Regas and Oradini road his coattails into positions of power of their own. But soon, Mason will be hard-pressed to find a good wingman on his [...]
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I am beginning to like Marty Zanotti. I’m serious. Here’s why. The dude calls me on my private cell phone to chat. How he got the number, I don’t know. It’s part of the Zanotti mystique. He wants to know why I’m gunning for him. I explain the [...]
What a way to start the week! Reno Oradini just got busted for drunk driving, according to the Plain Dealer. This could not have happened to a better person. Who is Reno Oradini? Reno Oradini is a childhood chum of Billy Mason. He’s an assistant county prosecutor. But more important, he’s the stooge who’s responsible [...]
That was fast! After watching his beloved restaurant burn to the ground in December, George Dixon has re-opened The Lancer in a temporary space. 7804 Carnegie, across the street from the original site. Dixon invited Ohio Secretary of State and US Senate candidate Jennifer Brunner for the grand re-opening, drawing the typical Lancer crowd – [...]
Bill Mason’s office has just officially become more powerful than the office of the Ohio Attorney General. The Independent has filed multiple public records requests to view Bill Mason’s text messages (Mason is sly enough not to leave a paper trail of emails to be requested) but Mason’s team says, “No-ho, muchacho.” As you may [...]
Amidst all the dreary news about Marty Zanotti & Co’s ongoing silent coup, perhaps you missed the bit of good news in local politics that occurred on the East Side last week: Bill O’Neill announced his candidacy for Congress, setting up a Fall rematch with blowhole/philanderer/Al Borland look-alike Steven LaTourette. O’Neill is a Vietnam [...]
Chris Ronayne, president of University Circle Inc., to the tune of $185,000 per year, was a co-chair of the Issue 6 campaign last November, whose passage created a county council seat which pays $45,000 a year, to which Ronayne seeks election, while still working for UCI full time, collecting both salaries, representing a district which [...]
