It’s hard to be so arrogantly condescending that a room full of fellow politicians simply laughs at you, but former Shaker Heights Mayor Judy Rawson managed to pull that off with a flourish at a Cuyahoga County Council Planning forum on April 28. Billed as a discussion of the “role” of the new county [...]
Victorian society rewarded the landed gentry while pushing those with nothing further into the margins until they were collecting filth in the courtyard of a debtor’s prison to survive. It was all praised as ordained by God. Charles Dickens quietly fought these exploitative economic realities by creating heroes whom fate plucked from the mire [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
George Forbes has crawled out of his hole, Aunt Jemima is serving pancakes to State Senator Nina Turner, and the entire political landscape of Cuyahoga County is heading to battle stations. Who doesn’t love Issue 6! From 1973 to 1989, George Forbes was the circus act known as City Council President. And as [...]
It’s hard being Terry Egger, Plain Dealer publisher, when two of your top columnists, Phillip Morris, resident black dude, and John Petkovic, resident rocker, currently on furlough…er…..”vacation” as he put it, spend a Wednesday night fellating you over beers at the Bier Markt on W. 25thin in order to keep their jobs. Tough work. [...]
The bar was emptying of Democrats gathered for drinks in Columbus on a cold winter night. Inside was Jennifer Garrison, fresh off her first year in office as the state representative for Ohio’s 93rd District in southeast Ohio. Blonde, thin, attractive (Marietta’s very own Sarah Palin), she got the attention of a short [...]
