The Cleveland Consent Decree: A Progress Report
With a settlement reached between the City of Cleveland and the Department of Justice and an independent monitor agreed on at the beginning of this month ...
Stop Being So Angry About Tamir Rice, Says Paper of Record. And Please Sit, Quietly
In an Editorial Board op-ed published in the Friday, October 16 edition of Cleveland's main newspaper readers are instructed to be "patient" with the Tamir Rice case.
From River Bottom to Topsoil: Recycling Cuyahoga River Sediment in Slavic Village
Each year, tributaries flowing into Lake Erie carry millions of cubic yards of sediment to the river mouths. On the Maumee, Cuyahoga, and Grand rivers and others, sand and clay particles travel downstream ...
A Short Way to Hell: In Sauget, Illinois, Poisons Mean Profit
On a map, the town of Sauget, Illinois, is in the middle of the country. But see it firsthand and it could be the edge of the world.
Tied Together — And Torn Apart — By Parkways
Two months after moving to Buffalo, I found myself spinning my wheels. My car tires whined, getting no traction in the already-packed November snow.
Environmental Peril Or Economic Promise? What’s At Stake In The Debate Over West Virginia’s Wilderness
The Monongahela National Forest comprises 917,000 acres of protected land in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia. Within its borders are the headwaters of six rivers ...
The Mess of Academic Distress: Are Charters in the Future for Youngstown City Schools?
Last November, Michele Lepore-Hagan was undergoing new member orientation in the Ohio House. Lepore-Hagan, like many elected officials from the Youngstown area ...
The Sacred and the Profane in Pittsburgh
There is an entirely unremarkable looking brown-bricked, double-spired chapel in a steep neighborhood on the North Side of Pittsburgh.
Cheese, Please: How Did Pizza Become One of Windsor, Ontario’s Hottest Exports?
Windsor, Ontario — directly across the river from Detroit — has had its share of hard times. For most of the twentieth century, the city was one of the hubs of Canada’s automotive industry ...
Reflections On A Cleveland Debate
Prior to the start of last Thursday’s Republican presidential debate, there was a part of me that hoped someone would get hit with a folding chair.
Ten Words Urbanists Should Stop Using; Or, the Unliveable, Unmade Place of City Planners
As an editor whose work intersects with that of urbanists, I am often required to clarify prose for readers. And let me tell you this plain: clarifying the words urbanists use is a lot of work.
As Goes Ohio: Why the Buckeye State Remains the Key to the Presidency
There are certain places every politician with national ambitions wants to be seen. Iowa in January. Martha’s Vineyard in the summer. And Ohio, in the autumn of a presidential campaign.