Brunner has issued subpoenas to people linked to LetOhioVote to determine who made six contributions totaling $1.5 million and whether those contributions violated a state law. Full story »

Brent Larkin says Burke Lakefront Airport needs a new vision.. Full story »

The four of them have represented the city of Cleveland in elected office for a combined 106 years, 98 of them as members of City Council. As a group, they have lived in the city for two centuries. One needn't be fans of Councilmen Michael Polensek, Ken Johnson, Jay Westbrook and Jeff Johnson to appreciate that these four have... Full story »

The voters may have spoken, but Brent Larkin says you won't be going to a gambling casino in downtown Cleveland anytime soon. Full story »

Three times voters have been asked to approve the use of public money to finance passenger rail in Ohio. Three times -- in 1975, 1976 and 1982 -- Ohioans have decisively rejected those requests, twice by breathtaking margins. In 1982, a proposal to build a high-speed rail system was defeated, 2,420,593 to 775,605. And there isn't the slightest doubt... Full story »

When his family moved to Cleveland from Illinois in 1864, young Frederick Goff traveled in a railroad boxcar to keep watch over the family's prized possession -- its horse. Fifty years later, as president of the Cleveland Trust Co., Goff had a great many possessions. And he had a dream to use them, and those of his wealthy friends, in... Full story »

John Kasich is on a roll. First of all, a poll taken Jan. 12 shows the presumptive Republican nominee for governor with a lead of 7 percentage points over Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland. Secondly, Kasich's choice of State Auditor Mary Taylor as his running mate was a masterstroke. Because governors get too much credit in good economic times and... Full story »

Those who champion prodigious in vestments in Greater Cleveland's at-risk children as the most effective way to reverse this community's decline have some powerful new allies: Facts. New results from the most ambitious early childhood pilot program ever undertaken in Cuyahoga County leave no doubt that quality early education targeting 3- and 4-year-olds can begin to change young lives and... Full story »

Anyone spending more than three minutes in a room with Judges Diane Grendell, Colleen O'Toole and Mary Jane Trapp would have no trouble figuring out which of the three is by far the most talented. But that gigantic talent gap hasn't stopped Grendell, and to a lesser extent O'Toole, from using their lofty positions to behave like petty ward... Full story »

Ben Steele might not be the most famous graduate of the prestigious Cleveland Institute of Art, but he may well be the most courageous. There are precious few living survivors of one of the most unspeakably cruel episodes in the history of modern warfare -- the Bataan Death March. Steele, 92, is one of them. And each and every... Full story »

Cuyahoga County Probate Court Judge Anthony Russo knew what was coming. As he meddled with the selection process for a new boss of the Metroparks, he could almost hear the whispers. Things like, "It runs in the family." Or, "This is all about steering contracts to his cronies." As the brother of county Auditor Frank Russo, a central target... Full story »

This is hardly a Michael Bloomberg type of town. Unless you count what happened 108 years ago, Greater Cleveland has never been a very receptive place for those seeking to make the transition from business to elected office. Some Cleveland-area business leaders hope that will change next year, when voters choose Cuyahoga County's first elected administrator. But that change... Full story »

Just because the Ohio Constitution now says there can be four casinos doesn't mean there will be. Voters had every right to think passage of State Issue 3 on Nov. 3 made it a certainty that downtown Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo would soon be homes to glitzy new casinos. But barely 24 hours after the votes were counted, the... Full story »

A bill pending in the Ohio Senate promises to provide upwards of $60 million annually to those charities -- at no cost to taxpayers. Full story »

Prominent Cleveland-area Democrats obsessed with defeating county government reform in Tuesday's election blundered so badly that they played an instrumental role in its passage. The seminal moment of this historic campaign came July 16, when County Commissioners Tim Hagan and Peter Lawson Jones voted to place on the ballot what became Issue 5 -- the proposal of a charter... Full story »