Leila Atassi
Cleveland City Hall Reporter at Cleveland.com
Metro columnist for https://t.co/pkb180MTxp with work also appearing in The Plain Dealer.
Articles
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5 days ago |
cleveland.com | Leila Atassi
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Imagine you’re a park ranger at Fort Monroe in Virginia, where enslaved Americans first set foot on this continent in 1619, and where 250 years later, escaped slaves found sanctuary behind Union lines during the Civil War. Your job has always been to tell visitors this complete story — the horror and the hope, the cruelty and the courage that unfolded on these very grounds.
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1 week ago |
cleveland.com | Leila Atassi
Updated: Jun. 16, 2025, 5:31 a.m.|Published: Jun.
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2 weeks ago |
cleveland.com | Leila Atassi
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- If you’ve ever worked a tipped job — or even just really listened to someone who has — you know what it’s like to balance your entire financial life on a high wire. I’ve heard the stories: the Uber driver who skips meals on slow days, the barista who can’t afford to get sick, the server who counts every dollar in the envelope before knowing if the rent will clear.
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1 month ago |
cleveland.com | Leila Atassi
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In Cleveland, childhood lead poisoning persists as an entrenched reality — a generational inheritance more reliable than any civic promise. For decades, our city has cycled through a predictable pattern: mayoral declarations of urgency, task forces assembled with fanfare, federal grants secured with optimism, and then, inevitably, the quiet dissolution of momentum as bureaucratic inertia reclaims its territory.
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1 month ago |
courant.com | Leila Atassi
By Leila Atassi, cleveland.comCLEVELAND, Ohio — In the early months of his return to the White House, President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders — each one a window into the priorities and philosophy of his second term. From immigration crackdowns to changes in federal hiring and civil rights enforcement, the orders aim to dramatically reshape domestic policy and federal oversight.
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