Nick Castele

2 weeks ago | signalcleveland.org | Nick Castele

Three Cleveland City Council members want to streamline how council spends casino tax money on neighborhood projects. Council members have long complained that the money moves too slowly and the process for spending it is hard to understand. They introduced legislation Monday spelling out what members would be allowed to spend the money on. The new rules are also aimed at getting smaller amounts from the city coffers to neighborhood groups faster.

2 weeks ago | signalcleveland.org | Nick Castele

The I-X Center as Clevelanders know it could be going away, but a new industrial business might move into the massive warehouse that was long home to the I-X Indoor Amusement Park and countless boat, auto and garden shows. A representative of the center’s operator and a city official said that a major company is considering the site next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport for a new facility supporting more than 200 jobs and $23 million in payroll.

2 weeks ago | signalcleveland.org | Nick Castele

The arguing over the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s downtown patrol appears to have died down since last month. But work has been happening behind the scenes. In April, County Council introduced legislation to freeze the patrol’s funding after deputies pursued a suspect who then crashed his car into another motorist, killing both drivers. County Executive Chris Ronayne, Mayor Justin Bibb and City Council members defended the patrol’s work downtown.

2 weeks ago | signalcleveland.org | Nick Castele

Cleveland’s years-long lawsuit against a Shaker Square-area landlord is set to go to trial in August. City Hall says a set of apartment towers along Shaker Boulevard are in such bad shape — with heating systems in “chronic disrepair,” poor trash pickup and security problems — that Cleveland Housing Court should declare them a public nuisance. The city wants the court to appoint a receiver to take control of the properties.

2 weeks ago | signalcleveland.org | Nick Castele

A jury found East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King guilty of theft in office and other crimes on Thursday, toppling another mayor in a city that has spent the last dozen years in fiscal crisis. Cuyahoga County prosecutors told the jury that King improperly mixed his city work with businesses that he and his relatives owned. The jury acquitted King of two of the 12 counts he faced, finding him not guilty of a felony theft charge and a misdemeanor.