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1037pm Uh-oh. Gap widened---and with 84% of Cuyahoga precincts reporting: Shontel Brown 33,592 50.5% Nina Turner 29,430 44.2 Jeff Johnson 1,208 1.8

1024pm update. Gap closing further: Shontel Brown 29,847 49.8% Nina Turner 26,812 44.7 Jeff Johnson 1,152 1.9 Total reported 59,963

More about our famous men's roller derby team! "Earlier in the week, it appeared that the baseball team and the roller derby team were coming to some sort of agreement, or were in talks, as both remained pretty mum on the subject. However, the MLB team filed a trademark application on July 23rd, and the roller derby team followed suit on the 27th. It goes deeper than that, as the baseball team filed a trademark in April in Mauritius, which it will claim gives it priority...." https://deadspin.com/all-they-had-to-do-was-check-clevelandguardians-com-and-1847403859

^Yes---this election is not seen as a simple primary in Cleveland, but an indicator for the future of the Dem party. In other news, Jeff Johnson is coming in a distant 3rd. With felony convictions he can (and did) run in CLE municipal elections, but I thought he was barred from holding federal office like OH-11. Or is that he can run, but just not serve?

952p--gap closing: Shontel Brown 25,494 50.4% Nina Turner 22,167 43.8 Jeff Johnson 1,052 2.1 Total reported 50,561

All of Summit has reported. For Cuyahoga, you can't see the results by precinct, but you can see which have been counted so far. Go here: https://www.livevoterturnout.com/cuyoh/LiveResults/en/Index_15.html and then on the top row, click "Precincts Reporting". As of this moment (950pm) on the site:

The GOP primary has been called for Laverne (not that it matters).

940pm--Overall, Shontel is ahead at 51% vs. 43% for Nina, but only 32% of cuyahoga is counted. All of Summit is counted. Within Summit County precincts, Nina was the leader with 3211 votes to Shontel's 3157 votes.

For those interested in the other side--as of 755pm Laverne Gore 1,626 77.9% Felicia Washington Ross 461 22.1 Total reported 2,087

With 22,473 votes counted so far--747pm Candidate Votes Pct. Shontel Brown 12,585 56.0% Nina Turner 8,112 36.1 Jeff Johnson 718 3.2 John Barnes 377 1.7 Seth Corey 217 1.0 Shirley Smith 192 0.9 Pamela Pinkney 85 0.4 Will Knight 41 0.2 Martin Alexander 40 0.2 James Bell 38 0.2 Tariq Shabazz 32 0.1 Isaac Powell 21 0.1 Lateek Shabazz 15 0.1 (that's with less than 1% in Cuyahoga and only 6% in Summit county reporting)

There were about 28,000 early votes cast for the OH-11 race.

Where's the money coming from for each of the candidates? New Campaign Finance Reports Show Whose Money is Backing Cleveland Mayoral Candidates "Cleveland Councilman Basheer Jones raised nearly $400,000 in the first half of 2021 in his bid to become Mayor of Cleveland, while attorney Ross DiBello brought in only $5,600. City Council President Kevin Kelley spent more, and has more on hand, than any of his six opponents, and Dennis Kucinich, who's considered by many to be the race's frontrunner, has spent less than everyone but DiBello...." https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2021/08/02/new-campaign-finance-reports-show-whose-money-is-backing-cleveland-mayoral-candidates

Wow---I thought there were only TWO people running in the Dem primary, Nina and Shontel. There are actually 13 people! Polls close in 40 minutes (7:30). Nina Turner—— Shontel Brown—— Martin Alexander—— John Barnes—— James Bell—— Seth Corey—— Jeff Johnson—— Will Knight—— Pamela Pinkney—— Isaac Powell—— Lateek Shabazz—— Tariq Shabazz—— Shirley Smith——

Broadband is allowed as its stimulates growth but more so as it is directly tied to covid in terms of people being able to work remotely and kids being able to go to school remotely.

I wholeheartedly agree that the downtown subway plan under huron/euclid/e.22 should be built. This would be a very different city if we had that. But I don't think the $511 Million can be used for that--nor for potholes, streets, or other stuff like that. It's supposed to be related to covid. putting in broadband IS ALLOWED. THAT is what the money should be used for. Then build the subway with the $1 trillion infrastructure funds!

what city is that?

Why are you torturing us? Also--that last image at night is beautiful!

"among the city's tallest" yeah, that's just lazy journalism. But the "biz journals" is owned by Advance isn't it, which destroyed the Plain Dealer, and once very respected paper across the country? So I wouldn't take anything they say too seriously. I had only responded above to say that the Vietnamese restaurant is indeed open so they don't lose even more business (the pandemic) due to bad signage and bad journalism propagating that bad signage.

Cool, thank you! Excellent work, as always! Is that the view from the north, looking south?

This isn't new--from 2016--but I just discovered it, so thought I'd share. For the "World Film Locations" series out of Univ of Chicago Press, there is Singapore, Paris, Barcelona, Sydney, etc. and includes ten US cities--and Cleveland is one of them. The others are LA, NY, Chicago, SF, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Washington, and Boston. CLE: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo25031277.html Full list of cities: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/IB-WFL.html "The prototypical rust belt city, Cleveland has long served as an emblem of late twentieth-century urban decay. But recent decades have brought a cultural and economic renaissance—a revival that has been reflected and aided by the growing number of films being shot on location there. This new entry in the World Film Locations series offers the first-ever extended look at Cleveland on screen. Richly illustrated with images from dozens of productions, it reveals Cleveland to be usefully chameleonic, appealing to some filmmakers for its modern downtown’s ability to mimic more prominent (and more expensive) cities, to others for the way its shuttered factories and decaying docks signify contemporary urban distress. With entries on such classics as The Fortune Cookie, The Deer Hunter, A Christmas Story, and Marvel’s The Avengers, as well as lesser-known films, the volume reveals Cleveland to be a far more compelling, and far more varied, on-screen presence than even most film buffs would expect...."

I agree with this as there is big gap from the innerbelt to the clinic. But what about one that shows only E. 86 to E. 123 or so---so Cleveland Clinic--University Circle--Little Italy?

They can operate however they want; companies use DBA's all the time. But legally the corporation is now CLEVELAND GUARDIANS BASEBALL COMPANY, INC. The link above is the filing with the Ohio Sec of State.

And today in Newsweek: Hillary Clinton-endorsed Candidate Shontel Brown Faces Potential Ethics Probe "With a week to go before the special primary election for Ohio's 11th Congressional District, Democratic candidate Shontel Brown may be in hot water. In April, The Intercept reported that Brown, a Cuyahoga County Councilmember, had voted to award millions worth of contracts to companies connected to her romantic partner and campaign donors. Emails reviewed by The Daily Poster show that the Ohio state auditor's office reviewed the allegations in the article and recently referred the matter to the state ethics commission...." https://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-endorsed-candidate-shontel-brown-faces-potential-ethics-probe-1613460

The Nina Turner vs. Shontel Brown is a pretty significant race. Both Dems in a solid Dem district. Per the NYT: "...On Aug. 3, the voters of Ohio’s 11th District will render that judgment and with it, some indication of the direction the Democratic Party is heading: toward the defiant and progressive approach Ms. Turner embodies or the reserved mold of its leaders in Washington [[in Shontel Brown]], shaped more by the establishment than the ferment stirring its grass roots.... That suggests leaders understand that the outcome of the race will be read as a signal about the party’s future." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/us/politics/the-race-for-an-ohio-house-seat-illustrates-divisions-in-the-democratic-party.html [cross-posted in The Democratic Party thread.]

and just wait til the wisdom come up!