Cleveland
The Rise of the Bedroom Counters
Plus: The results of rent control are in, California's tiny home program gets minimal results, and yet another city eyes a crackdown on short-term rentals.
Murder Rates Are Plummeting. What Should We Make of It?
In data from over 200 cities, homicides are down a little over 19 percent when compared to a similar time frame in 2023.
Cleveland Votes for More Police Oversight, While Minneapolis Rejects Abolishing, Replacing Cops
The obvious lesson is that, yes, people want reform and better police conduct, not necessarily broad, vague plans to replace them.
Cops Who Assaulted and Arrested a Man for Standing Outside His Own House Got Qualified Immunity. SCOTUS Won't Hear the Case.
The Supreme Court delivers another blow to a victim of egregious police abuse.
Can Laundry and Lettuce Save Cleveland?
A worker-owned co-op that even a capitalist could love is washing linens for the Cleveland Clinic and growing vegetables for the city.
The Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Found a Police Chief Willing to Hire Him
It's hard to get rid of bad cops, especially when there are leaders willing to excuse deadly incompetence as an innocent mistake.
Police Union Appeals Firing of Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice
The officer was terminated for lying on his job application two years after killing the 12-year-old Rice.
Cleveland Will Be Paying for Renovations to King James' Castle Until 2034
Long after Lebron James and the 2016 NBA championship are a distant memory.
The System Really Is Rigged: City Officials Bend Booze, Ridesharing Rules During DNC, RNC
City-goers can enjoy 4 a.m. last-calls and Uber-X-a-plenty this week in Philly. So why not always?
Philadelphia's DNC Protests Expect to be Bigger, Angrier than Cleveland's RNC Protests
Cleveland's protesters were confined to "protest zones" miles away, Philadelphia will have fewer restrictions and more disenfranchised demonstrators.
The Cleveland Police Union's Worrying Contempt for the Second Amendment
A governor cannot and should not simply suspend laws.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Gets Political with RNC in Cleveland
Censorship, war, race, gender, sexuality, police brutality all covered in sweeping new exhibit "Louder Than Words: Rock, Power, and Politics."
Don King Likes Libertarianism, Can't Explain Why. He Also Says He Was Asked to Speak at RNC Tonight But Refused
In a Reason interview, the Trump-supporting boxing promoter declares his love of liberty and then throws a lot of randomly placed words together.
Scenes from the Ground in Cleveland After 2 Days of the RNC
Police presence is overwhelming, protests remain small and manageable, and quite a few people think the end of the world is nigh.
The Shockingly Peaceful Streets of Cleveland During the RNC
Protests are small and muted, police are mostly patient and polite.
The State of Cleveland's RNC Security State
Protest zones, weaponry, federally-funded riot gear, miles of fencing...democracy in action!
Cleveland Police Union President: Suspend Open-Carry, Obama Has 'Blood on His Hands'
Doesn't care if suspending open-carry is constitutional; fortunately Gov. Kasich does.
Cleveland Takes Out $50 Million "Protest Insurance" Policy For RNC
Citing increased risk of hosting GOP convention, city adds five times the insurance.
Trump Fans, Progressives, and Homeless Advocates Unite to Sue the City of Cleveland
Rules related to the upcoming Republican National Convention "have an absurdly wide reach and cannot be justified in any rational way," states their lawsuit.
Is the $15 Minimum Wage Coming to Cleveland?
The city is considering a bill backed by a union PAC.
Settlements in Tamir Rice, Zachary Hammond Cases Illustrate Elusiveness of Police Accountability
Police departments and cities admit no fault for the killings in such agreements.
Police Misconduct Led to a Federal Monitor in Cleveland, Which Will Host July's GOP Convention
The same PD that led city to accept a federal consent decree will be responsible for keeping peace at Republican convention.
Cleveland Preps For GOP Convention by Ordering 2,000 Sets of Riot Gear
City's police union chief says Republican conventions tend to be violent.
First U.S. Uterus Transplant - Bioethicists Wring Hands
Why should not men be eligible for uterine transplants?
Six Cleveland Officers Involved in 2012 Car Chase That Ended With 136 Shots Fired Have Been Terminated
Unclear whether the only officer involved in the chase who was criminally charged was among those fired
Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice Claims Toy Pistol Was 'in His Hands'
Video of the shooting does not seem to support Timothy Loehmann's account.
Shots in the Park
Two use-of-force experts call the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice "objectively unreasonable."
Why Do So Many Bad Cops Get Off Easy?
Lack of accountability is a recipe for official lawlessness.
Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo Shoots Through Windshield at Unarmed Couple 15 Times: Found Not Guilty
Couldn't Prove Brelo's Specific Bullets Killed Them, Judge Decides
Man Who Helped Rescue Kidnapped Cleveland Women Gets Book Deal
Will be published in the spring
63 Police Suspended over Deadly Cleveland Police Chase
Officers fired 137 shots and killed two
Kid Cleveland Cavaliers Fan Asks Kyrie Irving: Are You Going to Leave Us Like LeBron Did?
LeBron James announced he was leaving in a one-hour ESPN special
