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Merwin’s Wharf has found a home on the river and been a worthwhile effort for the Metroparks — P. 3 Cost of attendance has proven to be a complex challenge for Cleveland State and MAC schools — P. 4
UH’s plan to launch Level 1 facility has led to large divide on whether move is needed By TIMOTHY MAGAW tmagaw@crain.com
Cleveland still must address many key issues as GOP convention draws closer By DAN SHINGLER and JAY MILLER dshingler@crain.com, jmiller@crain.com
niversity Hospitals’ recent announcement that it plans to launch its own Level 1 trauma center has catalyzed a communitywide debate over whether another costly center was needed, especially when Greater Cleveland has been well served — at least as the hospital’s backers see it — by MetroHealth Medical Center. On one side, the move has been warmly embraced by public officials, particularly those on the East Side of the city who felt there’s been a trauma desert of sorts since Cleveland Clinic shuttered its money-losing Huron Hospital in East Cleveland. Conversely, backers of the Northern Ohio Trauma System, or NOTS — a Clinic and MetroHealth-led regional trauma network, which UH declined to join — characterize the move as a money-driven power play. But despite that back and forth, there likely won’t be any stopping UH’s effort to
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One year, one month and 18 days until the big event. That’s when the nation’s top Republicans, the party’s next presidential candidate, a throng of celebrities and a multitude of media will descend on Cleveland for the 2016 Republican National Convention. We’re nowhere near ready — but that might be OK. The Secret Service has not yet named a lead agent who will be in charge of security, and the RNC’s Committee on Arrangements hasn’t yet named a transportation consultant who will oversee the critical people moving. The Cleveland 2016 Host Committee, which was instrumental in putting together the bid that won the city the convention last July, only named its dayto-day top executive, chief operating officer Diane Downing, on May 18, and she only has one staff member, named at the same time. By comparison, the Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee for the Democratic convention there has had its executive director in place since it won its convention in February. That director, Kevin Washo, has already hired a handful of staffers, including a deputy director, a chief of staff and a director of diversity and community engagement. But then, Philadelphia has a slight advantage. It hosted the Republicans in 2000. Cleveland last hosted a convention, also the Republicans, in 1936. On the ground here in Cleveland, however, organizers say we’re as ready as we should be — and there’s plenty of work being done, even now, to prepare for an event that local boosters hope will be the biggest thing to come to town since the NBA Finals
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trophy. Here’s a look at some of the key areas that are being — or need to be — addressed before next summer: Needless to say, an event as big as a national political convention requires a lot of money to pull off. During the past few conventions, that’s meant about $50 million that was granted by the federal governSee PREPARATIONS, page 24
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