The City Club of Cleveland Podcast

Jeremy Johnson is President and CEO of Assembly for the Arts, the umbrella organization that advocates for, and unites, Greater Cleveland's complex creative sector. A mix of diverse nonprofits, individual artists, and creative businesses comprise the region's arts and culture industry. In the coming months, the Assembly will endeavor to motivate Cuyahoga County voters to, once again, pass a tobacco levy in support of arts and culture nonprofits.\r\n\r\nJoin us at the City Club as Rhonda K. Brown, the City of Cleveland's Senior Strategist for Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy, will lead a discussion with Johnson about the opportunities and challenges for Greater Cleveland's future economic and cultural growth.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, it sent the issue of legalizing abortion back to the states. After the court's decision, Ohio enacted a near-total ban on abortion--which remained legal for a little over two months until a Hamilton County judge placed the law on hold due to a lawsuit from the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. Currently, abortion is legal in Ohio before 22 weeks of pregnancy. With Issue 1, abortion proponents hope to enshrine the right to abortion in the state's constitution.\r\n\r\nIf passed, Issue 1 would allow a patient to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions, including decisions about abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care, and continuing pregnancy." It would still allow the state to restrict abortion after fetal viability, except when "necessary to protect the pregnant patient's life or health. Opponents to Issue 1 argue the amendment would increase access to abortions, remove parental rights, allow gender affirming care for minors.

Black philanthropy is ever present, vibrant, and is deeper than just charitable acts of kindness or dollars. In 2019, The Soul of Philanthropy Cleveland (TSOPCLE) vividly displayed the power of African American philanthropy, and centered Cleveland's Black community in a national conversation on humanity, giving back, and transformational change. Ever since, Cleveland has been Celebrating Those Who Give Black and challenging the narrative of Black Cleveland as beneficiaries of philanthropy versus benefactors.\r\n\r\nThe movement catalyzed by TSOPCLE, inspired the establishment of the Cleveland Black Equity and Humanity Fund to support and facilitate investment in causes and issues that promote and support Black-led social and economic change throughout northeast Ohio. How can the intersection of humanity, equity, and giving black help further bolster equitable outcomes and opportunities for Cleveland's Black community?\r\n\r\nJoin us for a conversation with Cleveland\'s Mayor Justin Bibb and Connie Hill-Johnson, Board Chairperson of The Cleveland Foundation. This forum is presented by the Cleveland Black Equity and Humanity Fund powered by The Soul of Philanthropy Cleveland.

The war in Ukraine is the kind of crisis that clarifies the importance of things that might otherwise be taken for granted: The ability of a sovereign nation to determine its own future, or that a rules-based international order is something that benefits all nations. The war has also made exceptionally clear the interdependence of economies and societies around the world. While Ukrainians suffered missile strikes and indiscriminate attacks, within days of the onset of Russian aggression, nations reliant on Ukrainian food production felt those supply chains contract. Similarly, nations reliant on Russian oil began to question the viability and wisdom of those trade relationships.\r\n\r\nThroughout this last year, the United States Department of State has been the Biden administration\'s primary resource to lead Western democracies in providing military and humanitarian support to the people of Ukraine. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has been key to those efforts, meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this month in Kyiv.\r\n\r\nAs we approach one year since the beginning of Russia\'s war on Ukraine, we invite you to join us for a conversation with Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman about the work of the State Department and the stakes for the American people and for the project of democracy.

Going into the 2022 season of Cleveland Baseball, you could say things felt different. League-wide, the pandemic was still weighing on the MLB, and a lockout delayed the start of the season. Things looked different, too. Here in Cleveland, the team took the field for the first time with fresh gear and a new name as the Cleveland Guardians. And with an average age of about 26 years old, the Guardians were the youngest team in both the Major Leagues and AAA.\r\n\r\nIn the beginning, many sports analysts wrote the Guardians off. It was to be another rebuilding year, they said. But in the end, the Guards would finish with a 92-win season, a division title, barely knocked out of the playoffs by the Yankees. Sports Illustrated credited the team with creating a new brand of baseball, and Terry Francona would take home his third MLB Manager of the Year Award.\r\n\r\nAnd Clevelanders happily took all of this in to the tune of the Spongebob Squarepants theme song.\r\n\r\nWhile this unforgettable 2022 season has ended, what is next in this era of the Guardians? And what does it mean for the City of Cleveland? Join the City Club as we hear straight from team leadership Paul Dolan, Chris Antonetti, and Terry Francona in a conversation led by Andre Knott with Bally Sports and Fox 8 News.

When she appeared at The Texas Tribune Festival in late September, Liz Cheney was unequivocal: "I certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn\'t anywhere close to the Oval Office," she told the closing night audience. If the 45th President is nominated by the GOP, she\'ll leave the party, the lifelong Republican added.\r\n\r\nThough a handful of other Republican congressional representatives, including Ohio\'s Anthony Gonzalez, have stood apart from party leaders and GOP orthodoxy in opposing Donald Trump and the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him, none has been more recognizable for doing so and more vocal Congresswoman Liz Cheney. A vice chair of the House January 6 Committee, and one of just two Republicans serving there, Cheney lost the recent primary in Wyoming to a Trump-endorsed attorney who has embraced election falsehoods.\r\n\r\nAs Cheney prepares for life after Congress, she will join the City Club in conversation with Judy Woodruff, Anchor at PBS NewsHour, to offer her thoughts on the state of the nation and the future of the republic.

In the wake of major legislation - the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act - the Biden-Harris Administration is now implementing major public investments across a range of sectors from clean energy to semiconductors to broadband. This work is key to executing on the Administration's modern American industrial strategy, which aims to strengthen supply chains, rebuild the domestic industrial base, and create good jobs across the country.\r\n\r\nBrian Deese serves as the Director of the White House National Economic Council, advising President Biden on domestic and international economic policy. In this role, Deese has been a principal architect of the President's economic agenda, including the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPs and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. Prior to his role, Deese was a Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, and was instrumental both in engineering the rescue of the U.S. auto industry in 2009 and in negotiating the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. During the Obama-Biden Administration, Deese also served as Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council.

Since 1947, NBC\'s \"Meet the Press\" has provided its viewers with critical analysis on politics from the nation\'s top thinkers and incisive interviews with political leaders from across the political spectrum. Since 2014, Chuck Todd has hosted the show hailed as the longest-running show on American television.\r\n\r\nWith just over one month before election day, Ohio is garnering the kind of attention that suggests it may still be a swing state. A recent NBC News poll suggests 64% of voters say they have high interest in the upcoming midterm elections, an all-time high for a non-presidential year, and the most recent statewide poll puts the senate race at a dead heat.\r\n\r\nChuck Todd has been working in political journalism for 30 years. In 2007, he was brought to NBC by Tim Russert, who then hosted \"Meet the Press.\" As a journalist, political analyst, anchor, and moderator, he has had a ringside seat from the Clinton era to today.\r\n\r\nJoin the City Club for breakfast with Chuck Todd as we traverse the political landscape of the state and the nation.

The City Club of Cleveland is pleased to host the annual State of the City Address. This free public event will be held in Silver Hall, at the Maltz Performing Arts Center on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.\r\n\r\nMayor Justin M. Bibb will speak to the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office, the progress of the economic recovery underway, and his vision for the city.

Extensive research has shown the powerful impact of effective family-school partnerships on students, parents, teachers, and schools. In fact, Dr. Mapp joined the City Club in 2017 to talk about the importance of community supported education.\r\n\r\nNow, Dr. Mapp is back to discuss what we have learned from the COVID-19 crisis and the national racial reckoning about the critical role of home-school partnerships to support student success and school improvement. She will also introduce the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships (Version 2)-a compass that lays out the goals and conditions necessary to chart a path toward effective family engagement efforts that are linked to student achievement and school improvement.\r\n\r\nDr. Mapp is the co-author of several books, and from 2011 to 2013, Dr. Mapp served as a consultant to the United States Department of Education in the Office of Innovation and Improvement. She will be joined by Habeebah R. Grimes, CEO at Positive Education Program; and Gina Garrett, Family Program Manager at Open Doors Academy.