DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson will run for a fourth term in 2017. He made the announcement Tuesday at the Jerry Sue Thornton Center, and said he had no choice but to run. “If I would have been able to find someone, or someone would have declared their interest in candidacy […]
Some of those decisions include the bailout of the auto industry and passage of health care law. President Barack Obama has indicated that he will reflect on some of the most significant decisions of his administration Tuesday during his final State of the Union Address to Congress, according to USA Today. Some of those […]
*Leave it to Jon Stewart to put a funny twist on President Obama’s State of the Union (SOTU) address. The “Daily Show” host offered up suggestions on making the speech something worth remembering while questioning why Obama would even bother with the annual address when a preview of it has already been released. “Why even […]
CLEVELAND – Mayor Frank Jackson was sworn in Monday morning in the city hall rotunda for this third term in office. Jackson pledged to concentrate on several key issues facing the city: education, economic growth and prosperity, a balanced budget, delivering quality services and improving the quality of life in neighborhoods. Jackson admitted it […]
CLEVELAND – In Frank Jackson fashion, the Cleveland mayor took the stage after winning a third term and with a self-deprecating smile told the room full of supporters, “Well, I guess it is what it is.” Jackson jumped out to an early 2-to-1 lead over challenger Ken Lanci, a margin that held up through the […]
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), who lost his congressional reelection bid to Democrat Patrick Murphy, said Friday that his recent defeat does not mean his political career is over, pointing out that Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress. During an interview with NPR, host Michel Martin asked the often outspoken congressman what he intends […]
President Obama makes a direct appeal to African-Americans to vote Democrat on Election Day, in a new commercial airing on national radio shows and on stations reaching black communities in a handful of key midterm battleground states.