Nick Castele
Sr. Reporter/ProducerNick Castele was a senior reporter covering politics and government for Ideastream Public Media. He worked as a reporter for Ideastream from 2012-2022.
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Vendors’ still-edible leftover food will be redistributed by the Hunger Network. Food waste will go to Rid-All Green Partnership in the Kinsman neighborhood for composting.
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Mayor Justin Bibb and Cleveland City Council members showed off the first rubberized speed table – which resembles a wider, flatter speed bump – on Corlett Avenue in the Union-Miles neighborhood.
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Speaking at a news conference Tuesday on police staffing and crime statistics, Bibb said his office was looking to speed up the city’s compliance with the 2015 consent decree.
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The project, dubbed DREAM 66, would add a multi-purpose trail, a wider sidewalk, pedestrian crossings, benches and bike parking to East 66th Street.
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The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on Thursday certified that the campaign had gathered 322 valid signatures, just more than the 311 needed to force the issue. Under East Cleveland charter, King has until Aug. 18 to resign or face a recall vote.
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SEIU Local 1 held a news conference Thursday at Playhouse Square to call attention to workers’ push for better pay and benefits at the security contractor Royce-U.S. Protections Service.
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The policy would grant 60 hours of paid time off to full-time non-union city workers who have survived sexual assault, domestic violence or stalking, or who are the parents of children who have. Part-time workers would receive 30 hours.
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Under the ordinance, tenants can defend themselves against eviction proceedings in housing court by showing that they offered to pay back rent, reasonable late fees and court costs, but that the landlord refused to accept payment.
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The $10.7 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant would help Cleveland remake the street, adding a multi-purpose trail, a 6-foot-wide sidewalk, pedestrian crossings, benches, new trees and parking for bicycles and scooters.
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Initially billed as the “medical mart,” the taxpayer-funded building was meant to become a multi-story showroom for health care technology when it was completed in 2013. A tourism official this week acknowledged the building fell short of its original promise.