Brent Larkin, retired editorial director for The Plain Dealer, looks back on 50 years of Cleveland political history to make a care for why good journalism and the truth matter.
Republicans' complicity in tossing the legacy of Abraham Lincoln onto the ash heap of history will stain them forevermore, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.
While local politicians and the Greater Cleveland Partnership are busy trying to harm both the region’s reputation and its fresh water supply, Republicans running the Ohio General Assembly have their own agenda aimed at inflicting statewide damage to the environment, writes Brent Larkin.
Everything about Jim Jordan reeks of a man willing to cast aside common decency and fairness in service of a corrupt and cruel president. He may be the most unfit man to ever represent part of Greater Cleveland in Congress, writes Brent Larkin.
More than at any time in the last 50 years, the competition to keep Sherwin-Williams in the city is one Cleveland can’t afford to lose, writes Brent Larkin.
A handful of people in Hunting Valley are doing enormous damage to their town’s reputation. What’s so surprising is the many fine people who live there who are letting them get away with it, writes Brent Larkin.
Imagine if residents of Bratenahl sought a huge property-tax rollback because they send few children to Cleveland public schools. The roars of condemnation would be deafening, writes Brent Larkin.
Dayton or Youngstown would have been better locations for a Democratic debate, since perhaps in no place in the country did things go more wrong for Democrats in 2016 than in the Mahoning Valley, writes Brent Larkin.
There’s no worse fate than being purchased by the gun lobby and its acolytes. First they rob elected officials of their dignity, then their reputations. Without ever firing a shot, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.
In every way imaginable, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is a better human being than Donald Trump. That’s precisely why he does himself and his city no favors by acting like him, writes Brent Larkin.
Columnist Brent Larkin takes Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson to task for refusing to publicly comment on the criminal cases facing his 22-year-old grandson, who lives at the mayor's home.
If Ohio’s legislators can’t do something almost everyone in the state wants done, then why are they in office? If there’s any sense justice left in our public life, 2020 voters will remember the ones so willing to put at risk the lives of their constituents’ children, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.
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