Friday, August 18, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
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Friday, August 18, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
There is an emerging groundswell of support for criminal justice reform and efforts to end mass incarceration in the United States. Recently, art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund donated $165 million from the sale of a rare painting to raise money for criminal justice reform.
Ohio's prison population has increased 15 percent since 2005, giving the state the
Friday, June 27, 1975, 12:00 p.m.
Congressman Louis Stokes, the first African-American Congressman in the state of Ohio, speaks on President Ford and the Democratic Congress, specifically about President Ford's large number of vetoes and the attempt to override these vetoes. Click here to listen to...
Friday, December 27, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Dorothy Fuldheim, credited with being the first woman in the United States to anchor a television news broadcast as well to host her own television show, reviews the state of the city of Cleveland for the year 1974. She has...
Friday, December 20, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
David Broder, a national political correspondent for the Washington Post, speaks on the questions of whether there is a "fatal feud" between the Government and the press, especially within the context of the Watergate incident. Broder was awarded the Pulitzer...
Friday, May 17, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Retired Admiral Gene R. La Rocque criticizes current U.S. military spending practices. Along with other retired military officers, La Rocque is a founder of the Center for Defense Information, CDI '' to analyze military matters, inform decision-makers and the public,...
Friday, May 03, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Debate: Howard Metzenbaum and John Glenn
In response to a speech by Howard Metzenbaum in Toledo in which he accused John Glenn of never holding a real job, Glenn delivered what came to be known as his 'Gold Star Mother Speech' at the City Club debate....
Friday, January 25, 1974, 12:30 p.m.
Healthcare as a Right to all Ohioans
Frank P. Celeste, Chairman of Ohio Governor John J. Gilligan's Task Force on Health Care, speaks about the work the task force is doing to make healthcare a right to all citizens rather than a privilege. Photo: Cleveland Memory Project
Friday, May 18, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Remarks from Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
"The importance of Watergate is not the bugging of telephones, it is the massive assault on the system – eliminating the field of contenders and subverting the system. If the allegations are true, then those who took part in it...
Friday, September 29, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
James C. Davis, Chairman of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association; Partner, Squire Sanders & Dempsey, and former head of the Cleveland Bar Association, speaks at the City Club about Cleveland’s outlook to remain the “best location in the nation.” Where is...
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