The City Club of Cleveland Podcast

Over the last few years, city mayors and leaders across the United States have been investing in technological solutions to address their residents' most pressing needs, everything from public health and safety to smart mobility to expanded internet access. Two distinguished scholars and recipients of the prestigious Marconi Prize discuss legacy and emerging technologies and how they can be used to help build an inclusive 21st century city.\r\n\r\nThis forum is sponsored by The Cleveland Foundation. Support for City Club Virtual Forums is provided by The Cleveland Foundation, Bank of America, The George Gund Foundation, KeyBank, PNC, Eaton, Nordson Corporation and the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District.

For nearly 25 years, Ohio lawmakers have been working on a plan to overhaul the way the state\'s public schools are funded. In early November, Senator Peggy Lehner (R-Kettering) and Senator Vernon Sykes (D-Akron) introduced the bipartisan Fair School Funding Plan (Senate Bill 376), a companion bill to the previously introduced House Bill 305. The plan aims to keep local tax dollars in school districts by directly funding public, private, and charter students where they are educated. The panel explains.\r\n\r\nThis forum is the Berneice Kerrigan Smith Forum on Education. It is part of the City Club of Cleveland Education Innovation Series sponsored by PNC and Nordson Corporation, with additional support from the Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation. Support for City Club Virtual Forums is provided by the Cleveland Foundation, Bank of America, The George Gund Foundation, KeyBank, PNC, Eaton, Nordson Corporation and the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District.\r\n\r\n

There is no institution more critical in the fight for racial equity than education. Yet, our education system remains subject to the very ailments that perpetuate structures of inequity and exclusion. Recently, the Ohio State Board of Education passed a resolution to "condemn racism and advance equity and opportunity for Black students, Indigenous students, and students of color." Statewide leaders discuss the resolution and the new efforts in place to chart a path towards equity for all Ohio students.\r\n\r\nThis forum is part of the City Club's Education Innovation series sponsored by PNC and Nordson Corporation, with additional support from the Char and Chuck Fowler Foundation. Support for City Club Virtual Forums is provided by The Cleveland Foundation, Bank of America, The George Gund Foundation, KeyBank, PNC, Eaton, Nordson Corporation and the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. Production and distribution of City Club forums in partnership with ideastream is generously provided by PNC and the United Black Fund.

Today, Ohio has 32 percent fewer newspapers than it did in 2004, making it harder for local readers to find out what\'s happening around them. As journalism and mainstream media continue to change, how are hyperlocal startups faring? What opportunities and challenges are they facing? Join us to hear from the leadership of four efforts as they share their aspirations and contributions to Greater Cleveland\'s changing media landscape\r\n\r\nThis forum is the Annual WCLV Forum Endowed by Robert and Jean Conrad. The Cleveland Foundation sponsored this forum as part of our Reimagining Journalism series. Support for City Club Virtual Forums is provided by The Cleveland Foundation, Bank of America, The George Gund Foundation, KeyBank, PNC, Eaton, Nordson Corporation and the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. Production and distribution of City Club forums in partnership with ideastream is generously provided by PNC and the United Black Fund.

In September, we launched a new video series called Democracy Unchained. The series is part of the State of American Democracy Project aimed to help deepen and broaden the present conversation about democracy and connect it to effective action to repair and strengthen democratic institutions. It is neither conservative nor liberal, but aims rather to advance the restoration of respect for the rules of tolerance, fairness, and equality before the law that are the sine qua non of democracy.\r\n\r\nMuch of the work ahead requires repairing institutions, "habits of heart," and political culture that have atrophied over many decades. Important parts of the work ahead, however, will require new thinking about governance, politics, and policy to meet the challenges of the "long emergency" posed by a destabilizing climate, loss of species, and the cascading effects of ecological systems failure that will threaten food and energy systems and thereby governments, economies, and domestic tranquility.\r\n\r\nThis hour-long show will feature some of the most powerful moments of the Democracy Unchained series, all focused on rebuilding the American government for the people.

The shift to learning, working, and living in a digital environment has meant radical shifts in how the youth experience the world around them.\r\n\r\nFor many of today\'s children and teens, physically going to school was the only means by which they received adequate exercise through physical education courses and sports. Going school also meant the possibility of receiving help for online bullying, which has drastically increased as kids and teens need to spend more time online than ever before. For students who are immigrants, instruction and being around others their age was an important factor in their success in their new country. For students in personal crises, help may be even further out of their reach than ever before.\r\n\r\nHow are schools and social services juggling the existing problems, new issues, and current needs of kids and teens in a digital environment? How is this support reaching everyone in need?\r\n\r\nJoin us for a City Club Youth Forum discussion on the ways in which in-school support and social services are making changes to support the digital new normal for the youth.

On October 26, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) released the results of its first State of Antisemitism in America survey. After sampling more than 1,300 Jewish adults and 1,000 general population adults across the nation, the AJC discovered the two groups' opinions and knowledge differ greatly on various aspects of antisemitism. Dan Elbaum and Holly R. Huffnagle explain.

For more than nine years in a row, Cuyahoga County's travel and tourism industry has logged record-setting growth rates in visitation. The travel and tourism industry was one of, if not, the hardest hit industry in the U.S. and the world. As states locked down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, travel and tourism was at a virtual standstill. How can the travel and tourism industry survive until the pandemic subsides? A panel explains.

Regardless of which candidate prevails on November 3, the next President of the United States will inherit a complicated international landscape and mounting global problems. While this has been true for nearly every modern presidential election, what makes this election different is that Joe Biden and Donald J. Trump vastly disagree on almost every foreign policy issue: the World Health Organization (WHO) and the international response to the coronavirus pandemic; our changing relationships with China, Iran and North Korea; the Paris Climate Accord; the role of the U.S. in counterterrorism; and what American leadership in the world looks like.\r\n\r\nIf Joe Biden is elected President, many believe he will inherit a country that has abdicated its global leadership role and lost its claim to moral authority. While Biden pledges to restore relationships, experts believe it won\'t be easy. If President Donald J. Trump is re-elected, many believe his \"America First\" philosophy will further alienate the United States from its allies, stoke more intense conflict with adversaries, and reward and empower authoritarian leaders around the world. Which philosophy will prevail?\r\n\r\nJoin us as local experts discuss the future of American foreign policy under the next President.

Thomas F. Zenty, III plans to retire from University Hospitals (UH) at the end of January 2021, after serving nearly two decades as the system\'s Chief Executive Officer.\r\n\r\nDuring Mr. Zenty's tenure, the health system has grown to become an integrated network of 18 hospitals, more than 50 health centers and outpatient facilities, and over 200 physician offices in 16 counties throughout northern Ohio that care for more than one million patients annually. Reporting annual revenue of more than $4 billion, UH is also one of the largest employers in Northeast Ohio with 28,000 caregivers.\r\n\r\nSince Mr. Zenty took the UH helm in 2003, the healthcare industry has experienced dramatic change, including introduction of the Affordable Care Act, the shift from volume- to value-based care, an increased national focus on patient experience, innovations in diagnosis and treatment of diseases, utilization of telehealth and, most recently, quickly pivoting to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.\r\n\r\nJoin us as Mr. Zenty shares his experiences leading through tremendous change and where he thinks the future of healthcare is headed.