Mayor Frank Jackson appoints Martin Keane as Cleveland’s new director of public utilities
Updated Jan 21, 2021;
Posted Jan 21, 2021
Mayor Frank Jackson on Thursday announced the appointment of Martin Keane, right, as the director of Cleveland’s Department of Public Utilities. Here Jackson greets Keane upon his appointment in 2019 as assistant director of the department. Keane replaces Robert Davis, who resigned to take a private sector job.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Mayor Frank Jackson on Thursday announced the appointment of Martin Keane as the director of Cleveland’s Department of Public Utilities.
Keane, a former city councilman from the West Side, most recently was the assistant director of the department. He replaces Robert Davis, who resigned the post earlier this month.
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CLEVELAND, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A $7.5 million gift from Steve and Loree Potash of Bentleyville, Ohio, to University Hospitals will establish the Steve and Loree Potash Women & Newborn Center at UH Ahuja Medical Center. Part of the UH Ahuja Phase 2 expansion, the new center will bring the trusted and collaborative care of UH Rainbow Babies & Children s and UH MacDonald Women s hospitals to the eastside, introducing maternal-fetal care and a full spectrum of labor and delivery services to the UH Ahuja campus.
A member of the UH Board of Directors, Steve is the President and CEO of OverDrive, a company he founded in 1986 that is now the leading digital platform for eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media, partnering with libraries, schools, government agencies, corporate learning centers and colleges and universities worldwide. Steve and Loree are both graduates of The Ohio State University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. L
Avon Lake Historical Society appoints new board members: Short Takes on Avon, Avon Lake and North Ridgeville
Updated Jan 02, 2021;
AVON LAKE, Ohio The Avon Lake Historical Society is a true asset to the city, and its members do some amazing work. If you have attended events in the city such as the North Coast Christmas with Santa visit, cemetery tours, Rockin the Rails and other library events, the Avon Lake Historical Society was part of the planning or was the host.
Preserving the history of Avon Lake is vital, and all members of the society should be commended for their efforts.
By Jim Milliot | Dec 11, 2020
It seemed impossible that the acquisition of Simon & Schuster by Penguin Random House the day before Thanksgiving could be overshadowed by a bigger industry event, but that is what happened when book publishing’s long-running trade show and convention, most recently known as BookExpo, was canceled. As the buzz about the end of BookExpo has cooled down, industry members continue to digest the news of PRH’s pending purchase of S&S, the nation’s largest and third-largest trade book publishers, respectively.
When the acquisition was announced, the Authors Guild, the American Booksellers Association, and the Association of American Literary Agents (formerly the AAR) all issued statements that were critical of the deal. While each organization had a particular take, all shared one thing in common: they were concerned about the increasing consolidation within trade publishing.