Nick Castele

Updated: 12:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 Cleveland’s Major League Baseball club has reached a deal with Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to extend the team’s lease for another 15 years, with the possibility of a 10-year renewal after that. The agreement will cost the city and county $17 million annually, according to a news release from the team and local governments. The state will chip in $2 million a year, and the team will pay $10 million annually. All told, the deal will cost about $435 million over the 15-year life of the lease.

Like the name or not, here come the Cleveland Guardians. Cleveland fans were still taking stock of the new name before the game Friday, just hours after the ball club announced it would shed the name Indians for a new identity as the Guardians.

Former President Donald Trump is planing a Northeast Ohio rally for next week in what his backers bill as the “first of many appearances in support of candidates and causes that further the MAGA agenda and accomplishments of President Trump’s administration.”

Dennis Kucinich is taking a shot at another political comeback.

In Cleveland, President Joe Biden on Thursday argued for increased spending on infrastructure, research and education to lift the U.S. economy as the country recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that Stark County Commissioners must buy the voting machines selected by the county board of elections.

Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio) said his Republican Party shouldn’t spread falsehoods about the 2020 election if it wants to retake Congress and the White House in the coming years.

President Joe Biden plans a trip to Cleveland next week for a speech on the economy, the White House announced Wednesday evening.

The Ohio Supreme Court is ordering the state’s top elections official to put a Summit County GOP leader back on the local board of elections.

Northeast Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez faces a difficult year ahead after joining nine other Republicans in voting to impeach former President Donald Trump. Republican groups in the district have rebuked him over that vote, and a former White House aide is challenging Gonzalez in next year’s primary, with Trump’s blessing.