1. You’re in your second term leading an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland. What has time taught you about your approach to governing in this environment?
Developing relationships in Cleveland is a hugely important responsibility when you’re trying to position your community well in the region, especially when it’s an older, solidly middle-class community that’s already largely built out. My ultimate responsibility is to my neighbors in Brooklyn, the people who have now twice put me in this position, but being responsible to them means thinking in a way that isn’t insular. As goes Cleveland, so goes Westlake, so goes Cleveland Heights and so goes Brooklyn. Part of my job fighting for Brooklyn, is working closely with public- and private-sector leaders all over northeast Ohio to lift all ships. Read more…