Preventing future police shootings and repairing community trust in the police department and mayor were the main topics of discussion at the second of two police chief finalist forums Tuesday evening at East CLC. Of the more than 60 community members who attended, many questioned Deputy Chief Brian Harding and Akron Mayor Shammas Malik on […]
A group of teenagers crowded around a console inside a weathered community center on North Street, thumbs fiddling with joysticks that sent football players charging across a screen as they waited for Malik Evans. This day promised an unusual matchup: Rochester’s mayor sought a formidable opponent to kick off the inaugural Mayor’s Madden Invitational. A year-long […]
Akron is among the last large Ohio cities without universal pre-K. Mayor Shammas Malik hopes to change that. Malik asked Akron Public School board members Saturday to start reconsidering the future of early childhood education in the city. A pre-K program in the district was under consideration before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, he said. “I […]
Akron’s new administration features a couple of new roles and several new faces. Mayor Shammas Malik has restructured his Cabinet, consolidating some functions, creating new ones and discontinuing others. As one example, Malik reclassified the police and fire chiefs into Cabinet-level positions reporting directly to the chief of staff, eliminating the deputy mayor for public […]