CLEVELAND — They finally hosted a championship parade after decades of sports futility, and now they're a week away from hosting another grand spectacle: the Republican National Convention.
The crush of more than 1.3 million people at last month's parade in honor of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers resulted in not a single arrest. But that event did not feature Donald J. Trump, the brash and brazen candidate whose rhetoric often inspires protest. Nor did it subject Clevelanders to the extraordinary security detail of a presidential nominee.
The four ballot question that will be placed before voters in November got their official numbers on Monday, markers that will soon show up in ads and on lawn signs across the state.
Secretary of State William Galvin said the campaigns behind the four initiative petitions filed more than the required 10,972 valid signatures last week, and were ordered based on the question's length and spacing on the actual ballots.
