{"id":287427,"date":"2026-09-16T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287427\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:34:07","slug":"cleveland-city-council-approves-renaming-portion-of-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287427\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland City Council approves renaming portion of Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ohio\/\">Ohio<\/a> officials this week goaded President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> with a snarky name change to a portion of Lake Erie, after the president sought to rename another one of the Great Lakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cleveland City Council renamed a section of Lake Erie as the \u201cGulf of Cleveland,\u201d in a jab at Trump\u2019s recent executive order declaring that Lake Ontario be called \u201cLake America.\u201d The emergency resolution passed in a 13-1 vote. The ceremonial action is not legally binding and applies only in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cleveland\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"2588\">Cleveland<\/a>, but it requires the city clerk to ask <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/apple\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"717\">Apple<\/a> and other national mapping companies to make the change.<\/p>\n<p>      Stay informed.Stay ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"we-copy\">\n        Join Washington Examiner for unlimited access to the news, analysis, and commentary that matter most.\n      <\/p>\n<p>    Trusted reporting.Unlimited access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"we-deck\">\n      Subscribe for full access to Washington Examiner coverage, expert political analysis,<br \/>\n      and subscriber-only journalism.\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"we-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/subscribe\/digital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n      Get Unlimited Access<br \/>\n      \u203a<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"we-member\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/sign-in\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"we-cancel\">Cancel anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio officials this week goaded President Donald Trump with a snarky name change to a portion of Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76,34,136,138,137,260,13338,293],"class_list":["post-287427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cleveland","tag-donald-trump","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie","tag-new-mexico","tag-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}