Issue 55, which asked Cuyahoga County voters to pay more on every pack of cigarettes to raise revenue to support local arts and culture, passed Tuesday night.

This election, Cuyahoga County voters are being asked to support local arts and culture by paying several dollars more on ...

Voters in Cuyahoga County are being asked to help make sure the arts are funded through Issue 55. That includes Playhouse ...

Three quarters of Cuyahoga County voters said yes on the issue, which will raise some $160 million over the next ten years ...

Cuyahoga County voters approved Issue 55, a replacement and expansion of the tax on cigarettes that funds Cuyahoga Arts & ...

Cuyahoga County voters passed Issue 55, an increase in the county's cigarette tax to support nonprofit arts organizations, ...

Voters in Cuyahoga County are being asked to help make sure the arts are funded through Issue 55. That includes Playhouse Square, which is the second-largest theatre district in the country.

Issue 55, the only countywide issue on the Nov. 5 general election ballot, would more than double the excise tax paid on each cigarette bought in the county, from 15 mills, or 1.5 cents ...

The ballot issue, which cost smokers 1.5 cents a cigarette – 30 cents per pack – drew 56 percent approval from voters that ...

The 10-year cigarette tax would cost 3 1/2 center per cigarette and raise $160 million for arts and cultural programs in ...

We’ve written extensively about many of them, especially the dysfunction at Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the organization ...