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  • Department of Energy urged to maintain safety standards for radiation protection

    To the editor: (Plain Press April 2026) This is what I posted on the Department of Energy’s comment page after a dozen rewrites, on the Categorical (Safety) Exclusions for new reactors: President Trump’s Executive Order 14300 prompting the Categorical Exclusion for Advanced Nuclear Reactors calls for abandoning the Linear No Threshold (LNT) standard for radiation…

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  • Americans urged to call for modernization and humanization of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act

    To the editor:    (Plain Press April 2026) Most Americans believe that, after seven years, their financial “permanent record” is purged. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), this is true for late payments and bankruptcies- but it’s a myth for your career.    Payroll data-miners like Equifax’s The Work Number maintain indefinite records of…

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  • St. Paul’s Community Church holds monthly Street Studio event (photos)

    PHOTO BY IAN HEISEY Saturday, February 14, 2026; Street Studio, St. Paul’s Community Church, 4427 Franklin Avenue: Guitar player Matt Rossman plays some tunes for those attending the Street Studio. PHOTO BY IAN HEISEY Saturday, February 14, 2026; Street Studio, St. Paul’s Community Church, 4427 Franklin Avenue: Mike Fiala, a regular attendee at St. Paul’s…

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  • Beware of scams targeting personal information and money

    by Tonya Sams (Plain Press April 2026) Scammers continually seek new methods to exploit others for financial gain. The best way to avoid being a victim is to know the tactics that scammers use to take advantage of others.           One such tactic is text scams. “A text scam is when a scammer sends a…

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  • DOCTORIN’: Getting the most from your Medicare Annual Wellness visit

    by Steve Rothschild    (Plain Press April 2026) If you are on Medicare, your primary care clinic may reach out to you once a year to schedule one of these often-misunderstood visits. The Annual Wellness Visit was created under the Affordable Care Act to ensure that everyone was offered evidence-based preventive services such as Flu…

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  • Cleveland moviemaking history begins with the Giant Coal Dumper and continues to evoke its lessons

    by Cameron Mays    (Plain Press April 2026) It is now probably accepted that the big bang that started our universe was not some great explosion but a simple happening. Thus, it is fitting that which started Cleveland film history was no epic tale but a routine industrial occurrence.    Giant Coal Dumper was the…

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  • Developments at Pearl and Memphis inch forward as former tenants seek new homes

    by Lynette Filips (Plain Press April 2026) Two months have passed since I last addressed the many issues facing the corner of Memphis Ave. and Pearl Rd. in the heart of Old Brooklyn. Seemingly more and more sidebars have come up while the major issues are still in limbo. To make processing all of them…

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  • Stretch of Lorain Ave. adds cluster of new businesses

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, March 20,2026; Lorain Theater building, 4601 Lorain Avenue: Visible Voice Books, Hausfrau Record Shop in the Lorain Theater building and other nearby businesses are livening up a stretch of Lorain Avenue. (Plain Press April 2026) Last year’s move of Visible Voice Bookstore from Professor Avenue in Tremont to the Lorain…

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  • Ode to a dog, dumped beneath I-90 on Train Avenue

    by Rob Holland (Plain Press April 2026) For want of love Here you are. Lain beautifully, If you’d lain On a plush rug In a cozy den By the hearth Under the gaze Of a loving family. Who was it Who discarded you here On the berm In the cinders, Ice and mud? Never-ending thousands…

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  • Cleveland celebrates St. Patrick’s Day 2026 (photos)

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, March 17, 2026; W. 65th Street, just north of Saint Colman Church: This West Side Irish American Club St. Patrick Day drummer says he is multi-tasking – carrying two drums to load onto a bus after attending morning mass at St. Colman Church. PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, March 17,…

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