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  • Don’t Kill Rufus

    by Cameron Mays    (Plain Press January 2025) Take a walk around the entire stadium, from Dawg Pound to Dawg Pound, then take a walk down East 55th from St. Clair to Broadway. Watch a game from the owner’s box, then watch one from a television set in any apartment at Outhwaite. The point of…

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  • Local documentary explores 1977 disappearance of local teen

       (Plain Press January 2025) With all the missing children over the years, you probably have never heard about this one. Yvonne Regler, a 17-year-old girl, disappeared on August 8th, 1977, while working at a Sunoco gas station on Lorain Road, not far from the Fairview Park / Lorain Bridge, just west of Kamms Corner.…

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  • Local governments violate Constitutional rights of protesters

    by Chuck Hoven      (Plain Press January 2025) Powerful interests seem to be at work to suppress the First Amendment rights of protesters engaged in bringing attention to Cuyahoga County’s $16 million investment in Israel Bonds that support a government in Israel which Amnesty International says is engaged in a genocide in Gaza. Protest March…

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  • Plain Press 2024 fundraiser

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  • Despite passage of the levy, Cleveland schools face “tough work ahead”

    by Chuck Hoven      (Plain Press December 2024) At the November 6, 2024, Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) Board of Education Business meeting Cleveland School Board Chair Sara Elaqad praised the efforts of the Cleveland Teachers Union, CMSD staff and Board members, endorsers, businesses and supporters that helped to pass the Issue 49 levy and…

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  • Cleveland voters approve School Levy and Bond Issue by a wide margin

    by Chuck Hoven      (Plain Press December 2024) Cleveland voters showed their support for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District with two out of every three voters giving their approval of the Issue 49 Bond Issue and Levy at the November 5th General Elections. Of the total 123,820 votes cast, 69,840 were for the Bond Issue…

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  • Issue 55 passed. Now What?

    by Bruce Checefsky      (Plain Press December 2024) Cuyahoga County voters overwhelmingly approved Issue 55, increasing the cigarette tax from a 30-cent per-pack tax, first passed in 2006, to 70 cents per pack. The tax increase would raise an estimated $160 million over 10 years for public arts funding. Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (CAC), the…

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  • December 2024 community board

    ARTS ARTISTS AT THE TWIST: Come help us celebrate our 36th annual holiday arts show at the Cleveland Twist and Drill Building (1242 E 49th St.) on Saturday, December 7 from 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday, December 8 from 11 am to 5 pm. Visit artistsatthetwist.com for more information. ARTS COMPETITIONS: Artists worldwide…

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  • CentroVilla25 awaits additional tenants (photo)

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, November 17, 2024; CentroVilla25 (3140 W. 25th St.): The Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development has moved into its new home in the CentroVilla25, a new complex designed to be a center for Hispanic businesses in the Clark Fulton neighborhood. The complex is still awaiting additional tenants.

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  • Voter registration and turnout varies greatly by City Council Ward

    by Chuck Hoven      (Plain Press December 2024) Data from the Cuyahoga County Board of Election’s website shows a smaller percentage of Cuyahoga County’s registered voters chose to vote in 2024 than in the previous two presidential elections in 2020 and 2016. Out of the 894,091 registered voters in Cuyahoga County, there were 587,282 ballots…

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