• October 2024 community board

    ADVOCACY CLEVELAND DOCUMENTERS, an initiative of City Bureau and Signal Cleveland, trains and pays residents like you to attend local government meetings and document them for the public. Join a community of civic-minded Clevelanders working to make local government understable to all residents. To get started, create an account at documenters.org, fill out the sign-up…


  • Reducing Cleveland’s poverty rate should be a priority for policy makers

    by Chuck Hoven      (Plain Press October 2024) Cleveland continues to have the second highest overall poverty rate and highest child poverty rate among American cities with populations of 300,000 or more. An analysis of data from the United States Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey by the Center for Community Solutions shows these data…


  • Documentary on Ghoulardi to air in October

       (Plain Press October 2024) If you were to tune in to channel 8 at around 11:30 PM Friday nights, back in 1965, you would have also seen a funny looking man, wearing a fright-wig and lab coat, smoking a cigarette on live television. His name was Ernie Anderson, and he was a Cleveland sensation,…


  • Greenline Building has housed a wide variety of businesses over the years

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN 1961; Ken Booth’s House of Flowers, 3426 Memphis Avenue, northwest corner of Memphis and Pearl. by Lynette Filips      (Plain Press October 2024) This month we continue to look at the history of the northwest corner of Pearl Rd. and Memphis Ave. which the Old Brooklyn…


  • New Marion Seltzer School plan will save Cudell Park

         (Plain Press October 2024) New plans for a new Marion C. Seltzer Elementary School were unveiled at a September 19th meeting held by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District at the school at 1468 W. 98th Street. An article about the meeting by Ideastream Public Media reporter Conor Morris. titled “CMSD unveils new greener site…


  • Cleveland’s new online 311 service grants easier access to City services, information

       (Plain Press October 2024) On September 4th, 2024, the City of Cleveland announced its new 311 online service. The new website allows residents to submit requests related to public works, sanitation, street maintenance, City parks, and more via online forms. 311 is a centralized, non-emergency hotline and website that provides residents with easy access…


  • Ohio House bill aims to combat college hunger

    (Plain Press October 2024) House Bill (HB) 590, also known as the Hunger Free Campus bill, will ensure that no college student will go hungry by providing free meals to those students who are eligible. HB 590 has been introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives. Its primary sponsors are House District 14 Democrat Sean…


  • Changes in federal law require new reporting for small business owners

    by Tonya Sams      (Plain Press October 2024) A federal law that only affected large corporations will now impact small business owners. The Corporate Transparency Act will now require all business entities, no matter the size, to report their Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI). The BOI are the names of those who own or control at…


  • Max Hayes Car Show 2024 (photos)

    (Plain Press October 2024) PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, September 14, 2024; Max Hayes Car Show, 2211 W. 65th Street: Cliff Woost restored this 1930 Ford Model A car. He said he put a Chevy 427 cubic engine in it. Woost hopes to sell the car and use the money to help his daughter make…


  • St. Rocco’s Labor Day Festival 2024 (photos)

    (Plain Press October 2024) PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, September 2, 2024; St. Rocco’s Labor Day Festival, 3205 Fulton Road: Cleveland Firefighter David Taft grills Italian sausages for hungry festival guests. PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, September 2, 2024; St. Rocco’s Labor Day Festival, 3205 Fulton Road: A climber heads up the pole towards the…