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  • Matthew Ahn is running for Cuyahoga County prosecutor

    PHOTO COURTESY OF MATTHEW AHN Matthew Ahn, a candidate for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, prepares for the March 2024 Primary Election. by Bruce Checefsky      (Plain Press January 2024) Matthew Ahn grew up and went to public schools in North Royalton, then graduated Cum laude from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) with a BS in chemistry…

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  • Tax incentives waste resources and cripple efforts to end child poverty

    By Chuck Hoven      (Plain Press January 2024) The City of Cleveland’s policies are not only not producing growth in population, but they are also driving people out of the city. One resident opposed to an inappropriate development proposed for Lorain Avenue and some residential areas north of Lorain between W. 45th and W. 44th…

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  • School board meeting shows successes and failures

    by Chuck Hoven    (Plain Press January 2024) The December 12th Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD0 Board of Education meeting held at the Cleveland School of the Arts in the University Circle neighborhood was a study in contrasts. The meeting was a report by Principal Michelle Perez on the Cleveland School of Science and Medicine;…

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  • 2023 Christmas decorations photo

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, December 12, 2023; 8905 Clark Avenue: This household is ready to celebrate Christmas. The houses on this block were constructed during former Councilman Jay Westbrook’s tenure in Cleveland City Council. Prior to the construction of the houses, the city block, which once featured a Watkins Furniture Store, was vacant for…

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  • Snow Day at Gordon Square 2023 photos

    PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, December 9, 2023; Snow Day in Detroit Shoreway, 78th Street Studios: Snow Day visitors viewed a variety of artwork by Cleveland artists. PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, December 9, 2023; Snow Day in Detroit Shoreway, W. 67th and Detroit: Dressed as a knight from the era of the Crusades, this…

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  • January 2024 – Full issue PDF

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  • Plain Press 2023 Fundraising Letter

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  • The People’s Budget Cleveland loses the election, but wins the campaign

    by Bruce Checefsky                   (Plain Press December 2023) Cleveland voters defeated an amendment to create a participatory budgeting process called the People’s Budget (PB CLE), allowing residents to propose and vote on city-wide and neighborhood-specific projects using money allocated to the People’s Budget Fund. Issue 38 would have allowed Cleveland residents aged 13 and over…

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  • Cleveland Metropolitan School District projects huge deficits beginning next school year

    by Chuck Hoven      (Plain Press December 2023) The Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s (CMSD)Five-Year Forecast projects huge deficits beginning in the 2024-25 Fiscal Year. Presented at the November 21st Board of Education meeting held at Max Hayes High School, the forecast indicates an unencumbered positive cash balance of $125.1 million at the end of this…

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  • Losing Medicaid coverage and what you can do about it

    (Plain Press December 2023) Many Ohioans are losing their Medicaid coverage. Some because they are no longer eligible, but many more because they failed to respond to the Department of Medicaid’s request for updated information.      In an article in the May 2023 Plain Press titled Post-pandemic changes to Medicaid may impact coverage, Legal Aid…

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