-
Cleveland Public Market Corporation offers explanation on how to use new parking procedures at West Side Market lot
(Plain Press September 2024) The Cleveland Public Market Corporation, which now runs the West Side Market, is implementing new parking procedures. When entering the West Side Market parking lot, there is no longer a gate. A scanner scans license places and notes the time of entry. This prevents traffic bottlenecks at the entrance. …
-
Can a $23M redevelopment help Clark-Fulton add affordable senior housing while retaining history?
by Collin Cunningham, The Land (Plain Press September 2024) Nearly three years after Cleveland leaders launched a master plan for redeveloping the Clark-Fulton neighborhood with professional and residential input, one of its cornerstone housing developments is moving forward. The Arch at Saint Michael project will repurpose classrooms and offices into 46 new low-income multifamily…
-
NOBLE urges residents to lobby against Ohio Senate Bill 240
(Plain Press September 2024) Northern Ohioans for Budget Legislation Equality (NOBLE) urges residents to lobby to oppose Ohio Senate Bill 240. If passed, Ohio Senate Bill 240 would negatively affect SNAP and Medicaid recipients and limit individuals from receiving these much-needed services. One proposed provision is to bring back the modified drug…
-
Torso Murders: Cleveland’s “Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run”
(Plain Press September 2024) It has been decided by the Cuyahoga Chief Medical Examiner, along with a non-profit organization, the “DNA Doe Project,” to exhume the unidentified victims of the “Cleveland Torso Murderer” to identify them through new DNA testing. Their remains have been buried in the City of Cleveland’s Potter’s Field for almost…
-
Legal Aid can help with legal issues related to employment
by Tonya Sams (Plain Press September 2024) Millions of people report to work every day and have no idea what rights they have as employees. If their rights are violated, they may have to find an attorney. Employment Law attorneys focus on many work-related issues such as discrimination, wage theft, workers’ compensation, expungements, unsafe…
-
Cuyahoga County determination of property values called arbitrary and capricious
To the editor: (Plain Press September 2024) As someone who worked for 25 years in the mortgage industry {the last 10 years in underwriting} I find it appalling that Cuyahoga County determines property values in such an arbitrary and capricious manner. LETTER Part of my responsibility was reviewing appraisals whether it be for…
-
Public hearings on Enbridge’s natural gas rate application scheduled
(Plain Press September 2024) The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) scheduled public hearings regarding Enbridge Gas Ohio’s (formerly known as Dominion Energy Ohio) applications to increase rates and charges and for approval of an alternative rate plan. A local public hearing will be held on: Sept. 18, 2024, 6:00 p.m. at the Frank…
-
-
Residents speak out about gentrification in Detroit Shoreway
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LAND This map shows the Detroit Shoreway, a near-westside neighborhood that is just west of Ohio City, just east of Cudell, and just north of Clark-Fulton and Stockyard. Lacey Caporale, a recent PhD graduate in sociology from Case Western Reserve University, has done extensive research in the neighborhood, interviewing dozens of…
-
Author shares research on displacement caused by gentrification
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press August 2024) On July 10th at the Rhizhome House in Cleveland Heights the Greater Cleveland Housing Collective hosted an anti-gentrification teach-in and discussion with Andrew Lee, the author of Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War. At the workshop, Lee shared some of his experience organizing against displacement…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Plain Press 