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  • November 2024 full issue – PDF

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  • CLEVELAND LEADERS IGNORE THEIR PEOPLE

    CLEVELAND LEADERS IGNORE THEIR PEOPLE By Roldo Bartimole Where are the political activists? Where are the Citizens? Cleveland needs them badly. The city has sunk into a silent obedience of acquiescence. Voters are in hiding. Leaders hide from them. This is a serious problem. A prognosis for a dead city. The past is always with…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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,…

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  • 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…

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  • October 2024 Full Issue – PDF

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  • 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…

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  • Julia De Burgos Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month Celebration 2024 (photos)

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, September 14, 2024; Julia de Burgos Cultural Dance Center’s Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month Celebration, 2800 Archwood Avenue: Dancers from the Julia de Burgos Cultural Dance Center’s Latin Social Dance Group entertain the crowd. PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, September 14, 2024; Julia de Burgos Cultural Dance Center’s Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month Celebration,…

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