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Legal Aid may be able to help with estate planning and administration
by Tonya Sams (Plain Press January 2026) We all hope to live long, healthy lives, but it is also important to plan ahead to protect our assets. This means ensuring that loved ones will reap the benefits of our hard work and efforts in this life. This can be made possible through estate planning.…
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Cleveland Parks & Greenspace Coalition gives green teams across city chance to write their own headlines
by Greg Cznadel (Plain Press January 2026) Cleveland Parks and Greenspace Coalition held its 2025 Park Advocate Night December 2nd at the ThirdSpace Action Lab, 1464 E. 105th Street. Tait Ferguson (Trust of Public Land), Erika Hood (Syatt), and India Hobbs led the group in an eventful night with twelve Cleveland neighborhoods and over…
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IlluminateHER showcase features art and photos by Boys & Girls Club members
PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, November 22, 2025, IlluminateHER: A Photo Narrative Gallery, 78th Street Studios, 1300 W. 78th Street: Genesis Gaines is one of six girls from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio’s Broadway Club who displayed their photography, collage, and mixed media art at the IlluminateHER exhibit. PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG…
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Enough is Enough: People Before Profits!
(Plain Press January 2026) To the editor: Here we go again spending gobs of taxpayer money with high-priced consultants to decide how Cleveland’s lakefront might be developed. And like ravenous hogs at the overflowing trough of public money, private interests are scrambling breathlessly to find ever more creative and clandestine ways to gorge themselves…
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Pilgrim Church in Tremont hosts Unsilent Night (photo)
PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Friday, December 12, 2025; UNSILENT NIGHT sponsored by Pilgrim Church, Lincoln Park Gazebo: Clevelanders gathered at the gazebo in Lincoln Park in Tremont to participate in a walk through the neighborhood while listening to composer Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night on their cell phones. Participants each selected a track to stream on…
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Ohio hemp law designed to ramp up incarceration rates for private prison industry
by Daryl Davis (Plain Press January 2026) Governor Michael DeWine and the Ohio Republican majority in the legislature have attacked the hemp industry in Ohio with legislation that will re-criminalize hemp products such as hemp beverages, gummies, chocolates and vapes and place additional restrictions on recreational marijuana use. Promoting this legislation looks like a…
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All storefronts in Greenline Buildings at Memphis and Pearl are empty
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN MUSEUM AND MARIA THE BARBERETTE WERE EVICTED LAST MONTH by Lynette Filips(Plain Press December 2025) In the article about the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation’s (OBCDC’s) Memphis Pearl project in the April 2025, issue of the Plain Press, I wrote some commentary about Ward 13 Councilman Kris Harsh’s visit to…
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Cleveland Metropolitan School District presents plan for school mergers and closings
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press December 2025) On November 5th, Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) Chief Executive Officer Doctor Warren Morgan submitted to the Cleveland Board of Education his administration’s recommendations for the Building Brighter Futures plan for the future of the school district. Upon receiving the plan CMSD Board of Education Chair…
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Board of Education and citizens tasked with reviewing plan calling for massive change in the school system
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press December 2025) The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) Board of Education and the citizens of Cleveland are tasked with reviewing a plan for the future of the school district that will have a profound impact on the future of the City of Cleveland. The plan is titled Building Brighter…
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