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Legal Aid may be able to help low-income entrepreneurs
by Tonya Sams (Plain Press December 2025) Starting a new business can be extremely challenging, especially when there seem to be large barriers to overcome. The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland may be able to help with its Legal Center for Entrepreneurs with Low-Income. Established in 2019, The Center creates avenues out of poverty…
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Plain Press 2025 fundraiser letter
November 2025 Dear Plain Press Readers and Supporters, This year marks the 54th anniversary of the award-winning community newspaper, the Plain Press. A free community newspaper founded in 1971, the Plain Press continues to present issues and community news to residents of Cleveland’s west side. The Plain Press’ ability to continue to serve the west…
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Clevelanders redress their grievances at downtown No Kings Rally
PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, October 18, 2025; No Kings Demonstration, downtown Cleveland.‘ PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, October 18, 2025; No Kings Demonstration, downtown Cleveland. PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, October 18, 2025; No Kings Demonstration, downtown Cleveland. PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, October 18, 2025; No Kings Demonstration, downtown Cleveland. PHOTO BY GREG…
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Police report on surge of recent car break-ins
PHOTO BY BRUCE CHECEFSKY Tuesday, October 14, 2024; Second District Policing Committee Meeting, OneHope NEO, 3202 Fulton Road: Second District Commander Timothy Maffo-Judd. by Bruce Checefsky (Plain Press November 2025) Timothy Maffo-Judd, 2nd District Commander, gave an update report to about 40 residents of the Near West Side at the policing committee meeting in…
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Cleveland Metropolitan School District seeks input in its facility planning
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press November 2025) This fall the Cleveland Metropolitan School District held a series of meetings on its long-term facilities planning process titled Building Brighter Futures: A Pathway to Sustainable Student Success. Meetings were held in each of the six regions that comprise the school district. Some online meetings were also…
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Play about Tamir Rice to come to Near West Theatre
(Plain Press November 2025) The Tamir Rice Foundation in association with the Cleveland-based theatre company Powerful Long Ladder will present the play Objectively/Reasonable: A Community Response to the Shooting of Tamir Rice on November 8th at 6:45 p.m. at Near West Theatre, 6702 Detroit Avenue. Directed by award-winning former Karamu House Artistic Director…
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Tamir Rice Butterfly Memorial designated as Cleveland Landmark
(Plain Press November 2025) At its October 20th meeting, Cleveland City Council approved designating the Tamir Rice Butterfly Memorial as a Cleveland Landmark (Ord. No. 1084-2025), sponsored by Councilmember Jenny Spencer.
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November 2025 community board
ACTIVISM ACT UP CLEVELAND, a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis, holds regular meetings at the LGBT Community Center (6705 Detroit Ave). This month, they will meet on Thursday, November 6 and Thursday, November 20, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm. BILINGUAL IMMIGRATION…
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The poor pay for Cleveland’s politics of privilege
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press November 2025) Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Community Solutions Emily Campbell issued a report in September of 2022 that said “the United States Census Bureau’s 2021 one-year estimates show that nearly 105,000 people in the City of Cleveland lived in poverty in 2021. Of those, more than…
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