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Is your rental home eligible for incentives, grants or loans to make it lead safe? Find out here.
by Rachel Dissell (Plain Press, January 2021) A new fund is offering $500 incentives and other financial support to Cleveland property owners and families to remove lead paint-based hazards from homes. The Lead Safe Home Fund combines rebates, grants and loans in an effort to aid landlords who must comply with the city’s new lead-safe certification, and…
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Clark School students and neighborhood youth asked to help plan a new park
(Plain Press, January 2021) CMSD NEWS BUREAU Clark School students might soon be playing in a park that they had a hand in designing. The Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit with an office in Cleveland, is asking Clark and other neighborhood students to indicate features they want to see in a small City of Cleveland park planned…
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Neighborhood Family Practice and Metro West recruit businesses serving Hispanic (Latinx) community for Community Cares Pledge Program
by Jack Barnes (Plain Press, January 2021) “Las Dos Fronteras invites you to maintain your distance and wear your mask supporting Neighborhood Family Practice and Metro West!” reads a post from Jesus Amelia Lucero, in Spanish, on her restaurant’s Facebook page. The post includes a video showing off the taqueria’s COVID precautions like floor stickers and…
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Board of Zoning Appeals again postpones vote on Lincoln Park Flats
by Bruce Checefsky (Plain Press, January 2021) When Cleveland Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) committee member Tim Donovan suggested postponing a vote on the Lincoln Park Flats project in Tremont to allow developers 60 days to conduct a parking study in the middle of the winter, in the middle of the worst pandemic in 100 years,…
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Cleveland City Council issues statement about group attacking Cleveland Public Power
(Plain Press, January 2021) On Christmas Eve 2020, Cleveland City Council released the following statement about Consumers Against Deceptive Fees, a group that did a number of mailings to Cleveland residents this past year: Recent tax filings from the dark money group Partners for Progress clearly establish that dark money interests that funded the HB 6…
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COVID-19 is real, please wear a mask to save lives
To the editor: (Plain Press, January 2021) People have to realize that COVID-19 not only is real, but that it is just a passing “thing”, like influenza or the polio epidemics were in the past. If people continue congregating in public places (read “bars, parties, football stadia) as they are, just by being there; they are…
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Black Lives Matter in Cuyahoga County speaks out about lead-poisoning of children in Cleveland
To the editor: (Plain Press, January 2021) In March of 2021, a law will go into effect requiring landlords who own rental properties in the city of Cleveland to certify that those properties are lead safe. The law is necessary because some landlords and realtor associations are willing to allow families to rent lead toxic properties…
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Cleveland City Council removes the city’s requirement to hire off-duty police officers at neighborhood block parties
Cleveland City Council removes the city’s requirement to hire off-duty police officers at neighborhood block parties by Lee Chilcote, The Land (Plain Press, December 2020) Spurred by a grassroots, citizen-led petition that garnered more than 1,000 signatures, Cleveland City Council passed legislation at its November 18th meeting to remove the requirement for hired police at block parties. The…
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