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  • Councilman McCormack makes first trip to Board of Zoning Appeals

    (Plain Press, May 2016) Kerry McCormack, chosen by outgoing Ward 3 Councilman Joe Cimperman as his successor in Cleveland City Council, attended his first Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) meeting as a City Council Representative on April 11th at Cleveland City Hall. Two cases from Ward 3 were up before the Board of Zoning Appeals…

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  • Disparity in four-year graduation rate exists within the Cleveland schools

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, February 2016) In January, Ohio Department of Education released four-year graduation rates for students in the Class of 2014 who started ninth grade in 2011 and graduated by 2014. While the Cleveland Metropolitan School District increased its overall graduation rate there remains a big gap between the district’s top six…

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  • Cleveland native earns Senior Sailor of the Year serving at Naval Air Force Atlantic

    by Mr. Rick Burke, Navy Office of Community Outreach (Plain Press, February 2016) Petty Officer 1st Class Jasmine Fletcher from Cleveland, Ohio, serving with Commander, Naval Air Force, Atlantic (CNAL), earned Senior Sailor of the Year for 2015. Fletcher is an alumni of Max Hayes High School on the Near West Side of Cleveland. The…

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  • Self Defense Corner

    by D. L. White (Plain Press, February 2016) Open up a newspaper, or your search engine, and the news is laced with violence and destruction. Walking into a restaurant, school, or waking up can make anyone apprehensive about the days’ events. What can be done about your day to day safety? Guns, stun guns, mace,…

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  • Cleveland Community Police Commission asks Monitoring Team’s help in “reset” of proposed City Charter provisions

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, January 2016) At the December 17, 2015 meeting of the Cleveland Community Police Commission (CCPC) held at West Side Community House, 9300 Lorain Avenue, members of the Monitoring Team, charged with overseeing compliance with the consent decree between the City of Cleveland and the Justice Department, talked to the commission…

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  • Protest highlights restrictions on free speech at Cleveland City Hall

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, January 2016) On December 7th about 40 protesters from The Committee for Social Justice and other civil rights groups gathered on the steps of Cleveland City Hall, prior to the evening City Council Meeting, to protest the “Cleveland Atrocity”, the involvement of 13 Cleveland Police Officers in firing the 137…

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  • Men Who Wish to Change reach out to Cleveland families of street violence victims

    Plain Press, December 2015 Men Who Wish to Change, a group of prisoners in the Trumbull Correctional Camp, a state prison in Trumbull County, used their resources and contacts in Cleveland and Akron to host a condolence dinner for families of street violence victims. Men Who Wish to Change founder Rawn Nash recruited his Godmother,…

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  • Forum highlights role of mental health in the reform of Cleveland Police Department

    Plain Press, November 2015 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio and Disability Rights Ohio held a forum on October 1 to highlight the role of mental health in the reform of the Cleveland Police Department. The forum held at the Max Wohl Civil Liberties Center at E. 45th and Chester featured a panel…

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  • Environmental activists trade notes on current fights

    by Randy Cunningham (Plain Press, October 2015) Social media has become an important part of activism, regardless of the issue.  But when all is said and done there is no substitute for activists getting together in the flesh to trade notes and war stories about their current organizing. They did just that on Sunday, September…

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  • Housing market in Cleveland rates as one of the worst in the nation

    (Plain Press, September 2015) A recent study, by WalletHub, compared 300 United States, large, midsize and small size cities on the health of their housing market. Cleveland ranked 294 out of the 300 cities studied. This means, according to the study, that Cleveland does not fare well as a place to purchase a home when…

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