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West 25th Street resurfacing set to begin in mid September
(Plain Press, September 2014) Plans for road resurfacing on W. 25th Street were revealed at a public meeting at Applewood Center, 3518 W. 25th, on August 25th. The resurfacing of W. 25th Street between I-71 and Detroit Avenue is expected to begin in mid September and be completed by August of 2015. Shelly Company was…
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Artist John Rivera-Resto completes It’s up to us mural on Clark Avenue at W. 25th Street. Clark Avenue Neighborhood Gets a Polished Gem
by Nancy Lewis (Plain Press, August 2014) The richest piece of public art in Cleveland’s west side, It’s up to us, a mural by artist John Rivera-Resto, was completed on July 10, 2014. The busy intersection of Clark Avenue and West 25th Street on Cleveland’s near west side has been made an iconic landmark by…
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Standardized tests drive Cleveland Transformation Plan
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2014) Under current local, state and national educational policy, Clevelanders are being asked to measure their public and charter schools and judge their teaching staffs based on the scores on standardized tests. While the standardized tests may help to compare schools, they do little to help individual students to…
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Funds promised Cleveland school children cut, while Cleveland stadium allocation is increased
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, July 2014) On June 28, 1995, Cleveland City Council passed resolution number 1025-A-95 allowing that revenue from levying a parking facility tax, and revenue from increases in the motor vehicle lessor tax and the admissions tax “can be used to fund recreational, cultural and extracurricular programs within the Cleveland School…
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Board of Zoning Appeals approves Loren Naji Gallery’s parking variance request
by Rich Weiss (Plain Press, July 2014) At a 9:30 a.m. hearing on Monday, June 23, on the 5th floor of Cleveland City Hall, The Board of Zoning Appeals (BOZA) approved a parking variance request for the Loren Naji Studio Gallery, located at 2138 W. 25th Street. The BOZA room was empty around 9 a.m.,…
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Cleveland Public Library asked to invite authors to speak as a response to violence in society
To the editor: An Open Letter to The People’s University: (Plain Press, July 2014)Would you invite Louise Erdrich and William Least Heat Moon to please share your stage and together mine the great and much neglected wisdom in that fine passage of T. C. McLuhan’s, Touch the Earth: “The Lakota knew the softening influence of…
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Clark Avenue Mural
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, May 3, 2014; Mural: It’s up to us, 2512 Clark Avenue: In an August 2012 article published in The Tremonster, a Tremont newspaper, artist John Rivera-Resto, who designed the mural, describes how the work, titled It’s up to us, began in June of 2012. That summer, high school students participating…
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