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  • Cleveland welcomes climate refugees: live where you can save for a rainy day

    by Cameron Mays                   (Plain Press June 2025) Well, it’s finally here. The day you’ve been dreading. You were warned for years, and even though you believed it true, part of you hoped it was an anxious myth. All those efforts to slow it down, the electric car, the raised foundation, the meatless Mondays. All…

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  • Reflections on a Dyngus Day walk

    by Cameron Mays                   (Plain Press April 2025) I was probably eating a squid-flavored snack on a stoop on Detroit Avenue when I flagged Kosciusko from his bicycle. He rode in drunken form. Slowly, each leg exerting enough force to push the bicycle forty-five degrees to the opposite side. I waved to him because I…

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  • Kudos to Cameron Mays’ satirical ‘Don’t kill Rufus’ piece

    To the editor:    (Plain Press March 2025) Kudos to Cameron Mays and his ‘Don’t kill Rufus’ piece. (Plain Press, January 2025). It took some convincing from my family to see that Mr. Mays was being satirical. If entire redlined minority neighborhoods can be bulldozed to build lousy highways, then why can’t we eminent domain…

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  • Waste management on Madison Avenue

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, January 18, 2025; W. 81st and Madison: A sewer grate blocks this plastic bottle’s journey from Madison Avenue to Lake Erie. by Cameron Mays    (Plain Press February 2025)       Boy, Madison Avenue is littered with trash.    Wrong. Madison Avenue is littered with recyclables.    Many are quick to cry…

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  • Don’t Kill Rufus

    by Cameron Mays    (Plain Press January 2025) Take a walk around the entire stadium, from Dawg Pound to Dawg Pound, then take a walk down East 55th from St. Clair to Broadway. Watch a game from the owner’s box, then watch one from a television set in any apartment at Outhwaite. The point of…

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  • Sharks in Lake Erie?

         (Plain Press August 2024) Is this a joke? How can this be? However, there have been recent reports of shark fins being seen breaking the surface of the waters in the Great Lakes. There have also been reports of dead sharks washed up on the shores of Michigan and Lake Erie. In addition, a biologist from Penn State…

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  • Sharks in Lake Erie?

    (Plain Press July 2024) Is this a joke? How can this be? However, there have been recent reports of shark fins being seen breaking the surface of the waters in the Great Lakes. There have also been reports of dead sharks washed up on the shores of Michigan and Lake Erie. In addition, a biologist from Penn State University…

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  • “Shiver Me Timbers” comic

    (Plain Press December 2023)

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  • Canines at upscale doggie bar and park complain about homeless humans

    Canines at upscale doggie bar and park complain about homeless humans To the Editor, (Plain Press, January 2022)           I have been a resident of the Near West Side of Cleveland for 25 years. Lately I have noticed there has been an increase in new canine residents in the neighborhood. It’s nice to know new dogs are…

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  • FAKE NEWS FROM THE HOOD: Life is too short to be normal

      by B. Chefsky (Plain Press, February 2018)        After hearing a gunshot and seeing a man speed away from the scene, a neighbor found the body of Virgil Hunter lying face down on the carpeted floor of his third story apartment on West 25th Street, according to a 911 call. “I heard a gunshot and…

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