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  • Digital Diversity Dialogue luncheon tackles digital divide in Cleveland

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, April 20, 2024; 9926 Lorain Avenue: Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center (ASC3) and PC’s For People, housed at 9926 Lorain Avenue, joined with Westown Community Development Corporation to host a Digital Diversity Dialogue on April 24th. by Chuck Hoven      (Plain Press May 2024) The Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center…

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  • Digital Connected Learning and Retail Community Center opens on Lorain Avenue

    PHOTO BY MIKE PANDUREVIC June 29, 2023; Grand opening and ribbon cutting for the Digital Connected Learning and Retail Community Center, 9926-9928 Lorain Avenue: (L-R): Westown Community Development Corporation Director Rose Zitiello, Founder and Executive Director of Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center (ASC3) Wanda Davis, Ohio Director of PC’s For People Bevin Bowersmith, and Ward…

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  • Education Forward’s report indicates severe impact of COVID-19 on education in Cleveland

    Education Forward’s report indicates severe impact of COVID-19 on education in Cleveland by Chuck Hoven Plain Press, August 2022        At the June 28th business meeting of the Cleveland Municipal School District Board, Cleveland Metropolitan School District Chief Executive Officer Eric Gordon shared some of the findings of a recently completed report by Education Forward titled…

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  • American Rescue Plan Act survey responses provide window into what Cleveland needs now

    American Rescue Plan Act survey responses provide window into what Cleveland needs now by Zachary & Lee Chilcote (Plain Press, December 2021)                 This past summer, the city of Cleveland mailed surveys to more than 120,000 homes and businesses asking residents, “How would you spend $511 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to make Cleveland healthier and…

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  • Council members balk at $20M ‘blank check’ for citywide broadband pilot

    Council members balk at $20M ‘blank check’ for citywide broadband pilot by Lee Chilcote (Plain Press, October 2021)   A proposal to allocate $20 million to help bridge the digital divide in Cleveland by creating citywide broadband met with some opposition at Monday’s city council meeting, with some members asking why there wasn’t more community involvement or a concrete plan…

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  • Participatory Budgeting Cleveland (PB CLE) to launch budget recommendations

    Participatory Budgeting Cleveland (PB CLE) to launch budget recommendations by Bruce Checefsky (Plain Press, August 2021)     Town meetings were first established in the earliest New England settlements as a form of direct democracy in which most or all members of a community come together to discuss policies, laws, and budgets for their community. The first town meeting was…

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  • Cleveland Mayoral candidates crowd the field

    Cleveland Mayoral candidates crowd the field by Bruce Checefsky (Plain Press, May 2021)      More than a dozen candidates have registered with Cuyahoga County Board of Elections to raise money towards the Cleveland mayoral election scheduled to take place on November 2, 2021, with others expected to announce their candidacy in the coming weeks.      Blaine Griffin announced…

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  • COPING WITH COVID-19: 

    Isolation, lack of technology concerns for seniors during pandemic by Brie Zeltner (Plain Press, February 2021) Angela Smith can’t access her email– she has no computer, no tablet, no high-cost data plan, and the library’s closed. Smith, 48, is taking care of her 74-year-old mother, Minnie, in the Cedar Extension High-Rise senior apartments on East 30th…

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  • PCs for People is offering 10,000 free computers and hotspots to Cuyahoga County residents

    PCs for People is offering 10,000 free computers and hotspots to Cuyahoga County residents by Collin Cunningham, The Land (Plain Press, December 2020)                 As part of their continued collaboration with Cleveland Public Library to provide digital resources to local families, PCs for People is offering 10,000 free computers and hotspots to qualified Cuyahoga County residents who need…

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  • EYEJ compiling accurate, up-to-date portrait of Cleveland’s digital divide

    EYEJ compiling accurate, up-to-date portrait of Cleveland’s digital divide (Plain Press, October 2020) Cleveland’s digital divide has emerged as a central issue for Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice (EYEJ). Compelled by its mission to improve the lives of young people, EYEJ is actively engaged in an effort to fully understand and support real solutions to the widespread…

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