• Plans for a shared use path from Edgewater Park to West Boulevard Cudell Rapid station resurrected

    STATE CAPITAL PROJECT FUNDING SPURS NEW EFFORT PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, June 26, 2026; Site of proposed shared use path at Lake Avenue and West Boulevard: (L-R) Ward 12 Cleveland City Council Representative Tanmay Shah, District 13 State Representative Tristan Rader, and Ward 11 Cleveland City Council Representative Nikki Hudson mount bicycles as they…


  • City Council approves use of eminent domain to purchase site for new fire station at Madison and West Boulevard

    (Plain Press August 2026) At its July 15th meeting, Cleveland City Council approved an ordinance “declaring the City’s intent to begin the process of purchasing, through eminent domain, the former CVS property” located at 10022 Madison Avenue (Madison at West Boulevard) for the purpose of building a new Firehouse 23. Last year residents protested a…


  • Resident concerned about Fire Station Number 23: Open Letter to Cleveland City Council

    Dear Council Members,    (Plain Press June 2026) As a resident of the Cudell/Clifton-Baltic/Edgewater neighborhood, I was highly disappointed to learn that the ‘Municipal Services & Properties Committee’ blocked the ability for Mayor Bibb’s office to enforce ’eminent domain’ to acquire 10022 Madison Avenue (corner of Madison & West Boulevard, located within bordering Wards 11 & 12).…


  • Trip to Montgomery commemorates Cleveland man murdered in 1911 over a handful of cherries

    by Randy Cunningham    (Plain Press December 2025) The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a project of the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama is a complex of sites dedicated to commemorating the black experience in America from slavery and segregation, up to today’s New Jim Crow of mass incarceration. I think it is…


  • Anti-eviction program helps residents in Northwest Neighborhoods

    by Bob Sandrick, The Land    (Plain Press October 2024) A nonprofit provider of affordable housing in Cleveland has devised an innovative and perhaps groundbreaking eviction-avoidance program that it hopes will serve as a model throughout the city and even the country.    Northwest Neighborhoods, which owns and manages more than 350 rental apartment units…


  • Northwest Neighborhoods announces Executive Director Kent Márquez

         (Plain Press August 2024) The Board of Directors of Northwest Neighborhoods CDC is pleased to announce its selection of Bridget Kent Márquez (she/they) as the organization’s Executive Director, following one year of her interim executive directorship. Under Kent Márquez’s leadership, a spokesperson for Northwest Neighborhoods says the nonprofit has evolved as an innovative provider of affordable housing and…


  • American Institute of Architects Cleveland hosts 2022 Sandfest at Edgewater Beach – raises funds for scholarships

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, August 6, 2022, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Cleveland Sandfest, Edgewater Beach: Ten teams competed in a sandcastle and sand sculpture contest. This Route 66 sign was a part of Vocon’s entry in the contest titled “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” which won the prize for Best Sculpture. The…


  • New Neighborhood Housing Court Kiosk opens at the South Branch Library

    New Neighborhood Housing Court Kiosk opens at the South Branch Library by Bruce Checefsky Plain Press, August 2022        Cleveland Housing Court and Cleveland Public Library have teamed up to bring the court to the community. Starting this month, the new Neighborhood Housing Court Kiosk at the South Branch of the Cleveland Public Library, located at…


  • Equity is on the (Transit) line: Two transit riders nominated to RTA board

    Equity is on the (Transit) line: Two transit riders nominated to RTA board by Aja Hannah Plain Press, May 2022             Leaning into the street, a resident flags down her bus. She wears thick gloves as she holds onto the bus stop sign. A light rain falls, washing old salt and snow down a nearby drain.       There…