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Department of Energy urged to maintain safety standards for radiation protection
To the editor: (Plain Press April 2026) This is what I posted on the Department of Energy’s comment page after a dozen rewrites, on the Categorical (Safety) Exclusions for new reactors: President Trump’s Executive Order 14300 prompting the Categorical Exclusion for Advanced Nuclear Reactors calls for abandoning the Linear No Threshold (LNT) standard for radiation…
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Americans urged to call for modernization and humanization of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act
To the editor: (Plain Press April 2026) Most Americans believe that, after seven years, their financial “permanent record” is purged. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), this is true for late payments and bankruptcies- but it’s a myth for your career. Payroll data-miners like Equifax’s The Work Number maintain indefinite records of…
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Enough is Enough: People Before Profits!
(Plain Press January 2026) To the editor: Here we go again spending gobs of taxpayer money with high-priced consultants to decide how Cleveland’s lakefront might be developed. And like ravenous hogs at the overflowing trough of public money, private interests are scrambling breathlessly to find ever more creative and clandestine ways to gorge themselves…
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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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Concern expressed over destruction of old burying ground
To the editor: (Plain Press February 2025) My primary concern regarding the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation’s Pearl Memphis Project is the destruction of the old burying ground which likely still has pioneers interred upon the site. The plans, from what I have seen, are calling for the complete removal of that green space…
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Are eight photos on one event a record?
To the editor: (Plain Press January 2025) Dear brother and sister editors of the Plain Press, I always enjoy reading the Plain Press and appreciate your coverage of local issues in the Tremont and beyond neighborhoods. I noted eight (8) photos of the “Day of the Dead” festivities and was wondering if that’s…
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Call for a complete overhaul of County Government, starting with the Land Bank
To the editor: (Plain Press November 2024) Thank you, Chuck Hoven, for your August article: Cleveland and Cuyahoga County need new policies to help residents address property delinquency. For years, authors at REALNEO.us have asked that Cuyahoga County stop third party tax lien sales and for Cuyahoga County to stop funding the corrupt Cuyahoga…
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Cuyahoga County determination of property values called arbitrary and capricious
To the editor: (Plain Press September 2024) As someone who worked for 25 years in the mortgage industry {the last 10 years in underwriting} I find it appalling that Cuyahoga County determines property values in such an arbitrary and capricious manner. LETTER Part of my responsibility was reviewing appraisals whether it be for…
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Reader shares his grandfather’s immigration story
(Plain Press July 2024) This letter is in response to the recent articles covering immigration. My grandfather, Albert Joseph Bialek, came to the United States from Poland (Galicia) in 1910. Per the Ellis Island website, he boarded the ship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in Bremen, Germany (formerly Prussia). He had just completed his service…
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