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  • Issue 4: What does passage mean for neighborhood schools?

    (Plain Press, November 2014) Issue 4 on the November 4th Ballot asks Cleveland voters to extend the bond issue originally passed by Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) voters in 2001. Since Issue 4 is a renewal, the district stresses it will not raise taxes. The CMSD notes that the bond issue will cost the owner…

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  • Planning Commission tells Lorain Avenue used car dealer – it is time to move on

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, November 2014) At the October 17th City Planning Commission Meeting in Cleveland City Hall the application of A & E Auto Services and Sales at 4157 Lorain Avenue for a conditional use permit to continue operating at their current location was turned down. In 2011 the area of Lorain Avenue…

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  • North Union Farmers’ Market

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  • Monroe Street Cemetery

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  • Welcome House seeks funding for home for developmentally disabled youth aging out of foster care

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, September 2014) Welcome House, which purchased the Cuyahoga County Archives buildings at W. 29th and Franklin, hopes to use the main building, the Rhodes House, to provide housing and support services for twenty-four developmentally disabled young adults who are aging out of foster care. Welcome House Executive Director Tony Thomas…

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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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  • Bob Stop

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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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  • July 2014 Issue of the Plain Press

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  • United Building Lobby mural

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Monday, June 16, 2014; United Building Lobby, 2012 W. 25th Street: A part of a mural showing a street scene with a horse and carriage and a streetcar passing the Cuyahoga County Court House. Artist Jessica Newell began sketching and painting the mural in the domes above the first floor lobby…

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