East Cleveland, Fairfax, Glenville,
Hough, Little Italy
and University Circle, written by citizen journalists
I have two children in Cleveland schools and I worry that we're setting our kids up to fail. The new juvenile detention center in the Fairfax community bothers me. The school district's budget cuts bother me. It’s a frustrating problem. Nonetheless, complaining neither adds nor subtracts any of the facts on this matter. I want [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 04 May 2012
East Cleveland is doing better than I’ve seen it do in my 20 years of living here. On Feb. 18, I attended Mayor Gary Norton’s State of the City address to learn about our progress. He spoke to a packed house in the Greg L. Reese auditorium of the East Cleveland Public library. Norton [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 07 March 2012
Election Day is here in the wake of one of the city’s most violent weeks, and it is more evident that the new Cuyahoga County prosecutor will not only have his hands full with bringing this county’s most violent offenders to justice, he will also be faced with the task of performing a fine balancing [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 06 March 2012
February 17, 2012, Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO of PolicyLink, spoke at the City Club of Cleveland. The event was sonsored by the Saint Luke’s Foundation as part of the City Club's Why Place Matters series. Blackwell said her organization promotes economic and social equity—just and fair inclusion. “PolicyLink watches what happens here [in [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 03 March 2012
Parts of Ashbury Avenue received a $45,000 makeover thanks to an Urban Development Action Grant received by the City of Cleveland. The city also spent $250,000 to repave the road from East 105th Sreet to Lakeview Road, the entire length of the street. Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony [...]
Posted by: Robert Rozboril Posted on: 04 January 2012
Homeowners, neighborhood leaders and the nonprofit group Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People, better known as ESOP, launched a campaign urging federal officials, banks and mortage companies to save homes from foreclosure. Community members delivered letters to bank branches across the Cleveland area asking bank CEOs to support their demand that Ed DeMarco, acting director of Federal Housing [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 04 January 2012
Business leaders from across the United States were honored in our nation’s Capitol on Wednesday, November 16th for opening their workplaces to adults and young adults who are working to recover from mental illness. With assistance from quality, accredited rehabilitation and support centers, known as “ICCD Clubhouses," people who have psychiatric disabilities are re-entering the workforce and relying less [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 23 November 2011
“My journey during my incarceration wasn’t just a physical journey, it was an interior journey as well,” Damon Calvert said. Just two days out of prison, he was employed full time and is currently attending Cleveland State University in pursuit of a master’s in nonprofit management. He attributes his success so far to that interior journey [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 18 November 2011
Parts of Ashbury Avenue received a $45,000 makeover thanks to an Urban Development Action Grant received by the City of Cleveland. The city also spent $250,000 to repave the road from East 105th Street to Lakeview Road. Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, who lives on Ashbury Avenue, took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony Nov. 19 to [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 18 November 2011
Pastor Andrew Clark, Sr., of Trinity Outreach Ministries on Ashbury Avenue, announced in October a plan that encourages every church in Glenville to open its doors during the week for tutoring and workshops on financial literacy, crime prevention and health. Clark, the founder of Glenville Ministry in Missions Alliance, announced the plan, dubbed the [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 16 November 2011
East Side residents fear shifts in ward boundaries will create a rift in the neighborhoods they call home. With a population of less than 397,000, Cleveland City Council must reduce the number of wards and council representatives from 19 to 17 before the 2013 election in accordance with the City Charter. This news comes just [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 15 May 2011
Union leaders in Ohio are working quickly to stop Senate Bill 5 from stripping their collective bargaining rights. The bill affects the financial futures of 350,000 unionized state employees and their families. It would prohibit unions from striking, cap employers’ contributions to pension funds and require union members to pay at least 15 percent of [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 31 March 2011
Plans to reduce the federal deficit by slashing funds for Planned Parenthood facilities would have a grave effect on local health care. Officials at Planned Parenthood of Northeast Ohio said proposed cuts could force the closing of centers like the newly refurbished one in the Fairfax neighborhood that serves East Cleveland and Shaker as well [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 31 March 2011
Inequities between poor and affluent public school districts fueled a national debate at the beginning of 2011. Akron mother Kelley Williams-Bolar inadvertently instigated the dispute after being jailed for sending her two daughters to a wealthier school district outside their neighborhood. But she is not the first Ohio parent to commit such a crime. The [...]
Posted by: M. LaVora Perry Posted on: 31 March 2011
JobsOhio was signed into law Feb. 18. The bill authorizes use of public funds to create a private, nonprofit that aims to use a corporate structure to aid economic improvement and create employment opportunities throughout the state. The final version of House Bill 1, which passed the House by a vote of 60-35 and the Senate [...]
Posted by: lmills Posted on: 25 February 2011
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