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Board responsible for reviewing complaints about University Circle Police did not do so in 2020 or 2021, lawyer says
Legislation working its way through Cleveland City Council could expand the jurisdiction of University Circle Police into Little Italy. Some council members support the expansion, while others questioned how the private police force will interact with residents.
The demise of East Glenville: Once a tight-knit community, now another blighted neighborhood
Carolyn Cooper remembers East Glenville, the neighborhood she grew up in, as a well-manicured, caring community, but in what seemed like a blink of an eye, it has transformed into just another blighted Cleveland neighborhood.
Cleveland City Council wants better system for tracking nuisance complaints. Will the city step up?
Nuisance complaints such as trash, high grass and weeds are prevalent across the entire city. Council members want a quicker response time and an online system for tracking complaints.
Follow the $500M: Cleveland’s ARPA budget includes $2M for problem-plagued NEON Health Services
NEON Health Services is requesting $2 million from the city’s ARPA budget to provide community health programming and repair the Hough Medical Center, which suffered a fire in May of this year. Yet the agency has been running up deficits, defaulting on its debts, and losing patients and staff for years, leading concerned employees to question the future of the organization.
Defying critics who cast him as the ultimate political insider, Kevin Kelley says ‘Change will come’ if he’s elected mayor
On an early September evening, about a dozen neighbors gathered in the backyard of Phil and Christina Buck on Cleveland’s west side for a meet-and-greet with City Council president and mayoral candidate Kevin Kelley. The candidate, dressed casually in a short-sleeve shirt and leaning forward in his lawn chair, listened intently as an Ohio City resident complained about absentee landlords.
Cleveland pays back debt to female veterans with new Sara J. Harper Village
On a recent sunlit summer afternoon, a groundbreaking ceremony in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood marked the place where new affordable housing for traumatized female veterans is slated to be completed in Spring 2022. The complex at Lee Rd. and E. 105th St. will accommodate everyone from individuals to women with up to two children.
A pastor and a mission: How a Glenville church brought aid to Jackson, MS
A Cleveland pastor from the city’s Glenville community spearheaded a local mission to bring water relief to the predominantly Black residents of Jackson, MS, whose water system was severely damaged by the same deadly storm that crippled the state of Texas.
CRCC drop-in center offers trafficking survivors safe, quiet place
After more than a year of planning and overseeing the build-out of a former KeyBank branch at 10450 Superior Ave. on the southwest corner of East 105th Street in Glenville, Cleveland Rape Crisis Center (CRCC) opened the Human Trafficking Drop-in Center on April 1, the first day of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
City, CMSD agree to land swap that will create new school in Cudell, development opportunities
A property exchange agreement between the city of Cleveland and Cleveland Metropolitan School District will pave the way for a new Marion C. Seltzer Elementary School at Cudell Commons and open up development opportunities on the east and west sides.