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Ohio State Senator Nina Turner and state Representatives Sandra Williams and Armond Budish to host town hall meeting on state budget bill on Monday, August 5, 2013 at 6 pm at the East Cleveland Public Library

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From Left: Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D-25), State Representative Sandra Williams (D-11), State Representative Armond Budish (D-9) and State Senator Shirley Smith (D-21) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com    EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) and state Reps. Sandra Williams (D-11) and Armond Budish (D-9) will host a town hall meeting on House Bill 59, the state budget bill, on Monday, August 5, 2013  from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the East Cleveland Public Library. The event is free and open to the public, though tickets
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State Sen. Shirley Smith to hold expungment clinic today, May 23, 2013, at CSU on new state law to seal criminal records she co-sponsored that took effect this year

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05.15.13 - State Sen. Shirley A. Smith  (pictured) To Hold Workforce Re-Entry Training & Clinic (Her Columbus, Oh. Statehouse Telephone Number To Her Office iS 216-466-4857) Cleveland, Ohio – Today, Thursday, May 23, state Sen. Shirley A. Smith (D-21) will hold a full day of events  from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM at the Wolstein Center (2000 Prospect Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115) on the campus of Cleveland State University  related to workforce re-entry for ex-offenders.   The event will feature workshops surrounding records expungement and the Certificate of Qualification for Employment (CQE), provisions of law that became effective with the passage of Senate Bill 337 last year. [  Read Full Story  ]
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Ohio State Senator Shirley Smith announces a possible run for Cuyahoga County executive in wake of announcement last month by County Executive Ed FitzGerald that he will run for governor against Republican John Kasich next year, Smith, a Cleveland Democrat, is the first Black to announce (Editor's Note: Smith will hold an information and expungement clinic open to the public with law enforcement officials and affiliates of the OBCI relative to a new state law for exungement of select criminal records that she co-sponsored that Kasich supported, the clinic is for people that qualify to have criminal records sealed under the new law and will be held on May 23 at 4 pm at the CSU Wolstein Center, 2000 Prospect Ave in Cleveland, people with criminal warrants should consult an attorney first, Blacks get harsher criminal sentences than their White counterparts in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas led by Chief Judge Nancy Fuerst, a Cleveland NAACP study that is gathering dust to protect the establishment found)

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Ohio State Senator Shirley Smith (D-21), a Cleveland Democrat By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- Ohio state Sen. Shirley Smith (D-21) is the first Black to announce that she might run for Cuyahoga County executive next year in the wake of a formal announcement late last month by County Executive Ed FitzGerald, a Democrat like Smith and former FBI agent and Lakewood mayor, that he will not seek reelection and will instead run as the likely Democratic nominee against Republican John Kasich in the 2014 gubernatorial election.  A prior state representative and state senator since 2007, Smith would not go into detail with Cleveland Urban News.Com on her proposed run for one of the most powerful offices
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Ohio State Senator Shirley Smith wins Republican support of state law to seal felony convictions, protect juvenile records from discloure with help of Republican Governor John Kasich, who went from initially having no Blacks in his cabinet when taking office in 2011 to championing some Black causes, data show

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Ohio State Senator Shirley Smith (D-22) Ohio Governor John Kasich (R-OH) By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) COLUMBUS, Ohio-With the help of Republican Gov. John Kasich, who went from initially having no Blacks in his cabinet to championing some Black causes, Ohio state Sen. Shirley Smith (D-22) finally got the Republican controlled Ohio State Legislature to pass a state law that gives Ohio state and federal sentencing judges the extent of discretion to seal not violent criminal records of a single felony conviction, and one additional misdemeanor conviction if applied for, or two misdemeanor convictions. An amendment to the previous record sealing statute that allowed Ohio state and federal trial court judges to seal one and not two criminal convictions, either a misdemeanor or felony, and with a requirement that the person has only one
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