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THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE BY GREATER CLEVELAND RTA CLEVELAND, Ohio- Notice is hereby given that a public hearing on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Capital Improvement Plan (2025 CIP) Budget of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority will be held immediately following the 2025 – 2029 Capital Improvement Plan presentation to the Operational Planning and Infrastructure Committee, at  9:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 . The public hearing will be held in the Board Room of the Authority, 1st Floor, Main Office Building, 1240 West Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio. The Board Committee meetings and public hearing will be live streamed on RTA’s website at ( www.riderta.com/board ) by selecting the meeting day. Public comments for the Public Hearing can be made in person or submitted by email at ( Public-Comment@gcrta.org ) or by phone (440-276-4600) or through a web form ( www.riderta.com/events ) (select meeting event, scroll to the bottom to fill out the form, com

Friday, April 19, 2024 — Cleveland —  Food Access Raises Everyone (FARE) is bringing Produce Perks back to the West Side Market this weekend, Sat., April 20 and Sun., April 21, in partnership with the City of Cleveland and Produce Perks Midwest.  The program is designed to increase access to fresh food for Cleveland residents and support vendors at the West Side Market. Due to the success of the Produce Perks Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Coupon program at the West Side Market, which launched in April 2022, the state of Ohio has doubled the funding available for the program for the next two years, city officials said in a statement . The funding will help provide give Cleveland families will provide over 1,000 families with access to healthy, affordable food at West Side Market.  For the past two years, West Side Market had the highest redemption rate in the state for Produce Perks coupons. Produce Perks provide TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) $140 in free fruit and vegetabl

Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown (left) (D-OH) and Congresswoman Emilia Sykes (D-OH) Staff article Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) on Wednesday co-led a press conference in Washington, D.C. with colleagues from the New Democrat Coalition and called on House Republican leadership to take immediate action to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and preserve affordable internet access for 23 million American households. Brown is a cosponsor of Congresswoman Yvette Clarke's Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act that would provide seven billion in funding for the ACP. The press conference also included Reps. Annie Kuster (NH-02), Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), Angie Craig (MN-02), Emilia Sykes (OH-13), and Gabe Vasquez (NM-02). Rep Brown is a Warrensville Hts Democrat whose 11th congressional district includes Cleveland, and Sykes is an Akron Democrat and the youngest of Ohio's Five-Member Democratic Congressional Delegation. It also includes U.S.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cuyahoga County Democratic Party held its annual fund-raising dinner on Sun., April 14, 2024 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Cleveland, with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown the guest speaker and former U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary Marcia Fudge, who received the group's lifetime achievement award, the honorary guest for the evening . Cuyahoga County includes the largely Black, major American city of Cleveland and is roughly 29 percent Black. A Democratic stronghold, it is the se cond largest of Ohio's 88 counties, behind Franklin County, which includes the city of Columbus and is also a Democratic stronghold. Speakers at the event also included County Democratic Party Chairman David Brock, Congresswoman Shontel Brown, previously a chair of the county Democratic Party, and Cleveland City Council President Blaine Griffin. Tickets for the well-attended event ranged in price from $100 for a regular ticket to $10,0

O.J. Simpson in 1990 Staff article by Kathy Wray Coleman, editor CLEVELAND, Ohio – Former NFL star OJ Simpson has died at 76-years-old after a battle with cancer, his family announced Thursday, an announcement that triggered fodder with media outlets across the country and reminds America's Black community of the country's long legacy of systemic racism and its troubles with its fragile and racist legal system.  National cable media hosts had a field day with commentary over whether Simpson murdered ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, even though he was exonerated in 1995 of criminal charges in the case with lawyer Johnny Cochran leading his "dream team" legal team. He was  later sent to prison for nine years for convictions for arranging a robbery to retrieve his stolen memorabilia, the latter criminal case of which came under question as possible retaliation for a not guilty verdict in the case of his ex-wife's death. Despite being exoner

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat Staff article by Kathy Wray Coleman, editor WASHINGTON, D.C.  – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a Cleveland Democrat and seasoned member of Congress, called for Congress and President Biden to ban Chinese-made electric vehicles to protect Ohio autoworkers, and to combat what he says are economic and national security threats posed by Chinese automakers.  In a letter to President Biden, the popular senator warned that Chinese cars, made by companies controlled and subsidized by the Chinese Communist Party, present an existential threat to the American auto industry, and that tariffs alone are insufficient to stop a government-orchestrated attack on an entire sector of the nation's economy. “Chinese electric vehicles are an existential threat to the American auto industry. Ohio knows all too well how China illegally subsidizes its companies, putting our workers out of jobs and undermining entire industries, from steel to sola