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Michael Houser is chosen to replace Anthony Hairston on Cuyahoga County Council and is pictured with County Councilwoman and County Democratic Chair Shontel Brown after the Central Committee of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party chose him Thursday among four candidates....Brown is the first Black woman and first Black to lead the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party....By editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Newly appointed Cuyahoga County Councilman Michael Houser poses with County Councilwoman Shontel Brown, also the chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, the party's first Black and first female chairperson Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-  The Central Committee of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party on Thursday appointed Michael Houser to replace former county councilman Anthon

Four candidates, 3 Black and 1 White, seek appointment to the Cuyahoga County Council seat vacated by Anthony Hairston, who was elected last year to Cleveland City Council......Cuyahoga County includes Cleveland....The form of governance of a county executive and Cuyahoga County Council took effect in 2011 after voters, amid a pubic corruption scandal that saw two common pleas judges sent to prison and brought lengthy prison terms to former county commissioner Jimmy Dimora and former county auditor Frank Russo, dumped a three-member board of commissioners and all elected county offices but the judges in lieu of a new county governance structure....That structure consists of a county executive that hires and fires the county sheriff, coroner, treasurer, fiscal officer, and clerk of courts, and with approval from county council....The current county executive is Armond Budish, a Beachwood Democrat and former state representative who is up for re-election this year....By edtor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-  The  Central Committee of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party will meet Thursday to decide who, among four people, will replace former county councilman Anthony Hairston, who was elected in November to the ward 10 seat on Cleveland City Council and was sworn in this month to his new position. Candidates seeking the district 10 county council seat vacated by H

Cuyahoga County Council to vote today on whether to put sin tax renewal measure on May ballot inspite of wind chill warning, below zero temperatures, and though public schools, county courts and offices are closed, and most of the city of Cleveland is nearly shut down, sin tax funds sports stadiums upkeep with a tax on alcohol, cigarettes, community activists suspect about why meeting has not been canceled, say county council does not want community input, Black community disproportionately impacted by the sin tax

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By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-In spite of a wind chill warning in effect across Northeast Ohio  until noon Wednesday ,  and the closings of public schools, businesses, and county offices and courts  ,  Cuyahoga County Council will go forward with scheduled meetings today at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in downtown Cleveland, including its 5 pm regular meeting to vote on whether to put the 20-year extension of the sin tax on alcohol and cigarettes that would fund city sports stadiums upkeep on the May ballot. The regular meeting will follow scheduled meetings earlier in the day, co