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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton collects enough signatures for merger talks with Cleveland, the initiative could hit the ballot soon for voter approval first in East Cleveland.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) , Tel: (216) 659-0473, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  CLEVELAND, Ohio -- East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton has submitted enough voter signatures for  merger  talks for a potential  annexation of the largely Black impoverished Cleveland suburb with the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Board of Elections officials said Friday.  Plagued with poverty and a debilitating tax base, East Cleveland is on the verge of  bankruptcy, Norton told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news. And he said that financial problems have been brewing since he was a kid.  The mayor's foes say that he is the problem. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and east side Cleveland c

By Kathy Wray Coleman: East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton wins reelection

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton and East Cleveland City Council President Dr. Joy Jordan 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 EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-East Cleveland voters retained incumbent East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton in a Democratic primary election on Tuesday.  With all 18 precincts counted  Norton garnered 1385 votes, or two-thirds of the 2099 ballots cast, and East Cleveland City Council President Dr. Joy Jordan got 563 votes, or about 27%, unofficial results from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections reveal. Political novice Vernon Robinson  came in third place  with 151 votes. Norton ousted former mayor Eric Brewer four years ago as the then city council president, and Brewer had endorsed Jordan. Wi

Community forum sponsored by Cleveland NAACP on 137 bullets deadly shootings is Friday at 6 pm at Shaw High School, police, Mayor Norton, city officials to answer community questions, community activists to protest there at 5:30 pm for FBI control of investigation, role of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who took campaign contributions and was endorsed for election by Cleveland police union

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton Cleveland NAACP Interim Director Arlene Anderson Community Activist Art McKoy, a founder of the grassroots group Black on Black Crime Inc. Community Activist Khalid Samad, who leads the grassroots group Peace in the Hood  Democratic Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a controversial figure and retired Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge who took campaign contributions and was endorsed this year for election for the seat by the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association. Community activists are investigating his role in the investigation as a potential conflict of interest.  Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, both shot at 137 times and gunned down two weeks ago by a group of White Cleveland police officers following a car chase from Cleveland that led into East Cleveland, a nearby predominantly Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland, which is also majority Black and Ohio's second larges