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
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