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Cleveland city councilperson arrested on suspicion of DUI, is second currently sitting city council person to face DUI charge

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Cleveland Ward 10 Councilman Eugene Miller By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 10 Councilman Eugene Miller was arrested on suspension of driving under the influence at 1 am Monday morning and pleaded not guilty when  he appear in Cleveland Municipal Court Monday morning. Miller is one of nine Blacks on the 19-member all Democratic city council. He is a close ally to council president Martin Sweeney and is the second currently sitting council member to draw a DUI charge behind Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed, who pleaded guilty twice to DUI, served jail time, and says he is now clean. Cleveland is a majority Black major metropolitan city of some 400,000 people. Miller  faces reelection in 2013 as the council seats and position of city mayor are up for grabs with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson alread
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Councilman Johnson, Donna Walker Brown, Kim Brown to debate Cleveland schools 15 mill tax levy with state Rep Patmon as moderator, schools CEO invited

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From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Urban News.Com and Cleveland area grassroots groups such as the Imperial Women Coalition, the Imperial Women, the Cleveland African-American Museum, Black on Black Crime, the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, the Oppressed People's Nation, the Joaquin Hicks Real People's Movement, the Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network, the People's Forum, the Family Connection Center, Organize Ohio, Revolution Books, Occupy Cleveland, the Committee to Bring Home Jamela and Jamyla, the Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, the Underground Railroad, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Ohio Family Rights and Cleveland Jobs With Justice will host an inner city grassroots debate on the Cleveland Public Schools 15 mill proper
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Gov. Kasich comes to Cleveland to sign Mayor Jackon's Cleveland schools education plan into law that takes away teacher seniority, hands public money to charter schools, places Cleveland schools levy on November ballot, Community advocate Kimberly Brown writes editorial against levy, Cleveland Urban News.Com welcomes guest editorials for or against the levy and the controversial education plan at editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Cleveland Urban News.Com Guest Editorial Writer Kimberly Brown Cleveland Urban News. Com and Thea ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Kimberly Brown, a former Cleveland mayoral candidate who also lost a bid for Cuyahoga County Council, writes the guest editorial below against a levy in November that woud support the financially strapped Cleveland Municipal School District. This editorial is that of Brown's and does not necessarily represent the views or the position on the matter of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leading online Black news venue. Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com welcome editorial letters on this most important issue and will take a stand on the matter publicly in the near feature. Send editorial letters to editor@clevelandurbannews.com. On Monday Ohio Republican Gov John Kasich made a special trip to Cleveland to meet with Democratic Mayor Frank Jacks
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