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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Pictured are  11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio (D-11) (wearing bluish-green suit), 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio (D-9)  (in blue suit and turtleneck), Ohio Governor John Kasich (R-OH), and United States House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner of Ohio (R-8) (in pink tie) 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. Tel: (216) 659-0473.  Coleman is a community activist and 22-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  WASHINGTON, D.C.-11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat,  and 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, a Tole

From left: Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, the democratic nominee for Ohio governor, Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich, and Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist and 20-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog .Com, Ohio's leading Black digital newspaper and Black digital news blog. Contact us by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and advertising @clevelandurbannews.com, and by phone at (216) 659-0473  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) COLUMBUS, Ohio- As the Nov. 4 election for Ohio governor looms Republican Incumbent Gov John Kasich and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, the Democratic nominee, are neck-and-neck, polls show. According to a Public Policy Polling poll that the Democr

Former 11th Congressional District  Congressman Louis Stokes By former Congressman Louis Stokes,  a Shaker Heights, Ohio Democrat and former senior counsel with the Squire, Sanders and Dempsey  law  firm who led the 11th congressional district, which is now led by Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge,  a Warrensville Heights Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress. Congressman  Stokes addresses below  efforts  to steal the Black vote in Ohio via voter  suppression  bills signed into law this year by Republican Governor John Kasich. The new state laws limit  early  voting, among other  strategies  to intimidate Black,  elderly  and low-income voters,  Click here to join the fight for voting rights in Ohio.   That fight is also being taken up by Democratic candidate for governor Ed FitzGerald, the Cuyahoga County executive. Cuyahoga County is the  state's  largest of 88 counties and includes the largely Blacks cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland.

 From left:  State Representative Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland), Ohio Governor John Kasich , and State Representative Lynn Wachtmann (R-Napoleon)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  and    ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) . COLUMBUS, Ohio—State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) announces that Gov. John Kasich has signed Substitute House Bill 147 into law. The purpose of this legislation, he said,  is to raise awareness about a woman’s surgical options pertaining to breast cancer mastectomies and reconstructive surgery. Sub. H.B. 147, passed by the Ohio General Assembly and jointly sponsored by Patmon and state Rep. Lynn Wachtmann (R-Napoleon), requires all surgeons and those designated by surgeons to perform certain procedures to use a patient navigation system consistent with the standards used by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC). Also under the new state law, the NAPBC standards require a surgeon to inform the client if she is