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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- Watch parties relative to the Nov 6, 2012  election are as follows: (Reach the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Headquarters at 216-621-9750, 1466 St. Clair Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114). Victory Party for President Obama, Senator Sherrrod Brown other Democratic Party candidates in Ohio: Columbus Hilton in  downtown Columbus, 401 N. High St, Columbus, OH, 43215, Tel: 614-384-8600 Party for Obama for America Campaign volunteers (according to Cuyahoga County Democratic Party officials) Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in downtown Cleveland, 1111 Lakeside Ave, Cleveland, OH., 44114, Tel: 216-241-5100 Grassroots Victory Party for President Obama: Josephine's Lounge, 7902 Central Ave, Cleveland, OH., 44104, Tel: 216-361-3697, Dionne Thomas Carmichael, proprietor Cleveland Ward

U.S. Federal District Court Judge Sara Lioi Jimmy Dimora By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com www.clevelandur bannews.com 0 AKRON, Ohio-An attorney for former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and at least one community activist out of the Cleveland, Oh. area say that the 28-year federal prison sentence handed to the former chairperson of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party on Tuesday for convictions by an Akron federal jury in March of racketeering and 32 other corruption-related charges is absurd at best. "Notwithstanding the crimes that Jimmy Dimora was convicted of, I think the punishment was too severe," said Larry Bresler, a Cleveland community activist and inactive attorney who teaches classes on community organizing at Case Western Reserve University and leads the Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and Organize Ohio. "People that commit mu

Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, the prior chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party whom a federal jury convicted of 33 of 34 counts of crimes in office last week, including racketeering . By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (kathy@kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) AKRON-Ohio-Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora reached a court settlement yesterday on what he owes the federal government after his conviction last week on 33 of 34 counts of crimes in office including theft, racketeering and taking bribes on county contracts for things such as home improvements, Las Vegas junkets and expensive prostitutes. The former chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party who joins a host of other former elected officials and county party affiliates in losing to the federal government, including two former judg

Laura Cowan, an anti-domestic violence advocate, speaks to 19 Action News during a vigil held after the bodies of 19-year-old Latasha Jackson and Jackson's one-year-old daughter Chaniya Wynn were discovered by police in a garage on Cleveland's majority Black east side. An AMBER Alert issued by Cuyahoga County that might have prevented the tragedy faulted twice. By Kathy Wray Coleman , Editor of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog,.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-A CNN community hero and community activist whose baby's daddy is serving a life sentence for holding her hostage in her home garage and raping her in front of her then two children is calling for Cuyahoga County officials to do better with the AMBER Alert in the wake of the kidnapping and murder of a young Black mother and her young daughter by a disgruntled ex-boyfriend two weeks ago. "It is negligence

Cuyahoga County District 7 Councilwoman Yvonne Conwell By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) This is an exclusive one-on-one interview with Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Yvonne Conwell, one of four Blacks on the 11-member Cuyahoga County Council that came into power Jan. a year ago, along with voter-elected Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald. (Editor's note: For a better understanding for some readers unfamiliar with Cuyahoga County's new form of government, the actual interview follows the overview below). A college educated woman with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Cleveland State University and a mother of three children, one an adult, another in college, and the third a teen, Conwell is the 26-year wife of Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Kevin Conwell. She represents Cuyahoga Council District 7, a district with some 116,000 residents in a county with some 1.2 million people. Cuyahoga Count

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Imperial Women Coalition, The Audacity of H.O.P.E Foundation, and Cleveland Urban News.Com, in cooperation with The Cleveland African American Museum and other community organizations, will host “The First Ever Inner City Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Candidate's Debate" for the community and the candidates on Thurs., Jan. 5, 2012 from 5:30 pm.- 8:00 p.m. at Lil' Africa Party Center, 6816 Superior Ave. in Cleveland, 44103. Candidates for the office are Attorney Subodh Chandra, Police Officer Stephanie Hall, Cleveland Ward 13 Councilman Kevin Kelley, Retired Judge Timothy McGinty, Attorney James J. McDonnell, and Attorney Robert Triozzi. Contacts for the debate are Audacity of Hope Foundation Founder Griot Y-Von at 216-355-3374, Cleveland African-American Museum

National political news and local news from the Cleveland metropolitan area By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (kathy@kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) At its Dec 7. meeting the Executive Committee of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party issued a no endorsement to the six candidates seeking its support that are vying to replace Bill Mason for county prosecutor, a man still with political influence who helped propel two of his assistant prosecutors to judgeship's in Nov. "There was no endorsement in that race because none of the candidates received 60 percent of the vote of the Executive Committee members in attendance as required for an endorsement, " said Nick Martin, 31, Executive Director of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party. "And in that and other races a few people abstained from voting." Mason, 52, announced in Oct that he will not seek a fourth four-year term. He has not groomed