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Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Posted Tuesday, November 3, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) By Kathy Wray Coleman Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason flexed his muscle election night Tuesday as the county reform measure dubbed Issue 6 that he pushed to the distraction of Black leaders and Cleveland, Ohio's Black press sailed to victory in a landslide fashion. So did Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who trounced former Cleveland City Council member Bill Patmon to win a second term as mayor of the predominantly Black city with 78 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. The state wide initiative that would bring casino gambling to horse racing facilities to major Ohio cities, including Cleveland, passed by a narrow margin. Jackson said that in his next four years as mayor he ...

Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 (National and Cleveland Ohio Area News) Cleveland, Oh journalist Kathy Wray Coleman was arrested by Middleburg Heights, Oh. police last night in what she says is retaliation for an upcoming protest against Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough, who has harassed the journalist allegedly because of her writings in Cleveland's Call and Post Newspaper, a weekly that targets the Black community, and investigations around a federal corruption probe involving Cuyahoga County public officials. Cuyahoga County is the largest in Ohio and includes the predominantly Black city of Cleveland. Middleburg Heights is an overwhelmingly White suburb of Cleveland that Blacks fear in terms of illegal arrests and racial intimidation. According to Coleman, three police cars and numerous police swarmed her car at 9 pm last night without either probable cause or reasonable articulable suspicion and approached her att...

Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 (Regional and Local Cleveland, Ohio Area News) By The Endorsement Committee of The Determiner Weekly and Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The Determiner Weekly has endorsed Issue 5 and rejected county reform Issue 6, following the lead of Black leaders of Cuyahoga County including U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11), Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Ohio Rep. Barbara Boyd (D-9), and NAACP President George Forbes. The endorsements came at a meeting on Saturday with a panel of affiliates of the new online Black magazine such as editor Kathy Wray Coleman, new writer and columnist Genevieve Mitchell, Adilifu Sanyiaka, and William Clarence Marshall, an esteemed singer out of the Cleveland, Oh. area. The group also endorsed incumbent Cleveland, Oh. Mayor Frank Jackson over Bill Patmon, a former Cleveland City Council member. “The...

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 (White House and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) By Kathy Wray Coleman (Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network) The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network have made the cut for President Obama's media list, which gives access to top level officials at the White House via telephone press conferences, including White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. . “We look forward to working with America's first African-American President and his media staff and others to provide worthy news across the Internet and elsewhere particularly to Ohioans since Ohio is a pivotal state where no Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio,” said Coleman, editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network. During last year's Democratic Prima...

Ohio Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher Ohio State Representative Barbara Boyd U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes Retired U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) By Kathy Wray Coleman (Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network) Ohio Democratic Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, who is Jewish, has been branded racist by bloggers on the Plain Dealer News Paper's online forum after yesterday announcing his support of Issue 6, a Cuyahoga County reform measure on the November ballot. The county charter revision proposal is opposed by practically every prominent Black leader from Ohio's largest county, including U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-11, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes and Black Women's Political Action Committee President and Ohio Rep. Barbara Boyd, D-9. If adopted by voters it...

Cuyahoga County Court Of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman Posted Sunday, October 25, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) Cleveland, Oh. journalist Kathy Wray Coleman will get her day in court on a claim that she was maliciously prosecuted in the Shaker Heights, Oh. Municipal Court by the city of Beachwood Oh. and subjected to intentional infliction of emotional distress in retaliation for her community activism and her writings on alleged housing discrimination against Blacks in Shaker Heights in the Call and Post Newspaper, a Cleveland weekly that targets the Black community. The decision, issued last Thursday by a three-judge panel from the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals that consisted of judges Christine McMonagle, Patricia Ann Blackmon and Melody Stewart, reinstated the lawsuit relative to malicious prosecution and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims against businesswoman Myrna R. Gill. In addition to Gill the...

Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Ohio State Representative Barbara Boyd Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) By Kathy Wray Coleman Editor of the Determiner Weekly and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The President of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP said at a recent forum on the controversial county reform measure on the November ballot dubbed Issue 6 that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, a crafter of the proposal, allegedly said that he cannot help the fact that the Black community will not benefit from Issue 6, a charge Mason denies. “When I asked what are you are going to do for Black people and the 50 thousand Black children in Cleveland's schools he [Mason] said I cannot do anything about that,” said Forbes. “Ed Crawford said Black folks have to understand that there are more of us than them,” he added in referencing a member of the group that helped Mason derive Issue...

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge has been sued for allegedly fixing a case at the alleged request of a county commissioner, and so has the commissioner himself. And in the thick of things a Cleveland area Black journalist says she is being harassed because of her investigations surrounding a county corruption probe. Both the judge and the commissioner at issue are under investigation in a federal corruption probe along with a host of others and several others have already pleaded guilty to taking bribes with respect to county contracts and other corruption related charges. Neither has been charged relative to the county corruption probe and the commissioner at issue has publicly denied any wrongdoing. Cuyahoga County Common P...

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) Commentary By Kathy Wray Coleman Editor of The Determiner Weekly and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network I hate to see two Black men at each others throats as has occurred this week with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and talented but conservative Cleveland Plain Dealer Columnist Phillip Morris. Nonetheless, it stirs up dialogue and increases readership in a country where few people read on a regular basis and even fewer internalize the high points of what is written. It also reminds us that Cleveland's Black children are still at risk educationally where the federal and state governments, unlike Jackson, have thrown them to the waste side. The long overdue debate is over the state of affairs of Cleveland's predominantly Black public school children. Jackson has taken on Morris and others at the PD for criticizing a student scholarship program for kids under his watch to attend Cl...

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 (National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News) Dear Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson: This is to request your support relative to a blatant injustice that sends the message that Blacks, journalists and others can be unfairly prosecuted by the predominantly Black City of Cleveland and convicted of alleged crimes such as resisting arrest without the testimony of an accusing or arresting police officer, deputy sheriff or bailiff, in violation of the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. As a Black man and former Cleveland City Council President representing the impoverished Ward 5 you know what it means to be disenfranchised and certainly at 62 years old you are familiar with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's where Blacks and others fought for equal opportunity and equal justice in this country with the leadership of the likes of African-Americans such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Angela Davis, The Reverend Dr. Martin...