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Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM,LOUISVILLE, Kentucky- Ridden by jockey  Brian L. Hernandes Jr. and trained by Kennny McPeek, and  with odds of 18-1, Mystik Dan pulled off an upset and won the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky, the first leg of the coveted Triple Crown.    The 20 horses that took to the racetrack for a two and a half mile run competed for a winning purse of $3.1 million, which went to Mystik Dan, a purse that nearly doubled last year's $1.86 million winnings.  The total purse was $5 million and the top five horses received payouts, including $1 million for second place, $500,000 for third, $250,000 for fourth, and $150,000 for fifth place. Sierra Leone (9-2) fin...

Staff article COLUMBUS, Ohio -Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (pictured) has announced the launch of the 2024  Grads Vote  program, a civic engagement initiative designed to assist high school seniors with learning how to become active in Ohio’s election process. The initiative also encourages high school juniors and seniors to become election day poll workers as part of the  Youth at the Booth  program. LaRose, a Republican, announced the launch for what he says is part of "a rigorous statewide election integrity initiative aimed at ensuring the accuracy of Ohio's statewide  voter registration database . " Beginning this week, the secretary of state's office will work with Ohio's 88 county boards of elections to conduct legally required list maintenance on out-of-date registrations from individuals who have permanently moved," LaRose said in a statement. LaRose also directed the county boards of elections to review their records for "past-due remov...

WEWS Cleveland News 5 Investigator Joe Pagonakis, who announced this week that he will retire, effective April 29, after decades on the air, gaining praise from activists and women's rights advocates like Women's March Cleveland Staff article by:   Clevelandurbannews.com / Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio  – Cleveland activists and Women's March Cleveland, the largest grassroots activist women's rights group in Northeast Ohio, are praising Cleveland WEWS News 5 Investigator Joe Pagonakis after he and the news station announced earlier this week that he will retire, effective Mon., April 29, after nearly five decades in television news. Pagonakis will sign off from WEWS News 5 for the final time Monday, ending a storied 48-year career in television, with 40 years on the air reporting in local communities and more than 30 years at News 5, the news station reported this week. “My sincere thanks and gratitude to Northeast Ohio viewers for turning to News ...

President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown (OH-11) Staff article by:   Clevelandurbannews.com  / Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Washington, D.C. – Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) and the  Biden-Harris Administration have announced  that Ohio will receive over $312 million in federal funding to create or expand solar energy programs in low-income and disadvantaged communities through the  Solar for All  grant program.  The State of Ohio and Growth Opportunity Partners, a Cleveland-based non-profit, each received Solar for All grants of $156 million, Brown said in a statement on Tuesday. The  program is funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.   "The Solar for All grants are game changers for Ohio, these are climate change, and economic, and environmental justice wins,"  said Congresswoman Brown, a Warrensville Hts Democrat whose 11th congressional district includes Cleveland, a largely Black city where most resident...

Staff investigative article by  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's Black digital news leader CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cuyahoga County juries that decide guilt or innocence in felony cases presided over by common pleas judges at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland are often tainted against Blacks, according to the county public defender's office that is now led by Chief Public Defender Cullen Sweeney, a wannabe common pleas judge who lost an election for judge in 2012.  Sweeney replaced former chief county public defender Mark Stanton, who was hired  by the county despite representing  police unions in excessive force prosecutions of cops who arbitrarily shoot and kill Black people with impunity. Stanton retired after only a few years in the job with sources saying he tired of the red tape and  rampant court and prosecutorial malfeasance. Assistant county public defender Scott Rodger Hurley, also a wannabe judge who lost a bid f...

THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE BY GREATER CLEVELAND RTA CLEVELAND, Ohio- Notice is hereby given that a public hearing on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Capital Improvement Plan (2025 CIP) Budget of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority will be held immediately following the 2025 – 2029 Capital Improvement Plan presentation to the Operational Planning and Infrastructure Committee, at  9:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 . The public hearing will be held in the Board Room of the Authority, 1st Floor, Main Office Building, 1240 West Sixth Street, Cleveland, Ohio. The Board Committee meetings and public hearing will be live streamed on RTA’s website at ( www.riderta.com/board ) by selecting the meeting day. Public comments for the Public Hearing can be made in person or submitted by email at ( Public-Comment@gcrta.org ) or by phone (440-276-4600) or through a web form ( www.riderta.com/events ) (select meeting event, scroll to the bottom to fill out the form,...

Friday, April 19, 2024 — Cleveland —  Food Access Raises Everyone (FARE) is bringing Produce Perks back to the West Side Market this weekend, Sat., April 20 and Sun., April 21, in partnership with the City of Cleveland and Produce Perks Midwest.  The program is designed to increase access to fresh food for Cleveland residents and support vendors at the West Side Market. Due to the success of the Produce Perks Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Coupon program at the West Side Market, which launched in April 2022, the state of Ohio has doubled the funding available for the program for the next two years, city officials said in a statement . The funding will help provide give Cleveland families will provide over 1,000 families with access to healthy, affordable food at West Side Market.  For the past two years, West Side Market had the highest redemption rate in the state for Produce Perks coupons. Produce Perks pr...

Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown (left) (D-OH) and Congresswoman Emilia Sykes (D-OH) Staff article Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) on Wednesday co-led a press conference in Washington, D.C. with colleagues from the New Democrat Coalition and called on House Republican leadership to take immediate action to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and preserve affordable internet access for 23 million American households. Brown is a cosponsor of Congresswoman Yvette Clarke's Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act that would provide seven billion in funding for the ACP. The press conference also included Reps. Annie Kuster (NH-02), Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), Angie Craig (MN-02), Emilia Sykes (OH-13), and Gabe Vasquez (NM-02). Rep Brown is a Warrensville Hts Democrat whose 11th congressional district includes Cleveland, and Sykes is an Akron Democrat and the youngest of Ohio's Five-Member Democratic Congressional Delegation. It also includes U.S. ...