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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (D-Cleveland) Kimberly Brown CLEVELAND, Ohio- (Editor's note: Below is a response by Kim berly Brown to the guest editorial of Larry Woods, who called Brown a hater for her guest editorial to Cleveland Urban News.Com opposing Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's education plan and the 15 mill Cleveland Municipal School District operating levy on the ballot for November. Among other provisions, Jackson's plan, which is now state law with Republican Gov. John Kasich's support, replaces teacher seniority with merit pay and hands public funds slated for the majority Black district for charter schools. The Cleveland Teachers Union leadership team, all nine Blacks on Cleveland City Council, Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-11), all of the Black state legislators from Cleveland but state Sen. Shirley Smith (D-22), and the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Call and Post Newspapers support the mayor's controversial plan. Community activists generally opp

By Larry Woods, Guest Columnist CLEVELAND, Ohio-I am a high school drop out named Larry Woods. I saw Kim Brown's comments to the mayor's education proposal and was struck by the brevity and the negativity. (Editor's note: This is an editorial by Larry Woods in response to the one that ran in Cleveland Urban News.Com on July 4 by Kimberly Brown, a former Cleveland mayor candidate and unsuccessful candidate for Cuyahoga County Council who opposes Cleveland Mayor Jackson's education plan that is now a state law that strips Cleveland schools teachers of seniority in exchange for merit pay and hands public monies slated for the school district to charter schools, among other provisions. Signed into law two weeks ago by Republican Gov. John Kasich, the education plan also calls for a levy on the November ballot, something Brown also criticized. Read Brown's editorial at Cleveland Urban News.Com and also here at the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com at http://www.

By Karl Kimbrough, Guest Sports Columnist, Cleveland Urban News.Com www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The NFL draft has become such a huge theatrical event that in most cities across the country, including Cleveland where the Cleveland Browns are center stage, football fans are glued to their television sets to see who gets the potential star players. But should more focus be given to mid-round draft players since a team can not function on first and second round draftees alone? Fans are mainly interested in those players who are projected to be drafted in the first round. From February until draft day in April there is so much talk about the potential top 10 players that we feel as though we must have one. If we do not get one for our team then we have missed out on a prized talent that could take our team to another level. A lot of the attention that is given to the draft is based on hype from the media and high grades or ratings given by draft gurus. However, this

Ashley Allison (right) and United States Vice President Joe Biden, at an Obama for America campaign event in Ohio. A native of Youngstown, Oh., Allison is the 'Get Out The Vote' African-America n Vote Director f or Ohio for the Obama for Am erica Campaign Ashley Allison United States President Barack Obama, who says that the female and Black vote do matter, and that he is courting both, and others relative to his re-election campaign this year By Johnette Jernigan, Cleveland Urban New s.Com Staff Reporter www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Urban News.Com Reporter Johnette Jernigan had the opportunity to speak one-on-one with Ashley Allison, a native of Youngstown, Oh., and now the 'Get Out The Vote’ African-American Vote director for Ohio for the Obama for America Campaign. The deadline to register to vote in Cuyahoga County, Oh. for the November general election is Oct. 9. United States President Barack Obama wil

United States President Barack Obama From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online Newsblog.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-President Barack Obama weathered scathing hot temperatures that hit 94 degrees to speak to a capacity crowd at the James Day Park in the Cleveland suburb of Parma Oh. on Thursday afternoon, and went to Sandusky, Oh., and then on to a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, PA. Both Pennsylvania and Ohio are key battleground states for presidential elections . The president's visit to the Cleveland area was the second in under a month and followed a campaign gathering at the Cuyahoga Community College campus in Cleveland in June. Obama talked jobs, the economy, education, and green energy, among other issues, and ended this round of campaigning in Pittsburgh on Friday. And the president pushed his controversial health care plan to Ohioans and Pennsylvanians that the U.S. Supreme Court last month narrowly uphe

George Zimmerman From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online Newsblog.Com( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) SANDFORD, Florida-Accused teen killer George Zimmerman, who is facing a charge of second-degree murder for allegedly stalking and gunning down unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin earlier this year in a Florida suburb, was released on a $1 million bond Friday after his arrest and jailing previously for lying to the presiding judge in the case. Zimmerman's $150 thousand bond was revoked two weeks ago after the Florida Circuit Judge ruled that he had lied about his finances, including collecting monies in excess of $200 thousand from a White supremacist website. At that bond revocation hearing the judge said also that Zimmerman had a passport and might be a flight risk. But earlier this week that same White judge gave him a second chance. The seventeen-year-old Martin is Black, and Zimmerman, 28, is

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