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Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and Cleveland Councilman Eugene Miller No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-All of the incumbent Cleveland city councilpersons won reelection Tuesday night, including west side Councilman Brian Cummins, who edged opponent Brian Kazy in Ward 14, and east side Black councilpersons Terrell Pruitt in Ward 1, Zack Reed in Ward 2, Ward 4 Councilman Kenneth Johnson, and Phyllis Cleveland, Mamie Mitchell, T.J. Dow and Kevin Conwell in wards 5, 6, 7 and 9, respectively. And Councilman Jeff Johnson beat Councilman Eugene Miller to win in the new ward 10, a ward as a result of a redistricting map that takes city council from 19 to 17 seats beginning next year, a controversial cou

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (left) with his wife Edwina,  campaign manager Blaine Griffin, and a host of supporters  during his victory speech Tuesday night. Jackson, 67, won a third four-year term with 66 percent  of the vote over millionaire businessman Ken Lanci. A two term mayor and former Cleveland City Council president, he has led the predominantly Black major American city since 2006. (The Cleveland Urban News.Com article on Cleveland City Council races  Tuesday  night is coming. Stay tuned and please read the below article on Tuesday's mayoral election in Cleveland) By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson will keep his $137,000 a-year job as mayor of the larg

    

Pictured are Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (left), who won a third term as mayor Tuesday night, and opponent Ken Lanci, a Cleveland businessman and multimillionaire who garnered 34 percent of the vote to Jackson's 66 percent. By J ohnette Je rnigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ), Ohio's Black digital news leaders. Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson will keep his $137,000 a-year job as mayor of the largely Black major American city of some 400,000 people, easily winning a third term Tuesday night over millionaire businessman Ken Lanci. Jackson won with 66 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan general election for Cleveland mayor and got 37, 488 votes to Lanci's 19, 336 votes,  unofficial results from the Cuyahoga County Board  of Elections reveal. Voter turnout was low at 21 percent, the worst tur

Newly elected Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ed Wade and Cleveland Judge Marilyn Cassidy. Wade won election to the bench Tuesday night in a crowded field and Cassidy retained her seat against Attorney Anthony Jordan, a former Cleveland chief city prosecutor By Kathy Wray Coleman( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND and EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO- In the two Cleveland Municipal Court races relative to Tuesday's election incumbent Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Marilyn Cassidy retained her seat against Attorney Anthony Jordan, a former chief city prosecutor, and Ed Wade won the other Cleveland judgeship up for grabs in a crowded field of six that also include former common pleas judge Annette Garner Butler, former Cleveland judge Jazmine Torres-Lugo, Scott Roger Hurley, Ruben Pope and Michael Winston. In East Cleveland, a neighboring majority Black i

Incumbent Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (left) and millionaire  businessman and mayoral candidate Ken Lanci. They will square off for a nonpartisan general election runoff on Tuesday, Nov. 5 From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- The nonpartisan election for Cleveland mayor is down to the wire with voters set to make a choice at the ballot box on Tuesday, Nov. 5 on whether to retain two term incumbent Mayor Frank Jackson, 67, or to replace him with millionaire businessman Ken Lanci, 63. Also up for grabs are 17 Cleveland City Council seats, each for four-year terms and an annual salary of $74,000. The polls open at 6:30 am and close promptly at 7:30 pm, Cuyahoga County Board of Elections officials said earlier today. Ot

From left, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com Dr. Phil CLEVELAND, Ohio- In her first highly publicized appearance since convicted serial rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro, 53, hanged himself with a bed sheet from his prison cell at a southern Ohio prison  Michelle Knight, 32, whom Castro held captive for a decade along with Gina DeJesus and Amanda  Berry at his since demolished home on  Seymour Avenue on Cleveland's predominantly  White west side, will sit down for an interview with psychologist Phil McGraw on the popular syndicated NBC television show  " Dr. Phil ." The highly anticipated episodes will air at 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 5-6, on  WKYC Channel 3 . Ariel Castro at sentencin