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Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald,  the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, will address County Council Committee of the Whole meeting today at 2 pm at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in Cleveland on the importance of passing the Cuyahoga County Voting Rights Law,  legislation he has introduced so that Cuyahoga County is able to exercise its home rule authority to mail absentee ballot applications to registered voters. FitzGerald introduced the Cuyahoga County Voting R

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes  Stokes Attorney Richard Alkire From left: Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine, Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, Ohio State Representative Bill Patmon (D-10), a former city councilman, and Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Presiding and Administrative Judge Nancy Fuerst By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- A Cleveland Urban News.Com investigation reveals that Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine had no authority wh

Former 11th Congressional District  Congressman Louis Stokes By former Congressman Louis Stokes,  a Shaker Heights, Ohio Democrat and former senior counsel with the Squire, Sanders and Dempsey  law  firm who led the 11th congressional district, which is now led by Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge,  a Warrensville Heights Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress. Congressman  Stokes addresses below  efforts  to steal the Black vote in Ohio via voter  suppression  bills signed into law this year by Republican Governor John Kasich. The new state laws limit  early  voting, among other  strategies  to intimidate Black,  elderly  and low-income voters,  Click here to join the fight for voting rights in Ohio.   That fight is also being taken up by Democratic candidate for governor Ed FitzGerald, the Cuyahoga County executive. Cuyahoga County is the  state's  largest of 88 counties and includes the largely Blacks cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland.

Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora,  also the former chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press) www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CINCINNATI, Ohio-Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, also a former chair of the powerful Cuyahoga County Democratic Party,  is asking a federal appeals court to reverse his convictions on 32 corruption-related charges, including racketeering, and his attorneys want a new trial. Oral arguments were held yesterday morning before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, which will issue its ruling in upcoming

By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).   Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Leaders In Black Digital News . Tel: 216-659-0473    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Cavaliers Center Spenser Hawes Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough CLEVELAND, Ohio-Several NBA teams, including our Cleveland Cavaliers, made moves recently to strengthen their teams for the playoff run this year. Some teams made trades, some cleared roster space to add players, and some did both. There were not many high profiled players changing teams late this season. But most of the players who went to contending teams have helped them. The Cavaliers, who have not lived up to their own expectations as a strong contender for a playoff position all season, made one last effort by trading forwards Earl Clark, Henry Sims for