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Congresswoman Fudge, also chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, demands that Congress increase federal minimum wage floor mandate from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour at press conference in Cleveland, Ohio, Fudge's Cleveland press secretary tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that a bill that would increase national minimum wage mandate is gathering dust on the desk of U.S. House Speaker John Boehner

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Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), who also chairs the Congressional  Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress By Kathy Wray Coleman, 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- 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat who also chairs the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress, told reporters earlier this week that Congress should up the minimum wage floor, which is currently $7.25 an hour, to $10.10 an hour, and that it is the right thing to do both morally and economically.  "The vast majority of minimum wage workers are not teenagers earning spending money and as costs fo

Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor is behind harassment of Cleveland Judge Angela Stokes, a Black Democrat and a daughter of former Congressman Louis Stokes, data suggest, disciplinary counsel Scott Drexel, who investigates judges and lawyers for the Ohio Supreme Court, is also accused of harassing Stokes, Drexel was fired in California as disciplinary counsel for harassing judges and lawyers, O'Connor assigns visiting retired judges to court cases throughout the state that sometimes harass people, often Blacks, women, outspoken attorneys, community activists, and political foes, community activists want judges in multi-judge courts in Ohio assigned and re-assigned to court cases at all times by random draw and not handpicked, bill sponsored by State Representative Bill Patmon and pushed by greater Cleveland community activists, including the Imperial Women Activists Group, is pending in Ohio House for possible state law requiring random draw judicial assignments and re-assignments of trial court judges to court cases in multi-judge courts, Cleveland NAACP attorneys under fire for being quiet on denial of counsel to indigent Blacks in serious cases in Berea, Bedford courts, both suburbs of Cleveland, Cleveland NAACP lawyers greedily side with Bedford, Berea in their illegal denial of attorneys to indigent Blacks, some maliciously prosecuted, data show

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Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor Ohio Supreme Court Disciplinary Counsel Scott Drexel From left: Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine, Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes, Ohio State Representative Bill Patmon (D-10), a former Cleveland councilman, Stokes Attorney Richard Alkire,  and former  Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Presiding and  Administrative Judge Nancy Fuerst From top left: Former Cleveland NAACP President and Current Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes, Attorney and Ohio ACLU Legal Director James Hardiman, Attorney Michael Nelson Sr., and Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith Retired 11th Congressional District Congressman Louis Stokes, a congressional district that includes  the cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland  Fo rmer Bedford Municipal Judge Harry Jacob, an alleged pimp facing charges that he ran a prostitution ring out of the Bedford M

Convicted killer and former cop Douglas Prade, who murdered ex-wife Akron Dr. Margo Prade, gets a stay by Ohio Supreme Court of court order to return to prison, an appeals court overturned a judge's decision to free him after 15 years in prison, the judge that freed Prade is a visiting retired judge assigned to cases by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor

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Former Akron police captain and convicted murderer Douglas Prade Dr. Margo Prade 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 ) AKRON, Ohio-The Ohio 9th District Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a Summit County trial court ruling that in 2013 freed former Akron police capt. Douglas Prade  from prison and Prade yesterday was ordered back behind bars by Common Pleas Judge Christine Croce, only to get a stay by the Ohio Supreme Court hours after he reported to the Summit County Jail.  Akron is a city some 30 miles south of Cleveland and the native home of NBA basketball icon and Miami Heat power forward LeBron James.

By Kathy Wray Coleman: Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald to hold meeting at 2 pm today with county council committee on voting to push the need to pass the Cuyahoga County Voting Rights Law he introduced in response to 3 voter suppression bills signed into law this year by Republican Governor Kasich, FitzGerald is the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor

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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 Chief Judge Ron Adrine had no authority to remove Judge Angela Stokes from hearing criminal cases a Cleveland Urban News.Com investigation reveals, Stokes calls Adrine's actions warrant-less and void of due process, only the Ohio Supreme Court and Presiding Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst have that authority, and with limitation, Fuerst only regarding single cases following the filing of an affidavit of prejudice under state law that she approves

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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