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Ohio state Senator Dr. Vernon Sykes, an Akron Democrat and co-chair of the Ohio Redistricting Commission  Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor and Justice Melody Stewart clevelandurbannews.com  and    www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief. Coleman is a former public school biology teacher and a seasoned Black political, legal and investigative reporter who trained as a reporter at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years. COLUMBUS, Ohio- For the fourth time in less than three months, the Ohio Supreme Court has struck down state House and Senate redistricting maps approved by the seven-member Republican-dominated Ohio Redistricting Commission, ruling 4-3 on Thursday that the maps are unconstitutional and that they violate anti-gerrymandering rules approved seven-years-ago by Ohio voters.   The court said that the maps are not much different than the previously three submitted sets of maps an

  Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb The crowd at Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb's state of the city address on Wed, April 13 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland    Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   Tel: 216) 659-0473 Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief   CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb, a former Barack Obama intern and banker who won the nonpartisan runoff election for mayor in November over then City Council president Kevin Kelley to become the city's fourth Black mayor and its second youngest behind former mayor Dennis Kucinich, delivered his first state of the city address on Wednesday evening at the Maltz Performing Arts Center on the campus of Case Western University where he earned both an MBA and a law degree. Some 1,000 people attended the free and open-to-the public but ticketed event that was also streamed

   Eighteen-year-old Tamara McLoyd (left), who has been indicted on two new robbery charges since a Cuyahoga County grand jury last year indicted her on charges of aggravated murder,  aggravated robbery, felonious assault, grand theft, and having weapons under disability relative  to the New Year's Eve carjacking and shooting death of 25-year-old Cleveland police officer Shane Bartek (right) Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief  CLEVELAND, Ohio - An 18-year old Black Cleveland area woman charged in connection with the New Year's Eve carjacking and shooting death of Cleveland police officer Shane Bartek in the Kamms Corner neighborhood on the city's largely White west side was indicted on Tuesday by a Cuyahoga County grand jury on two more robbery charges, including a Christmas Day robbery in the apartment complex where Bartek lived at the time he was killed. Tamara McLoyd, of Garfield He

Former United States President Donald Trump Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, political and investigative reporter, editor-in-chief COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former president Donald Trump will speak at a GOP-led rally in Ohio ahead of the May 3 primary election, an effort, say sources, to boost voter turnout for Republican candidates, though he has not yet announced an endorsed candidate for governor or for the high profile U.S.  Senate race for the seat up for grabs due to the upcoming retirement of GOP Sen. Rob Portman of Cincinnati. Trump will headline a GOP rally at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, north of Columbus, on the evening of  April 23, organizers said. Several Republicans are vying for the nomination to succeed Portman in what has become a political bloodbath. Among them are author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance, businessman Mike Gibbons  , former state Treasurer Josh Mandel, former Ohio GOP Chair Jane Timken,