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The new  Cleveland Hough Public Library, which is located at  6530 Lexington Avenue  in the historic Hough Community in Ward 7 on the city's largely Black east side and is one of several branches of the Cleveland Public Library system, which has a main library in downtown Cleveland   Famed poet Nikki Giovanni CLEVELAND, Ohio-World renowned poet and Virginia Tech English Professor Nikki Giovanni will be the keynote speaker on Sat, Nov 12 at noon at the grand opening of the Cleveland Hough Public Library at 6530 Lexington Avenue in the historic Hough Community in Ward 7 on the city's largely Black east side where the library is located. Doors will open at 10 a.m. for festivities and Giovanni will speak at noon  about her life’s work and influence on the Black Arts Movement. The grand opening will also include a Djapo Cultural Arts Institute performance, food, and family fun activities, organizers said. The event is free and open-to-the-public. Designed by Moody Nolan, the new Hou

C Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas General Division Judges Joan Synenberg and Wanda Jones, both Republicans and both of whom lost their seats in Tuesday's elections to Democratic opponents in a county that is a Democratic stronghold Democrats Kevin Kelley and Brian Mooney, Kelley a former Cleveland council president who won election to the Cuyahoga County general division bench via Tuesday's election by defeating Republican Judge Wanda Jones and Mooney a current Cleveland councilman who defeated longtime judge Joan Synenberg, a Republican, on Tuesday to also win a seat on the common pleas bench in the county. Cuyahoga County is a Democratic stronghold  Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor CLEVELAND , Ohio -Republican Judges Wanda Jones and Joan Synenberg lost their seats on the 34-member Cuyahoga County Common Pleas general division court in Tuesday's election, Jones, who is Black, losing to

  East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio- East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King narrowly survived a recall effort Tuesday night while voters simultaneously ousted council vice president Ernest Smith, a ward 3 councilman who also faced recall. With all votes from all 15 precincts counted, unofficial results from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections reveal that 51 percent of East Cleveland voters voted against the mayoral recall (1,254 voters) and 49 percent voted for the measure (1,226 voters). Smith lost his attempt to escape recall by 16 percentage points, 58 percent (534 for recall vote) to 42 percent (389 against recall votes). King survived recall by 18 votes. Community activists seeking to recall the mayor submitted certified 322 valid petition signatures earlier this year to the board of elections for the recall effort,11 more than the 311 needed to put the issue before voters.  Council Vice Presid

Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor Columbus, Ohio- Since Republican John Kasich, now a CNN commentator, ousted then Democratic governor Ted Strickland from the governor's mansion in a contentious 2010 election, Democrats in Ohio have not won a statewide election other than less than a handful of seats on the largely Republican Ohio Supreme Court and the reelections of Sherrod Brown, a senior member of the U.S. Senate and Ohio's most prominent Democrat. That did not change via Tuesday's election. In fact, it was worse as the Republicans swept the election from the reelection of Gov Mike DeWine and the other candidates on the statewide Republican ticket, including  secretary of state Frank LaRose and state attorney general David Yost, to winning all three open seats on the  seven-member Ohio Supreme Court. This includes the chief justice seat that is currently held by retiring and age-limited

Barbara Boyd Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com     CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio- Former Ohio state representative Barbara Boyd (pictured) of Cleveland Hts, a Democrat and also a former mayor of Cleveland Hts, has died at 80-years-old, passing away on Sat, Nov 5, 2022 surrounded by her beloved husband and other close family members. She is the mother of former state representative Janine Boyd, also of Cleveland Hts. Funeral arrangements are pending, and this is a developing story. Barbara Boyd (born April 24, 1942) was an American politician. She served twice as a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives , serving the 9th district from 2007 to 2014, and the same district from 1993 until 2000. Her daughter Janine succeeded her into office in 2015 and served in the Ohio House of Representative until April of 2022. A product of Cleveland's public schools who graduated from Glenville High and a former elementary school teacher, Barbara Boyd work

  East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio- Voters in East Cleveland will decide  whether to recall Mayor Brandon King at the ballot box on Nov. 8, 2022 with early voting in Cuyahoga County concluding on Mon.,  Nov 7 Community activists seeking to recall the embattled mayor submitted certified 322 valid petition signatures earlier this year to the board of elections for the recall effort,11 more than the 311 needed to put the issue before voters.  Council Vice President Ernest Smith is also the subject of a recall effort. Also on the ballot in Ohio are statewide races, legislative seats, judgeships, congressional and local offices, some ballot issues, and a controversial U.S. Senate seat. Most notably is a gubernatorial election and the nationally watched fight for a U.S. Senate seat. Per the city charter, the Black mayor had until Aug. 18 to resign after the board of elections certified the recall petitio