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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor DENVER, Colorado -Colorado's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that former President Donald Trump's candidacy in the state's primary next year is prohibited on constitutional grounds, a blow to the former president's campaign as he seeks another term in the White House in 2024.  The court then ordered the state's secretary of state to act accordingly and to keep his name off of the Republican primary ballot.  The unprecedented  ruling is in conjunction with a lawsuit that raised an ambiguous provision in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  Challenges in other states have proven unsuccessful. A lower court ruled that while Trump participated in insurrection it did not disqualify him from the state ballot but the state's highest court sees otherwise.  "A majority of the court holds that President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Longtime WEWS Cleveland Channel 5 News  anchor Danita Harris, who's latest job was anchoring the morning news and who is also a spiritual leader in Northeast Ohio, is exiting the news station, effective Dec 21, leaving the station with no Black female anchors and raising diversity concerns among area women's rights groups.  Harris began her career at the station in 1998 and leaves News 5 after 24 years on the job. She grew to become a beloved and respected media figure in the Black community especially, and a voice for the Black community in delivering news. And the question remains as to what she will do next.  News five trails behind WJW Fox 8 News in popularity relative to Cleveland mainstream television news.  According to a 2019 Cleveland Scene Magazine story, a Pew Research Center  survey of news dynamics  in the Cleveland-Elyria Metropolitan Statistical Area  found that Northeast Ohioans get their news, overwhelmingly, from Fox 8 and News 5, WOIO 19 News

CLEVELAND, Ohio- The U.S. Department of Transportation under U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Wednesday that the city of Cleveland has been awarded a $2.3 million Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant from the federal government. SS4A program grants go directly to regional, local, and Tribal communities for implementation, planning, and demonstration projects driven at the local level to improve safety and help prevent deaths and serious injuries on the nation’s roadways.   This first-of-its-kind program was created by President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and is a part of the more than $14 billion in the law dedicated to roadway safety across the country.      In Cleveland, a majority Black major American city, the grant will fund safety improvements on St. Clair Avenue on the city's east side, as well as an extensive analysis of crash patterns in eight critical one-mile high-crash areas in Cleveland identified through the city'

Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Shontel Brown (D-11) By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republicans  took a significant step this week towards trying to impeach President Joe Biden, officially initiating an impeachment inquiry on Wednesday via a party-line vote. The House voted  221-212 to formally pursue the impeachment inquiry, a blow to the president's campaign as he seeks reelection in 2024 and a move that has upset congressional Democrats who narrowly control the Senate but are in the minority in the House of Representatives.  Republicans claim the president financially benefited from his family’s foreign business relationships, including those of his embattled son, Hunter Biden. They claim that the White House is not cooperating with an investigation over the matter and vow to take it to court. A vice president under President Obama for two terms, Biden says his administration has been more than cooperative with respect to the investigation

COLUMBUS, Ohio– Today,  Ohio Senate  Assistant Minority Leader Hearcel F. Craig (D-Colum bus), Senate Minority Leader Nickie J. Antonio (D-Lakewood),  and  state Sen. Vernon Sykes(D-Akron)   held a press conference to discuss a new package of legislation introduced and designed to prevent gun deaths and gun violence in Ohio. The Democratic state lawmakers  announced multiple pieces of legislation, including Senate Bill 188, which would provide gun owners the option to store their guns outside of their homes. The bill would allow guns to be stored with licensed gun dealer or shooting range owners in order to prevent the gun from winding up in the wrong hands. "Gun violence is out of control across our state and country with nearly 80% of all homicides and over half of suicides involving a gun," said  Craig . "These situations are preventable, but only if we have the courage to act." Craig said the proposed legislation is also an effort to build bi-partisan consensus

Britanny Watts Staff article: CLEVELAND, Ohio- Women's March Cleveland, one of the largest grassroots women's rights activist groups in Northeast, Ohio, is calling for a criminal charge leveled against a young, Black woman from Warren, Ohio who miscarried at some 22 weeks of pregnancy to be immediately dismissed, saying the charge at issue is racist and that the woman is purportedly being targeted by police and prosecutors because she is Black, and for political reasons.  Prosecutors and police charged Brittany Watts, 33 and of Warren, Ohio, with felony corpse abuse, accusing her of attempting to plunge the toilet after her miscarriage. A judge ordered a bind-over of the case to felony court as prosecutors prepare to submit the case to a Trumbull, County grand jury. The city of Warren is roughly 60 miles southeast of Cleveland and is 28 percent Black.  According to Warren police, Watts, who has no criminal record and  miscarried at home, should have wrapped up the lifeless fetu