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WASHINGTON, DC– Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) (pictured), a Warrensville Hts Democrat whose 11th congressional district includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, and federal lawmakers of the Democratic Women's Caucus (DMC) joined a press call with officials of the U.S. Department of Labor to discuss the release of a report by the department’s Women’s Bureau on how caring for family has long-term impacts on a woman’s lifetime earnings.
Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown, Democratic Women's Caucus discuss U.S. Department of Labor report on women's wages and life earnings as impacted by family care-giving
- 14 May 2023
- Kathy
Last Updated on Monday, 15 May 2023 02:27
City of Cleveland's speed tables program reduces speeds in neighborhoods, report says.....Mayor Justin Bibb comments
- 12 May 2023
- Kathy
CLEVELAND, Ohio- The City of Cleveland on Thursday released the results of the speed table pilot program that was initiated last summer. Speed tables are midblock traffic calming devices that raise the entire wheelbase of a vehicle to reduce its traffic speed. They are longer than speed humps and flat-topped, with a height of 3–3.5 inches and a length of 22 feet. Across Cleveland's ten pilot locations, average speeds were 7.8 miles per hour slower after speed table installation, and over 77 percent of respondents to the resident survey indicated support for more speed tables across the city, the report says.
“We continue to hear from residents who are concerned about speeding in their neighborhoods and we take these concerns very seriously,” said Mayor Justin M. Bibb, who took office in January of 2022 and is the city's fourth Black mayor. “I am encouraged by the results of the speed table pilot, and we will continue to curtail this dangerous behavior through physical traffic calming and data-driven solutions to create safer streets.”
The program is an effort to slow traffic on primarily residential roads with documented speeding issues in alignment with the city’s Vision Zero initiative, which aims to eliminate serious injuries and deaths from crashes on Cleveland roads through clear and measurable strategies.
The city announced the speed table pilot in June of 2022, installed the initial speed tables in the fall, and released a survey in February 2023 to capture resident opinions and experiences. In addition to resident comments, pre- and post-speed data were collected on pilot and pilot-adjacent streets to determine the effectiveness of the pilot.
In the most recent round of proposals for American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) resources, Mayor Bibb requested $3 million as part of the ‘Back to Basics’ fund to support additional speed table installations and other multimodal and safety improvements. The ‘Back to Basics’ proposal is currently under review by Cleveland City Council.
“As we move into the next phase of this work, we are continually taking in resident reports of issues and concerns and collecting traffic data to inform our response,” said Cleveland’s Senior Strategist for Transit and Mobility Calley Mersmann. “This is not a one-size-fits-all approach. We are aligning feedback and data with proven methods to slow traffic and improve safety street by street across our neighborhoods.”
To read the full speed table pilot evaluation report and for further information on the City’s neighborhood traffic calming efforts, visit www.clevelandohio.gov/TrafficCalming.
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Last Updated on Monday, 15 May 2023 00:10
Ohio lawmakers vote to put issue before voters in August on whether to increase the threshold for amending the constitution as abortion advocates continue collecting signatures for a possible ballot initiative/Ohio state Sen Nickie Antonio comments
- 11 May 2023
- Kathy
Above picture-Women's March Cleveland leads some 2,500 women and their supporters via a protest for reproductive rights and abortion access held on October 2, 2021 at Market Square Park in Cleveland, Ohio, a sister march to marches held in cities across the country that day spearheaded by Women's March National out of Washington, D.C. ( Photo by David Petkiewicz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper and Cleveland.com).png)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio- The Republican-dominated Ohio House of Representatives passed a resolution on Wednesday primarily along party lines that puts the issue on the ballot in August of whether to require 60 percent of voters to enact a new constitutional amendment instead of the simple majority that is currently required. Separate legislation pushed by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and House and other Republicans that would have paid for the special election got scrapped in committee after some Republicans who oppose the resolution would not come on board.
In short, voters will determine this summer, via a special election, whether to change the process for citizens to seek voter approved changes or amendments to the Ohio constitution.
The resolution, dubbed Senate Joint Resolution 2, passed the Ohio House 62-37 with all Democrats and five Republicans opposing the controversial measure. If seven instead of five Republicans had voted no, it would have failed as it needed a three fourths vote to pass.The Senate, which is overwhelmingly Republican, adopted the resolution April 19 by a vote of 26-7 with all Democrats opposing it and all Republicans voting yes.
Democrats have chastized Republicans for an August 8th special election that they say is unfunded and undemocratic across the board while Senate President Matt Huffman, a Republican, said LaRose’s office has enough funding for the special election, and that if he needs more, lawmakers will reimburse him.
Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio, a Lakewood Democrat whose 23rd state legislative district includes 14 of Cleveland's 17 wards, was livid.
"It is a republic if you can keep it," said Antonio, referring to a quote made by Benjamin Franklin. "The people of Ohio have shown us that they are awake, watching what we are doing and fighting for our democracy. We must protect our constitution and maintain one person, one vote. S.J.R. 2 as amended does not do that."
SJR2 comes as pro abortion advocates continue collecting signatures in an effort to get abortion on the ballot in November to possibly derail a state law that is on hold per a judge's ruling but that outlaws abortion in Ohio after six weeks of pregnancy, or once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Hundreds of opponents of SJR2, following a picket there last week, packed the statehouse in Columbus again on Wednesday The resolution itself is a proposed amendment, and if voters agree to its provisions at the ballot box this summer it would, in raising the threshold for a constitutional amendment from a simple majority to a 60 percent vote of the electorate, require citizens to get voter signatures from all 88 counties instead of 44 to place a measure on the ballot. It would also eliminate a 10-day period in which petitioners can replace any invalid signatures.
Petitioners need more than 413,000 valid signatures for a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine the legal right to an abortion into the Ohio constitution. Abortion advocates, however, must now fight to collect necessary signatures in hopes of getting the abortion issue before voters in November while simultaneously campaigning to keep voters from upping the threshold by which the constitution in Ohio is amended.
The conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court last summer overturned Roe v Wade, a 1973 landmark decision that made abortion legal nationwide, and relegated authority to either restrict or outright outlaw abortion to the country's respective state legislatures.
Ohio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, also a former U.S. senator and state attorney general, has pledged to do everything within his power to outlaw abortion in Ohio, though SJR2 did not need his signature for final approval after passage by the House on Wednesday.
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Last Updated on Friday, 12 May 2023 09:36
Cleveland school board chooses Dr Warren Morgan, who is Black, as the school district's new CEO, and with Mayor Bibb's approval ....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
- 10 May 2023
- Kathy
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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief, and political, educational, and investigative journalist
CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Board of Education, whose members are appointed by the city mayor under state law, has chosen a Black man to replace outgoing CEO Dr. Eric Gordon and to lead Cleveland's largely Black 33,000 pupil public school district. Gordon held the position for 11 years and until Mayor Justin Bibb, a visionary Black mayor who took office in January 2022, decided that education would be a major priority relative to his first term as mayor, and that the school district district in the majority Black major American city of some 372,00 people needs fresh leadership.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 May 2023 18:25
Mage wins 149th Kentucky Derby that had no Breonna Taylor protests....By clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
- 08 May 2023
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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, LOUISVILLE, Kentucky-Ridden by jockey Javier Castellano and with odds of 15-1, Mage edged Two Phil's, which came in second place, and Zandon, which took third, to win the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 May 2023 00:35
Gina DeJesus' mother to join activists, elected officials for 10-year anniversary of Cleveland Seymour Ave survivors rally at noon on May 6, 2023 at 2207 Seymour Ave
- 03 May 2023
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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Nancy Ruiz, the mother of Cleveland Seymour Avenue survivor Gina DeJesus who fought with community activists for years to find her missing daughter, will join a list of speakers for the upcoming 10 year anniversary rally of the escape of the Seymour Avenue survivors on Saturday, May 6 at 2207 on Seymour Avenue from noon-2pm where the since demolished home of the late serial rapist Ariel Castro one stood.
Other rally speakers include state Sen Nickie Antonio, state Rep Juanita Brent, Journey Center for Safety and Healing (domestic violence center) CEO Melissa Graves, Cleveland Councilpersons Kevin Conwell and Joe Jones, and activists from the Black Women's Army, Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, Imperial Women Coalition, Young Mothers of Cleveland, Black on Black Crime Inc, Peace in the Hood, Carl Stoke Brigade, and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights.
May 6 marks the 10-year anniversary since May 6, 2013 of the escape, after a decade of captivity, of Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry from Castro's since demolished Seymour Avenue home on Cleveland's near west side. Castro hanged himself in prison in 2013, a month into a life sentence without the possibility of parole for his criminal deeds, including abduction and rape.
"We are not ready to forget what happened in the 'House of Horrors' on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio and we have unfinished business as to heightened rape and murder and other crimes against innocent women and girls," organizers of the event said.
The activists say the anniversary event will also address the Violence Against Women Act, local, county, statewide and national public policy changes sought, and a demand for resources as to violence against women and children, human trafficking, and the epidemic of missing persons. Additionally, activists want more equitable distributions of resources in educational arenas for women and girls, particularly regarding poor, minority, inner city and LGBT women, girls, and other genders.
A local guitar player and former Cleveland schools bus driver, Castro hanged himself in prison a month into his life sentence without the possibility of parole. He was a sad character and a serial rapist of children and women.
Statistics on nationwide violence against women and girls include the following:
-Violence against women and girls, including rape and murder, remains an epidemic, as does human trafficking
-Women and girls ages 12-34 are at the highest risk for sexual assault
-Poor women are 12 times more likely to get raped
-One out of every six American women has experience an attempted or completed rape and 22 percent of African-American women and 14 percent of Hispanic-American women experience at least one rape or attempted rape in their lifetime
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 May 2023 13:36
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