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FEDERAL OFFICES:

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA- Barack Obama (D)

SENATE AND U.S. REPRESENTATIVES FROM OHIO

U.S. SENATE- Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS 9TH DISTRICT- Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS 11TH DISTRICT- Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH)

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS 14TH DISTRICT- Dale Blanchard (D)

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS 16TH DISTRICT- Betty Sutton (D-OH)

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ROCKY RIVER, Ohio- Editorial by Guest Columnist Judith Pugsley, an Obama supporter from Rocky River, Ohio  (Editor's note: Judith Pugsley met the president at a gathering for his supporters and volunteers on a campaign visit to Shaker Hts High School in Shaker Hts, Oh,. a suburb of Cleveland. Pugsley is a guest columnist and a middle class White woman from Rocky River, Oh., also a suburb of the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland. Reach Pugsley at pugsley@clevelandurbannews.com

Click Here To Read Other Editorials By Judith Pugsley).

The presence of  Barack Obama in the White House is an absolute miracle. He is the only president that has truly extended his feelings of love and fellowship to ordinary grassroots folks. He is an approachable man. He wasn't wealthy, and he wasn't White.

He is a handsome, well-groomed, well-educated and well-spoken African-American man, and someone that I, nor many others, ever expected to be in the role of president of the United States of America. He had to struggle to resolve his anxiety over his racial heritage of growing up a bi-racial Black child in a White home. He struggled like most middle class people and his White divorced  mother at one time relied on food stamps to feed the family.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Many community activists and Clevelanders rallied and prayed on Saturday, Oct 27 at the site of the since demolished home on Imperial Ave in Cleveland, Oh of Convicted Serial Killer Anthony Sowell (pictured) to remember the 11 Black women that he murdered and dismembered. Sowell was convicted last year of 82 of 83 counts, including multiple counts of aggravated murder of the Imperial women, and the rape of three other Black women at his then home on the city's predominantly Black east side of town. His convictions and death penalty sentence are currently on appeal before the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals.

Rally speakers include State Sen. Nina Turner (D-25), state Reps John Barnes Jr. (D-12) and Bill Patmon (D-10), Cleveland Councilpersons, Kenneth Johnson, Mamie Mitchell and Zack Reed, Bishop Eugene Ward, Marcellette Love, Cleveland City Hall Representatives Deasia Danley and James Box, and Community Activists Judy Martin, Kathy Wray Coleman, Al Porter, Debbie Kline, Larry Bresler, Ernest Smith, Ernest Harris, Jean Whitte, Khalid Samad, Roz McAllister and  Leatrice Tolls.

Read the article on the rally below by Fox A News Reporter Allison Brown, and watch the affiliated Fox 8 news video.

By Allison Brown, Fox 8 Reporter Community Remembers Imperial Ave. Murder Victims Click here to go to Fox 8.com to read the story and to watch the video of the coverage by Brown

CLEVELAND — Many Clevelanders rallied and prayed at Anthony Sowell’s property Saturday afternoon, remembering his victims.  It is the grim, third anniversary of when bodies were beginning to be discovered inside of his home.

By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sports Writer

CLEVELAND,Ohio-The Washington Wizards strutted  into Cleveland Tuesday night looking to steal a win away from the Cleveland Cavaliers but came out a loser as Kyrie Irving and Anderson Varejao (both pictured, with Irving on the left) led the team to a 94 to 84 opening season victory over the Wizards.

Cavaliers Coach Byron Scott said that he was pleased with an opening home win in the city's Quicken Loans Arena.

“For a home opener-first game I thought our guys played pretty well," said Scott.

.Guest Columnist: State Senator Shirley A. Smith (pictured), a Cleveland Democrat, represents Ohio's 21st District.

By Ohio State Senator Shirley Smith (D-21), Guest Columnist

CLEVELAND, Ohio -Clevelanders are now voting on Issue 107, a 15-mill levy for the Cleveland [Municipal] School District. Its fate will have huge repercussions for students and taxpayers. (Editor's note: The Cleveland schools are controlled by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson per state law and the schools 15 -mill operating levy is on the Nov. 6 ballot for either approval or disapproval by Cleveland voters, a majority of whom are Black).

I oppose the Cleveland plan for multiple reasons. It lacks student-based outcomes. It was sold with hyperbolic doomsday rhetoric. And it failes to address socioeconomic problems that obstruct learning. It will also add to higher water, sewer and garbage bills in 2013.