Please join EPIC- Ensuring Parole for Incarcerated Citizens-a non profit 501(c)(3) fighting for fair laws and treatment within Ohio’s Penal system, “Teezy” from St.Clair– an artist from the Cleveland area (formerly incarcerated behind the walls of MCI) and Councilman Basheer Jones– for A CRY FOR HELP protest at Marion Correctional Institution at 3 pm May 2nd.
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The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) launched a Mutual Aid Fund to provide support for grassroots, community-based responses to the COVID-19 crisis. NEOCH was inspired by Cleveland Pandemic Response (CPR), a group of local organizers and volunteers who launched a community hub, to directly match people in need with neighbors offering support. Knowing that large systems can be slow to respond, CPR uses a mutual aid model to link community members to free goods and services, and to volunteers who can run errands for people at high risk of infection.
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“It literally consumes everything I do”: Ohioans desperate to reach unemployment hotline as calls dropped, claims languish
-Jessica Zalants
By Cid Standifer [for Eye on Ohio]
Marcia Gassaway was in the first wave of Ohioans put out of work by COVID-19.
The single mom from Cleveland went to the emergency room on March 15. Due to her coronavirus-like symptoms, doctors ordered that she be quarantined at a special facility.
Now, she’s recovering at home with her children, calling the unemployment help line over and over again.
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by The Plain Dealer News Guild
The Plain Dealer newsroom will no longer be covering Cleveland, Cuyahoga County or the state of Ohio.
Editor Tim Warsinskey announced Monday to the 14 remaining staff members that the newsroom would, with a few exceptions, become a bureau covering five outlying counties: Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina and Portage.
The move would bar most of the reporters from covering stories in Cuyahoga and Summit counties, as well as statewide issues, where they have developed expertise and have institutional knowledge.
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SMALL BUSINESS ALERT The Federal Reserve said it would try to keep credit flowing to households and businesses by buying up commercial paper, short-term promissory notes companies use to fund themselves. At the same time, the Trump administration is preparing to ask for about $850 billion in additional stimulus to…
In accordance with Mayor Frank G. Jackson’s recent Proclamation of Civil Emergency, the City of Cleveland continues to take numerous precautions across multiple departments and divisions amid increasing cases of coronavirus (COVID-19). Click here to view the mayor’s declaration. The City continues to work in partnership with local safety agencies, county public…
The City of Cleveland and the Cleveland Department of Public Health (CDPH) have been notified of a confirmed test result for coronavirus (COVID-19) in a resident of the city. This is the first confirmed result for Cleveland. The confirmed individual is a male, between ages 30-40 who recently returned from…
Keep updated on all CMSD #COVID-19 / #Coronavirus planning at clevelandmetroschools.org/Coronavirus Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered the closing of schools for three weeks as part of state efforts to contain spread of the coronavirus. CMSD students’ last day of classes before the break was Friday, March 13. The District will…
For the latest information and resources on the coronavirus, click here. March 12, 2020 To Parents & Caregivers of CMSD Students: At approximately 2:45 PM today, Governor DeWine order the closure of all Ohio schools beginning at the close of business on Monday, March 16th for a three-week period. While the implications and…
By Neighborhood Media | Imagine that you wanted to cover the most important story in our community as deeply and creatively as you possibly could. Imagine that you had the resources of a dozen newsrooms at your disposal, from newspapers to radio to television. What would you want to cover, and…