Metro columnist for https://teapawt.net/t.co/pkb180MTxp with work also appearing in The Plain Dealer.
Cleveland, Ohio
Joined May 2012
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Yowza! ... via @cory_shaffer cleveland.com/court-justice/…
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Judge Adams also offered an impassioned call for journalism. He said the press can't be cheerleaders and have to keep digging. "But for journalists," he said, Johnson would have gotten away with it. He said he was struck by how CLE council members can direct so much fed money.
If you need some tinder for outrage today, I got you. @clevhomeless @LMMCleveland cleveland.com/opinion/2021/0…
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority wins $5-million grant for mobility program bound to change lives: Leila Atassi - cleveland.com cleveland.com/opinion/2021/0…
Compulsory vaccination for everyone is the only way to defeat COVID-19 @cwru usatoday.com/story/opinion/2…
Gov. Mike DeWine’s lame anti-littering campaign is a distraction from his support for dirty coal plants: Leila Atassi cleveland.com/opinion/2021/0…
This far along in the pandemic, and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health STILL doesn't have a plan to deploy vaccines to residents who are homebound. cleveland.com/opinion/2021/0…
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George Zeller, economist, advocate for the poor and RTA riders, dies in house fire cleveland.com/news/2021/03/g…
DeWine finally extends the vaccine eligibility list to include 766,000 Ohioans with obesity, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer or chronic kidney disease, starting Friday. @drbutsch cleveland.com/coronavirus/20…
Four phases into Ohio's vaccination strategy, and obesity is still not a priority -- despite the CDC's declaration that eight in 10 people hospitalized with COVID in 2020 were either overweight or obese. cleveland.com/opinion/2021/0…
Nice of Gov.DeWine to express gratitude to these women, who have helped hundreds navigate his f*cked up vaccine distribution system. 🙄 cleveland.com/opinion/2021/0…
I'm a pragmatist, but man, do we need bold ideas. @JustinMBibb has a few. cleveland.com/opinion/2021/0…
Despicable Anthony Sowell wasn’t worth death penalty’s high cost: Leila Atassi cleveland.com/opinion/2021/0…
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Today, #CLE announced the retirement of @ClePolice Deputy Chief Deon McCaulley, who has served with CPD for 30+ years. He will continue to serve citizens as the next Chief of Police of the @ClevelandClinic Police Department.
Cc: @CleCityCouncil
bit.ly/2Lhtqv8
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Geiger's, the locally owned outdoor sporting goods and apparel retailer, announces that its downtown Cleveland location (opened in 2015) will close permanently. clevescene.com/scene-and-hea…
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Cleveland Police kick off Black History Month in absolutely spectacular fashion, booting six young Black officers from their amateur football team for objecting to Tim Loehmann being on the squad.
Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland cop who shot and killed Tamir Rice, was welcomed on an amateur Cleveland football team for cops over the objections of Black teammates clevescene.com/scene-and-hea…
Biden’s directive on housing discrimination bodes well for positive change, Ohio advocates say - cleveland.com cleveland.com/realestate-new…
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In surprise layoffs, Hyland Software axes ~150 employees from its Westlake HQ, with plans to grow cheaper workforce in Poland and India.
Employees feel shocked and unmoored. Many have grown skeptical of the company's carefully curated brand. clevescene.com/scene-and-hea…
Stirring and powerful commentary. ... “So many of the freedoms we all enjoy today are a direct result of Tubman’s heroic efforts. But American money, and our national romance with it, is the root of so many of our national evils.” apple.news/AhX0GAr_TQEioVl3J…
