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North Coast Yard Pop-Up Meant to Give Clevelanders a Taste of Lakefront Makeover
“I don’t see this necessarily as an appetizer. I just see this as starting dinner earlier”
Mark Oprea
Mark Oprea is a staff writer at Scene. He's covered Cleveland for the past decade, and has contributed to TIME, NPR, the Pacific Standard and the Cleveland Magazine. He's the winner of two Press Club awards.
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Cleveland Soccer Group Eyes Smaller $50 Million Stadium After Securing Women’s Team
The group already landed rights to an MLS NEXT Pro team, but lost out on a bid for an NWSL expansion team
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Cuyahoga County Animal Shelter Cuts Ribbon on $3-Million Expansion
“This expansion is vital to save the lives of dogs and enhance the community,” Councilwoman Sunny Simon said
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Cleveland State Students Approved a Wrestling Tax to Save the Team a Decade Ago. The Team Was Cut Anyway
“That probably means they shouldn’t be collecting [the tax] in the first place,” one former wrestler said
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Literary Cleveland’s Fourth Annual Poetry Fest Takes on ‘The Body Politic’ This April
Along with a new seven-venue Poetry Crawl
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Former City Goods Site to Reopen as The Creative Hangars on March 1
Ohio City Inc. pulled the plug after financial struggles. But founder Sam Friedman didn’t want the business incubator and market to die
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‘We’re Gonna Fight’: Clevelanders Pack Shontel Brown Town Hall to Rail Against Trump and Musk’s Drastic Federal Job Cuts
She offered a three-pronged strategy to combat Elon Musk’s swift takeover of White House spending: “in Congress, the courts and the community”
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Community Police Commission and City Hall Butt Heads After Report Detailing Dozens of Misconduct Allegations Gone Uninvestigated
CPC publicly shared the information, including suspect and victim details, which rankled City Hall
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11 Pro-Palestine Protesters Charged with Felonies for Allegedly Vandalizing Case Western Last Fall
They were indicted Wednesday for a November night of allegedly painting areas of Case’s campus red and causing $400,000 in damage
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Mayor Bibb Pitches Council a Meatier Cleveland Budget in the Face of a Year of Political Change
With possible cuts in federal grants looming, Council debated a budget that’s 3% bigger than 2024’s
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Job Cuts Begin at Cuyahoga Valley National Park Amid DOGE’s Valentine’s Day Weekend Purge
The Conservancy for CVNP worries about how these and future cuts will affect Northeast Ohio’s national park, which has seen record attendance in recent years
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Great Lakes Brewing Confirms Plans for Scranton Peninsula Development, Just Not a Production Facility
The Cleveland brewer also reiterated its commitment to the Ohio City brewpub