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Cleveland Legal Aid Society Workers Unionize in Pursuit of More Top Down Transparency
Legal Aid United was formed late last year, in part, to handle “layers of bureaucracy”
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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A NASA Engineer Spent Years Writing Fiction About Venus. Now He Wants to Send a Mission There For Real
It could be the first surface visit to collect soil and rock samples
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Gordon Park Redesign Feedback Makes Future Makeover Clear: More Stuff For Families
Meaning: soccer fields, playgrounds, murals, hiking trails and actual restrooms
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Cleveland’s New Division of Forestry Could Help Speed Up Far-Reaching Tree Canopy Goals
A new department will put tree growth, Councilwoman Spencer said, “front and center”
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Despite Objections From City Planning, Councilman Danny Kelly Goes to Bat for Proposed Gas Station on Vacant CVS Property
“I don’t believe they have the right to tell me what they can allow or not,” Ward 11 Councilman Danny Kelly said
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Ohio Disciplinary Office Recommends Two-Year Law License Suspension for Judge Timothy Grendell
The judge is a “bully who abused his power [and] abandoned his role as a neutral advocate”
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Former Cuyahoga County Employee Federally Charged on Seven-Figure Wire Fraud Charges
The Feds have accused Curtis McEwen of defrauding a company out of $7.5 million
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Averting Strike, Cuyahoga County Public Library Agrees to New Contract With Union
CCPL employees will see a five percent pay increase this year and smaller raises each of the next two
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Mike Shea, Founder of Alternative Press, Starts Ruffian Books, a Music-Focused and Cleveland-Based Publishing Company
Ruffian Books is dedicated to “exploring the unconventional” in music history
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Cleveland Finance Director Ahmed Abonamah Resigns
Abonamah’s quick departure was, he told Axios, an “anodyne job change”
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Cleveland Rocks Climbing Gym Founder Hit With More Legal Woes
Kevin Wojton defrauded an investor and defaulted on $1.7 million in construction loans, two new complaints since January allege