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Rats, Dirty Air, Broken Faucets: Lakeview Terrace Residents Wonder When Help Will Come
A new data-gathering initiative on air quality might change public policy—but will take at least two years
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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Bootsy Collins Roots Anti-Violence Project in Garfield Heights, Urges Kids: Funk, Not Fight
The funk hero’s initiative will fortify a nonprofit’s music studio capabilities and instrument inventory
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Lakefront Project Plans Come Into Focus as North Coast Master Plan Team Completes Second Listening Tour
The Shoreway will most likely be converted into a 35 mph boulevard
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Chris Ronayne to Appoint Harold Pretel as Cuyahoga County Sheriff
Pretel, deputy chief of homeland security operations for the Cleveland police department, is expected to be confirmed
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Warren Morgan Will Be CMSD’s New CEO
Morgan will replace Eric Gordon at the end of the school year
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Census Data Shows Diverging Population Trends in Cleveland Neighborhoods, With Some Adding Housing Units But Losing Residents
More single-family homes, fewer multi-unit buildings at the heart of the issue
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RTA Gets $130 Million From Feds for New Rail Cars
Because Cleveland’s rail cars are the oldest in the country, we’re the first, the FTA said, to get a big check
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Flats East Bank Sets Sight on Becoming Cleveland’s Second Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area
You may be able to drink and stroll there by the end of 2023
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Cleveland’s $100-Million Plan to Turn Brownfields Into Development-Ready Land
Bibb vows to make “thousands of acres” of unused land ready for business
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‘Do The Right Thing’: Sherrod Brown Urges Norfolk Southern to Fix Crumbling Bridges in Cleveland
“You have a chance to fix past mistakes,” Brown wrote
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Cleveland Bitcoin Thief Who Used $4.8M in Stolen Funds for Lavish Life Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
Harmon splurged on a Lamborghini, a house, a $15,000 “whale room” at a nightclub, and more