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Girl’s Joint, Back After Hiatus, Brings Femme Touch to Smoke Shop Market
Mandi Cavano and Judie Vegh had their shop in Gordon Square shut down for months due to bureaucratic obstacles.
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Advocacy Group and Customers Demand Citizen Oversight of Cleveland Public Power Following July Blackouts
A coalition of Cleveland Public Power customers wants an oversight committee to improve transparency and accountability before the city’s next big outage.
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IKEA Coming to Crocker Park in Spring 2027
The Swedish furniture giant’s Cleveland outpost will be one of its new smaller-format stores, clocking in at around 80,000 square feet.
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XCSB Signs Five Year Lease for Studio Spot in Waterloo
The rebel offshoot of Cleveland State’s shuttered college radio station also debuted a listening app.
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Twist Social Club Celebrates 27 Years of Being a Nightlife Island of Community and Joy
How the westside bar embraces a community focus as many LGBTQ+ clubs combat closures.
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Slavic Village to Vote on Project Finalists in $100,000 Participatory Budgeting Pilot Program
Ten proposals, including a pet food fund and a plan to remediate lead-infested gardens, will be narrowed down to three when People’s Budget CLE’s pilot experiment ends in August.
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Citizens Bank Ends Financing for Private Prison Companies, Local Campaign Credits Public Pressure
“These inhumane private prisons are places of overcrowding, neglect, malnutrition, isolation, suffering and preventable death,” said organizers of the campaign.
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Cuyahoga County Council Advances Proposal to Return Sheriff to Elected Position
A 7-4 vote on Tuesday moved forward the possibility of returning the position to the ballot instead of being appointed by the executive amid debates about turnover and accountability.
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NEON Workers Win Wage Theft Lawsuit Against Their Employer
Cleveland courts decided this week that about a dozen current and former employees of the low-cost healthcare organization were owed thousands of dollars in unpaid checks.
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State Shouldn’t Renew TownHall’s Liquor License, Council Says
Councilman Austin Davis has led a campaign to strip Bobby George’s TownHall in Ohio City of its liquor license in the wake of his recent felony conviction.
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Cleveland City Council Warily Approves Flock Safety Renewal
The temporary extension keeps Cleveland’s 100 license plate readers operating while officials seek bids for a replacement before the contract expires in December.
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Ohio City Inc. Urges City Hall to Create Relief Fund for Businesses Affected by Repeated Cleveland Public Power Outages
“Local businesses are the backbone of our community, and repeated disruptions to service can have severe and sometimes devastating impact on our local businesses,” says OCI.
