– In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day today, The PD’s Brandon Blackwell talks with a Cleveland couple who owns the only known copy of Dr. King’s March 23, 1965, speech right here in town. Here’s an excerpt:
“Now, more than ever before, America is challenged to make this dream a reality. For the shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy. And the price that our nation must pay for the continued oppression of the Negro is a price of its own destruction.”
– For the first time in his term, Gov. John Kasich received a positive job-approval rating, as The Cleveland Leader reports. We’re just happy because we can finally take the first shots in the worst drinking game ever conceived.
– Lastly, WEWS meteorologist Jason Nicholas warns errbody that the coldest air Cleveland’s felt in four years is on its way. Quick: Now is the perfect time for those “Cleveland weather is just CraAzaY” jokes you’ve been spouting off for, well, every day you’ve ever lived here.
This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2013.
I campaigned for Bobby Kennedy in 1968. His speeches were charged and filled with the spirit only a great leader for the people can manage. Like nearly all great speakers over the last one hundred years, RFK made a speech at the City Club of Cleveland.
The Metro Health Hospital is 75 years older than the City Club. 175years this hospital has worked toward more comfort and less pain and suffering for our people in our City of Cleveland.
It now gets all of those who the other hospitals want nothing to do with. Old guys like me who lost jobs and insurance over the last 7 years. Last February when I got the old person version of Chicken Pox–The Shingles–I would not have been able to pay the 250 dollars for the anti-virus medication. The Metro Hospital and their many helpers aimed me to the drugs which I so desperately needed. These ‘safety nets’ are very real folks and they serve the most imporatant service in the world: To help people because they need help then and there!
The Browns and the Cavs and The Indians get more positive press when they lose for decades than the Metro Health gets for 175 years of being there for those who need help and do not have enough money to get it. God Bless The Metro Hospital and all who have served Her for all these years!