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WEBCommunity powered journalism for a better Cleveland. Despite Bike Cleveland’s ongoing advocacy efforts to improve road safety across the 6,000-plus streets comprising the city’s grid, Cleveland has already experienced an uptick in traffic-related deaths with 12 cyclists and pedestrians killed in vehicular accidents, an increase over the nine who died in 2023.
How to apply for utility assistance during the pandemic in Ohio
WEBSep 9, 2024 · Dealing with a mounting utility bill or shut-off notice can be scary, especially during a pandemic when electricity, water and gas are essential for learning or working from home.
Cleveland's libraries ready for next chapter as $100 million …
WEBAug 12, 2024 · Rendering by Moody-Nolan of the new Hough Branch Library. Dwayne Price will miss the old Hough Branch library, but he’s looking forward to the new one, coming soon in a roughly $100 million project to upgrade every Cleveland Public Library branch. Price has visited Hough about four times a week for the past 17 years.
Founders of color lead way to more equitable tech ecosystem in ...
WEBApr 23, 2024 · Between July 1, 2017 and July 31, 2022, JumpStart invested $37.98 million of venture capital into 83 companies, according to data provided by the nonprofit: Eighteen Black-founded or led companies received $3.82 million in funding (10% of the total investment). Five Latinx or Hispanic-founded or led companies received $467,810 (about 1% …
Cleveland renters with vouchers struggle to find housing
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Recent statistics bear out Lundgard’s claim. In these instances, 92% of renters who seek to use their vouchers are denied housing, according to a 2017 report from the Cleveland-based Fair Housing Center for Rights and Research. Housing rights activists and community groups in Cleveland are hoping …
Vitrolite building revived as Harness Collective brings in businesses ...
WEBSep 13, 2024 · In 2022, the pair bought the building at 2915 Detroit Ave. for $1.68 million from the previous owner (Intermuseum Conservation Association, or ICA) under their real estate company, Harness Collective. They’ve spent the past five months completely rehabbing the 18,000-square-foot space and just celebrated their …
Glenville’s Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church receives ... - The Land
WEBSep 13, 2024 · In December 2021, Greater Abyssinia’s neighbor, Cory United Methodist Church held its own Civil Rights Trail marker unveiling. The marker commemorates its history, including the time in May 1963 when Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at Cory to a standing-room only crowd. The same church was also the April 3, 1964 location where Malcolm X gave ...
Cleveland saw a decrease in unsheltered homelessness in 2020: …
WEBSep 5, 2024 · Before most of these measures were in place, in the first half of 2020, Cleveland saw a slight increase in the average number of people experiencing homelessness living outside the shelter system, 17 percent higher compared to the first half of 2019. That number dropped in the second half of …
Progress has been slow three years after Cleveland’s lead safe ...
WEBSep 10, 2024 · But scholars looking at the big picture show the harm to be devastating. For instance, a recent study in Lancet Planetary Health attends to the great global cost of lead poisoning beyond childhood, estimating that 5.5 million adults globally died from cardiovascular disease caused by lead. By connecting this to other forms of lead harm in the form of IQ loss and premature mortality, the study ...
Greater Cleveland Food Bank announced measures to address …
WEBSep 5, 2024 · The Greater Cleveland Food Bank opened its new Community Resource Center in October. A press conference held at the facility earlier this month revealed more details about the nonprofit's goal to eliminate food insecurity in the region.