CCPC Rescheduled August Membership Meeting
CCPC Rescheduled August Membership Meeting: What’s Next? Thursday, September 7 from 6 to 7:30 pm @ Edgewater Park Upper Level Pavilion. The pavilion has plenty of wooden picnic tables but please bring a comfortable lawn chair if you’d prefer. We’ll have speakers covering the What’s Next question with short presentation’s about 1) The November election 2) Building a new Cuyahoga County Jail 3) Public sector financing of a Browns stadium renovation 4) One Fair Wage constitutional amendment 5) Upcoming Tri – C Levy
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And Next Week
CCPC People’s Budget ( PB CLE ) Meeting Tuesday, September 12 from 6:30 to 8 pm. The People’s Budget is a charter amendment on the ballot in Cleveland this November. It would give Cleveland residents over the age of 13 the ability to directly decide how 2% of the budget (about $14 million this year) is spent on projects in the neighborhoods. How is public input from the neighborhoods going to be organized? Who’s going to decide which projects get included in this part of the budget? And will other parts of the budget be affected by what PB decides? Is this a good idea? If you want these questions answered or have other questions about the charter amendment please attend this meeting with PB CLE representatives. Please click here to register for the event and to submit a question After registering you’ll receive an email with the Zoom link.
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Local
Some residents believe a jail in their community will increase income tax revenues, job opportunities, safety and create new businesses. Others said it could stunt the city’s growth, tank property values and invite more crime. What do you think?
Embracing ‘ care response ‘ in Cuyahoga County to transform mental health crisis intervention Describes a paradigm shift where unarmed behavioral health clinicians and trained peers with lived experience in the behavioral health system respond to individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis instead of the police.
Staffing shortage has child care centers turning away families There are nearly 20% fewer childcare slots available in Northeast Ohio than there were in 2020 and demand has remained the same. The low wages paid at most child care centers has caused workers to seek better pay in other fields. The already tainted system may be headed for ruin. And what is the economic cost if workers cannot find child care for their kids?
Shaker Heights Council Passes Public Safety Reforms, Avoids Ballot Initiative in November The framework prioritizes community feedback, improves access to records and data and expands mental health responses. ” Policy – wise, this is one of the biggest legislative packages for public – safety and police reform that’s ever been passed in the state of Ohio,” said Shaker Citizens for Fair Ticketing campaign manager Ethan Khorana
State
Ohio Redistricting Commission Set to Begin Work Again Will the previous Republican practice of gerrymandering districts for their own partisan benefit continue? Or will public criticism, legal troubles and the looming constitutional amendment that would eliminate the commision make them change? The first meeting is set for September 13.
Ohio Drivers: Still Interested in Electric Vehicles The share of electric cars in total sales has more than tripled in three years, from around 4% in 2020 to around 14% in 2022. And around 40% of all Ohioans now say they would consider an electric vehicle for their next purchase. This is great news!
Lack of Affordable Housing Could Impede Ohio’s Economic Growth A nationwide housing shortage and rising interest rates have put home ownership out of reach for many Ohioans and is squeezing the rental market.With an abundance of renters, landlords are of course going to raise the rent. How are businesses going to locate in Ohio if there is a shortage of affordable housing?
Ohio’s Wayne National Forest is currently named after General ” Mad Anthony ” Wayne whose specialty was slaughtering the Native Americans who had lived in Ohio for centuries.So it should be a no – brainer to rename it. But not to Hillbilly Elegy Senator J.D. Vance who believes the renaming would ‘ denigrate Ohio history.’
National
From strikes to new union contracts. Labor Day’s organizing roots are especially strong this year Like the late 1880’s, workers are facing rapid economic transformation and a growing gap in pay between themselves and the modern -day Robber Baron billionaires of industry. And workers are fighting back, from the threatened UPS strike, to the striking workers in Hollywood, to the Starbucks unionization efforts and now the looming threat of a UAW strike.
100 Days In, Brandon Johnson Is Steadily Shifting Chicago’s Political Terrain One hundred days into his term, Johnson has begun to shepard key progressive policy priorities through the City Council including investment in the Black and Latino communities. We wish him luck as he begins to tackle the complicated police reform issue.
How hurricane Idalia went from Category 1 to Category 4 overnight As Idalia moved through the Gulf of Mexico last week its winds rose by 55 mph in the 24 hours before it reached land. The reason was the 90 degree water temperature in the Gulf created by climate change. Imagine the catastrophe when an already Category 3 or 4 storm reaches those waters.
2024 Republicans want to eliminate the Education Department. What would that look like? The Department of Education has an enormous number of responsibilities, including handling student loans, investigating complaints against schools and tracking education progress across the country. And the last thing the fascist Republicans want to see is education progress.
Black Lives Matter
Conditions at the Fulton County jail seem a lot like the conditions at the Cuyahoga County jail. District Attorney Fani Willis is being portrayed as a national hero for prosecuting Trump. Meanwhile, thousands of incarcerated people live in squalor in Fulton County jails, some even dying before their day in court.
Biden’s 2020 margin among Black voters was smaller than for any other Democratic Party presidential nominee over the past two decades. And the latest data suggest that support has eroded since the election.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis faces Black Leaders anger after racist killings in Jacksonville And rightfully so. Fascist DeSantis couldn’t even mention that race was involved in the killings and instead called the shooter ” a major – league scumbag.” And of course everything DeSantis has done concerning race relations has only emboldened white supremacists in Florida.
All of the clowns seeking the Republican nomination are in a race to the bottom to see who can appear the most racist to cultivate the support of the party’s racist base. What dark – skinned candidates like Ramaswamy don’t seem to understand is that they will never get enough support from the base because of the color of their skin.
Immigration
On the Line: Waiting for Refuge in Mexico City With all the attention on detention centers on the border, the U.S. media rarely, if ever acknowledges that camps of migrants and displaced people exist throughout Mexico. This article focuses on one in Mexico City and includes some vivid photos.
ICE sends deportation flight to Haiti after warning US citizens to evacuate The deportation flight occuring the day after the evacuation order was given. Inhumane is the best word to describe this action. In case you’re wondering, ICE deportation air operations are at a 44 month high with 150 flights in August. This of course is all a part of Biden’s re – election strategy to mimic Trump on immigration policy.
Nearly Half of States Allow Immigrants to Pay in – state college tuition Advocates for granting in – state tuition argue that states with declining population ( like Ohio ) should educate young immigrants to make up for the residents leaving the state and taking tax revenue with them. In case you’re wondering, Ohio currently only grants in – state tuition to immigrants who are DACA recipients.
Federal judge says New Jersey law banning immigrant detention contract with private contractor unconstitutional The New Jersey law was put in place in 2021 by progressive governor Phil Murphy who has also proclaimed New Jersey a ‘ sanctuary state ‘ for immigrants. If you’re guessing that it was xenophobic Republicans who filed the suit to keep the private contractor in place, you’re wrong. It was the Biden administration.
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