The revitalization plan, announced more than a year ago, focused on “surging” support into Cleveland’s Central neighborhood…
Category: 2020 NEOSOJO
Posted in2020 NEOSOJO, Cleveland, Cleveland-East side, FOOD & DRINK
Central residents long for a grocery store as negotiations drag on
Many Cleveland neighborhoods – almost 60% according to one estimate – don’t lie in close proximity to a grocery store, effectively stranding people without cars. The Central neighborhood is no different…
Posted in2020 NEOSOJO, Cleveland, GOVERNMENT, MONEY
The Child Tax Credit is helping Clevelanders, but some families have missed it
The Child Tax Credit is helping Clevelanders, but some families have missed it. What can be done to remedy that problem?
Posted in2020 NEOSOJO, GOVERNMENT
Central neighborhood will be first to get “surge” of support, but will it be what residents want?
Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish and other local politicians caught an earful
Posted in2020 NEOSOJO, GOVERNMENT
Cleveland Right to Counsel shows promising early results for tenants, and some landlords
Cleveland is one of seven cities in the U.S. that has enacted a right to counsel program that provides free legal representation to tenants facing eviction. Early statistics from the program’s first year of operation show…
Posted in2020 NEOSOJO, Fitness, GOVERNMENT
Cleveland efforts to recruit black, minority patients for COVID-19 vaccine trials an uphill battle
How Black health care providers are trying to build back trust in their community for a critical need: to have adequate representation for clinical trials for the COVID-19
Posted in2020 NEOSOJO, Cleveland, Fitness
Historical mistreatment, modern-day disparities make Black Americans less likely to trust COVID-19 care, vaccine
When Carmen Bailey fell ill with COVID-19, she told her daughter not to take her to the hospital. Her story echoes that of many our community members
Posted in2020 NEOSOJO, Fitness
Home Visitation Program Reduces Infant Mortality in Medicaid Recipients
Part 3 of our Black women’s maternal health series with the Cleveland Observer