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Trump’s Executive Order – we should not comply! — Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless Trump’s Executive Order – we should not comply!  

Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless denounces Trump's executive order that criminalizes people for being homeless. The order does nothing to lower housing costs, nor does it promote programs that work to house the homeless, such as Cleveland's Housing First.
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Cleveland is fortunate to have one of the country's best writing conferences, thanks to @literarycleveland.bsky.social.
See all the conference events and workshops at inkubator.litcleveland.org

Free registration for our Inkubator Writing Conference is now open!

Sign up for virtual and/or in-person events September 8-13!

#CleInk25

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Column | More Americans are car poor as they misjudge trade-in math and pile on debt More than 1 in 4 consumers owe more on their car loans than the vehicle is worth, while car payments of $1,000 have reached a record high.

Not only are cars a massive expense for most households, but they’re creating/perpetuating a debt crisis for a growing number of people.

Forced car dependency causes unnecessary financial strain, especially for low and middle income folks.

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A Handbook For Public Power Campaigns - ILSR Energy Democracy Initiative A one-stop resource for public power advocates preparing campaigns to take over their electric utility.

Get help with everything from building a winning coalition, to countering utility pushback, to other models of public power that still ⬆️local energy control and utility accountability vist.ly/3zjf3

Co-op Circles Presents: Candidate Forum on Municipal Economic Policy - Cleveland Owns Co-op Circles Presents: Candidate Forum on Municipal Economic Policy - Cleveland Owns

Cleveland Owns and Co-op Circles are hosting a non-partisan candidate forum on July 31 with candidates for Cleveland City Council discussing all things related to how the city of Cleveland sets policy that impacts economic life.
www.clevelandowns.coop/events/co-op...

All the sordid details about the staggering corruption of First Energy and the Republicans who control the Ohio Statehouse.

Cleveland lakefront planners should listen to these ideas about opportunities to provide convenient, attractive intermodal transportation connections. Improved passenger rail service will come here eventually!
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Housing messaging dos and don'ts:

✔️ Focus on kids, health, and safety

✔️ Emphasize fairness & inclusion

❌ Avoid starting with history or commodification

Want to change minds? Start here:

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#HousingJustice #MessagingTips #EquityInNarratives

Cleveland Public Power could do innovative things like this, too.

Extreme heat. Warmer water. More ticks. Fewer fish. Climate change report brings grim news. The assessment builds on a 2019 report published by the Environmental Law and Policy Center and conducted by a team of scientists from around the region.

Extreme heat. Warmer water. More ticks. Fewer fish. Climate change report brings grim news for the Great Lakes.

Our CPP members were on the steps of Cleveland City Hall today to call for reforms to make Cleveland Public Power a municipal utility that's affordable, reliable, community-led, and clean and green.

🎉Announcing the 2025 Inkubator Writing Conference 🎉

#CleInk25 is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country and this year we have made it bigger and better than ever!

Events September 5-14. Registration opens August 1.
inkubator.litcleveland.org

"Burn Bright" is the theme of this year's Inkubator writing conference from @literarycleveland.bsky.social. As the conference's keynote speaker Celeste Ng writes in her book Our Missing Hearts: “If the world is on fire you might as well burn bright.”
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One of Cleveland's most underappreciated, under performing assets is Cleveland Public Power. Now grassroots energy activists are releasing a reform agenda. Attend the press event July 22 at 1 pm at City Hall to support the creation of a municipal utility that moves our city into the future.

To avert transportation nightmare around airport, new stadium complex, planning must start now: editorial The planning needs to be all-encompassing, minutely detailed and collaborative. And it needs to move quickly, before no-return decisions are made on airport and Browns access points. Anything less ris...

Make the billionaire Haslams pay for the traffic problems they will cause with their domed stadium scheme.
#Browns @odot-statewide.bsky.social
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Three days after getting $600 million in state funds for their new domed stadium, billionaires Dee and Jimmy Haslam closed on the purchase of a $25 million beachfront mansion in Florida. "The two events are either a remarkable coincidence or some tone-deaf scheduling."
neo-trans.blog/2025/07/11/h...

Lakefront plus, or traffic headache? - What to make of Cleveland’s Shoreway to boulevard conversion? A 35 mph boulevard is planned as part of Cleveland's effort to extend its downtown street grid north

The administration is right. Creating a great lakefront space won't be a traffic problem. Full stop. That's just not how traffic works.

www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07...

Hoping that manufactured housing is a way to make high quality homes more affordable.

Lakefront plus, or traffic headache? - What to make of Cleveland’s Shoreway to boulevard conversion? A 35 mph boulevard is planned as part of Cleveland's effort to extend its downtown street grid north

Amazing that is a question: Is saving commuters a couple of minutes more important than creating am accessible, public lakefront for Cleveland?
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07...

You can help these exciting candidates and create a Cleveland that works for working people.

Haslams can’t field a winning team, but scoring a big Statehouse handout? No sweat: Brent Larkin Cleveland deserves better than the Browns' state-funded abandonment of downtown. If the long lens of history views this as a defining moment, it will not be kind to those who allowed it to happen, wri...

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No public subsidies for nepo-baby billionaires.
#Browns

You can help these exciting candidates and create a Cleveland that works for working people.

Meet Cleveland City Council candidates who are creating an exciting, progressive vision for Cleveland's future.

Hey, Greater Cleveland RTA. This seems like a good thing to do.

Thanks to @sustainablecle.bsky.social for an electricity aggregation program that gives Cleveland customers of The Illuminating Co. another year of 100% renewable energy.

Congrats to @matthewahn.bsky.social, whose run for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor highlighted serious problems with our local justice system, for opening a new Cleveland office of the Ohio Justice & Policy Center. Matthew will be continuing his work with the center's Beyond Guilt Project.

Join the North Shore AFL-CIO and @policymattersohio.bsky.social for No Budget for Billionaires, a virtual town hall about all the ways federal budget cuts will harm working families — and how to take action -- June 24 at 7 pm.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Saturday in Cleveland — be there!