Leila Atassi
Cleveland City Hall Reporter at Cleveland.com
Metro columnist for https://t.co/pkb180MTxp with work also appearing in The Plain Dealer.
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3 days ago |
cleveland.com | Leila Atassi
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It’s easy to judge from a distance. To look at the grocery cart of a low-income parent and scoff at the soda, cookies and ice cream sandwiches nestled between the rice and ramen. But judgment feels different up close. I learned that as a reporter, spending time in the homes of Cleveland families trying to make ends meet. I watched mothers skip dinner so their kids could have seconds and stretch a package of ground beef into a week of meals.
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1 week ago |
cleveland.com | Leila Atassi
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Somewhere in Ohio today, a baby will be born too soon. Maybe in Cuyahoga County, where infant mortality just climbed to its highest level in five years. Maybe in a rural town, where a family can’t find a doctor. Maybe to a mother whose heart is full but whose paycheck ran out before the month did. That baby’s chance of seeing a first birthday will depend not only on love and luck but on whether Ohio lawmakers believe in saving lives more than winning a never-ending culture war.
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2 weeks ago |
cleveland.com | Leila Atassi
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When the Nazis stormed into Belarus in 1941, Aly Stein’s grandfather was just 11 years old — the same age her son is today. Orphaned, he escaped into the woods and spent the rest of the Holocaust fighting back as a member of the Jewish Partisans. Three decades later, fleeing his homeland with his wife and children, he refused to settle in Israel, having seen fellow survivors complicit in the displacement of Palestinians.
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3 weeks ago |
cleveland.com | Leila Atassi
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The death penalty is the kind of issue that dares you to see it in black and white. But spend enough time sitting with it — examining how it works in practice, what it costs, what it risks — and the gray begins to overwhelm. As a reporter, I sat in a courtroom while a man -– a monster, really -- who murdered 11 women, sat stone-faced, without a flicker of regret or sign of humanity, as if the lives he stole were beneath acknowledgment.
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1 month ago |
cleveland.com | Leila Atassi
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Let’s give Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb his due. He has stood taller against the Haslams than any Cleveland mayor before him — frankly, taller than most people expected. For months, while the billionaire owners of the Browns stomped their feet and waved around their $2.4 billion stadium plans in Brook Park, Bibb has kept his footing.
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