Mark Oprea
Staff Writer at Cleveland Scene
Staff Writer, @ClevelandScene | Bylines: @NPR, @TIME, @Narratively, @psmag (RIP) | Concerned optimist | Tips, gossip: (216) 290-5890
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1 week ago |
clevescene.com | Mark Oprea
Last October, as the temps around Northeast Ohio began to dip into frigid territories, 34-year-old Robert Lucas was worried. He was living in a tent near the Red Line Station in West Park. He had friends nearby, but was bracing for yet another brutal winter. “I was feeling, you know, as safe as I could feel,” he said.
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1 week ago |
clevescene.com | Mark Oprea
It was a little after school let out when Theodore Jenkins, Jr.’s teenage son was hanging out with friends in front of Tower City Center on March 12. The hang quickly turned sour: a fight broke out nearby. Cleveland Police were called and showed up to quell the disturbance. When more officers arrived, they noticed a female officer on the ground—she had been tripped, she told the officers, by one of the nearby teenagers.
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1 week ago |
clevescene.com | Mark Oprea
Cleveland leaders gathered with clear eyes and what City Club CEO Dan Moulthroup described as much-needed "courage" and "corny and unbridled optimism" to announce a plan to solve poverty in the city through "economic inclusiveness and mobility" while building trust through interactions with the broader community to achieve a collaborative consensus, admitting that the way the region has operated in past has kept it one of the poorest in America. Wait, our apologies.
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1 week ago |
clevescene.com | Mark Oprea
For roughly the half century that the building at 2061 Gehring Avenue has been around, it’s been tied to cars. In the 1970s, it was a showroom and dealership for the DeSoto wing of Chrysler. Decades later, it hosted a lot for mechanics and manufacturers. And that legacy is likely to continue: 2061 Gehring is set to host a new Starbucks with a drive-thru to wrap around it, much to the chagrin of the residents and business owners of the historic neighborhood.
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2 weeks ago |
clevescene.com | Mark Oprea
Aiding Clevelanders in getting their houses up to code. Building new modular homes on the east side. Handing out bags of produce to homeless. Helping entrepreneurs open up coffee shops or clothing boutiques. Cleaning up bike boxes or painting crosswalks. These are just a few things that Cleveland’s community development corporations do in neighborhoods from east to west.
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