Mark Oprea

1 week ago | clevescene.com | Mark Oprea

Those pesky, endless calls from debt collectors may stop coming in this month. Cleveland City Council announced on Thursday that they have eliminated $165 million of medical debt for 161,481 Clevelanders, a push to help rectify years, or even decades, of unpaid bills for exorbitantly-priced exams or ER visits for those who can't afford to pay. Those who qualified have already or will receive a letter detailing the debt that’s been wiped away, council members said at a press conference.

2 weeks ago | clevescene.com | Mark Oprea

Cleveland companies can no longer get away with being vague on job posting sites as far as salary goes. That is: citing “competitive compensation,” “weekly pay” or “getting paid tomorrow” will no longer cut it. And starting in six months, it’s illegal. City Council passed a suite of laws Monday that require, by law, all employers with over 15 workers to list, on any kind of job advertisement, the salary range one can expect to get if they’re hired.

2 weeks ago | clevescene.com | Mark Oprea

There have been a lot of changes at the top of Cleveland Heights leadership in the first term of Mayor Kahlil Seren, including the short-lived tenure of City Adminstrator Dan Horrigan. who resigned months after his hire due to what he called dysfunction and an "untenable" work environment at City Hall due to Seren's wife's unofficial role in government. Those changes have followed down the line with similar complaints.

2 weeks ago | clevescene.com | Mark Oprea

Ohio City’s longest-running, city-owned health clinic is ready to make its move southward. The McCafferty Center of the Cleveland Department of Public Health is officially lined up to move into the Blanket Mills complex off St. Rocco’s Court in Clark-Fulton, the City Planning Commission okayed last week and City Council approved on Monday. Public Health Director Dave Margolius painted the move as a logical win-win, both for Ohio City and Clark-Fulton.

2 weeks ago | clevescene.com | Mark Oprea

Before founding Market Garden Brewpub 14 years ago, before Nano Brew, before those the two underground dance clubs (and one rooftop) and the two largest taprooms in Ohio City, Sam McNulty thought himself primarily as a city planner. After all, that’s what he went to school for. Which is why it makes sense that, in the past few months, McNulty has risen as the most vocal source of opposition against a street redesign that will touch just about every portion of Ohio City’s Market District.