Olivera Perkins

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Economics Reporter at Signal Cleveland

Economics reporter @signalcleveland Former longtime @ThePlainDealer reporter. 🎼 Soprano in my spare time.

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Here’s how to apply for HEAP Summer Crisis Program assistance

2 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

There is a price to pay for escaping scorching temperatures such as the heat wave Greater Cleveland just experienced – high electric bills. For those struggling to keep up with cooling costs, the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) Summer Crisis Program may offer help. The program provides one-time assistance with electric utility bills, central air conditioning repairs and purchasing an air conditioning unit and/or fan(s).
Shiloh, Cleveland's oldest Black Baptist church continues to serve

5 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

Shiloh Baptist Church in Central is called the mother church of Black Baptist churches in Cleveland. Founded 176 years ago, it was the city’s first Black Baptist congregation. Shiloh’s existence has been intertwined with Black life in Cleveland. The church was founded by a free Black community during slavery. It stood firm through Reconstruction, Jim Crow and other legal racial segregation and discrimination. The church withstood two World Wars and the Great Depression.
Liberty Hill Baptist Church aims to be a light for Fairfax and beyond

5 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

There is this one thing that constantly competes for Rev. Michael L. Brown’s attention in leading Liberty Hill Baptist Church: The imposing building the church has called home for nearly 70 years. The massive four-story Moorish Revival-style brick building at Euclid Avenue and East 82nd Street stretches more than a block, almost to Carnegie Avenue.
A $5 million fund could preserve historic Black Cleveland churches

5 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

Just about every time Peggie Brown enters the sanctuary at Shiloh Baptist Church in Central, she gazes up at the immense stained glass dome and admires it. She’s been doing this for the 60 years she has been a member. One Sunday about three years ago, Brown arrived at the church on Scoville Avenue and East 55th Street and gasped in horror. Members told her stained glass and plaster had fallen from the dome in the building constructed in the early 1900s.
East Mt. Zion Baptist Church stays in Fairfax to focus on community

5 days ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

East Mt. Zion Baptist Church was in the process of selling its building about five years ago. Then the congregation’s new senior pastor had a revelation. “It was kind of like a Moses-at-the-burning-bush moment,” the Rev. Brian Cash, who has pastored the church since 2020, said, referring to the biblical story.
Cleveland job fair June 4 to help people with unstable housing

4 weeks ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

A job and resource fair for people experiencing homelessness or who have unstable housing will be held June 4 at the Greater Cleveland Food Bank in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood. The event, called From Survival to Sustainability: Reimagining the Hiring Journey, will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the food bank’s Community Resource Center, 15500 S. Waterloo Road. The City of Cleveland is sponsoring the event with the food bank and several other partners.
A $10 million initiative is helping Clevelanders find good-paying jobs

1 month ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

Maurice Bogard Jr. was sick and tired of holding dead-end warehouse jobs. The ones he worked in Greater Cleveland often didn’t pay enough for the single father to support his family. He was able to get better pay by taking out-of-town assignments, but it meant being away from home for long stretches. Bogard, 34, has always wanted to be an electrician, but he didn’t know anyone in the trade and had no idea how to land an apprenticeship.
Learn about jobs and summer activities at Cuyahoga resource fair

1 month ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

A resource fair in Cleveland Heights on May 14 is designed to connect residents with employment opportunities, public health services, summer activities for children and other programs. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) event will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Cleveland Heights Community Center, 1 Monticello Blvd, Cleveland Heights.
How Trump administration tariffs are impacting Greater Cleveland

1 month ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

Tom Lazzaro and Jack H. Schron Jr., the presidents of Greater Cleveland companies, view tariffs differently because the recent tax hikes on imported goods are affecting their businesses differently. Schron, whose Jergens Inc. is in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood, said tariffs have already increased business. They have helped close the gap by making the company’s products more competitive with those from abroad, which he said are often sold at artificially low prices.
Sherrod Brown alum John Ryan advises Cleveland fair wage board

1 month ago | signalcleveland.org | Olivera Perkins

When Cleveland’s resurrected Fair Employment Wage Board was looking for a consultant, several people told John Ryan it was an assignment tailored for him. Ryan headed the North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor before serving as state director for former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown. They also told Ryan that serving as consultant would be a sort of poetic justice. In 2001, Ryan successfully lobbied council to pass legislation that formed the board.

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