Almost a score of judicial positions are on the November ballot in Cleveland, and most of the races see incumbents go unopposed. Now, I can’t force people to run for public office, although I regret I can’t. I just wish judges had competition, because most who serve on the bench don’t deserve what amounts to […]
You get the government you deserve, and in America, we certainly got the one we deserved when the egomaniacal Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. Yet no matter how conservatives looked at Trump and his kaleidoscopic policies, they had to spot the dastard in him, even as they refused to acknowledge it publicly. For […]
I pay a high price for living in an all-Black neighborhood. Walk through it, and you will find no Starbuck or Jamba Juice. A sit-down restaurant like the Olive Garden sounds like a winner, but not on the East Side of Cleveland.I don’t have to reiterate the challenges of my getting high-speed internet or of […]
I watched my Spectrum bill inch closer and closer to $200. The blotted bill bothered me, because it seemed as if I was paying more for less. I decided to drop Apple TV, though I continued to pay for the Apple device.In April 2020, I paid $146.05, which included $9.99 for a landline. I cut […]
I’m going to mention a few names that most of you haven’t heard of. I’ll start with Curtis Flowers, and now I roll more names your way: Marcus Wiggins, Ralph Wright Jr., Isaiah McCoy, Ricky Davis, Kwame Ajamu, Bo Cochran, Anthony Ray Hinton, Walter McMillan … All were innocent men — Black men whom […]
Marcia Fudge’s appointment to a Cabinet post opened opportunity for a fresh voice in a Democratic-controlled congressional district, and voices lined up straight like soldiers in Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” for a chance to replace her.Two Democrats stood out: Shontel Brown and Nina Turner.Voters from the 11th Congressional District decide this week who is the most […]
I did not watch a minute of the NBA last season, which means I missed what friends labeled a “classic” NBA Finals.They might be right. Still, I have come to realize our worlds cannot revolve so heavily around sports – basketball and football in particular. Sure, some call sports a distraction from the helter-skelter of […]
They played baseball Saturday afternoon at League Park. Two sandlot teams from the suburbs put the diamond to use, a rarity.For League Park, a $6.3 million ballpark in the Hough-Fairfax neighborhood, often goes unused, a brick-and-mortar symbol of lousy governance; it reflects how people without vision lord over all-things Cleveland.Folks who live in the city […]
Traitor Anna Morgan-Lloyd asked the federal court Wednesday for mercy. She got it. For her role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, a federal judge slapped Morgan-Lloyd with probation and fined her $500. Of course, the judge threw in 120 hours of community service, but that’s what a person gets for shoplifting, isn’t it? Newspapers like […]
Whatever naiveté we carried with us about our republic we can ditch now after four years of Donald Trump, whose failed presidency put an end to this age of innocence. One writer for The Atlantic said it well when he wrote: “America under Trump became less free, less equal, more divided, more alone, […]