Pride in Cleveland 2023 parade and festival draws thousands to downtown Cleveland, Ohio

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Staff article CLEVELAND, Ohio - Pride in the CLE, a parade and festival held annually in downtown Cleveland, Ohio in support of the LGBTQ+ community, stepped off on Saturday, June 3, 2023 from Public Square with a morning parade.

Thousands came out to the popular event, including the Cleveland Pride Marching Band, dignitaries, community organizations, activists, vendors, and a host of local mainstream and other media.

The festivities took place from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. and are part of month-long Pride activities taking place across Northeast Ohio.

[ View the 2023 Pride Guide from the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland ]

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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb to participate in U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting this weekend in Ohio, Bibb Cleveland's fourth Black mayor and its second youngest....By Clevelanddurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, the city's fourth Black mayor and its youngest at 36-years-old since Dennis Kucinich, will participate in the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Columbus this weekend, a gathering for mayors of cities with at least 30,000 residents.

The 91st annual meeting will be presided over by Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and will be hosted by Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther. Some 200 mayors from across the country are expected to attend, including some 18 Ohio mayors, also including Akron's new mayor, Kahlil Seren, and the mayors of Cleveland Hts, Elyria and Lorain.

Cleveland's mayor, who leads Ohio's second largest city behind Columbus, is scheduled to deliver remarks on climate issues, gun violence, entrepreneurial programs, business and technology, and the economy. He told reporters that his focus will be gun violence.

In spite of never holding office before, Bibb, a Democrat and native Clevelander, was the top vote-getter in a seven-way primary in 2021  He ran for an open seat as to the retirement of longtime former mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor who did not seek reelection after four terms in office. His campaign platform focused on decreasing crime and reforming the city's troubled police department.

He went on to win the nonpartisan primary election with then council president Kevi...

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U.S. Senate passes debt ceiling bill, saving the country from default....U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown and J.D. Vance, both of Ohio, voted differently in terms of supporting or not supporting the legislation....Ohio Congresswoman Emilia Sykes comments

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Under the leadership of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Democratically-controlled U.S. Senate passed a debt ceiling bill Thursday night that averts what could have been a first-ever default had Congress not passed the measure by the June 5 deadline. All that is needed now is for President Joe Biden to sign the controversial measure into law, which he has promised to do.

If the June 5 deadline had not been met, the nation's bills would have gone unpaid, according to the treasury department, and the country would have ultimately fallen into default for the first time in American history.

Thursday's Senate vote on Capitol Hill was 63-36 with four Democrats, 31 Republicans and one Independent, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, voting no. Sen Sherrod Brown, a seasoned Democratic lawmaker who resides in Cleveland, voted yes and Ohio's other U.S. senator, J.D. Vance, a Republican neophyte elected to the Senate for the first time during the November midterm elections, voted against the bill.

The congressional legislation at issue suspends the country's $31 trillion debt limit for two years until 2025 to avoid a government shutdown and to allow for the government to keep borrowing money so it can pay its bills on time. It passed the Republican-dominated House of Representatives on Wednesday, 314-117.

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U.S. House of Representatives passes debt ceiling bill, which now heads to the Senate for possible approval....Ohio Congresswoman Emilia Sykes and President Biden comment....By Clevelandurbnanews.com

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Pictured is Ohio 13th Congressional District Congresswoman Emilia Sykes

 

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Following weeks of wranglings by Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a debt ceiling bill in hopes of averting what could be a first-ever default unless Congress passes the measure by the June 5 deadline.

 

If that deadline is not met, the nation's bills will go unpaid, according to the treasury department, and the country will ultimately fall into default for the first time in American history.

 

The debt ceiling bill at issue, H.R. 3746, suspends the country's $31 trillion debt limit for two years to avoid a government shutdown. Titled "The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023," it passed the Republican-dominated House 314-117 and now heads to a split Senate of sometimes cantankerous lawmakers where a vote could come momentarily. If it passes the Senate, which Democrats control, it would need President Joe Biden's anticipated signature to become law.

 

Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pushed for a bipartisan compromise before the House passed the bill on Wednesday, though 71 Republicans and 46 Democrats voted no. The measure approved by the House calls for the nation's debt limit to be suspended until January 2025. This would allow the government to keep borrowing money so it...

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16-year-old Cleveland teen found dead with multiple gunshot wounds behind abandoned middle school....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — As crime continues to increase in the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, a 16-year-old boy was found Tuesday with multiple gunshot wounds behind the abandoned Audubon middle school on the city's east side

Police were called to the 3000 block of MLK Jr. Drive at around 7 p.m. and upon arriving they found the boy with multiple gunshot wounds. The teen was pronounced dead at the scene and police have not arrested any suspects in the case.

This is a developing story.

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U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown's FEND Off Fentanyl bill wins law enforcement support nationwide, Brown a Cleveland Democrat and seasoned member of Congress....Some 109,680 people died in 2022 alone from the fentanyl crisis in the U.S.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (pictured), a Cleveland Democrat and seasoned member of Congress, (D-OH) led the introduction to his  Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act , a sanctions and anti-money laundering bill designed to help combat the country’s fentanyl crisis by targeting opioid traffickers devastating Ohio and other communities.

If the proposed legislation passes Congress it would enhance current law so that U.S. government agencies can more effectively disrupt illicit opioid supply chains and penalize those facilitating the trafficking of fentanyl. Some 109,680 people died in 2022 alone from the fentanyl crisis in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the epidemic continues to deepen.

The bill also ensures that sanctions are imposed not only on the illicit drug trade, but also on the money laundering that makes it profitable. Brown, who chairs the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, introduced the legislation with the committee’s ranking member, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) and the leaders of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) and Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS). The bill now has over 40 cosponsors in the Senate.

In addition to cost issues, critics of the bill say it heightens criminal penalties and that increasing criminal penalties does not necessarily decrease crime. But supporters of t...

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Rock and soul icon Tina Turner dead at age 83

Share Tweet {lang: 'en-US'} Tina Turner — one of rock and soul music’s greatest icons and comeback stories — has died, leaving a seven-decade legacy that blazed a trail for divas like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse, Jazmine Sullivan and Annie Lennox. In a statement released Wednesday, her representative announced: “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll,’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.”

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