By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of Cleveland Urban News.Com

CLEVELAND,Ohio- The redistricting map that Cleveland City Council approved last week that drops council wards from 19 to 17 seats based on declining population pits popular Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson (pictured) and Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, both of whom are Black, against each other in city council races this year with their two wards combined into a newly established Ward 9. And not one White councilperson is largely impacted by the remapping, though the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland is roughly 58 percent Black, and only 37 percent White.

Cleveland Urban News.Com News Brief: Below is a reprint of a November 14, 2011 article by Cleveland Urban News.Com. Recently Republican Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor (pictured) of the Ohio Supreme Court assigned Willoughby retired judge Larry Allen to the Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed case (pictured in red tie)), a third DUI arrest for the Black councilman, who was charged earlier this month of March 2013. But Ohio Revised Code 1901.10  is a state law that requires that retired visiting judges, such as the one the replaced Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Pinkey Carr  in this last DUI case for Zack after she recused herself and the other Cleveland judges would not take the case, must come from the territorial jurisdiction of the court. In Cleveland the territorial jurisdiction is Cleveland and Bratenahl not Willoughby.  Community activists call for the FEDS that are in town to investigate deadly Cleveland shootings, to investigate the judges, and whether there might be a plethora of impropriety including case fixing as to the handpicking of retired judges by other judges themselves in the Ohio Supreme Court and in common pleas and municipal trial courts throughout the state.

REPRINT OF NOVEMBER 2011 CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM ARTICLE BELOW, WHICH IS STILL RELEVANT

BEREA, Ohio-Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock (pictured in blue tie), who is now under investigation by the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper for documented impropriety, is under fire.

Among a host of other allegations, Comstock is accused of recruiting out-of-town retired White visiting judges with nothing to lose to replace him in cases previously before him to harass maliciously prosecuted Blacks and women including triple bonds issued without holding a bond forfeiture hearing and without revoking the first bond as required by state law.

And also with the help of these visiting judges, the judge is revoking the bonds put up by Blacks without just cause while leaving similarly situated Whites alone. And, to complicate matters further, data show also that Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, the first female chief justice in Ohio history, is the person sending these unethical and corrupt out-of-the-community judges to assist Comstock, after he quits the case following his own unprecedented harassment of the maliciously prosecuted Black and female defendants.

CLEVELAND,Ohio- Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper

A critique by Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman of "My Brother Marvin," the state play on the life of soul icon Marvin Gaye that debuted in Cleveland at the State Theater on March 21 and ran through March 24

By: Cassandra Nist, newsnet5.com