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CLEVELAND, Ohio — A day before Rob Chudzinski (pictured) is hired as the sixth head coach of the Cleveland Browns since 1999,  the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Atlanta Hawks at Quicken Loans Arena Wednesday night 99-83 with Kyrie Irving leading  the way with 33 points after shooting 11 of 15 from the field. Irving also had four assists and three steals.

The victory came without  Cavs center Anderson Varejao (pictured), who is out for an expected eight weeks after surgery on Thursday to repair a split leg muscle. Tristan Thompson replaced him and got 11 points and 14 rebounds during Wednesday's game.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper

CLEVELAND,Ohio- Cleveland City Council on Monday voted to reappoint longtime Cleveland Ward 4 Councilman Kenneth Johnson who just retired after 33 years as a councilman to lock in a yearly cost of living raise from his pension that by a new state law will in the future be based upon the economy.

Johnson, who is Black, has caused a lot of hoopla around the divisive issue, though when Cleveland Ward 11 Councilman Michael Polensek, who is White, did it, nobody seem to care. Nor did they care a great deal when Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson reappointed Safety Director Martin Flask, who is also White, and a hand full of other top level city all administrators that also retired only to come back get more monies from the public coffers.

Johnson, 67,  got the most votes of any other council person in the 2008 election and he is is more popular than Polensek among both his peers and his constituents, data show. He got 13 of 19 council votes with Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed absent from Monday's council meeting and west side council persons Dona Brady and Brian Cummins saying no like Polensek, allegedly because all three, including Polensek, who did what Johnson did,  believe it is an abuse of the power by council.

Cleveland City Council is divided along racial lines where all nine of the Blacks represent majority Black east side wards on the largely Black east side of the majority Black major metropolitan city and Whites represents wards on the west side, give or take a few like Polensek whose ward includes the Collinwood area of town.

Cleveland is divided east and west by the Cuyahoga County river and is the second most segregated city in the nation behind Boston.

Retiring from an Ohio public sector job and working another one afterwards is now legal under state law, though insurance and retirement set asides are not applicable for the new job.

Double dipping is actually illegal and refers technically to getting paid for two public jobs at the same time when no law allows it such as working as a public school principal, whose job is around the clock, and tutoring in the afternoons for the same school district for pay. Retiring from a public job and then and getting another one later is not double dipping.

The idea came because of a shortage of public school teachers in Ohio, and not everybody likes the law, some saying that seasoned workers should step aside  and give younger people a shot at employment during a troubling economy.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper

CLEVELAND,Ohio- Cleveland City Council on Monday voted to reappoint longtime Cleveland Ward 4 Councilman Kenneth Johnson who just retired after 33 years as a councilman to lock in a yearly cost of living raise from his pension that by a new state law will in the future be based upon the economy.

Johnson, who is Black, has caused a lot of hoopla around the divisive issue, though when Cleveland Ward 11 Councilman Michael Polensek, who is White, did it, nobody seem to care. Nor did they care a great deal when Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson reappointed Safety Director Martin Flask and Chief of Police Michel McGrath, both of whom are White, and a hand full of other top level city hall administrators that also retired only to come back to get more monies from the public coffers.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper(www.clevelandurbannews.com)

CLEVELAND,Ohio- Cuyahoga County Council President C. Ellen Connally (D-9) (pictured)), a retired Cleveland Municipal Court judge who once nearly ousted former Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer from his judicial seat, was reelected president of the 11-member county council at its meeting on Wednesday after Councilman Dale Miller (D-2) (pictured in blue tie), a fellow Democrat, withdrew from the race because of a lack of enough support by his peers to win, and pressure.