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Dennis Kucinich is running for Ohio governorBy Eli Watkins, CNN

Vance, Renacci eye Ohio Senate race as GOP scrambles for a candidate

By Dan Merica, CNN(CNN) - Republicans in Ohio and Washington, DC, are scrambling to find a strong candidate for Ohio’s key Sen-ate race, with two men -- a Re-publican representative and a top-selling author -- eyeing the seat in the battleground state.

J.D. Vance, who gained na-tional recognition for his 2016 book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” is seri-ously considering a run, an adviser to Vance told CNN on Wednesday. This comes after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke with Vance about his run, according to sources with knowledge of the call, offering the author advice on what he could ex-pect from a potential bid.

At the same time, the White House’s top political adviser, Bill Stepien, met with Rep. Jim Renacci on Wednesday at the White House. Renacci, who has been running for governor in Ohio, has floated the idea of switching to a Senate run and sources tell CNN that he expects to of-ficially announce his Senate bid on Thursday.

Renacci told an Ohio radio station on Monday that he would drop the guberna-

Here are the 15 RTA Routes with Service Reductions Coming Soon

By Sam Allard

As expected, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) announced upcoming service reductions for 15 bus and train routes at its board meeting Tuesday.

Responding to impassioned public comments, CEO and GM Joe Calabrese said that he knew these reductions, which will be implemented on March 11, will inflict pain on RTA’s customers. He said, though, that given forthcom-ing budget cuts, he was con-fident this decision will inflict

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, is pictured

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Joe Calabrese (Photo by Sam Allard)

Washington (CNN) - Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio on Monday filed his candi-dacy for governor, the Ohio secretary of state’s office said, marking a return to politics for the former Democratic presidential candidate.

Sam Rossi, press secretary for the Ohio secretary of state, provided CNN a copy of Kucinich’s filing.

Kucinich spokesman Andy Juniewicz said in a statement Tuesday that the paperwork establishing a campaign committee was not Kucinich’s formal declaration and that the former congressman had yet to make an official an-nouncement.

“Over the next several days, we will be providing addi-tional information regarding further developments,” Juni-ewicz said.

Kucinich, a Cleveland poli-tician and former mayor, gained national attention for his liberal positions and out-spoken anti-war message, as well as his offbeat style.

He mounted two unsuc-cessful bids for president,

once in the 2004 cycle and again in 2008.

He failed to hang on to his spot in Congress after redis-tricting helped push him into

a 2012 race against another sitting Democrat. Kucinich lost his 2012 primary to Dem-ocratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur and later joined Fox News as

a contributor.A Fox News report said Ku-

cinich was no longer a con-tributor as of Monday after-noon.

His decision to run for gov-ernor in 2018 means he joins a large field to succeed two-term Republican Gov. John Kasich. Kucinich’s opponents in the Democratic primary include Richard Cordray, who stepped down late last year as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, precipitating a clash within the Trump administration.

Ohio is generally consid-

the least amount of pain.Additional service cuts and

layoffs are anticipated later in 2018, as is an additional $0.25 fare hike, (the first of which was initiated in 2016). Earlier this month, Calabrese estimated that as many as 200 employees may be laid off this year. Yesterday, he

said that while exact num-bers were difficult to predict, RTA would “significantly cut” the total hours of labor.

Here are the routes that will see service reductions in March. Calabrese maintained that these were the least-used routes and times, but this still sucks. The fact that

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the east-side Blue and Green rapid lines will only have trains arriving every 20 min-utes during the morning and evening rush is a shocker, as are the reductions to the the main west-side routes — #22 (Lorain), #26 (Detroit) and #55 (CSU Line) — at both peak and non-peak hours.

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Women’s March 2018: Ohio Event Is Jan. 20

On the anniversary of last year’s historic march, residents from across the state will march to Cleveland Public Square.

By Chris Mosby, Patch Staff

Protesters walk during the Women’s March on Washington, with the U.S. Capitol in the background, on Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C., a day after President Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation’s 45th president. Similar marches are planned for 2018.

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CLEVELAND, OH — The founders of a movement that last year brought a throng of women to the streets of Washington, D.C., and Cleve-land, are planning a repeat demonstration this year. The 2018 Women’s March is framed around a “national voter registration tour” ahead of the 2018 midterm elec-tions.

In Cleveland the 2018 Wom-en’s March will be held Jan. 20. From 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., marchers will circle Cleve-land Public Square. From 11 a.m. to noon, speakers will

address the crowd. After 12 p.m., the crowd will begin its march to City Hall and then back to Public Square.

Last year’s event drew ap-proximately 15,000 people. This year’s event currently has about 2,000 confirmed attendees on Facebook and another 6,000 interested people.

After the event, the Wom-en’s March group will host a Power to the Polls session in Lakewood from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. During that event, at-tendees will learn how to support female candidates

for office, get an update on anti-gerrymandering cases and more.

The marches come at a wa-tershed moment for women, who are seeking public office in record numbers in the 2018 midterm elections. Women are empowered both by the #MeToo movement, which brought a trove of stories from women who said they have faced sexual assault or harassment, and outrage against President Trump, who



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famously said in a 2005 Ac-cess Hollywood tape leaked during the 2016 campaign that he had groped women’s genitals — prompting the pink “pussy” hats demonstra-tors wore last year.

This year’s flagship march will actually be held in Sin City. Organizers said they chose Las Vegas for the main “Power to the Polls” march because it is a microcosm for issues important to women, from gun violence to allega-tions of sexual assault against male politicians.

Las Vegas was the site of the deadliest mass shoot-ing in modern U.S. history last year, and Democratic Congressman Ruben Kihuen was accused by at least two women of groping them without permission. Kihuen is one of the latest of scores of powerful men implicated in a far-reaching scandal that

has rocked politics and the entertainment and news in-dustries.

Nevada also is a swing state that could flip from red to blue in the November mid-term elections, making it a prime place to hold the main march, organizers said. Three Democrats and two Republi-cans are challenging U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, a Republican, in the June 2018 election. The race is considered a toss-up, and is one of several closely watched midterm election contests that could shift the balance in the Senate.

The organizers of the march were encouraged by Demo-crat Doug Jones’ upset win over Republican Roy Moore last month in the deep red state of Alabama, which hasn’t sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1992. Moore was leading the special Sen-ate race to replace Attorney

General Jeff Sessions until multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct. The women said they were teenagers and Moore was in his 30s when the alleged im-propriety took place. Moore has denied the allegations.

Women, especially Demo-crats, are finding a path to victory in states where their election seemed improbable. For example, Virginia voters in November elected Danica Roem, the first openly trans-gender woman ever to be elected to a state legislature. She was one of 11 progres-sive women who unseated Republican men in the state’s House of Delegates.

The Women’s Marches will also bring attention to “sys-temic voter suppression laws that inhibit so many commu-nities from voting,” Linda Sar-sour, a co-organizer, said in a statement.

ered a purple state, but it swung strongly for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, and Ohio’s 2014 election results showed Ka-sich won his re-election bid with a strong margin.

One of the most liberal members of Congress during his tenure, Kucinich tried to have the House debate im-peaching then-Vice President Dick Cheney several times and introduced a resolution to impeach then-President George W. Bush. Kucinich said in 2011 that then-Presi-dent Barack Obama’s deci-sion to strike Libya was likely an impeachable offense.

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Stanley JordanVirtuoso Guitarist and Mack Avenue Recording Artist back at Nighttown for 2 Big Shows!

In a career that took flight with immediate commercial success and critical acclaim, guitar virtuoso Stanley Jor-dan has consistently dis-played a chameleonic mu-sical persona of openness, imagination, versatility and maverick daring. Be it bold reinventions of classical mas-terpieces or soulful explora-tions through pop-rock hits, to blazing straight ahead jazz forays and ultramodern im-provisational works — solo or with a group — Jordan can always be counted on to take listeners on breathless jour-neys into the unexpected.

Key to Jordan’s fast-track acclaim was his mastery of a special technique on the guitar’s fretboard. Instead of conventional strumming and picking, Jordan’s innovative “touch technique” is an ad-vanced form of two-handed tapping. While a handful of other players were using similar techniques, Stanley’s

fluid, multi-layered textures and sheer virtuosity raised the bar for excellence.

But his technique, though impressive, is always a means to a musical end. His music is imbued with a warmth and sensitivity that has captured the imagination of listen-ers worldwide. A classically trained pianist before playing guitar, Jordan wanted greater freedom in voicing chords on his guitar, so he applied piano principles to do so. Jordan’s touch technique allows the guitarist to play melody and chords simultaneously with an unprecedented level of independence. It also allows Jordan to play simultaneous-ly on two different guitars, or even on guitar and piano. He says that “I think of it as a sin-gle instrument, but one with a wide range of tonal colors — that’s why I do it.”

To date Jordan has per-formed in over 60 countries on 6 continents. He has per-

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In 2007 Jordan signed with Mack Avenue Records and released State of Nature in 2008 and Friends in 2011. For Friends, he invited musical guests including guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli, Mike Stern, Russell Malone and Char-lie Hunter; violinist Regina Carter; saxophonists Kenny

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torial bid to run for Senate if President Donald Trump asked him to.

The decision last week by Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel to bow out of the Senate race has Republicans looking for a strong candidate to chal-lenge Sen. Sherrod Brown, the incumbent Democrat.

Vance, who graduated from Yale Law School and enlisted in the Marine Corps, has con-sidered stepping into the vacuum.

“J.D. is giving serious con-sideration toward this, be-cause there are very serious people asking him to run,” Jai Chabria, a Vance adviser, told CNN.

Chabria added that “people are starting to realize (Vance) has the best message to beat Sherrod Brown,” adding that “the phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Friday” with people asking him to get in.

BuzzFeed was first to re-port that Vance, who is a CNN contributor, is giving “serious consideration” to a run.

A source close to Vance said the author was in Wash-ington on Wednesday and met with Republicans eager for him to challenge Brown. The source added that Vance is aware that he has a short

window to make a decision -- the filing deadline is the first week of February -- and that the author is receiving a con-siderable push from Republi-cans in Ohio.

Vance was opposed to Trump’s 2016 campaign -- he voted for an independent candidate -- and is not close to the President or his po-litical orbit. The best-selling author does have ties to Re-publican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, the Koch Brothers and others within the conser-vative community, a source familiar with Vance’s electoral plans told CNN.

Renacci, though, would be the candidate closer to Trump’s orbit, and he has said he would need the White House’s backing before get-ting in the race.

“My goal is to be the gov-ernor of the state of Ohio,” Renacci told WTAM radio in Cleveland on Monday. “If the President of the United States reaches out and contacts me and asks to me to jump in that race, I would consider it only at that point.”

Republicans, though, al-ready have a crowded field in the Ohio governor’s race and Trump’s top political aides are interested in ensuring a

strong candidate challenges Brown. Mike DeWine, Ohio’s attorney general, and Mary Taylor, the lieutenant gov-ernor of Ohio, have already declared bids to succeed Re-publican Gov. John Kasich.

The Ohio Senate race is less crowded. Mike Gibbons, a businessman and Republican donor, has declared his bid. His campaign responded to the possibility of Renacci run-ning by trying to stay as close to Trump as possible.

“No one has done more to support President Trump in Ohio than Mike Gibbons has, including serving as a cam-paign finance chair for the President and no one will do more than Mike to advance conservative policies and the Trump agenda in the Senate,” Gibbons’ campaign general consultant Mike Biundo said in a statement.

The White House official said Wednesday’s meeting with Renacci “should not be viewed as an endorsement or White House support” and that the congressman did not meet with Trump.

Brown told reporters Wednesday in Ohio that he was not going to weigh in on his primary opponent.

“I run on my record,” he

said, adding that he doesn’t think “the voters of Ohio should have Mitch McCon-nell decide who the Republi-can candidate for the state of Ohio will be.”

Vance has not responded to CNN’s repeated requests for comment.

Since publishing his mem-oir of growing up in the Rust Belt, which received consid-erable attention after Trump’s win in 2016, Vance has flirted with the idea of running for office.

He told The Atlantic in 2017 that he considered run-

ning for Senate but decided against it, saying, “It would have been an objectively bad call for my family.”

NBC’s Megyn Kelly also asked Vance during a 2017 interview whether he would run for office in the future.

“I’m very flattered when people ask me,” he said. “You never say never. But it is just not something that I think about doing right now.”

CNN’s Rebecca Berg, Manu Raju and Jennifer Hansler contributed to this report.

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Cleveland’s settlement houses persevere, even as they struggle with funding and obscurityBy Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Antonia Tosado loaded a cart full of bread and pro-duce into the trunk of her daughter’s silver sedan on a recent Monday af-ter collecting food from the Univer-sity Settlement on Broadway Avenue in Cleveland.

It wouldn’t have been her first choice.

“I go to Save-A-Lot when I have the money,” Tosado said.

The Cleveland woman, however, said she often relies on the gener-osity of groups like the University Settlement when she doesn’t have money for food. The nonprofit is among the city’s remaining settle-ment houses and Tosado is just one of the tens of thousands of North-east Ohioans who depends on them for basic needs.

Most readers likely haven’t heard of settlement houses. They don’t hold a the prominent place in the public consciousness as they once did. But they play a vital role in Cleveland’s most vulnerable neighborhoods, even if the scope of their services is

limited by their funding.Settlement houses emerged in

the United States in the late 19th Century to provide for waves of im-migrants coming to the country. They taught new arrivals English and helped them acclimate to their for-eign surroundings. Today, they pro-vide food, daycare, education, activi-ties for seniors and assistance with rent and utility bills, among many other things, to Cleveland’s needy families.

The story of settlement houses in Cleveland reflects the way the city has changed and provides a window into the struggles of its most power-less residents.

Settlement house mandates have evolved as the years as the neighbor-hoods they serve have changed. But their clientele remains overwhelm-ingly poor.

Cleveland once has as many as 22 settlement houses. Fourteen re-main.

Those that linger find themselves surrounded by empty storefronts

and vacant homes with shattered and boarded-up windows. Univer-sity Settlement sits adjacent to the Industrial Valley near abandoned warehouses and shuttered factories that once provided a middle-class lifestyle to Cleveland’s East Siders.

What follows is a look at the city’s settlement houses and the people they serve.

The history of settlement housesToynbee Hall in London is recog-

nized as the first settlement house. Founded in 1884, it provided food, shelter and education to the city’s impoverished working class and relied on donations from wealthy Londoners and scholars who volun-teered their time.

The United States imported the idea in the 1890s as millions of Eu-ropean immigrants crossed the At-lantic and settled on this side of the ocean, often in squalor and abject poverty.

Cleveland’s first settlement house - the Hiram House on Orange Avenue - opened its doors in 1896. It was

founded by Hiram College students The West Side Community House

- originally the Methodist Deacon-ess Home of Cleveland - is one of the oldest surviving settlement houses. It also got its start in the late 19th Century.

Settlement houses adapted their missions and goals as the immi-grants they once served migrated to the suburbs.

The 110-year-old East End Neigh-borhood House, for example, ca-tered largely to the city’s Hungarian community, but neighborhood de-mographics shifted in the 1950s and the surrounding community tran-sitioned to a predominantly black one.

“You had a migration of people coming from the South to look for better opportunities here,” East End Neighborhood House President and CEO Zulma Zabala said in an interview. “White flight changed the neighborhood.”



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The University Settlement in the Broadway-Slavic Village neighbor-hood once provided for a communi-ty composed mostly of Polish, Slovak and Czech immigrants. The commu-nity is now half black with pockets of Latinos.

“The community has changed dramatically,” University Settlement Executive Director Earl Pike said. “At height of World War II it was 100,000 people, now it’s 22,000 people. The people with the most resources left and the people with the fewest re-sources stayed.”

More than half of the neighbor-hood’s residents live below the pov-erty line. Business owners fled when most of the steel mills shuttered - de-priving the neighborhood of good paying jobs - leaving the streets with dilapidated buildings and empty lots where stores and houses once stood.

Gentrification led the The West Side Community House to relocate from Ohio City to the near West Side in 2006.

“We moved because our partici-pants were no longer in Ohio City,” Executive Director Dawn Kolograf said.

Settlement house directors began to delve into politics and social jus-tice as the 20th Century wore on.

Cleveland’s Karamu House, for ex-ample, achieved notoriety outside of Northeast Ohio thanks to its interra-cial theater. Today, it’s recognized as the oldest African-American theater in the United States.

“In the earlier history of settlement houses in Cleveland, you won’t find the Harvard Community Services Center or a couple others because we came in after the Civil Rights Movement,” Harvard Community Services Center President and CEO Elaine Gohlstin said.

Who the settlement houses serveTosado was on the verge of tears

when a University Settlement worker explained how to store some of the food items in her cart. She thanked the worker profusely before another worker helped her load her daugh-ter’s car with foodstuffs.

The settlement’s clients more often than not come from poverty and do not have access to cars. Tosado, for example, doesn’t have a car and re-lies on the generosity of friends and family when she needs to travel.

“I come (to the University Settle-ment) when I can get a ride,” she said, explaining that she’s afraid of being robbed walking the streets of her gritty East Side neighbor-hood. “I don’t want to be alone in the streets.”

A few days later, a group of seniors played dominoes at circular tables in the cafeteria of the Harvard Commu-nity Services Center. The nonprofit lets elderly people socialize there on certain days.

One of the seniors, Clara Russell, spoke to a reporter as a staff mem-ber made preparations for pokeno, a card game similar to bingo.

“Can you imagine all these people sitting at home with no one to talk to and nothing to do?” Russell asked during a brief interview.

Speakers occasionally talk to the group about medical and social ser-vices available to older Clevelanders. Medical professionals sometimes take their blood pressure and pro-vide care the seniors might not oth-erwise receive.

I’ve been coming here quite a long time,” Russell said. “We used to have more people. Some have died and some have moved on. But as long as (The Harvard Center) keeps doing this, I think it’s a wonderful thing.”

The house also has a daycare cen-ter, computer labs, and space for parents who have lost custody of their kids to meet their estranged children.

Expectant mothers can work with the Harvard Center beginning at the third month of their pregnancy to

get the care they need. The center also partners with children’s services to work with troubled families to keep their children out of foster care, provides after-school programs and offers a space for community meet-ings, among other things.

And it’s not the only settlement house to offer an array of services.

Zabala said the East End Neighbor-hood House serves its clients “from birth to their elder years.”

East End employees deliver meals to 44 seniors every day and the house provides a space for gather-ings like AA meetings and commu-nity advocacy gatherings. East End serves as a barometer of sorts for the issues that affect the city.

“We’re the ones that always have our ear to the ground and know what things are happening,” Zabala said.

Settlement house leaders said they have difficulty counting the number of people they help because some clients take advantage of multiple programs. Others who take advan-tage of food giveaways might not be officially counted.

“Last year, we served 16,000 fami-lies,” Gohlstin said. “It might be more than that, because sometimes peo-ple fall through the cracks.”

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The fairs will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 23 at the East Professional

Center, 1349 E. 79th St., and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at Max S. Hayes High School, 2211 W. 65th St.

As always, families can visit booths, gathering informa-tion about the more than 30 high schools. CMSD, a port-folio district, has developed a wide variety of school models and lets students and families choose so they

Cuyahoga County to seek renewal of health and human services tax

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cuyahoga County voters will be asked to approve a four-year re-newal of a health and human services tax on May 8.

The resolution was intro-duced in County Council Tuesday and referred to com-mittee.

The 3.9-mill tax was last ap-proved by voters in Novem-ber 2013 for five years.

The county opted to go with a four-year renewal and not seek an increase, despite the growing need for funds by agencies funded by the levy to fight the opioid crisis.

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can find the right fit.But another difference this

year is that District staff will hold sessions for families during the fair, emphasizing factors to consider when de-termining the schools that match students’ interests and best prepare them for college or career. The staff will also help navigate the choosecmsd.org enrollment portal, with computers avail-able so parents can set up accounts and make selec-tions.

“We want them to think critically about these deci-sions and look beyond loca-tion and what can be found on a website,” said Rick Mc-Intosh, executive director of school choice and enroll-ment. “We want them to be consumers of education.”

A third difference this year is that all eighth-graders, the primary audience for the fairs, are informed as they weigh their options. That is because the True2U mentor-

ing program, which helps eighth-graders focus on col-lege and career planning, has completed a three-year phase-in and is available dis-trictwide.

The District’s goal is to have all 2,400 eighth-grad-ers choose their schools. Last year, the number fell just shy of 100 percent.

School choice is part of The Cleveland Plan, a custom-ized blueprint for education reform in the city, and over time CMSD has developed models that emphasize the arts, early college study, in-formation technology, social justice, medicine and more. The schools prepare gradu-ates to go on to college or obtain industry certification.

For the best chance of get-ting their first selections, families should make choices before the enrollment portal closes March 9. If demand exceeds the number of seats available in a school, a lot-tery will be held March 16.

and human services to fight the fallout from the opioid epidemic. Lake County voters approved a 0.7-mill renewal and an 0.4-mill increase by a wide margin.

The county is “facing our challenges and tackling them head on,” County Executive Armond Budish told coun-cil. “It means we will work even harder to do more with what we have, to continue the services and supports for children, for seniors and anyone in the county who may need help. The people of Cuyahoga County have demonstrated their compas-sion and generosity by sup-porting the levy for years, assuring that anyone in any municipality, within any zip code, of any race, religion or gender, has access to the services that strengthen our residents and prepare people to support themselves and their families. “

The tax is one of two that fund health and human ser-vices, including foster care, services at the MetroHealth System, support services for those suffering from mental illness and programs for se-nior citizens.

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communities that are home to settlement houses are many. East End has an af-ter-school program which, among other things, helps children read. The program began after workers found that neighborhood children were passed from grade to grade before they learned how.

“Parents want their children to do well, but parents who are living in poverty who have two jobs don’t have the time” to help their kids with school work, Zabala said.

The Harvard Center was born out of of similar con-cerns, Gohlstin said.

“We grew out of a group of residents sitting at a street club meeting who said, ‘You know what? We have some problems with our students after they get out of high school,’” she said. “We need to find somewhere for them to go.”

Settlement house leaders say their work with struggling residents sometimes gives them early warning signs and insights into struggles that otherwise go unreported.

When the mortgage crisis struck Northeast Ohio in the late-2000s, much of the focus was on homeowners, but Za-bala said the East End Neigh-borhood House immediately realized renters were also in need because landlords were losing their properties to foreclosure, displacing the families living in them.

“People were coming to their doors and telling them that they had to leave be-cause the house was being foreclosed,” she said.

The settlement houses con-

front their own troubles as they battle to improve their communities. One of the big-gest is obscurity.

They’re often left out of the spotlight as other non-profits use attention-grab-bing headlines and public relations campaigns to raise money. Settlement house leaders just want people to know they exist.

Zabala hosts a regular cof-fee and dialogue meeting to spread the word about the East End House and the role it plays in its community.

“That is the challenge that we’re facing,” she said. “Peo-ple think we’re this thing of the past but we’ve been very busy advocating for families and communities.”

FundingA combination of city,

county and federal money, along with grants from chari-table foundations, keep set-tlement houses afloat. Their budgets can stretch into the millions of dollars. The East End Neighborhood House’s 2017 budget, for example, surpassed $2 million.

“It’s diverse but it’s still tight,” Zabala said. “Right now I’m trying to figure out how to fund some of our senior services.”

The houses often work to-gether, sharing kitchens and vehicles to ensure that com-munity members get what they need, she added.

“We learned early on that a diverse funding pot is impor-tant to have,” Gohlstin said. “If you depend on one pot of funding and that funding goes away, that means your organization goes away.”

Wealthy Clevelanders and prominent Northeast Ohio institutions often donate to

settlement houses, providing everything from renovations to food.

The East End Neighbor-hood House has an outdoor basketball court made pos-sible by contributions from the Cleveland Cavaliers. The pavement is emblazoned with the Cavs’ logo.

Following the election of President Donald Trump, who shows little interest in providing more funding for social safety net programs, settlement house directors publicly and privately admit that they worry about keep-ing the lights on.

Times of trouble can be particularly hard on smaller organizations like settlement houses and community cen-ters, Gohlstin said.

“Larger organizations are able to get larger pots be-cause they already have the supportive services in place,” she said.

As a result groups like the Harvard Center have taken to asking the public for help more frequently.

“Before we might have had an end of the year donation drive,” Gohlstin said. “But now we’re asking for donations several times throughout the year, usually for specific pro-grams.”

Services are lost when the funding dries up. Zabala said that East End, in its funding heyday, took high school stu-dents to college campuses hoping to encourage them to pursue higher education. Today they no longer have the money.

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Isaiah Thomas Says Cleveland Cavaliers Don’t Practice, He Needs In-Game RepsBy MAURICE MOTON

After recovering from a hip injury, Cleveland Cavaliers guard Isaiah Thomas has played five games during the 2017-18 season, and he’s still trying to whip his body into game shape.

Physically, the 28-year-old guard feels good enough to take the court. However, af-ter the Cavaliers’ 118-108 loss to the Golden State Warriors on Monday, he explained it’ll take real game time to regain his conditioning:

“That’s the only thing that’s gonna help me, because we don’t practice. Only thing that’s gonna help me is get-ting reps, running up and down the floor, getting my

hip, getting my body accus-tomed to taking a beating and to running up and down the floor, getting in basket-ball shape.”

Very little practice has been the standard for the Cava-liers, per Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon.

Thomas played 32 minutes against the Warriors, scoring 19 points, dishing out four as-sists and converting eight of 21 shot attempts. It’s worth monitoring his workload go-ing forward. The Cavaliers need him at his best in the spring.

Hue Jackson will back up his ‘swim in the lake’ promise and do it for charity

By Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Hue Jack-son won’t backpedal on the backstroke.

He vowed Wednesday to make good on his promise to swim in Lake Erie if the Browns went 1-15 again, and they’re 0-15 heading into Sunday’s sea-son finale in Pittsburgh.

“So how many people are jumping in the lake with me?’’ he said at the start of his press conference Wednesday. “Obvi-ously I’ve got to get wet. I get it. I can pick a day and get ev-eryone out there, we’ll all be in swimsuits and trunks and snorkels and all that.’’

For real?“Heck, yeah. I got to,’’ he said.Browns’ Hue Jackson to jump

in the lake to fulfill promise.It will also be for a good

cause, to benefit The Hue Jack-son Foundation to end Human Trafficking in the Cleveland area.

“Absolutely,’’ he said. “It’ll definitely be for my founda-tion, there’s no question about that.’’

A reporter kidded that he might not join him because he can’t swim.

“I never said I could neither,’’ Jackson said. “Just gotta go in. Somebody’ll get me out.’’

As for frigid Lake Erie, he said, “I’m going to do it at my conve-nience, there’s no doubt about that, and hopefully I can get a lot of people to come out.’’

He said he’s obviously not happy about having to do it, but will have some fun with it.

“It’d be something that we’re going to make special,’’ he said. “I don’t like it, don’t like to do it for the reason why I’m having to do it, but I have to make do on my word. I just think that’s what you do. I do get that. I made a statement, I gotta back it up. That’s the type of person I am, so that’s what we have to do.’’

As for the how, he said, “You just jump in.’’

When informed that cleve-land.com Indians beat writer Paul Hoynes made him a video with tips on how to do it, Jackson kidded, “I think I got that part. Just fall in, get wet and get out and dry off. I

think that’s what it is. I never said I could swim. It’ll be some people down there to rescue me pretty quickly. We’ll make it fun.

“It’s for the right reason. I don’t take light to things that I say that I put out there and I like to back em up. Haven’t been able to, so that’s part of it.’’

In his postseason press con-ference from last season, he made the fateful promise.

“We are not going 1-15 (again),’’ he said. “No, or I’ll be swimming in the lake over there somewhere. That’s not happening. I just know me too well. I know me and I know these guys too well. We’re not going 1-15 next year, OK? You can write it if you like. Hue Jackson said it. We are not.”

Hue Jackson: ‘I’ll be swim-ming in the lake,’ if Browns go 1-15 again

He re-iterated at the NFL An-nual Meeting on March 28 that he wasn’t going to have to take the dreaded plunge.

“I didn’t say struggles, I said ‘1-15,’’’ he said. “I would jump in the lake and start swimming and you’ll never have a prob-lem with me again, because that’s not happening.’’

Asked if they’d done enough

at that point to not rent the boat, he said, “I haven’t even thought of the boat. I feel better about the process and where we are and I anticipate I will not be jumping, I will not be putting on swimming trunks, I will not be getting in that water. It’s not happening.’’

But now that it is happening, Hoynes created the follow-ing video for Jackson. Hoynes jumped in the lake after he wrote that the Indians wouldn’t go to the World Series because of injuries, and then they did.

About the Hue Jackson Foundation:

Jackson and his wife, Mi-chelle, established the founda-tion to combat human traffick-ing in this area. In addition to launching the foundation in July, they announced their first initiative: The Hue Jackson Sur-vivors of Human Trafficking Residence. It’s a 12-bed facil-ity being built in partnership with the Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland to enable victims to heal and focus on their treatment.

For more information, con-tact the foundation at P.O. Box 23459, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 44023. Call 216-217-3810. Email [email protected]

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