I graduated from Ohio University with a degree in journalism and experience working at <i>The Plain Dealer </i>and <i>The Columbus Dispatch. </i>I lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., for four years, where I taught seventh-grade English and social studies through the Teach For America organization, and later, worked for Creative Artists Agency, a talent agency based in Los Angeles. I also tutored third-graders and freelanced for an education publication. I moved back to Ohio in August 2010 to be closer to my family and pursue a full-time job in journalism.
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<b>Politics </b>
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I am not religious, but I am interested in learning about other people's beliefs.
<b>Local Hot-Button Issues</b>
Cleveland Heights residents care deeply about what's happening in their community, especially in their schools and public libraries. Several non-profit groups such as Reaching Heights, FutureHeights, Home Repair Resource Center and the Heights Independent Business Alliance exist to protect and promote the issues that matter to residents most, including arts in the schools, housing and local business development.
Cleveland Heights, University Circle and others are seeking input on a bike, bus and pedestrian transportation study between the city and the circle.
Vice City Manager Susanna Niermann O'Neil will likely be appointed to fill in for Robert Downey while Cleveland Heights conducts a national search for his replacement.
Help get rid of an invasive species.
I bet you can guess.
The play envisions Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts as teenagers.
Cleveland Heights resident Mike Gaynier writes about Thursday night's event at the Cleveland Heights Community Center
The crash caused damage to exterior walls, restrooms at the United Dairy Farmers on Lee Road
The Earth Day Run & Walk is April 18 in Forest Hill Park, and the pre-registration deadline is April 16.
The Cleveland Heights Planning Commission reviewed the changes to the code for more than three hours at its regular meeting Wednesday night and decided not to move forward just yet.
The event will feature a panel that includes Joyce Brabner, Pekar's wife, and several people who worked on the graphic novel.
The Cleveland Heights Democrats will host a forum tonight in the Cleveland Heights Community Center
Tell us where you love to get a cold one — a milkshake that is — in Cleveland Heights.
Though attendance is sometimes sparse, Chief Jeffrey Robertson says he'll continue to offer the meeting every Thursday. And Vinn, a K-9 who joined the force in the fall, will be there this week.
A man robbed employees at gunpoint Saturday afternoon.
The Cedar Lee SID hosted meetings to get feedback on the plans, and an engineering study is almost complete.
In all three CH-UH facilities master plan ideas, the only elementary school in University Heights, Gearity Professional Development School, would close. Mayor Susan Infeld is inviting residents to share their feedback.
The City of Cleveland Heights hopes to finalize a development agreement by summer and start construction in the fall.
Akiva Feinstein says the CH-UH School Board should partner with the city, private schools and other entities in the community as it finalizes its facilities master plan.
Chicken coops and beehives dominated the discussion during a March 26 public hearing about the proposed sustainable amendments to the Cleveland Heights zoning code. So we visited both to see what they were like.
The Planning Commission could approve the changes to the zoning code at its meeting today.