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Ohioans with autism benefit from medicaid expansion Fighting for scraps as Great Lakes face cuts Kid’sKid’s Corner Corner SPORTS MENU TIPS Great Lakes advocates from Ohio and seven Governor John Kasich took a bold step by other states returned from Washington where they’ve Mecca Renee Wilcox is the mandating that insurance companies cover autism in been trying to convince Congress that automatic budget daughter of Renee Sabir and the grand- their health care policies. It comes an opportunity to help Schools Compete In Fried Turkey: cuts will hurt the Lakes. Cleaning up the Great Lakes is daughter of Shafeeq and Jowaarah Sabir. more individuals impacted by developmental disabilities. Basketball Regionals a huge project that is taking years. Federal dollars are Marla Root, an Autism Society of Ohio board member, A Hot New Trend Mecca, who is three years old, enjoys paying for things such as combating invasive species in said expansion of the state’s Medicaid program through Lake Erie, cleaning toxic sediment from the Ashtabula playing with Mickey Mouse and Minnie the Affordable Care Act will assist families who current- See Page 6 See Page 7 River, and restoring wetlands. However, automatic bud- Mouse. She has a hearty appetite and her ly have no access to medical care and behavioral health get cuts took $25 million from Great Lakes restoration. Wilcox favorite food is cheerios. services and are struggling to support their loved ones. VOL. 34 No. 11 Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Friday, March 15, 2013 Daily EASTSIDE NEWS ISSUED FRIDAY FREE SERVING: LARCHMERE - WOODLAND, SHAKER SQUARE, BUCKEYE, WOODLAND, MT. PLEASANT, FREE LEE & AVALON, HARVARD - LEE, MILES - UNION, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE AREA, READ ON - WRITE ON WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGES OF NORTH RANDALL, HIGHLAND HILLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND READ ON - WRITE ON “COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW” Cleveland Police to be investigated By PAT WHITE partment, not individual officers. It Jackson said he welcomed the ex- investigation and said leader- will analyze several years of exces- panded investigation. “It is vital that ship and communications fail- The U.S. Justice Depart- sive force claims as well as police there is a level of trust between po- ures led to the escalation of the ment announced on Thursday that policies, training and procedures, lice and the community,” he said. chase. The report did not assign it will open a wide-ranging civil he said. Relations have been blame on any of the officers and rights investigation into the use “We go into this with nostrained between Cleveland concludedpolice crossfire led some -of of force by Cleveland’s police- depreconceived notions,” Perez said. and some community leadersficers tosince believe they were in a partment, whose officers fired 137 City leaders had asked the chaotic police chase shootoutended withwith the vehicle’s oc- shots at the end of a massive policethe federal government to review 13 officers firing on thecupants. car. chase last fall, killing two unarmedCleveland police division policies Russell and Williams wereThe Cleveland Police people. after that chase, which raised ques- each shot more than 20 Patrolmen’stimes. AssociationSome Presi- Assistant Attorney Gen- tions about the conduct of officers. officers thought they weredent Jeffarmed, Follmer called for the eral Thomas Perez said the inves- Art McCoy of Black on but no weapon or shell resignationcasings of Policewere Chief Mi- tigation will look beyond the -NoBlack Crime, Inc. welcomed an found. chael McGrath. vember 29, car chase that involvedoutside, independent review. The chase went through“Right now, morale more than 60 patrol cars and ended “ Police brutalityand mis- residential neighborhoods and onto is at an all-time low. After the Russell Williams in the shooting of Timothy Russell,conduct has been reviewed at the a freeway before ending behind a events of November 29th, 2012, 43, and his 30-year-old passenger,city level, and nothing changes. school in neighboring East Cleve- our members no longer have Cleveland City Council- Representative Marcia Malissa Williams. We need an investigation that will land. It reached 100 mph and -covconfidence in our chief’s ability man Zach Reed said to give Mc- Fudge released the following- state According to Perez, the leave the community better off,” ered 25 miles over 22 minutes. to lead,” Follmer said. Grath a chance to finish his investi- ment about the Justice Department probe will not be a criminal inves- McCoy said. Ohio Attorney General Follmer said that the gation. investigation of the Cleveland po- tigation; its focus is the entire de- Cleveland Mayor Frank Mike Dewine conducted a separate day after the chase happened, “We should commend the lice department: there was a rush to judgment, by police chief, instead of asking him ““I welcome oversight saying ‘hey, I’m going to go talk to resign or to be fired. We shouldby the Department of Justice. Last Former Rep.Vermel Whalen dies to the Justice Department.’ commend him that he took it (theDecember, I requested a review McGrath has said that investigation) out of his office. Heby the DOJ’s Civil Rights Divi- By PAT WHITE late State Rep. John Thompson inhe will not resign, and that atook it out of the mayor’s office andsion following the deadly Cleve- House District 16. complete and fair investigation he has put it in the hands of the pro- land Police chase on November - Former six-term State Whalen won election and will be conducted. fessionals,” Reed said. 29, 2012 that resulted in 137 bul Rep. Vermel M. Whalen recent- served in the district which later ly died after a brief battle with was revamped as District 12 byRobbers target three PNC Banks cancer. She was 84 years old. including parts of Maple Heights Several area PNC was carrying, hit the securitywhite design and gray sweat Whalen was a defender and Garfield Heights. Banks have recently beenguard in the face. After receiv- pants. of children and the elderly. She understood the dis- robbed. ing an undisclosed amount of Along with these sus- “We are our brothers’ parity in opportunities for black The PNC Bank, cash, he fled on foot. pects, the Cleveland Division keepers. We have to turn around contractors. and attempted to level20711 Chagrin Blvd., in The suspect, who couldof the FBI is seeking a serial and help those who are less for- the playing field for them. Shaker Heights was robbedbe seen in survellience video, is bank robber. tunate,” Whalen said. “The set-aside law is theon Thursday, March 7 describedat 9:15 as a black male, ap - According to the FBI, Commenting on the only way that blacks have had anya.m.: the PNC Bank, proximately 2771 S. in his early 20s, Tremaine Todd is a suspect “47%” that Republican presi- possibility of coming near fair- Moreland Blvd., was robbed5’5″ or 5’6″, wearing green in the robbery of two banks, pants, a white hooded sweat - a downtown Fifth Third loca- dential nominee Mitt Romney ness,” said Whelan in 1997 onin Wednesday, March 13, at Whalen shirt and carrying a red back - tion on Superior Avenue Thurs- attempted to discredit in a fund- support of the minority contrac- 4:30 p.m.; and the PNC Bank, versity, Dyke College and the pack. day, March 7, around 4:25 p.m. raising speech, Whalen called tors. 16614 Harvard Ave., was University of Georgia. robbed at 8;30 a.m. on Friday,There were two armed and a St. Clair Avenue Chase Romney a “psychopathic liar.” In 1994, the Plain Dealer Whalen worked as a February 22. suspects in the robbery of the branch on February 25 and and Whalen was born Ver- endorsed her writing that “She has nurse at the Cleveland Clinic, In the robberyHarvard on Ave. PNC Bank. One again on March 1. mel Marie Scott in Portageville, worked hard to serve the constitu- Highland View Hospital and pri- Chagrin Blvd, the man of thewalk males is described as Todd is described as a Missouri. vate homes. ents of District 12.” inside and gave a note to the being approximately 5’6, 150 black man, about 5’8” tall, and Following graduation She ran, but was not She was vice president ofteller demanding cash before pounds with a dark complexion weighs around 190 pounds. He from high school, she relocated elected, to Cleveland City the Cuyahoga County Democratic leaving with the money. He who was wearing a black mask has brown hair and brown eyes. - - to Cleveland. She earned cer Council in the 1970s. In 1986,Party and second vice president ofwas caught on survellience covering his face, a gray hood Reward money is - ed sweatshirt and blue jeans. available. PNC Bank has also tificates at Cleveland State Uni she was appointed to replace theBlack Elected Democrats of Ohio.video, and was described as a She was a trustee of the Lee-Har- black male in his 30s to 40s The second male is described as offered an additional $10,000 vard Community Association, and wearing a skull cap and a blue standing 6’ tall, approximately for information leading to the Gasoline prices spiral downward the local United Black Fund. sweater and jeans. 150 pounds, and he was wear - arrest and prosecution of any ing a blue and red Cleveland Northeast Ohio motor- peaked for the spring, because Whalen served as a state During the robbery suspects. ists are spending less “green” at there is still refinery mainte- represntative from 1986 through on S. Moreland Blvd. near Indians baseball cap, glasses, a Call the FBI at 216- - the pumps as gas prices march nance to be completed and much 1998.