With 22 partner newsrooms, reporters and community organizations embedded in nearly every corner of Northeast Ohio from Akron to Cleveland’s Buckeye-Woodland neighborhoods, NEO SOJO is currently dedicated to targeting one issue — how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting communities — and spotlighting solutions. We want to tell stories that lift up ways to solve issues that plague our communities and change the conversation about what’s possible in Northeast Ohio.
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Ohio’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and a second bill that restricts access to LGBTQ+ healthcare are looming in the legislature.
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Refugees are building up Ohio’s declining population, and US Together is helping them develop, finance, and expand small businesses in hopes of lifting the local economies.
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Democratic Socialists of America are going door to door to talk to people at risk of being evicted.
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In order to receive assistance, tenants have to jump through a number of hoops.
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With basically every school district in Cuyahoga County returning to school in a remote-only format this month and next as COVID-19 continues to ravage…