Juanita O. Brent News
State Representative Juanita O. Brent (D-Cleveland) announced that the State Controlling Board approved capital funding totaling $608,000 to support Cuyahoga Community College.
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State Representative Juanita O. Brent (D-Cleveland) today recognizes National Transgender Day of Visibility.
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State Representative Juanita O. Brent (D-Cleveland) today recognizes Agriculture Week and National Agriculture Day.
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State Reps. Jessica E. Miranda (D-Forest Park) and Juanita O. Brent (D-Cleveland) today reintroduced the Ohio Equal Pay Act in honor of Equal Pay Day being recognized across America.
Read Full StoryState Representatives Juanita O. Brent (D-Cleveland) and Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) today sent a letter to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose urging him to engage a third party firm to audit his recent voter purge. The purge revealed over 16,000 voters were initially mislabeled as ineligible to vote.
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State Representative Juanita O. Brent released the following statement today marking the 5th annual National Gun Violence Survivors Week.
Read Full StoryState Representative Juanita O. Brent made a statement today ahead of the 50th anniversary of Roe V. Wade and its federal overturning.
Read Full StoryGov. Mike DeWine signed into law Bill (HB) 458, which would mandate specific forms of I.D at the polls and shorten voting timelines pre and post-election day options.
Read Full StoryCOLUMBUS–State Reps. Casey Weinstein (D-Hudson) and Juanita Brent (D-Cleveland) issued a statement after the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) held the first meeting Wednesday of its ongoing review into why AEP decided to shut off power to thousands of homes after severe storms and a heatwave swept through Central Ohio in late June. During the meeting, AEP expressed that climate change contributed to the extreme weather that caused the outage. Reps. Weinstein and Brent renewed their calls for the legislature to take action on the Energy Jobs and Justice Act, their comprehensive clean energy policy that would promote energy equity, lower carbon emissions and create utility accountability and transparency.
Read Full StoryCOLUMBUS - Today, State Rep. Juanita Brent (D-Cleveland) emphasized the importance of improving the medical field during critical staffing shortages after University Hospitals made the decision to discontinue some services, including inpatient, surgical, and emergency department services, at their Bedford and Richmond locations due to a lack of patient care staff. They will also be working to transfer traffic from these two centers to their higher capacity facilities, such as Lake West, Beachwood, and Ahuja.
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