Accelerate: Citizens Make Change helps entrepreneurs enact change in their communities
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
Posted Feb 25, 2021
Two teens who want to build buddy relationships among refugee and non-refugee students captured the top $5000 prize at the 2019 Accelerate: Citizens Make Change, an annual civic pitch competition.
This year s event is all-virtual, with finals on Thursday.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio The seventh annual Accelerate: Citizens Make Change competition, a week-long virtual event presented by the Cleveland Leadership Center in partnership with Citizens, aims to help entrepreneurs improve their communities.
The Cleveland Leadership Center developed Accelerate in 2015 to offer civic entrepreneurs a public platform to develop a vision to improve their communities, share mentorship and support and create an environment overflowing with initiatives to make Northeast Ohio a better place.
Takeaways from the Trudeau-Biden virtual hangout
02/24/2021 10:00 AM EST
If you’d been wondering whether Zoom calls between government leaders are any different from your awkward Zoom calls with family, the answer is no. Somebody’s half-yelling (Trudeau). Somebody mentions that it’s someone else’s birthday (in this case, Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau’s) and no one really reacts. Somebody makes a joke about being bad at French (yes, it was Biden) and everyone else smiles indulgently from behind their masks. You know, standard Zoom fare.
Welcome to Corridors. I’m your host, Maura Forrest. In today’s edition: what was achieved during the Trudeau-Biden confab, what to do after declaring a genocide, and reaching a juncture on vaccines. Get in touch: [email protected]
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Michael Phillis | February 7, 2021, 8:02 PM EST The ACLU of Ohio, along with attorneys at Thompson Hine LLP and Lambda Legal, recently successfully challenged Ohio s policy forbidding transgender people from correcting their birth certificates to match their gender identity, convincing a judge that the state s policy was discriminatory.
Driver s licenses and other documents could reflect an individual s real identity, but around 2016, Ohio started refusing to allow people to correct what plaintiffs called the gender marker on their birth certificate, according to Elizabeth Bonham, an attorney with the ACLU of Ohio. Advocates thought there was no legitimate reasoning behind the policy and sued in 2018, challenging a state approach they said made life for transgender people more difficult.
The president announced late Sunday that his legal defense will be led by attorneys David Schoen and Bruce Castor, two figures involved in controversial cases in the past.
The two replace South Carolina attorney Butch Bowers, who had been connected to Trump with the help of Sen. Lindsey Graham
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Multiple sources familiar with the process of assembling Trump’s team described it as chaotic and dysfunctional. Trump met with Schoen and Castor on Saturday in Florida, but it’s unclear how well the former president knows the two attorneys.
“It’s a little crazy to me that you’ve got a former president of the United States who’s about to be tried for impeachment for a second time, and you can’t find an attorney to represent you,” one source said.