Realpower.TV - Kenn Dowell, Founding Editor

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Joe Little Is in the Building. Cleveland, Pay Attention.
A1 Conversations Is Live — And Joe Little Came in the Door Swinging
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Cleveland Has 90 Days. Here's Who Owns Every One of Them.
The mayor has a position. The council has a deadline. The developer has an invitation. Nobody gets to stay neutral.
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Stop Waiting to Be Activated
For fifty years, this congressional seat passed from one leader to the next inside a closed room — the same handful of men choosing who came next. Then…
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They Spent Two Years Attacking DEI. Then They Used It to Fill a Senate Seat.
A Senate seat changed hands in three days. No vote, no primary, no competition for it. That's supposed to be disqualifying — the same coalition spent…
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130 Years on Central Avenue. Seven Years Empty. Twenty-Eight Minutes to Burn.
News / Who Owns Cleveland? — REAL POWER.TVI was four years old the first time I went down the center aisle at Friendship Baptist Church.
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Cleveland Lost Josh Edmonds Once. Now the Country Calls Him a Visionary.
Two years ago he sat at my table, bruised from City Hall. This summer his industry handed him three national awards. The lesson is about us, not him.
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Follow the Child: Why Cuyahoga County Needs SMART Plus
Recovery begins with the parent. Support must continue with the child.
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Trump Gave Pastor Darrell Scott a CDC Seat on Tobacco. Black Lungs Are the Stake.
The Cleveland Observer laid out what the appointment is and what it isn’t. Here is what it means for the people who pay the tobacco bill.
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The Adults Convicted the Glenville Kids Before Any Judge Did
Eleven Glenville football players were charged. Before any court ruled, the grown-ups had already delivered a verdict. A retired Cleveland judge on what…
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Mayor Bibb Had 15 Months to Take Care of 44 Families. It Took One Mother to Move Him.
She lived through the Rainbow Terrace explosion. Fifteen months later, she stood at a council microphone and forced City Hall to answer. The RealPower…
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The Only Black Man on That Jury Wouldn’t Sign. Now He’s the One Being Investigated.
Eleven white jurors were ready to sign. The one Black man in the room would not. Now reporters are pulling his records and a blogger has published his…
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Give Us the Ballot: Choosing Life in a Democracy
Dr. C. Jay Matthews makes the moral case for the ballot, from Reconstruction through Selma to Ohio’s 2026 trifecta, and argues that the Black Church…
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Realpower.TV - Kenn Dowell, Founding Editor
Realpower.TV - Kenn Dowell, Founding Editor
"Who has power, who's losing it, and where the leverage sits — before it hits the news. Cleveland is the case study. Your city is next."

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