Reporters at The Plain Dealer, a local newspaper, along with officials at City Hall and most of Cleveland have largely bought the union's story.

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Rachel Dissell is a reporter with the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

NPR: The Missing Women Were Seemingly In Plain Sight

This "tradition" is not something you will find in the US. What many would see as a fairly innocuous picture of John Boehner received a fair bit of outrage from readers of the Plain Dealer in Ohio, yet the reason for publication was simply one of meeting a deadline.

BBC: Picturing our politicians

Mr. MARK NAYMIK (Reporter, Cleveland Plain Dealer): I saw a very energized Democratic Party ticket led by the gubernatorial candidate and a colleague of U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown.

NPR: Ohio Senate Contest Shows Incumbent Seats Aren't Safe

Well, Connie Schultz knows a lot about Ohio and writes about it as a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

NPR: In Ohio, Delegates May Hinge on Job Issues

Finalists: Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press for polished, witty cartoons that effectively lampoon prominent leaders and groups in a polarized America, and Jeff Darcy of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, for his fresh portfolio of cartoons that feature deft caricatures and leave no one guessing where he stands on important issues.

WSJ: 2013 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts

Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman on Friday accused Blackwell of putting a future run for governor above the voters of Ohio, The Plain Dealer reported.

CNN: Ohio's Blackwell used to?spotlight

However, Barbara Knight told the Plain Dealer newspaper she never believed she would have vanished without a trace of her own accord.

BBC: US & Canada

In the 10 years Berry was missing, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper published 36 articles about her, according to a search of electronic news archive Lexis-Nexis.

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