Regional Features: Archive by Date
October 2002
NASA Plum Brook - Part One
Posted Monday, October 7
Nuclear power problems have been big news in Ohio this year. The Davis-Besse plant near Toledo was shut down last February because of a hole in the reactor. Both federal regulators and the plant owner admit the incident should have been prevented. But not all Ohio nuclear facilities have had a bad track record. This year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration began decommissioning the only reactor the agency ever built. The NASA Plum Brook test reactor near Sandusky operated successfully for eleven years before going into cold storage in 1973. Designed to test the effects of radiation on materials used in space flight, the facility was also an opportunity for the nascent nuclear industry to learn how to safely handle other aspects of nuclear technology. ideastream's Karen Schaefer reports.
Free Times Closes Shop
Posted Thursday, October 3
It was tagged Ohio's largest news, arts and entertainment weekly - with a circulation of 90,000 and hundreds of thousands of readers - but not anymore. Without warning to its 99 full- and part-time employees, The Cleveland Free Times newspaper announced yesterday it would close its doors by the end of the day. The decision came just one week after the paper published its 10th anniversary issue. The Free Times parent company is blaming the shut down on the poor economy. ideastream's Janet Babin visited the paper yesterday, as staff members were preparing to leave work for the last time.
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Northeast Ohio Headlines
- State Rep. Bob Hagan Makes Another Run at Tax on Oil and Gas Drillers A few months after Gov. John Kasich proposed a tax on oil and natural gas drillers, a Democratic lawmaker has done the same thing.
Former VA Official Caught Up In Cuyahoga County Corruption Probe The former Director of the Cleveland VA Medical Center was arrested this morning.- Doctors and Democratic Lawmakers Sound Off Against Ohio Anti-Abortion Bills At a news conference called by two Democratic state representatives, doctors criticized new GOP anti-abortion bills.
- State Budget Conference Committee Receives New Numbers on Medicaid and Revenue The new estimates on Medicaid and state revenue were higher than estimates, but they came with a caution.
- Ohio Lawmakers Consider Multiple Medicaid Bills Ohio lawmakers continue to grapple with the question of what to do with the Medicaid program.
NPR Headlines
James Gandolfini Dies; 'Sopranos' Actor Was 51 The star of The Sopranos died of a possible heart attack, HBO says.- Microsoft Responds To Fan Outcry, Changes Xbox One Policies Microsoft says a regular Internet connection will no longer be required and it can play used games.
- Federal Agents Accuse Two Of Plotting Deadly X-Ray Weapon The men allegedly planned to sell the device to either the Ku Klux Klan or Jewish groups.
- A Day After Making List, One Of FBI's Most Wanted Caught Walter Lee Williams made the FBI's Most Wanted list on charges of sexual exploitation of children.
Capitol Hill's Partisan And Racial Divide Cast In Bronze A statue of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass finally lands a spot on Capitol Hill.
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