Regional Features: Archive by Date

April 2007

Third Federal Goes Public
Posted Monday, April 23
Third Federal Savings and Loan goes public today. The Cleveland-based company will offer a billion dollars in stock for public trading. ideastream's Economics Reporter Tasha Flournoy shares the company's new business plans.

Parents of Conjoined Twins Speak
Posted Monday, April 23
Over the next weeks and months a team of 50 doctors and nurses at University Hospitals will conduct a series of surgeries to separate twins joined at the head. The three-year-old girls came to the U.S. from Romania with their parents more than two years ago, hoping to have the procedure done at a Dallas hospital but doctors there eventually declined. The parents have guarded their privacy and shunned most of the news media but they made an exception granting several interviews last Friday, including one with ideastream's Dan Moulthrop. Dan asked Alin Dogaru, a Byzantine Catholic priest, and his wife Claudia, a nurse, about their fears as they await this high-risk surgery for their daughters.

Strickland Wants Homestead Tax Exemption Expanded
Posted Monday, April 23
Governor Ted Strickland and Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher have been crisscrossing the state trying to build popular support for their budget proposal. They're pushing what is probably the easiest part of it to sell: tax breaks for seniors citizens. ideastream's Mark Urycki caught up with the campaign in Akron and filed this report.

Opera in Movie Houses
Posted Monday, April 23
Opera Cleveland's debut season started this past weekend with performances of Salome. The company is the result of last year's merger between Opera Cleveland and Lyric Opera Cleveland. The local group has reason to believe it will have a bang-up year based on the success in the region of New York's Metropolitan Opera. Earlier this year the Met initiated "live" high definition simulcasts of its Saturday matinees in movie theatres across the country, including theaters in Cleveland. Opera buffs packed the theaters and that wave of popularity may be just the ticket to give Opera Cleveland the lift it needs for a successful season. ideastream's Mhari Saito reports on this new phenomenon.

Fingerhut Wants Change in University Operation
Posted Friday, April 20
The top official overseeing higher education in Ohio says he wants to change the way state universities operate. The new Chancellor of the Board of Regents, Eric Fingerhut, told a Cleveland audience that he wants the schools to better serve the needs of the Ohio economy. ideastream's Mark Urycki reports.

Wind Power Potential in Ohio Stronger Than Originally Thought
Posted Friday, April 20
New Wind maps and analysis by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory reveal Ohio's potential to generate electricity from wind power is stronger than researchers first thought. ideastream's Lisa Ann Pinkerton reports.

New Republican For Cuyahoga Board of Elections
Posted Friday, April 20
The Cuyahoga County Republican Party has selected a Cleveland attorney to serve on the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. ideastream's Tasha Flournoy has more on the appointment of Jeff Hastings.

Hard to Climb Barriers to Social Justice
Posted Friday, April 20
Northeast Ohio plays host to a gathering of Chinese-American leaders this weekend. They'll be meeting in Cleveland to discuss matters of social justice at a time when the color of your skin and the nature of your accent are still barriers that can be hard to climb. ideastream's David C. Barnett has more.

Competitive Year for College Acceptance
Posted Thursday, April 19
If you've got a high school senior living under your roof who's been accepted to college they should be feeling really proud of themselves. Not just because they were accepted, but because they were accepted in a year that was ultra competitive. It comes down to the fact that baby boomers had kids and those kids are now trying to get into college. Get this statistic - Harvard turned down more than a thousand applicants with perfect scores on the math portion of the SAT. But this trend goes far beyond the Ivies to schools that aren't used to mailing out stacks of rejection letters. ideastream's Eric Wellman spoke with Susan Dileno, the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Baldwin Wallace College. She told us her school is definitely getting more competitive.

Ecology Coatings Featured in Fast Company Magazine
Posted Thursday, April 19
A tiny Akron company that has been recognized by Time Magazine and the Wall Street Journal has now been spotlighted by Fast Company Magazine. Ecology Coatings is featured in a recent issue that recognizes what the magazine calls "50 profit-driven solutions for what ails the planet." The company has fewer than a half-dozen employees. ideastream's Mark Urycki reports.

Residential Tax Abatement Policy Renewed
Posted Wednesday, April 18
A majority of Cleveland's City Council agreed yesterday to renew the city's residential tax abatement policy. ideastream's Economics Reporter Tasha Flournoy reports.

After Lapse, City of Cleveland Ramps Up Demolitions
Posted Wednesday, April 18
After long lapse, the city of Cleveland is ramping up demolitions of abandoned and foreclosed houses.

Bio-Science Collaboration with Pittsburgh Announced
Posted Wednesday, April 18
Local economic development leaders want to break down borders and join forces with Pittsburgh. The Cleveland-based business accelerator Bio-Enterprise has reached out to its counterpart in the Steel City to collaborate on growing bio-science start-up companies. The announcement came yesterday during a conference at the Cleveland Clinic to plot out the area's future in the medical industry. ideastream's Mark Urycki reports.

Ohio Public Radio: Fines Coming for Smoking Ban Violations
Posted Tuesday, April 17
Ohio businesses could soon be fined for violating the new statewide smoking ban. The state panel that approves rules written by agencies will allow the Ohio Department of Health's new enforcement rules to go into effect. But as Ohio Public Radio's Jo Ingles reports, some groups, even those that worked to pass the new law, are not happy with the final outcome.

Juvenile Justice Reform
Posted Tuesday, April 17
Johanna Orozco was released from MetroHealth Medical Center yesterday after the first round of a series of surgeries that will attempt to reconstruct her face. The 18-year-old was the victim of a shotgun blast allegedly fired by an ex-boyfriend who was on home arrest. The high profile nature of this case has prompted the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court to reform some of its procedures. ideastream's David C. Barnett has more.

The Captive Audience of the Barber’s Chair
Posted Tuesday, April 17
How's this for a captive audience: your target client, stuck in a chair with nothing else to do but listen to your pitch for at least 30 minutes - and no remote to change the channel. The hot new marketing tool: the barber's chair. Public health officials around the country say it works and they are turning to beauticians and barbers to deliver health information to hard-to-reach populations. ideastream's Mhari Saito reports.

Raising Awareness of Organ Harvesting
Posted Tuesday, April 17
Members of a Chinese religious group are hoping that a pair of forums being held in Cleveland today will boost awareness of a disturbing human rights issue. The spiritual practice known as Falun Gong was officially banned by the Chinese government in 1998. It's claimed that practitioners are being imprisoned and executed so that their organs can be harvested and sold to transplant patients - many of them from the west. ideastream's Lisa Ann Pinkerton reports.

Applegate Named Head of North Shore Federation of Labor
Posted Monday, April 16
For the first time a woman has the top job at the labor group formerly known as the Cleveland AFL-CIO. Harriet Applegate will head up The North Shore Federation of Labor. She replaces John Ryan, who is leaving to work for Senator Sherrod Brown. ideastream's Tasha Flournoy tells us how Applegate plans to continue the group's organizing mission.

Local Leaders to Meet on Bio-Medical Industry
Posted Monday, April 16
Tomorrow night, local leaders from the medical, academic, and philanthropic sectors are meeting to plan ways to make Northeast Ohio an important center of the bio-medical industry. They're expected to announce a new collaboration with another city. Building a cluster of life science companies in the Cleveland area is a two-decade old dream but its supporters say they're more optimistic than ever. ideastream's Mark Urycki reports.

The Downtown Comeback
Posted Friday, April 13
The City of Cleveland has been attracting new residents to its downtown, showing a steady growth in housing for the past 15 years. The jump in downtown living comes despite a loss of 26,000 residents since the year 2000. Yesterday evening the editor of Governing Magazine spoke at a forum at Cleveland State University. He says we may be needlessly hung up about some roadblocks to revitalizing downtowns. ideastream's Mark Urycki reports.

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