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A passenger about to board a GCRTA Rapid Transit rail car at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
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Government & Politics
Greater Cleveland RTA sets rollout of new rail car fleet, updates Metrohealth BRT extension
Zaria Johnson
Greater Cleveland RTA is moving forward with plans to upgrade its aging rail car fleet. It's also moving ahead with the next step towards extending bus rapid transit along the MetroHealth Line.
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Government & Politics
Jimmy Dimora's sentence commuted by Biden, 2 other Northeast Ohioans pardoned
Josh Boose
Dancers parade through Wade Oval with dragonfly float.
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Reporters Notebook
Paying attention to how people engage with the arts and Ideastream's role
Carrie Wise
Government & Politics
  1. Lawmaker says bill to make flag-planting at Ohio Stadium a felony not just a "sore loser" action
  2. Nuclear energy bill goes to Ohio governor with state park fracking provisions
  3. Ohio Senate oks antisemitism definition after campus protests, but it's unlikely to move forward
Law & Justice
Several attendees of the Dec. 9, 2024 Akron City Council meeting stand in council chambers in protest of Jazmir Tucker, a 15-year-old fatally shot by Akron police on Thanksgiving.
  1. Akron leaders, community members call for officer who fatally shot 15-year-old to be fired
  2. NYPD releases 2 new photos of man sought in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
  3. Akron not releasing name of officer who fatally shot 15-year-old despite calls for transparency
Health
Hospital care recommendations presented by Cleveland Clinic movement disorder fellow Camila Piccinin at the 2024 International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders
  1. Northeast Ohio hospitals lead study to prevent in-hospital harm for Parkinson's patients
  2. Child fatalities reached a 5-year high in Cuyahoga County last year, report finds
  3. Wooster pharmacist fills gaps left by pharmacy closures
Education
Strosacker Hall on Baldwin Wallace University's campus in Berea.
  1. Baldwin Wallace acting president Tom Sutton is stepping down, effective immediately
  2. Easing the path to higher ed: CMSD students get automatic admission to Tri-C
  3. Akron Public Schools defends superintendent's use of 'disappearing' emails
Economy
A yellow and a white tugboat are docked next to each other on the Ohio River on an overcast day.
  1. Sea legs for landlubbers: Ohio will soon have its first river maritime academy
  2. Youngstown Business Incubator helps local manufacturers build high-tech toolkits
  3. A company that turned homeowners into renters abruptly shuts down
Environment & Energy
The Greater Cleveland Partnership commissioned a study that shows corporations, universities, hospitals and NASA Glenn spent a combined $3.7 billion on research in 2021. While impressive, the group says more can be done to boost R&D in the region.
  1. Sustainable Cleveland seeks input on draft of the city's next Climate Action Plan
  2. Panel votes to open up almost 900 more acres of Ohio park land to energy companies for fracking
  3. How many species could go extinct from climate change? It depends on how hot it gets.
Science & Technology
People work inside the TikTok Inc. building in Culver City, Calif., Monday, March 11, 2024. House Republicans are moving ahead with a bill that would require Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States even as President Donald Trump is voicing opposition to the effort. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
  1. Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people
  2. TikTok executives know about app’s effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege
  3. The Manhattan Project of World War I? Exploring Ohio's murky link to chemical warfare
Race, Gender & Identity
  1. Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. Here's how they're preparing
  2. The past, present and future of an unlikely journalist
  3. Symposium to explore how incoming Trump administration could impact Northeast Ohio immigrants
Arts & Culture
Greyhound bus station in Downtown Cleveland and former Cleveland Institute of Electronics
  1. Playhouse Square crafting plans for Greyhound station and nearby building
  2. 5 things to do in NEO: ‘Unsilent Night,’ Creepy Christmas and more
  3. ‘Picasso and Paper’ at Cleveland Museum of Art reveals artist's creative process
Community
Jean Khoury stands in from of The Browsing Room Bookstore. She co-owns the store with her sister, Catherine Kassouf in the Galleria mall.
  1. A bookstore and a redevelopment plan lead the charge to revive Cleveland's dying Galleria mall
  2. Akron's missing street holds the history of city's LGBTQ+ past
  3. Advocates concerned for Northeast Ohio's immigrant population under Trump
Sports
Cleveland Guardians' Andres Gimenez gestures after hitting a double in the eighth inning during Game 5 of baseball's American League Division Series against the Detroit Tigers on Oct. 12, 2024, in Cleveland.
  1. Guardians trade defensive wizard Giménez for much needed pitching
  2. University of Cincinnati starts Ohio’s first competitive collegiate adaptive sports program
  3. Cleveland Browns make economic case for Brook Park move. Cuyahoga County calls their figures 'biased'
Reporters Notebook
A festive Thanksgiving table setting
  1. Cooking up a new life chapter this Thanksgiving holiday
  2. What it's like to cover elections
  3. Winner, winner election night dinner. It's pizza in a landslide