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New Overtime Rules, East Cleveland Merger Discussion; BioBlitz

The new rules nearly double the base salary that workers can earn and still remain eligible for overtime pay.  It's a plan that could impact millions of managerial and white collar workers.  Employers are pushing back on the idea.  

Plus, hard choices ahead for the leaders and people of East Cleveland as financial problems deepen.

Then, a call for citizen scientists this weekend for  BioBlitz.

Resources:

East Cleveland Community Meeting: Agenda

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

BioBlitz: Event Information and Sign Up

Andy Chow, Ohio Statehouse News Bureau Reporter  
Mayor Gary Norton, City of East Cleveland  
Tom Wheeler, President, East Cleveland City Council 
Nick Castele, Ideastream, Reporter 
Jennie Vasarhelyi, Cuyahoga Valley National Park 
 

Leigh Barr is a coordinating producer for the "Sound of Ideas" and the "Sound of Ideas Reporters Roundtable."