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We asked ideastream listeners and viewers to share their memories of Blossom Music Theater as Northeast Ohio celebrates 50 years of great music at the summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra. Here are just a few of the many memories you shared with us. 

During a visit to the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center on August 8, 2018 Dr. Norman (Ned) Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, sat down with ideastream’s Kay Colby. The discussion centered on challenges related to cancer care across the nation, as well as some key issues to address in the quest to accelerate progress in cancer research and treatment.

Part One: Workforce Development

One challenge stems from the nation’s aging population, often referred to as the Silver Tsunami, and the fact that risk of cancer increases with age. According to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), by 2030 the incidence of cancer in the U.S will increase by 45 percent creating the need for more oncologists -- especially those trained to care for elderly patients.

Part Two: Clinical Trials 

In the last two decades, cancer researchers have come to appreciate the fact that cancer is a collection of hundreds or even thousands of different diseases resulting from countless numbers of DNA mutations in cells. Clinical trials have had to evolve from those that treated single diseases to those that tackle the complexity of cancer. This has given rise to treatments that target specific DNA abnormalities in a patient’s tumor. The director of the National Cancer Institute says this era of “precision and personalized medicine” calls for revamping the system of conducting clinical trials to test new drugs in ways that account for this new paradigm of treatment.

Part Three: Big Data

Developments in cancer care remain hampered by the fact many hospital record systems are incompatible and not designed for research. Therefore, the ability to learn about factors in individual patients that may help or hamper his or her prognosis often lies buried in unharnessed piles of data. Dr. Norman (Ned) Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, says this generates a great need to create infrastructure to mine the benefits of “big data.”

Chapter Four: Continuing Moonshot

In his State of the Union Address in 2106, President Barack Obama appointed Vice President Joe Biden, who lost his son to brain cancer, to lead an initiative known as the “Cancer Moonshot” to help accelerate progress in cancer research and treatment. The Moonshot program spotlights the need to speed up “translational research” in an effort to move scientific discoveries in the lab to timely clinical applications at the bedside. The 21^st Century Cures Act enacted by Congress in December 2016 is currently funding many research grants to scientists and clinicians from the National Cancer Institute under the Moonshot program. Dr. Sharpless says that the NCI has some 50 grant announcements on its website now.

As part of our You First! election coverage, ideastream's Nick Castele was joined by Sam O'Leary, the president of the Lakewood City Council; Eric Moorer with the Northeast Ohio Young Black Democrats; and Diane Morgan from the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus. They discussed a range of issues that are on the minds of young left-leaning voters.

Student debt, according to Sam O'Leary, was preventing young professionals from buying houses, starting families, and choosing to pursue lower paying non-profit jobs rather than corporate work. Eric Moorer said young African-American voters care about issues of violence and Black Lives Matter concerns. They also spoke about poverty, inequality, and access to healthcare. 

Our next You First! Live will be Thursday, September 20, at noon with young Republicans and conservatives via Facebook and Twitter. 

Photo Gallery

View a photo gallery from the event here.

About the Forums

Talking Jobs with Ohio's Next Governor was a live digital forum featuring Ohio's leading gubernatorial candidates, Richard Cordray and Mike DeWine.

The candidates appeared individually in back-to-back segments and were allotted 45 minutes each to interact with young Ohioans and respond to their questions and comments about education, workforce development and job creation. Andy Chow of the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau served as the forum moderator.

In conjunction with Corporation for Public Broadcasting's American Graduate initiative, Talking Jobs with Ohio’s Next Governor provided a rare opportunity for young adults across the state to engage with the leading candidates in this year’s Ohio gubernatorial race. 

Talking Jobs with Ohio’s Next Governor is co-produced by a statewide public media collaborative of CET (Cincinnati), ideastream (Cleveland) and WOSU Public Media (Columbus).

Highlights from the digital forum was broadcast in a special one-hour presentation on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. on WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Watch this program on-demand.

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Twelve Questions for Ohio's Next Governor

Fifty years ago – July 23, 1968, at about 8:30 at night, gunshots rang out, and in the space of a relatively few minutes, the history of Cleveland was forever changed. What became known as the Glenville shootout cost seven people their lives – three of them members of Cleveland’s police department. More than a dozen other officers, and many citizens, were injured in the subsequent firefight, which left scars on the legacy of that neighborhood; on its newly elected African American mayor; and for many years, on the city. We looked back at the Glenville shootout in this series of reports, including a look at certain events during the years that led up to that night of July 23, when violence erupted in an increasingly impoverished neighborhood, on the edge of a racially charged city.

The City of Akron issued an apology Wednesday and vowed to revise its snow removal plan for future storms.

Akron officials admitted in a written statement “they have failed to provide a timely level of service to all city streets” after this weekend’s snowstorm.

Akron received tweleve inches of snow over the weekend and by Tuesday plows had only reached 30-percent of the city’s residential streets and some of its main roads.

In the statement, Mayor Dan Horrigan stated the city will reassess every policy and procedure in order to make necessary changes to their snow removal approach to ensure streets are cleared faster during future snow storms.

Here is the full statement:

First, an apology.  We have failed to provide a timely level of service to all City streets in response to this storm, and we are sorry.

We apologize to the Akron community for the inconvenience and frustration our response has caused.  The level of service we provided has fallen short of what our residents rightly expect.  While we have devoted 100% of our available City resources 24/7 to plow and salt all primary, secondary and residential streets following Winter Storm Harper, the results of these efforts have been unacceptable. We appreciate the patience the Akron community has extended this week. We have heard your concerns and we will do better in the future. 

Mayor Horrigan has directed the City to immediately reassess every policy, procedure, agreement and route and to make necessary changes to our approach to ensure that future snow events are addressed effectively and efficiently from day one.

What we are doing right now:

The City has deployed every single vehicle and piece of City equipment capable of removing snow and ice to work to clear City streets and plow every residential neighborhood as soon as possible.  The City has deployed 7 private contractors to augment the City’s efforts and plow residential streets in tandem with our crews. They will use graders, backhoes, plow trucks and bobcats to increase our snow removal capabilities. We have established emergency mandatory overtime with the ultimate goal of opening every street in Akron before the next weather event. The County of Summit is also assisting with available truck and equipment. Public Service has called in all city workers from Sewer, Water and Public Works that are not in plow trucks to start the process of cleaning storm inlets. All together there are more than 100 vehicles currently activated within Akron to remove snow and ice from city streets.

The City will be enforcing the parking ban when necessary to clear streets.  Some cars will be towed.  Residents are reminded not to park on the street until the ban is lifted and all streets are clear. Due to rainfall and melting snow, there are areas of standing water.  Drivers are reminded to drive slowly and cautiously in these areas.   

The City has been experiencing intermittent failure of both the online 3-1-1 portal and our 3-1-1 phone line.  However, every City street is on the list to be plowed, whether a 3-1-1 request is received or not.  Streets are prioritized based on traffic patterns, and all streets will be plowed as soon as possible.

What is coming next:

Winter Strom Indra and freezing temperatures are on the way. Icy streets are expected in the coming days. Residents are urged to prepare accordingly. The parking ban on primary streets will likely remain in place until the accumulation from Winter Storm Indra has been cleared. The City’s all-hands-on-deck approach, including the use of private contractors will continue through the next storm event.