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‘Washington isn’t coming to save us.’ Cleveland Mayor takes aim at Trump in State of the City

1 day ago | ideastream.org | Abbey Marshall

As Mayor Justin Bibb keeps his eyes trained on re-election this fall, he took a final victory lap — and addressed past and upcoming challenges — in the final State of the City address of his first term. Bibb took aim at President Donald Trump’s administration and policy impacts on the city, while maintaining that he intends to steer the ship as potential cuts loom.
West Side Market marks one year since transitioning to nonprofit leadership | Ideastream Public Media

2 days ago | ideastream.org | Drew Maziasz

The Cleveland Public Market Corporation has been running the West Side Market since April of 2024.
Cleveland City Council passes stricter criminal nuisance property law

2 days ago | ideastream.org | Matthew Richmond

Cleveland is cracking down on houses and businesses where police are repeatedly called about criminal activity. Cleveland City Council passed an update to its criminal activity nuisance ordinance during its meeting Monday night, after several hearings in council’s safety committee. The update adds a mandatory $250 fine, expands the activities that can be declared a nuisance and lowers the legal threshold police need to establish that a nuisance activity occurred.
Ohio Wesleyan’s ‘Lizard League’ is tracking Cincinnati’s cold-blooded invaders

3 days ago | ideastream.org | Kendall Crawford

For Cincinnatians, the sight of a small lizard scurrying across a sidewalk or hanging out on an alley wall isn’t surprising. For more than 70 years, European common wall lizards, known locally as Lazarus lizards, have lived in the Queen City. Farther north, in Delaware county, a team of Ohio Wesleyan University students is studying how these species have adapted from the mountains of Italy to the hills of Ohio.
How 'weak' Supreme Court rulings led to this week's immigration news

6 days ago | ideastream.org | Kathryn Fink |Patrick Jarenwattananon |Mary Kelly

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with University of Virginia law professor Amanda Frost about the latest escalation in the conflict between the Trump administration and the courts.
Ohio State Senator Jerry Cirino defends higher education bill in Cleveland talk

1 week ago | ideastream.org | Conor Morris |Abbey Marshall

Dozens of protesters demonstrated outside the City Club of Cleveland Thursday, where Ohio Senator Jerry Cirino (R-Kirtland) spoke about his controversial higher education bill recently signed into law and discussed the state budget currently making its way through the legislature.
Bill allowing Ten Commandments to be displayed in Ohio's K-12 classrooms stalled in committee

1 week ago | ideastream.org | Jo Ingles

A Republican-backed bill making its way through the Ohio Legislature would require schools to display of certain historical documents - and that could include the Ten Commandments. The Ohio Senate Education Committee has held multiple hearings but hasn’t yet voted on the bill from Sen. Terry Johnson (R-McDermott), which would require one of nine historical documents to be displayed in classrooms of public schools.
Akron police auditor clears officer for punching Akron Public Schools student but wants changes to head strikes policy

1 week ago | ideastream.org | Anna Huntsman

Both Akron Police and the city’s police auditor have cleared an officer for punching a student during an arrest at an Akron high school last year. But the auditor, who reviews use-of-force incidents and makes policy recommendations, says the police department should review its policy on how officers are allowed to use force, paying particular attention to head strikes, according to a report released Wednesday.
Economists worry Ohio's agricultural sector could be hit by Trump's tariffs

1 week ago | ideastream.org | Drew Maziasz

President Donald Trump has made a flurry of announcements regarding tariffs over the short course of his second term. Regardless of the delays and cancellations Trump put on certain tariffs with trading partners, the U.S. is still imposing a 145% tariff on all goods coming from China. A 10% universal tariff remains in place on many other goods.
'Wednesday at Bernie's.' Protests continue outside Senator Moreno's Northeast Ohio office

1 week ago | ideastream.org | Abbey Marshall

Congress is on recess this week, so the dozens of protesters outside Republican Senator Bernie Moreno's Cleveland office brought “spring break” activities — corn hole, hula hoops and chalk — to their weekly demonstration. They call these protests "Wednesday at Bernie's," a play on the 1989 hit film "Weekend at Bernie's." This week, the group propped up an inflatable doll of Moreno, clad in swim trunks, on a beach chair.