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  • East Cleveland mayor pushes back on state receivership plan | Reporters Roundtable

    East Cleveland mayor pushes back on state receivership plan | Reporters Roundtable
    Oct 3 2025
    Ohio Auditor Keith Faber this week formally requested the state attorney general begin legal proceedings to appoint a receiver to oversee the finances of East Cleveland. A new state law approved as part of the last budget, and which went into effect Tuesday, allowed the move. East Cleveland is pushing back, accusing the state of cutting off local government funds to the city and saying a state commission meant to guide finances failed. We will begin our discussion of the week’s news with East Cleveland’s finances and what happens next between the city and state.
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  • Weight loss drugs are now being prescribed to teens struggling with obesity

    Weight loss drugs are now being prescribed to teens struggling with obesity
    Oct 2 2025
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in five children in America has obesity. One new solution might be GLP-1 weight loss drugs.
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  • Southeast Side Stories preserves Union-Miles, Lee-Harvard and Mt. Pleasant neighborhoods' history

    Southeast Side Stories preserves Union-Miles, Lee-Harvard and Mt. Pleasant neighborhoods' history
    Oct 1 2025
    Last fall, the NuPoint Community Development Corporation (formerly the Union-Miles Development Corporation) launched a neighborhood history project called Southeast Side Stories. The idea is to document the stories of the Union-Miles, Mt. Pleasant and Lee-Harvard neighborhoods and those in between as well. Using a mix of first-person interviews and multimedia, including vintage photographs and film, the project chronicles the deep roots families have built in the area across generations. Also on the show, we begin with an interview with the president of Slovenia, Nataša Pirc Musar. She addressed the United Nations General Assembly last week in New York and then traveled to Cleveland. The city is home to the largest population of Slovenians outside of their country.
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  • Animal shelters and humane societies in Northeast Ohio are sounding alarm

    Animal shelters and humane societies in Northeast Ohio are sounding alarm
    Sep 30 2025
    Shelters say that lives are at risk as overcrowding has persisted since the pandemic. They say they're out of space and out of time to help animals in their care, especially dogs.
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  • Students, health officials distribute free harm reduction supplies to Portage County community members

    Students, health officials distribute free harm reduction supplies to Portage County community members
    Sep 29 2025
    The harm reduction approach aims to reduce the negative impact of substance use disorder. In Portage County, health officials and Kent State University community members are working toward shared goals by distributing tools such as Naloxone.
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  • Cleveland City Council and mayor's administration clash over public records downloaded by aide| Reporters Roundtable

    Cleveland City Council and mayor's administration clash over public records downloaded by aide| Reporters Roundtable
    Sep 26 2025
    A clash erupted this week between Mayor Justin Bibb's administration and Cleveland City Council, led by its president, Blaine Griffin. A council aide downloaded thousands of unredacted documents from a public records database, one he was allowed to access. The administration says some of those documents contained sensitive information, such as addresses, Social Security numbers or medical information that is typically redacted before public release. According to Griffin, Bibb's people called for the council aide's firing, which he characterized as a strong-arm tactic. The aide did nothing wrong and is going nowhere, he said. The story begins our discussion of the week’s news of the Friday “Reporters Roundtable.”
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  • Case Western Reserve University honors immigration advocate with top ethics prize

    Case Western Reserve University honors immigration advocate with top ethics prize
    Sep 25 2025
    The university's Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence will award Oscar Chacón with the 2025 Inamori Ethics Prize for his work in human rights and immigration justice.
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  • Northeast Ohio experts discuss changes to vaccine recommendations

    Northeast Ohio experts discuss changes to vaccine recommendations
    Sep 24 2025
    An advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control made changes to vaccine recommendations in a meeting last week that was described in media reports as tense and chaotic. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP changed advice on COVID vaccines to a "shared decision-making model." It also changed its recommendation regarding the combined childhood vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella or chicken pox (MMRV). The committee recommended that children under 4 not be given the MMRV vaccine and instead recommended an MMR vaccine and a separate shot for varicella (chicken pox). The committee tabled a decision on whether to delay the birth dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. To begin Wednesday’s “Sound of Ideas,” we're going to talk about the recommendations coming out of the ACIP meeting and what those recommendations mean for those seeking COVID-19 or the MMRV vaccine. Later, Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute joins the program to talk about the Trump administration’s foreign policy in that region.
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