I was walking my dog before dawn one morning when another walker approached on the sidewalk. Her dog growled. My 90-pound golden retriever barked. So I stopped. “Where are you going?” asked the woman. “Um,” I said, taken aback by her tone. “The park?” “Why did you stop?” she said. Because I didn’t know if she wanted her dog to sniff my dog? Because I was making sure everything was OK? My dog’s back hair stood on end and I was suddenly scared, in an age when innocent people have been shot over ringing the wrong doorbell or asking a neighbor to turn their music down. As John Tucker writes, when gun owners are emboldened, any confrontation can turn deadly. I wonder if this uncertainty has infiltrated others’ run-ins with strangers? -- Laura |
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Elizabeth Novak, 29, had emergency surgery after being shot in her Old Brooklyn barbershop in October. Her knee still bears the scar. (John Tucker, cleveland.com) |
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Violence victims: As gun sales in America surged to record levels in recent years and gun violence spiked in Cleveland, more average citizens are shot, or shot at, while going about their daily lives. After falling in 2022, felonious assaults with guns are up more than 7% in the city this year, reports John Tucker. Jail commissary: The company accused of providing “absolutely terrible” food in the Cuyahoga County jail also profits on the commissary that inmates rely on to supplement their diets – and it just raised prices. Keefe Commissary Network has long been one of many vendors helping to supply what’s supposed to be comfort items, such as snacks and hygiene products, in the jail. But it won an exclusive three-year contract to become the jail’s sole commissary supplier last year, Kaitlin Durbin reports. Inmates bought $2.2 million worth of items from the jail’s commissary in 2022. Most of the time, inmates bought meal foods, snacks and candy. Issue 1: Ohioans vote in August on whether to make the Ohio Constitution more difficult to change, part of a broader national battle over ballot issues that generally pits Republican state lawmakers against backers of left-leaning policies, many of which have fared well at the ballot box. Andrew Tobias reports Ohio will be the third state to hold a vote in the past two years on raising its approval threshold for state constitutional amendments from 50% to 60%. Today in Ohio: The campaign working to pass State Issue 1 summoned a group of high-end Columbus lobbyists and they plan to avoid directly describing how the measure’s passage likely would tank an expected abortion-rights ballot issue in November. We’re talking about the money funneling into the campaign to make it harder to change the Ohio Constitution on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast.
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Gas drilling: Ohio officials next week plan to reveal the tracts of state-owned land that oil and gas companies, empowered by a newly effective state law, want to drill beneath. However, the identities of the companies who “nominate” state lands for oil and gas exploration will remain anonymous. The information will be shielded from disclosure until a newly formed state commission approves applicants’ nominations and selects finalists from a pool of bids, reports Jake Zuckerman. Gun sales tax: The Ohio General Assembly has been moving in the past few years to pass sales-tax exemptions for many things that people need in their daily lives, from feminine hygiene items to, most recently, baby products. Now, Jeremy Pelzer reports, state lawmakers are looking at adding guns, ammunition and firearm-safety devices to that list of exemptions, arguing they’re also necessary items for Ohioans. |
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No rain: While a string of 80-degree and sunny days create near ideal summer conditions for being outside and a reward for the recent cloudy, rainy winter, it's not helpful for farmers, gardeners, or their plants. Zachary Smith reports that abnormally dry conditions cover not only the Cleveland area but three-quarters of Ohio. Pride: Thousands of parade-goers and spectators filled the streets of downtown Cleveland on Saturday morning as the Pride in the CLE Parade and festival took place on a breezy, warm summer day. Dave Petkiewicz has photos. Roberto Clemente Park: Tanisha Velez - a Cleveland native, Lincoln West High School graduate and mother of three - saw a need to fix up Roberto Clemente Park in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood, reports Marc Bona. The fruits of her labor and that of other volunteers were seen Saturday when hundreds of kids took to the field for Opening Day of a neighborhood baseball league. Clinic buildings: The Cleveland Clinic got a pat on the back Friday from the city’s Planning Commission, along with a sharp critique and a plea to work harder on making itself a world-class place for city residents and visitors, not just a world-class medical center. Steven Litt reports the commission voted to grant final approval to plans for three new buildings, including the 14-story, 1 million-square-foot Neurology Institute planned for a site along the north side of Carnegie Avenue between East 89th and East 90th streets. |
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Ahuja expansion: University Hospitals’ new $236 million expansion of its Ahuja campus in Beachwood will afford patients a new kind of experience, reports Julie Washington. Athletes can do rehabilitation on a 45-yard sports performance football training field. Pregnant women can go through labor (but not delivery) in a birthing pool. And a new men’s center has pool and foosball tables in its waiting room, as well as personalized concierges, called the Joe Team, who help men coordinate care. Hospital development: A new four-story medical center in Ashtabula County, the Cleveland Clinic’s first full-service hospital in Lake County and University Hospitals’ new breast health center in Portage County join the expansion of UH’s Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood among recent construction projects driven by Northeast Ohio hospital systems. Julie Washington reports local hospital systems collectively are spending an estimated $856 million on new buildings, expansions and renovations, aimed at improving patient care and making hospital stays more comfortable. Infant mortality: A national grant given to two Cleveland-area nonprofits is aimed at increasing Black women’s chances for healthy pregnancies and raising thriving infants by providing them with support from doulas and midwives. Julie Washington reports Birthing Beautiful Communities and Village of Healing — an organization and a women’s health clinic working to reduce infant mortality and support maternal health in the Black community — will form a collaborative to share a $1.2 million, two-year grant. |
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Remains found: Decomposed human remains were found at a landfill Friday after an Akron home was demolished, reports Olivia Mitchell. The remains were found just before 9 a.m. among debris taken to a landfill in New Franklin, according to Akron police. Overdose deaths: Authorities issued a public health alert Friday as five people died in 12 hours from drug overdoses in Cuyahoga County. Three of the five deaths Thursday came in Cleveland and involved two men and a woman, reports Olivia Mitchell. |
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Noble Cut: Columbus-based Noble Cut Distillery just opened a distillery and tasting room in Put-In-Bay, reports Paris Wolfe. The brand makes whiskeys, “cellos,” and vodkas. While its citrus-based cellos -- like limoncello -- are a novelty item, its most visible product is Shiphouse Vodka, sold in a bottle modeled after the well-known ship-shaped Benson Ford Shiphouse in Put-in-Bay. Dierks Bentley: The best thing about country star Dierks Bentley’s concert Saturday night at Blossom Music Center is that he rarely went too long without going for a laugh. But Eric Heisig writes that despite this and Bentley's gift as a captivating performer, it’s too bad that so much of his music is middle of the road and feels interchangeable with the output of many other big-name male Nashville stars that dominate country radio. Mahall’s: A year before Mahall’s celebrates its 100th anniversary, the popular Lakewood concert space, bowling alley and cool hangout is turning the clock back for its latest next chapter. John Benson reports the venue started out nearly a century ago with a dance hall called The Roxy, and that’s what Mahall’s co-owner and operator Corey Hajde is naming a new auditorium-sized space set to open this fall at the Madison Avenue location. House of the Week: Located in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood in a private enclave across the street from Lincoln Park and walking distance to restaurants, bars, shops, art galleries and the Towpath Trail, a modern industrial-style townhome was built in 2001 and offers two bedrooms and two baths in 2,624 square feet of living space. Joey Morona reports the price is $479,000. |
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