Could enshrining women’s right to abortion in law lure economic development? Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nan Whaley hinted at the idea last week in an editorial interview with cleveland.com editors and reporters. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer – also in the midst of a gubernatorial campaign – pledges to use abortion freedom as an incentive. She said she wants to “go to Purdue (University) and talk to every woman engineer, as well as Ohio State (University), and bring them to Michigan, where you can have full rights to make your own decisions about your health and your body and a great job.” - Laura |
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Browns vs. Cincinnati Bengals: Browns treat fans to a 32-13 Halloween night thriller over the Bengals Northeast Ohio Tuesday weather forecast: Morning showers possible |
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| Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says abortion rights could be a way to lure companies and workers to the state from Ohio and other areas. (Carlos Osorio, Associated Press) |
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Michigan referendum: If Michigan voters enshrine abortion rights in their state’s constitution, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she’ll start “stealing headquarters” from Ohio and luring trained workers from the Buckeye State. Whitmer, a Democrat seeking reelection, said she is “really excited about the prospect of” helping Michigan’s economy if voters there decide next week to pass Proposal 3, reports Jeremy Pelzer. NEON Health: One of the few places for Hough residents to receive medical care remains closed, a year and a half after a fire damaged the building -- and it is unclear when that could change. Lucas Daprile reports that Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services, or NEON, was approved to receive $2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act during the twilight hours of former Mayor Frank Jackson’s administration, but the money is still under review. Today in Ohio: A federal judge ruled that the 30 minutes that Christine Priola of Willoughby spent inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot will cost the former Cleveland schools occupational therapist 15 months in prison. We’re talking about Priola’s sentence on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour podcast. |
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EPA: Environmentalists are challenging a decision from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that guts an Ohio rule allowing citizens to bring federal nuisance lawsuits against industrial air polluters, Jake Zuckerman reports. Since 1974, Ohio residents could invoke the “air nuisance rule” to bring cases against polluters like coal and steel plants they say endanger the public health. But just after the November 2020 election, the EPA under then-President Donald Trump finalized a rollback under an “error correction” provision of the Clean Air Act. |
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Golf course: Cleveland Metroparks is moving to expand South Chagrin Reservation in Solon by adding nearly 150 acres from a defunct golf course and returning it to its natural state as protected green space. Robert Higgs reports the property, part of the Hawthorne Valley Country Club, would cost the park district about $3.8 million for 149 acres. Police monitor: The federal judge overseeing Cleveland police reform on Monday appointed a new interim monitor to handle day-to-day management of the yearslong process. Case Western Reserve University professor Ayesha Bell Hardaway – who had a public disagreement with the team last year -- will take over as the manager of the court-enforced reform known as a consent decree until a permanent replacement is named, reports Adam Ferrise. Addiction treatment: Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish’s second request to use $10 million in opioid settlement money to help develop innovative ideas for addressing addiction again met resistance on Monday, Kaitlin Durbin reports. Council’s Budget and Finance Committee liked the idea in theory and seemed eager to try new strategies to combat opioid addiction amid the county’s ever-rising drug deaths, but members struggled to overcome the price tag with virtually no guarantee of returns. Halloween temps: Monday marks the fourth time in the last five years that Halloween temperatures have reached 60 degrees or higher in Cleveland, with the highest being 65 degrees in 2019. Zachary Smith reports the only year that didn’t match this threshold was 2020, with a high of 49 degrees. St. Vincent: The parceling out of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center’s specialty departments to other local hospitals continues with Southwest General Health Center’s announcement that it is taking over St. Vincent’s bariatric surgery center and moving it to Middleburg Heights. Julie Washington reports bariatric center medical director Leslie Pristas, along with about 15 clinical and nonclinical members of St. Vincent’s bariatric surgery care team, will move to Southwest General’s main campus. |
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Tax credits: Honda will receive a 30-year tax credit worth $71.3 million to build a new electric-vehicle battery plant and retool the carmaker’s existing Ohio plants to produce electric vehicles. Sean McDonnell reports Honda plans spend $3.5 billion building a new battery plant in southern Ohio’s Fayette County and spend $700 million more to revamp its other plants. |
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Public Square shooting: A 39-year-old man was shot and killed late Sunday on Public Square during a dice game, Cleveland police say. Officers said several people were playing the game near Terminal Tower when a man walked up to the victim and shot him in the back and leg. Frank Q. Jackson murder: A man accused of helping set up the killing of former Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s grandson was convicted of aggravated murder on Monday. Cory Shaffer reports Robert Shepard, 30, now faces life in prison after jurors found him guilty of all four counts he was charged with in the September 2021 murder of Frank Q. Jackson. Jurors deliberated for less than six hours over two days. Kickback: A Hudson doctor and a pharmaceutical company employee pleaded guilty Monday to carrying out a kickback scheme in which the doctor prescribed medication to patients who didn’t need it in exchange for cash and lavish dinners. Adam Ferrise reports neurologist Deepak Raheja and former Avanir Pharmaceuticals employee Frank Mazzucco admitted to their roles in the scheme on Monday, the day their trial in Akron federal court was set to begin. Police shooting: A jury should make the Euclid police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man after jumping into his car in 2017 pay $11.5 million to the man’s surviving family members, attorneys for the man’s estate said in court Monday, Cory Shaffer reports. Officer Matthew Rhodes acted recklessly and dangerously when he shot Luke Stewart four times as the unarmed father-of-two slowly drove down the street, attorney Sarah Gelsomino told jurors during closing arguments in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Stewart’s mother. |
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Kim Kardashian: On the latest episode of Spotify’s “The System” podcast, Kim Kardashian dives into the case of Kevin Keith, a former Bucyrus resident convicted of murdering three people in 1994. Alexis Oatman reports that Keith has been imprisoned for nearly 28 years, convicted of shooting and killing Marichell Chatman, her 4-year-old daughter, Marchae, and Chatman’s aunt, Linda. CMA curator: Key Jo Lee, the associate curator of American art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has been appointed chief of curatorial affairs and public programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, reports Steven Litt. Lee is joining MOAD after having spent five years at the Cleveland museum, where she rose from assistant director of academic affairs to director of academic affairs and associate curator of special projects in 2020, and in 2022 to associate curator. RV Rocking: Fall is the time when many in the RV community make like snowbirds and begin heading south for the winter. In this week’s podcast, Jeff and Patti Kinzbach share the story of a couple they met in New Mexico. |
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