This year, fall ousted summer as surely as mums replaced geraniums on Northeast Ohio porches. We dug out our wool hats, bundled up for football games, groused about the wind on dog walks. And was that sleet on our windshield? (No, it was graupel. There’s a difference, according to the National Weather Service.) Could I get my paddleboard back in the water this season? This past weekend, I did, when summer made a triumphant return. Enjoy one more day while it lasts. - Laura |
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People enjoy the unseasonably warm day Monday in Edgewater Park in Cleveland. (Zachary Smith, cleveland.com) |
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Second summer: Northeast Ohio is in the middle of a warm spell following our first snow last week, a phenomenon we call second summer. However, this weather was once commonly known as “Indian summer.” Zachary Smith explains why we switched terms. Housing for all: Cleveland officials are promising “housing for all” and planning to leverage a portion of the city’s $512 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to deliver it. But predatory real estate investors have exploited the city’s relatively high rent and low housing prices to buy cheap houses in economically distressed neighborhoods, but either refuse to make improvements or fail to receive permits for upgrades, despite cashing rent checks. Lucas Daprile reports they sometimes sell the homes – often to other, similarly situated companies – for a quick profit. Today in Ohio: Over seven years, nearly 15,000 suspects and offenders in Cuyahoga County should have been swabbed for DNA by criminal justice authorities but were not. We’re talking about missed opportunities to solve cold cases, including murders and rapes, on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour podcast. |
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Dark money: FirstEnergy has stopped using “dark money” in Ohio after agreeing to disclose future contributions, temporarily abandoning a controversial political spending tactic critical to the House Bill 6 corruption scandal. Besides some nominal payments, the company has cut off its contributions to Ohio-based nonprofit entities that spend outside money to support politicians, reports Jake Zuckerman. Senate forum: Republican J.D. Vance and Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan will appear together next Tuesday on Fox News in an evening candidate town hall forum featuring the two candidates running for one of Ohio’s U.S. Senate seats. Andrew Tobias reports the event will air live from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Columbus in front of an audience of “bipartisan Ohio voters,” and moderated by Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. |
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Lead poisoning: Following a heated Cleveland City Council committee meeting last week, a law aiming to prevent lead poisoning in children is back on track. Lucas Daprile reports the $17 million legislation – funded by American Rescue Plan Act dollars and originally passed in May – was amended and passed the Finance, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Monday and was expected to pass during a council meeting Monday night. ARPA: Cuyahoga County and its six surrounding counties will receive more that $3 million in grants aimed at addressing court backlogs as part of $10.2 million awarded statewide, reports John Tucker. The grants came from the $250 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding that state officials set aside a year ago for first responders. Social media: A student at Almira Elementary School started a “shade page,” where students posted pictures and spewed negative comments about their peers. The student removed his page because he realized how hurtful it was for other students and their families, but Cameron Fields reports that Almira is limited in its ability to compel Instagram to remove pages that the school finds troubling. |
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Election robocalls: Two right-wing conspiracy theorists who placed thousands of robocalls with false information to largely minority and Democratic voters in Cleveland in the months before the November 2020 election pleaded guilty on Monday to a felony charge. Adam Ferrise reports that Jacob Wohl, 24, of Irvine, California, and Jack Burkman, 56, of Arlington, Virginia, face a maximum of a year in prison after they pleaded guilty to a fifth-degree felony charge of telecommunications fraud. Homicide trial: A Cleveland man killed three people at a 2019 house party in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood because he was angry that the host wouldn’t let him sell drugs to a woman outside, a jury on Monday heard. Kielonte Harris, 28, is on trial on six counts of aggravated murder and other charges, including aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery, Cory Shaffer reports. |
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Hallo-season: Halloween is no longer just one night of young ghouls and princesses prowling the streets in search of treats. Brenda Cain reports on how Halloween has become more of a season – lasting all of October. Cake business: Janette Looney, co-owner of four Nothing Bundt Cakes in Northeast Ohio, had never tasted a Bundt cake until she was in her 30s and walked into a bakery in Las Vegas. She fell in love with the rich, moist cake and signature cream cheese frosting. Looney and her husband now own four Nothing Bundt Cakes bakeries in Northeast Ohio, the latest in Mentor, Paris Wolfe reports. Rocking RV: Jeff and Patti Kinzbach are celebrating their second year of living and traveling in their motorhome. Marc Bona reports they recently visited with family in South Carolina, trekked on to Little Rock, Arkansas - where they waited out some nasty weather - then set course for the southwest. |
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