The Wake Up

No decision on nuclear bailout fight, another Cuyahoga County jail abuse lawsuit, Akron limits smoking and big bets on the Ohio State Michigan game. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We finally know how Cuyahoga wants to spend that huge tax increase they want from voters, the countywide plastic bag ban gets more imperiled and Summit County gets a grant to reduce infant mortality among African Americans. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cleveland is finally getting some more homicide detectives and the Cuyahoga County plastic shopping bag ban will be delayed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As many as 40 migrant children from the Mexican border will come to Cleveland, and the Cleveland City Council president wants to delay the shopping bag ban, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Refugee children could be coming to Cleveland, a Northeast Ohio congressman wants honest drug pricing, and a woman gets stabbed for wearing fur boots in Cleveland Heights See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

JobsOhio wants to own companies and Larry Householder either wants to solve Ohio's unconstitutional school funding system or take more power away from local governments. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ohio loses jobs, The EPA helps Lake Erie and Akron spikes a bad panhandling law. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cuyahoga County officials like their interim sheriff even though he lacks the credentials for the job, and a federal commission s ays the Cleveland Fire Department discriminates against African-Americans, Hispanics and women. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Cuyahoga institutes a ban on plastic bags and residents say they like it, rural legislators with no accountability in Cleveland plot to prohibit such bans, and good news from the Cuyahoga County jail about its population size and from the Cleveland Museum of Art about some holiday special hours. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A novel idea for a money-saving court merger and a new home for the Cleveland Police. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ohio legislators pass bills that fly in the face of science, Lyric Lawson's killing is solved and the Greater Cleveland Food Bank has run out of room. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Five years after the police killing of Tamir Rice, we finally have a ruling on whether police mistreated his sister in the hour after Tamir was shot. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The earliest major snowstorm in 23 years is forecast, and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is inexplicably skipping the county with the most foster children in the state as he holds hearings on how to improve foster services. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Finding lessons in the fifth anniversary of the police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a second person says U.S. Rep Jim Jordan knew about an sexual abuser at Ohio State University and did nothing, and the Browns win a big game. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cuyahoga County seeks a $35 million tax increase but refuses to provide the numbers behind the request, the mother of a homicide victim blames and files suit against Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and "Hamilton" is coming back to Cleveland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Larry Householder expands his base of power, Cleveland homicide trends are disturbing and help for adoptive parents. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cleveland Heights wants an elected mayor, Lakewood elects the daughter of a former mayor as the new mayor, and county voters approve a tax for Tri-C See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A county prosecutor says a lack of homicide detectives is devastating, a Cleveland t-shirt king loses everything and LeBron now will provide crisis housing, as well as an education, to kids in Akron. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We have a big push this week by the people fighting for universal background checks, an investigation into guards who are sleeping in the jail and questions about what is next after the Cleveland Rising summit. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cuyahoga County is unique in depriving jail inmates of access to lawyers, Cleveland Rising wraps up and a big convention will be heading to Cleveland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sherwin Williams will not move out of Northeast Ohio and the Cleveland Rising Summit is producing intriguing ideas for a bright Cleveland future. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A hung jury along racial lines in the case of a white jail guard accused of beating an African American inmate, the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the grisly Anthony Sowell case and the first day of Cleveland Rising. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan Gilbert cashes out of his casinos and Mike DeWine worries that the parole system is run too loosely. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Workers at one of downtown Cleveland's biggest employers worry their jobs will head south, and Mike DeWine is not executing anyone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tim Ryan calls it quits, will Cleveland City Council please do its job and a poem about a Christmas Ale See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A big step forward on bail reform, and how that a young mom ended up dead on Interstate 90 during Monday's rush hour See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How Cuyahoga County will make sure millions of dollars in opioid settlements won't be wasted and more See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cuyahoga and Summit counties settle for big bucks with the drug companies, the county jail population falls to its lowest number in years and is it too early to talk about Christmas whisky and beer? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A lot of eyes are on Cleveland as the lawyers make their opening statements in the big opioid trial, today is a big deadline for the people fighting the nuclear industry bailout and a Geauga County judge appears to put the interests of a convicted felon ahead of the interests of the people who elected him. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Armond Budish has a bold plan for the lakefront, and the long-awaited opioid trial starts in Cleveland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gun control advocates are working to get around Gov. Mike DeWine and have voters approve universal background checks, Frank Jackson wants to plant trees and a wayward cow is chased by the police. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Democratic Presidential candidates actually discuss issues of importance to the midwest when they come to Ohio, a longtime television health reporter battles her own illness and the Rock Hall has its latest round of nominees. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We have some ideas for the issues that should be discussed on tonight's presidential debate, and a Northeast Ohio congressman has an idea for helping the weed industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ohio hosts the Democratic debate, and the candidates swarm the state. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For the fourth time in six months, the Cuyahoga COunty Jail makes a mistake and lets an inmate go free. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Cleveland Police and the city come to a quick agreement on a new contract in a rare moment of accord, and Akron says it can do a better job plowing the snow by plowing fewer miles of roads. It actually makes sense. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Time and hope appears to be running thin for the effort to block the Ohio bailout of the nuclear industry, and Akron thinks it can clear the roads of snow this winter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Armond Budish seed aside $1 million to make the bail system fair to all, even though the judge overseeing the reforms seems to have been doing nothing in 2019, and Gov. Mike DeWine submits watered-down proposals for gun reforms. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cleveland firefighters have prevailed in their push to get the fire chief prosecuted on a charge of violating the charter by campaigning for the mayor. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Donald Trump's election campaign faces trouble in Ohio, and the former jail warden escapes being sentenced to jail for obstructing justice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Northeast Ohio regional chamber of commerce, seeing local taxes as out of control and a threat to future prosperity, changes its approach to endorsing them. And the story of a pyramid scheme built around cheese puffs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A battle over travel spending by a municipal court judge, the drug companies don't give up on their efforts to oust a judge and the big whale painting on Lake Erie gets a touch-up. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost says "Knock it off" to those interfering with a drive to let voters have a say on the big bailout of the state's nuclear industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After years of back and forth, inactive voters in Ohio are purged from the rolls. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A federal judge in Cleveland stands his ground against the drug companies See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Protecting the jobs of people who miss work because of domestic violence or sexual assaults, and, no surprise here, Cleveland has one of the worst airports in America, according to travelers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ohio's voter registration system is a mess, and the Supreme Court delivers another death knell for home rule in a Cleveland ruling. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joe Biden's national campaign manager grew up helping his mom campaign for Parma school taxes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Four decomposing bodies are found in an East Side house, and a former Cleveland City councilman is part of the group that owns the building. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The retirement announcement of Beth Mooney and more See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.