News Aggregator Archive 5 (8/21/12 – 11/2/12)

 

Cuyahoga County Cleanup After Superstorm Focuses on Power Issues (Plain Dealer)


Cloaks, Daggers and Judicial Robes: Thomas Suddes (Plain Dealer)


In Ohio, They Can’t Wait For the Campaigns’ Stalking to End (Washington Post)


Academic Emergency (Cleveland Scene Magazine)


Debate on Ohio’s Issue 2: Terry Casey v. Dan Tokaji (Cleveland City Club)

Effect of an Issue 2 Ballot Win in Ohio Debated at City Club (Plain Dealer)

Honda to Invest $200M, Create 200 Jobs at Two Ohio Plants (Dayton Daily News)


Election Lawyers to Monitor Ohio Balloting (Plain Dealer)


Turnout Will Tell the Tale: Joe Frolik (Plain Dealer)


NE Ohio Water Treatment Plants at Capacity (WKYC)


IBM Supercomputer, Watson, is Headed to Medical School — in Cleveland (Plain Dealer)


Cleveland’s Growing Asian Community Makes An Outsized Impact (Plain Dealer)


Ohio U.S. Senate Poll: Sherrod Brown Leads Josh Mandel by 4 Points (Plain Dealer)


Dead Heat: Obama, Romney Tied in Ohio (Dayton Daily News)


Fighting For the Votes of Central Ohio: Brent Larkin (Plain Dealer)


Honda’s Ohio Plant Changed Competitive Landscape in America (Detroit Fr Press)


Cleveland’s Charter School Growth a Cautionary Tale for Chicago (Chicago Tribune)


All Voters Matter, But Ohio Matters Most: Editorial Cartoon (Los Angeles Times)


Ohio’s Nightmare Voting Scenerio (Cincinnati Enquirer)


Absentee Ballots Could Hang Up Ohio’s Results (USA Today)


Officials in NE Ohio Health Care Community Angle to Change “Medical Mart” Name (Crain’s Cleveland Business)


Northeast Ohio Schools Come Up “Clean” in State Auditor’s Attendance Review (Plain Dealer)


Why China Isn’t Ohio’s Boogeyman (Salon)


U.S. May Soon Become World’s Top Oil Producer (Associated Press)


Ohio Said to Lack Passenger Rail Support (Toledo Blade)


Ohio Has 50-50 Chance of Deciding Election: Nate Silver (New York Times)


Ohio is the Most Important State in the World!: John Stewart (Comedy Central)


Enrollment Drop at NE Ohio Community Colleges (Crain’s Cleveland Business)


Is Ohio’s “Secret” Energy Boom Going Bust? (Reuters)


Russell Means, Indian Activist, and Former Clevelander, Dies at 72 (Plain Dealer)


Russell Means, Who Revived Warrior Image of American Indian, Dies at 72 (New York Times)


Ohio Gasoline Prices Continue Falling Toward $3 Per Gallon, Second Lowest in Nation (Plain Dealer)


Apple Sees Schools Buoying Tablet Lead With IPad in Class (Bloomberg)


In Some School Districts, About 40% of Third-Graders Could Be Held Back By New State Law (Columbus Dispatch)


Ohio, Maker or Breaker of Presidents (Bloomberg)


To Some Homeowners on Cleveland’s West Side, the School Levy is Indeed About More Than Money: Mark Naymik (Plain Dealer)


Voters Wisely Favor Cleveland School Levy: Brent Larkin (Plain Dealer)


Ohio County Elections Director Resigns, Citing Stress of Coming Presidential Election (Associated Press)


Ohio Has Early Voting, But Other Access Issues Remain (Los Angeles Times)

 

Has Ohio School Funding Been Fixed? (Fremont News-Messenger)

 

The City Club of Cleveland Celebrates 100 Years – Video (Cleveland City Club)

 

Ohio Bill Would Ban TV Blackouts of Games in Stadiums Funded by Taxpayers (Cincinnati Enquirer)

 

Ohio’s Unemployment Rate Falls to 7 Percent (Business Week)

 

Tremont Electric, a Tiny Cleveland Start-Up, Finds Big Interest in its Green Energy Device (Plain Dealer)

 

Northeast Ohio Schools Do Well, Generally on State Report Cards (Plain Dealer)

 

Ohio Student Debt 8 Percent Higher Than U.S. Average (Akron Beacon Journal)

 

Proponents, Opponents Debate Issue 2 (Columbus Dispatch)

 

Ohio Touts Early Voting Numbers (CNN)

 

Presidential Candidates Focus on Ohio College Vote (Associated Press/WNCT)

 

Bike Culture in Cleveland (Cleveland State Cauldron)

 

Ohio and the Election: 90-Second Know-It-All: William Neff (Plain Dealer)

 

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Ohio Secretary of State’s Appeal Over Early Voting Rules (Plain Dealer)

 

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal to Block Early Voting in Ohio (Los Angeles Times)

 

The Whizard of Oz Involves Ohio Politics (Springfield News)

 

Debate: Ohio Senate Debate Between Josh Mandel and Sherrod Brown (CSPAN)

 

With Much at Stake, Brown and Mandel Trade Jabs (Dayton Daily News)

 

Differences on Display as U.S. Reps. Jim Renacci and Betty Sutton Spar at City Club (Plain Dealer)

 

Debate: Ohio’s 16th Congressional District: Betty Sutton v. Jim Renacci (Cleveland City Club)

 

Why Ohio Swings: Geographic, Economic Diversity Complicate Ohio, “Close Mirror” of the Nation (Washington Post)

 

Ohio, Navada, Florida Have Longest-Running Streaks as Swing States (Plain Dealer)

 

Three-Year Degrees Are Possible, According to Plans Submitted by Ohio’s Public Universities (Plain Dealer)

 

Indianapolis’ Downtown Sports Strategy Hints at Lessons for Cleveland (Plain Dealer)

 

In Ohio, a Few Votes Here or There Could Win or Lose Race: Thomas Suddes (Columbus Dispatch)

 

Ohio Voting Dispute Makes its Way to the Supreme Court (Washington Post)

 

What the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority Tax Means for Lakefront Users: Mark Naymik (Plain Dealer)

 

Appeals Court Tells Ohio to Count Ballots Tainted by Poll Worker Mistakes (Washington Post)

 

Nashville Abandons Plans For a Medical Mart; Cleveland Has the Field to Itself (Plain Dealer)

 

Cleveland Metroparks Accepts Acacia Country Club Property to Develop as Park Land (Plain Dealer)

 

Ohio Colleges Still Lag in Minorities, Officials Say (Columbus Dispatch)

 

Three Ohio Cities Deemed Best For Working Moms (Reuters)

 

Renacci, Sutton Spar in 16th District City Club Debate (Akron Beacon Journal)

 

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to Appeal Early Voting Decision to U.S. Supreme Court (Plain Dealer)

 

Ohio Official Will Take Early Voting Decision to Supreme Court (New York Times)

 

Ohio is Global Center of 2012 Election (Coshocton Tribune)

 

In Search of New Residents, Cleveland Looks South to Attract Latino Professionals (Plain Dealer)

 

Ohio’s U.S. Senate Race Draws Milions in Outside Money; Will it Work? (Plain Dealer)

 

Field Trips Becoming History at Some Ohio Schools (Canton Repository)

 

Issue 2 Could Change the Balance of Power in Ohio (Dayton Daily News)

 

Federal Judge Reinstates Early Voting in Ohio (Washington Post)

 

Early Voting is Restored in Ohio (New York Times)

 

Utica Shale Needs “Nodding Donkeys” to Unleash Bonanza (Bloomberg)

 

In Cleveland, a Flashy New Museum But an Even Better Neighborhood (The Atlantic Cities)

 

Battleground Ohio is So Vital, It’s Even Drawing Global Tour Groups (Tacoma News Herald)

 

Nearly 1 Million Ohioans Ask For Absentee Ballots (Dayton Daily News)

 

Statewide College Enrollment Steadily Declines (Dayton Daily News)

 

Voting in NE Ohio Starts With a Rush: Editorial (Plain Dealer)

 

Early Voting Starts Today in Ohio (Dayton Daily News)

  

An Axiom for a Reason: Ohio and Presidential Campaigns (The Hill)

 

Keeping Cleveland a United Airlines Hub Two Years After the Merger (Plain Dealer)

 

Drought Hits Shippers on Great Lakes (Wall Street Journal)

 

Skills Shortage in Ohio’s Shale Sector Could Fuel Wage Bump for Some (Newark Advocate)

 

Colleges in Ohio Courting Students Far From the Buckeye State (Plain Dealer)

 

How Online Education is Changing School in Ohio (StateImpact Ohio)

 

Cleveland Contracts Designer, Builder for New Skatepark in the Flats (Plain Dealer)

 

“Captain America” Sequel to be Filmed in Cleveland (Plain Dealer)

 

Marvel Returning to Cleveland to Film Captain America: Winter Soldier (Spinoff.com)

 

Eric Gordon “State of the Cleveland Schools” 9/27/12 (Cleveland City Club)

 

Cleveland Schools Chief Eric Gordon: “It’s Do or Die Time” for District (Plain Dealer)

 

Evidence of Carp Keeps Lake Watchers on Edge (Toledo Blade)

 

2012 Ohio School Report Cards – Searchable Database (Plain Dealer)

 

Early Voting on Pace to Surpass 2008 Levels in Ohio (Washington Post)

 

Cleveland Makes the Innovation Scene at TheAtlantic.com (Crain’s Cleveland Business)

 

A Space to Be an Entrepreneur…in Cleveland (Atlantic Magazine)

 

Group Challenges Ohio’s Drilling Rules (Canton Repository)

 

Ohio Constitution to Get a Thorough Review (Plain Dealer)

 

Greater Cleveland County Poverty Rates Range From 8 Percent to 19 Percent: Statistical Snapshot (Plain Dealer)

 

Undecided Ohio Voters Decisive in Presidential Election (Akron Beacon Journal)

 

Must-Win Ohio is Under Siege (Philadelphia Inquirer)

 

Breaking News. Newspapers are Not Dead: Lute Harmon Sr. (Inside Business)

 

Ohio Joblessness Holds at 7.2% (Toledo Blade)

 

Ohio Not Ready For “Fracking”? (Columbus Dispatch)

 

Urban Farms are Taking Root in Cleveland, Bringing Home Surprising Harvests (Plain Dealer)

 

Shale: A New Kingmaker in Energy Politics (Wall Street Journal)

 

Northeast Ohio Bioscience Industry Growing, Adding Jobs (Plain Dealer)

 

Cleveland State University Building Campus Life Options (Plain Dealer)

 

Interactive: The Battle For Ohio (Cincinnati Enquirer)

 

Cleveland Mayor Proposes One Development Team For Lakefront (Plain Dealer)

 

Ohio Rust Belt Reset (Forbes)

 

Case Western Reserve Welcomes ROTC on Campus After More Than 4 Decades (Plain Dealer)

 

Manitowoc Planning Expansion, Division HQ at East Side Operation; to Add Up to 200 Jobs (Crain’s Cleveland Business)

 

Voter Fraud Fairly Uncommon (Cincinnati Enquirer)

 

A Smarter Cuyahoga County Takes Shape Under the Crayons of Amatuer Mapmakers: Joe Frolik (Plain Dealer)

 

Ohio Early Voting Boon to Voters But Can Lead to Problems, Officials Say (Coshocton Tribune)

 

High Phosphorous Levels Are Changing the Face of Lake Erie Fishing (Plain Dealer)

 

Redistricting Reform: Panel OKs New Wording After Supreme Court Invalidates Old Language (Plain Dealer)

 

Ohio Income Down, Rates of Poverty and Uninsured Unchanged, 2011 Census Figures Show (Plain Dealer)

 

Never Cured Cancer or Built a Spaceship, But Trying to Capture a University’s Attention: Will Walker (New York Times)

 

Cleveland Metropolitan School District Holds Student Summit to Address Bullying (newsnet5)

 

Health Insurance Premiums Increase Faster Than Wages (Akron Beacon Journal)

 

Good Food, Better Neighborhoods: Joe Frolik (Plain Dealer)

 

Crucial Ohio at the Heart of Presidential Campaign (Associated Press)

 

Visit to New Cleveland Convention Center. Medical Mart Reveals Big, Raw Structures: Steve Litt (Plain Dealer)

 

Finance-Course Requirement Proposed for Ohio Students (Toledo Blade)

 

A Big, Costly School Levy — That Can Pass in Cleveland: Brent Larkin (Plain Dealer)

 

U.S., Canada Will Extend Protection of Great Lakes; First Renewal in 25 Years (Plain Dealer)

 

Acacia Country Club in Lyndhurst to be Sold to The Conservation Fund (Sun News)


Art Modell, 1925-2012: He was a Sportsman. a Showman and a Survivor (ESPNCleveland)


New $1.5 Billion Natural Gas Pipeline Proposed for Northern Ohio (Plain Dealer)


Sherrod Brown and Josh Mandel Campaigns Reject Discussion of Civility; Throwing Mud Works (Akron Beacon Journal)


Ohio Absentee Ballot Forms on the Way (Cincinnati Enquirer)


The Ins and Outs of Redistricting (Columbus Dispatch)


Ohio Lawmakers Pan A Uniform Municipal-Income-Tax-Bill (Plain Dealer)


Shaker LaunchHouse Accelerator to Assist 10 Fledgling Businesses (Sun News)


100th Anniversary of Cleveland’s NAACP Chapter – 2 Articles from Plain Dealer


Judge Overturns Ohio Law, Restores In-Person Early Voting 3 Days Leading to Election Day (Plain Dealer)


Student Entrepreneurs Find Support at Blackstone LaunchPad (Plain Dealer)


Ohio’s Texting-While-Driving Ban to Take Effect (Cincinnati Enquirer)


Detroit Avenue in Cleveland Will Soon Cater to Those on 2 Wheels (Plain Dealer)


Chip Maker Shearer’s Foods Sold; Family Leaders to Step Down (Akron Beacon Journal)


Federal Judge Blocks Ohio Law That Rejected 14,000 Ballots in 2008 (Los Angeles Times)


Ohio Takes Step to Better Coordinate Medicare Care (San Francisco Chronicle)


Mount Pleasant, Steeped in History, is Ready to Thrive Again, Advocates Say (Plain Dealer)


Neil Armstrong, Ohio Resident and First Man on Moon, Dies at 82 (New York Times)


Neil Armstrong, 82, Has Died (Cincinnati Enquirer)


Neil Armstrong: His Ohio Hometown Mourns Local Legend (Los Angeles Times)


Proposed Independent Redistricting Commission is Unconstitutional: Mark R. Brown, Guest Columnist (Plain Dealer)


Housing Market in Some Areas Shifting Toward Sellers (Cleveland Jewish News)


More Than 12,000 Government Jobs Lost in Ohio in 2011 (Chillicothe Gazette)


GM to Invest $220 Million in 2 Ohio Factories to Build Next-Generation of Cruze Compact Car (Washington Post)


Pay-to-Play Fees on the Rise in Many Northeast Ohio School Districts (Newsnet 5)

 

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Ohio Constitution to get a thorough review (Plain Dealer 9/24/12)

Ohio Constitution to get a thorough review (Plain Dealer 9/24/12)

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The Ohio Statehouse

COLUMBUS, Ohio — While the presidential election is getting most of the attention on this November’s ballot, Ohioans will also decide whether it’s time to tinker with some of the guiding principles of this state — Ohio’s constitution.

Issue 1 on the Nov. 6 ballot asks voters whether it is time to arrange a good old-fashioned constitutional convention.

But even if Issue 1 is rejected, the state’s constitution will get a thorough review soon.

In June 2011, the Ohio legislature voted nearly unanimously to establish the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission, a bipartisan group of 12 legislative members and 20 non-legislative members who will serve two years unless reappointed. The commission will meet in November and offer a report of recommendations to the legislature in January on ways to improve the constitution. Any changes would have to be approved later by voters.

Democratic Rep. Kathleen Clyde of Kent, a member of the commission, said she especially wants to look at voting rights issues such as the redistricting process and the controversy over early voting this election season.

“I’m very concerned with voting rights in Ohio, especially with all of the voter suppression tactics that we’ve seen in the legislature now, out around the state and from Secretary (Jon) Husted,” she said. “I think it would be great if we could have a discussion about the right to vote, and to try to make sure it’s protected in our Ohio Constitution.”

Consider that this type of review is rooted in history that’s more than two centuries old before assuming lawmakers are needlessly meddling with the constitution. In 1789, founding father Thomas Jefferson said: “Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.”

The last Ohio constitutional convention occurred in 1912, though the question on whether or not to have one is put to Ohioans every 20 years. Republican House Speaker and co-chair of the commission, William G. Batchelder of Medina, said a constitutional convention today would consist of 99 elected members from all Ohio counties.

The Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission is based on a similar group in the 1970s. Like that commission, this one will study the constitution and make recommendations to the Ohio legislature, only if two-thirds of the members approve. Legislators will then vote whether to bring the recommendations to voters, which would require a three-fifths majority of the General Assembly.

Steven Steinglass, an expert on the Ohio Constitution and dean emeritus at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, said the two-thirds majority requirement is an attempt to cut down on partisan recommendations.

Batchelder said he believes the commission is a better way to revise the constitution than a convention.

Legislative members of the commission were chosen by party caucus leaders, and non-legislative members were chosen via an application and review process by the legislative members.

Out of the 20 chosen, 14 gave contributions to local political campaigns within the last four years. Joseph Rugola, for example, gave nearly $20,000 to Democratic campaigns in 2010, and Frederick Mills, in addition to contributing to Republican campaigns in recent years, is a lobbyist for various oil companies, including BP.

Former Republican Gov. Bob Taft and former Republican House Speakers Jo Ann Davidson and Charles Kurfess are also non-legislative members. Members do not receive compensation.

Batchelder said contributions weren’t taken into account in the selection process.

“I think that probably shows that they’re very interested in what’s going on,” he said. ” But I never looked it up; I didn’t pay attention to that, frankly.”

Clyde agreed, saying Democrats’ main focus when recommending members was diversity. Batchelder said another one of his priorities was ensuring members were “capable with the law.”

The 1970s commission had 20 of its recommendations go before voters, and 16 were approved. Some of the amendments included affirming that the voting age had been reduced from 21 to 18 and revising the voting process so the governor and lieutenant governor would be jointly elected.

“The 1970s commission is widely viewed as having been very, very successful,” said Steinglass, adding that most of the topics the commission addressed were not the “high visibility, super-contentious issues,” but rather general procedures within Ohio’s government.

Most states have a recurring ballot vote on the need for a constitutional convention, but only a few have adopted the commission process.

Kate Irby is a fellow in Ohio Universitys E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Statehouse Bureau.

Cuyahoga River Documentaries

1. Don’t Fall in the River

Short Documentary about Cuyahoga River fires produced by CSU Digital Humanities

The link is here

2. Cuyahoga River Restoration

WFN Green examines the 40-plus years of clean up the has been done on the Cuyahoga River since the river caught on fire.

The link is here

3. Cuyahoga River Pollution 1967

Short documentary produced by WKYC TV in 1967 about the Cuylahoga River and the problems of pollution.

The link is here

 

“Cleveland’s Daily News Dilemma” Cleveland City Club 9.13.13

The link is here

Published on Sep 13, 2013

Featuring Thomas Fladung, Managing Editor, The Plain Dealer, and Chris Quinn, Vice President of Content, Northeast Ohio Media Group. Moderated by M.L. Schultze, Reporter, WKSU.

Our panel of Cleveland news veterans discusses the changing landscape of daily news. Panel members discuss the shift to digital focus for newspapers, particularly how modern demand for news requires reporters not be tied to the old print schedule. They also talk about the difficulties involved in making a news organization with free online content a financially viable business.

Hough and Glenville Riots Documentaries

Documentary #1

Rough Hough: Frustration and Redemption

Documentary depicting the 1966 riots in the Cleveland neighborhood of Hough. Made for National History Day 2008, National Qualifier. Made by Benjamin Davis and Lawrence Neil.

The link is here

 

Documentary #2

Glenville Riots Documentary

This introduction film explorers the events of the Glenville Shootout (in Cleveland) that led to riots from July 23-28, 1968. This event follows the election of Carl Stokes as Mayor of Cleveland, the first African-American mayor of a major US city.

The link is here

Teaching Cleveland Digital