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Trumix.com listings available of WKSU News Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Ohio Supreme Court sets execution date for Richard Cooey An Akron man who has been on death row more than 20 years has a new execution date. His lawyers are closely watching a separate Ohio death row case that could spare him again. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio first to offer in-state college tuition to all vets Ohio is becoming the first state to offer in-state prices on college tuition for nearly all military veterans. But it's not just an act of generosity. Our Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports. WKSU's Karen Kasler reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Northeast Ohio hospitals get high marks Several Northeast Ohio hospitals continue to be ranked among the best in the nation. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland leads in population loss Cleveland's population shrank more than any other major American city's according to U-S census statistics released today. But city officials are confident people will soon start returning. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland Arts Prize Emerging Artist Award winner mixes genres with ease A young composer honored recently in Cleveland is singing the city's praises. Dan Visconti , the Cleveland Arts Prize's new "Emerging Artist," says the city's arts scene helped him find his voice and forge his career path. It leads to serious classical music with side trips to jazz, blues and rock. WKSU's Vivian Goodman reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mobile meals programs losing volunteers to high gas prices Many non-profit organizations struggle with skyrocketing gas prices. For Meals on Wheels programs, the impact is more significant. Volunteers who have to drive their own vehicles are quitting delivery routes. And with food prices also on the rise, organizers are considering reducing the number of elderly and disabled people they serve. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Democrats to hammer out presidential platform in Cleveland Construction of the Democratic Party's presidential platform begins in Northeast Ohio next month. Party officials will convene in Cleveland to draft the plan they hope will propel Barack Obama to the White House. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coingate investor sentenced to 12 years An investment adviser has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on fraud charges related to the loss of 216-million dollars at the state agency for injured workers. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Many Levels of Pro Baseball in NE Ohio Sad to see CC Sabathia being traded. The Cleveland Indians are now looking to young players, including minor league players, for their future. Area fans are lucky in that they're able to watch many of those prospects play - without even leaving the region. WKSU Commentator Paul Gaston appreciates that ... Paul Gaston reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Outdoor mold causing summertime allergies For many people, summer is allergy season, when plant pollens can cause sneezing, watery eyes and other symptoms. It's also a time when outdoor molds become more prevalent. Some Northeast Ohio cities are now issuing mold alerts to let patients and doctors know when mold counts are high. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sabathia is now a Brewer C.C. Sabathia is now a Milwaukee Brewer. This afternoon the Cleveland Indians confirmed a deal sending the ace pitcher to Milwaukee for three minor league players, and a player to be named later. The trade is part of a disappointing season that has Indians management looking at next year. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Akron's portion of towpath trail nears completion The city of Akron is connecting three more sections of the nearly 100-mile Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail this summer, including a suspended trail across Summit Lake due to open next spring. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Readers accepting of Cleveland Plain Dealer cutbacks Readers of the Cleveland Plain Dealer are not too concerned about the newspaper's literal downsizing last week. Publisher Terry Egger says the reaction has been less negative than when the paper dropped a game from it's pages last year. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lots of demand for Northeast Ohio industrial space Team NEO has another counterintuitive report. The marketing organization for northeastern Ohio says industrial space is at a premium with vacancy rates as low as they've been in at least five years. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio's congressional dean says presidential race likely will rest on the economy For a few more months, Ralph Regula will be the second-most senior Republican in the House of Representatives, the dean of the Ohio delegation and the congressman who champions the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. We caught up with him in the park last week and got some of his thoughts on the politics and presidents. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Army Corps cleans up old mortar shelss along Lake Erie The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has finished a cleanup of unexploded ordnance found along Lake Erie at the former Erie Army Depot near Port Clinton. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voinovich calls for more domestic drilling, clean coal research Ohio's senior senator kicked off his "high gas prices" tour in northeast Ohio today, Wenesday, with a call for more government support of alternative energy and more domestic drilling for oil and gas. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regula honored as Cuyahoga Valley founder Ralph Regula's political career has pretty much paralleled the founding and growth of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. And that's no coincidence. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voinovich calls for more domestic drilling Ohio's senior senator kicked off his "high gas prices" tour in northeast Ohio today, Wenesday, with a call for more government support of alternative energy and more domestic drilling for oil and gas. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland Orchestra reaches deal on sale of Blosson The Cleveland Orchestra announced Tuesday that it's a step closer to selling more than 600 acres of Blossom Music Center to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Akron U professor heads to another world hot spot The chairman of the University of Akron's counseling department is heading to Myanmar this week. She's part of a relative trickle of relief teams allowed into the country since a cyclone killed tens of thousands. WKSU's M.L. Schultze and Tom Parkinson report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soap Box Derby needs a push Akron's Soap Box Derby needs some help and Mayor Don Plusquellic says he'll do what he can to keep the 74-year old event going. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama appeals to rural Ohio voters Barack Obama took Governor Ted Strickland's advice this week and reached out to Ohio's rural voters. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sherwin Williams wins lead case in Rhode Island The Rhode Island Supreme Court sided today with Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams in a long legal battle over who's responsible for removing lead paint from homes. The verdict is a blow to other states that want Sherwin-Williams and two other manufacturers to pay billions of dollars to clean-up the toxic paint. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How they got Howe House down the road Akron's historic Howe House has moved. The building headed three blocks west of its downtown Akron home today to its new location near the Ohio and Erie Canal towpath. WKSU's Tom Parkinson reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The park that Ralph and John built Ralph Regula's tenure in Congress parallels the birth and growth of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. That timing is no accident. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teens at an Akron mall now need an escort on weekends This weekend, Chapel Hill joined the growing list of northeastern Ohio malls limiting teens by hours, times and requirements for chaperones. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The future of bridge safety could come from Northeast Ohio Emerging technology in Northeast Ohio could make the bridges you drive on anywhere in the country safer. A Twinsburg company is helping develop an electronic sensor that could prevent collapses like the one that killed 13 people in Minnesota last year. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does how and when you fill your tank save you money on gas? With gas prices topping 4-dollars a gallon, most of us are trying to find ways to improve our mileage. Some techniques involve how and when you fill your tank. We explore some of the facts and fiction behind filling-up to save gas. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website McCain campaigns at GM Lordstown plant Presidential candidate John McCain told autoworkers at the GM plant in Lordstown today that he wants to replicate their success in building more energy-efficient cars. He says that's one way American workers can compete in a global market. But some workers say McCain's position on free trade stands in the way of economic growth. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website McCain campaigns at GM Lordstown plant Presidential candidate John McCain told autoworkers at the GM plant in Lordstown today that he wants to replicate their success in building more energy-efficient cars. He says that's one way American workers can compete in a global market. But some workers say McCain's position on free trade stands in the way of economic growth. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Supreme Court decision on handguns has no impact on Cleveland Cleveland's law director says today's Supreme Court's ruling on individual gun rights has no impact on any city laws, including Cleveland's ban the use of assault weapons. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YouTube is changing the face of politics Candidates campaigning in the digital age must watch every word they say. That's because more than their immediate audience is likely to be watching. Anyone with a cell phone can web cast politicians' gaffes. 16th District Congressional candidate Kirk Schuring learned that when the backlash hit from a YouTube video of him at recent Ashland rally. It's truly the age of full disclosure but experts say YouTube can be bad for politics. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stark YMCA board plans to sell downtown Canton Y A developer plans to buy the downtown Canton YMCA and convert most of it into trendy loft apartments. But the Y board says it will spend $3 million to rent part of the space and continue to serve families downtown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liquid crystal panels show promise as greenhouse material A partnership between Kent State University and the Cleveland Botanical Garden is literally bearing fruit. An experiment is pitting a conventional glass greenhouse against a greenhouse made from liquid crystal panels. And the plants inside show the liquid crystal greenhouse is performing a little better in the study's early stages. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland Museum of Art re-opens its original building on Sunday Some familiar friends are waiting for you to see them again Sunday at University Circle. They are hanging on the walls of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Art that was stored away three years ago when the museum's expansion and renovation project began has been re-installed in the original 1916 building. It's the first part of the museum complex ready to re-open to the public. WKSU's Vivian Goodman reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Northeast Ohio mayors say presidential candidates seem to be listening to mayors' concerns Northeast Ohio mayors are just back from this year's U.S. Conference of Mayors with some new initiatives for core urban issues. Mayors from Cleveland, Akron and Canton say they're excited that this year's presidential candidates seem to be taking cities seriously. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Retired Cleveland Clinic surgeon promotes a "heart attack-proof" diet The untimely death of Meet the Press Host Tim Russert raises new questions about heart disease. A Northeast Ohio doctor says it can be stopped. Not by pills or procedures, but by a strict, oil-free vegan diet. WKSU's Vivian Goodman reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CSU president Schwartz to retire early The president of Cleveland State University is stepping down sooner than planned. President Michael Schwartz announced today that he will leave the position next year. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chuck Ruby: Respect the music, respect the audience and always wear sandals Chuck Ruby was an eclectic character in the early eclectic days of WKSU. He also was touched very directly by May 4. His funeral is today in Wisconsin ... WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to save even in the tough times After months of examining the struggling middle class, the Akron Beacon Journal has launched a second rail. The paper is sponsoring a community financial challenge to help northeastern Ohioans deal with skyrocketing expenses and still become better savers. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geneva Township Residents get landfill re-zoning petition on ballot The decision whether or not to expand a landfill in Geneva Township in Lake County will go to the voters this fall. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New album, old music for Jorma Kaukenon Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Jorma Kaukenon helped found two major groups: The Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. These days, he runs a guitar camp for acoustic musicians in the hills of Southern Ohio. Along with mandolinist Barry Mitterhoff, Kaukenon joins Garrison Keillor tomorrow (Saturday) night at Blossom as a guest on the live broadcast of a Prairie Home Companion. Today, (Friday) WKSU's Jim Blum asked Kaukenon about his new album called "Stars In My Crown." Though it's a c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Embezzler's jewelry sale sets a record The northern Ohio office of the U.S. Marhals Service got into the jewelry business this week and made $2.6 million in just two days. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lilly Ledbetter's equal pay fight came to Cleveland today The woman behind an equal pay act based on discriminatory wages she received from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, was in Northeast Ohio today urging the Senate to re-consider the bill. Lillie Ledbetter was a guest speaker at the Coalition of Labor Union Women convention in Cleveland. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland Scene and Free Times to merge A Scranton, Pennsylvania publishing company announced today it's buying the Cleveland Scene and Cleveland Free Times and merging them into a single paper. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Actor Sue Scott Is a Woman of Many Voices When Garrison Keillor brings A Prairie Home Companion to the Blossom Music Center Saturday, the audience will see something once commonplace but now rare: a radio variety show performed live. And some may be surprised to find that the show's acting company consists only of Keillor, a sound-effects man and two actors. The acting company needs so few actors because they play so many roles during the show and even play multiple roles within the same skit. WKSU recently spoke with one of those ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Historic Howe House preps for big move The oldest building in Akron, and arguably one of the most historic in Ohio, is getting ready for a two-block, 1.5 million dollar move. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friend and teacher remember Elyria soldier killed in Iraq As the family of an Elyria soldier killed Monday awaits the return of his body from Iraq, a friend and teacher share their memories of 21-year old Jason Cox. What they recall best was his love for auto mechanics. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fingerhut talks to Kent Stark students about college costs and jobs In one of his ongoing dialogues on how best to hike Ohio's college enrollment, Chancellor Eric Fingerhut talked to Kent Stark students about mixed messages. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coyotes worry Bath Township residents A type of wildlife new to this region is troubling some residents of Bath Township near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and state and local officials have scheduled a public meeting. Wildlife officials say coyotes are in all 88-Ohio counties. That worries some parents with small children and pets who are spotting the animals in their backyards. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elyria Man Killed in Iraq A 21-year old soldier from Elyria has been killed in Iraq a month before he was scheduled to return home on leave. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working together to close health care gaps Cleveland's diabetes rate is almost twice the state's rate and far higher than the national rates. Health care providers are working with a national foundation to figure out which best practices will narrow the gap, and close other health care inequities nationwide. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio's future transportation system may involve less focus on highways Ohio's transportation emphasis will shift from highways to more public transportation if some Ohioans have their way The state has formed a task force that is holding public hearings across Ohio to help shape the state's transportation future. Last night, the task force came to Cleveland. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Auction at Geauga Lake Geauga Lake started selling off amusement rides and park memorabilia today in a 2-day auction and many former park-goers paid a last visit to relive memories. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farming the national park This week, 15 people applied to become live-in farmers on three patches of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The ones with winning proposals will join eight other families in a program unique to Ohio and to the National Park Service. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The secretary, the party boss and the Supreme Court The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered another change on the Summit County Board of Elections. No, it won't return Alex Arshinkoff to his seat. But some say it puts his clone there. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland foreclosure hearing could yield new federal legislation The House subcommittee looking into the foreclosure crisis held a field hearing in Cleveland yesterday and chairwoman Maxine Waters says she's impressed by Ohio's efforts to help struggling homeowners. Waters says she walked away with ideas for additional federal legislation to help cities deal with the devastation to neighborhoods caused by foreclosures and to assist more homeowners with re-financing options. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sawyer says he's not the best candidate for state superintendent State Senator Tom Sawyer says it's news to him that he's on the governor's list of candidates to replace outgoing state school superintendent Susan Zelman. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stark County wants to keep downtown Bow Federal Building Stark County officials want to keep downtown Canton's Federal Building when a new one is built next year. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fewer flights out of Cleveland could mean less job growth Continental Airline's announcement that it's cutting flights out of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport could mean more than just inconvenience for travelers. Business development in the region could also suffer. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Continental to cut flights in Cleveland Despite 13-percent cuts to Continental Airlines' capacity at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, airport officials say Cleveland fared better than the airline's other two hubs. And officials say Cleveland should be able to ride out the impact of lower air traffic. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working together to cut the health care gap Cleveland's diabetes rate is almost twice the state's rate and far higher than the national rates. Health care providers are working with a national foundation to figure out which best practices will narrow the gap, and close other health care inequities nationwide. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Northeast Ohio newspaper plans to downsize Yet another northeastern Ohio newspaper is planning to downsize the newspaper and possibly cut staff. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland nailed by Continental's cuts Continental Airlines has announced it's cutting 13-percent of available seats at Cleveland Hopkins airport and yet-to-be determined number of jobs. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parade the Circle gives a headstart to the celebration of the re-opening of the Cleveland Art Museum Tomorrow (Saturday) in Cleveland's University Circle, more than 60,000 are expected at the 19th annual Parade the Circle. It's a festival, an arts parade, a celebration of creativity, and a treasured tradition. This year it comes just before the Cleveland Museum of Art uncovers some of it's treasures when the first phase of a massive renovation is complete. WKSU's Vivian Goodman reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former state rep gets no prison break Former State Representative Paul Jones will be heading straight from federal prison to state prison. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Financial experts pushing consumer education and savings accounts Educating consumer and getting them to save instead of spend. Those are two keys to preventing a future credit and foreclosure crisis in this country. Government and private financial experts meeting in Cleveland today (wed) say that's key if the country hopes to avoid a future credit and foreclosure crisis like the one now engulfing much of the U-S. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer time brings flex time trial at Kent State At the same time the state is cutting back on flexible work weeks, Kent State University is trying out four-day weeks with its maintenance staff. One big motive is to try to cut employee commute costs. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metro Regional Transit trying to get more people on board The Metro Regional Transit Authority is using high gas prices and a new sales tax increase to urge more Summit County residents to ride the bus. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local student shares lessons of northeast Ohio with the world A worldwide symposium on global capitalism in Switzerland got a glimpse of Northeastern Ohio last month " through the lens of a 20-year-old University of Akron student. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio's shrinking manufacturing industry impacts MRDD clients County MRDD workshops that provide employment for the developmentally disabled are increasingly losing contracts to provide piecework jobs for clients. As a result, the workshops, their employees and the public are getting creative to stay in business. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DNA evidence solves Wayne County rape cold case Wayne County officials say a program to collect DNA evidence in prison helped finally track down a serial rapist in northeast Ohio. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New EPA report shows bacteria, urbanization impacting Nimishillen Creek The Nimishillen Creek that runs through Stark, Summit and Tuscarawas counties has a history of water quality problems. But a new report from the Ohio EPA hopes to finally produce some solutions. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Towpath gets a campground Backpackers now can take an overnight break along the Towpath trail, and three more campsites are in the works. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Franz Welser-Most's contract is extended another decade The long-term plans of the Cleveland Orchestra include a longer relationship with Music Director Franz Welser Most. The orchestra announced today that the Austrian conductor will be on the podium at Severance Hall through its centennial season. Welser Most became the Cleveland Orchestra's seventh music director in 2002 . The following year his initial five-year contract was extended to 2012. The contract announced today extends through the 2017-2018 season. Cleveland Orchestra Public ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ten Commandments debate heats up in Ohio The issue of whether the Ten Commandments can be displayed on government property is resurfacing in Ohio. A common pleas court judge in Mansfield twice ordered to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom is heading back to court. And it's not just the ACLU that has a problem with the display. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Northeast Ohio puts money into regional efforts Regional economic efforts in Northeast Ohio got a nearly 5 million dollar boost today (Thursday). WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Impact of Continental cuts on Hopkins Airport uncertain Cleveland Hopkins Airport officials still don't know how badly Hopkins will be hurt by cuts Continental Airlines announced today. The airline is slashing three-thousand jobs and reducing flights nationwide because of rising fuel costs. But few details have been released. Continental officials say more information will come out next week. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walks Around Akron - Rediscovering a City in Transition The weather is finally nice enough to draw Ohioans to their parks and trails and streets for leisurely walks. For the past 21 years, people in Akron have had the advantage of a good walk, illustrated. Newspaper writer Russ Musarra and illustrator Chuck Ayers started exploring Northeast Ohio on foot for the readers of the Beacon Journal. Since 2000, Akron City Magazine has printed their essays and art work . And about three dozen of their stories have been reprinted in a boo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bridgestone narrows choices for tech center Bridgestone/Firestone has narrowed to two locations where it wants to build its new technical center. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What will it take to win Ohio now that the presidential primaries are over? Now that Barack Obama has claimed the Democratic presidential nomination, the focus for Democrats and Republicans shifts to winning states like Ohio in November. A key will be a balance for both Obama and Republican John McCain...one that unifies the base, but doesn't scare off the middle. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A renewed interest in urban living is returning to Akron The city of Akron thinks a new townhouse complex will draw people back from the suburbs. Spicer Village units are modern, convenient and pricey. The developers are targeting buyers who would fit right in. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland Orchestra Performs Rusalka at Severance Hall A few years ago, the Cleveland Orchestra began presenting complete operas at Severance Hall. The orchestra performs this season's opera, the seldom-heard "Rusalka," at Severance Hall this week. They present it again in Salzburg Austria later in the summer. WKSU's David Roden talked about it with Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser Most. David Roden reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Governor takes a closer look at NE Ohio business relationships Governor Ted Strickland helped sell his $1.5 billion economic stimulus package in Arkon yesterday mostly by listening ... and by literally singing the praises of innovators. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland's Sanders may be what Governor wants Governor Ted Strickland says the visit by Cleveland public schools Superintendent Eugene Sanders to Columbus last week had nothing to do with Sanders becoming the state school superintendent. But he acknowledged Sanders may be the kind of education leader he's looking for. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The state's higher education plan gets feedback Ohio's ten-year plan for higher education is touting examples from Northeast Ohio. Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut has been hosting a series of panel discussions since the plan was unveiled in March. At the most recent forum at Stark State College of Technology, academic and business leaders described how they see the initiative succeeding. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Northeast Ohio children's hospitals among nation's best "U-S News and World Report" ranks two of Northeast Ohio children's hospitals among the best in the nation. In its annual report, the magazine gave high rankings in several categories to Cleveland's Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, and to The Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Higher education plan touted in Northeast Ohio It's been two months since The Ohio Board of Regents presented its ten-year plan for higher education to Governor Strickland. Chancellor Eric Fingerhut is busy spreading the word. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A falling-down house no more A decade ago, David Giffels introduced Akron Beacon Journal readers to his house: a nearly condemned combination of past glory and present decay. Now he's introducing a national audience to his home and his family in a book that's drawn the attention of the New York Times. "All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House," by David Giffels WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vatican Splendors at Western Reserve Historical Society Ten years ago the Cleveland Catholic Diocese and the Cleveland Museum of Art worked together to bring a collection of artworks from the Vatican to the United States. A few years ago Pope John Paul II decided such outreach was a good thing and he began a program to allow the Church's objects to travel. Tomorrow (Saturday) the Western Reserve Historical Society opens a summer-long exhibition called Vatican Splendors that they expect will draw people from several states. WKSU's Mark Ur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Study Opens Development Options Along Rt 8 in Macedonia, Northfield Center, and Boston Hts. A proposed soccer stadium may not be going up in Macedonia but officials there are looking at other development opportunities along route 8. An environmental impact study has found some potential for building along the soon-to-be expressway if developers can mitigate the harm to Brandywine Creek. WKSU's Mark Urycki reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cuyahoga Falls state rep. expected to resign The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that a Northeast Ohio state representative is resigning in disgrace. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Ohio AG got start in Cleveland as first female law clerk The former chief judge of U.S. District Court in Cleveland says Governor Strickland's appointment of Nancy Hardin Rogers as Ohio's new attorney general is the best decision any governor has made in the state's history. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building the classical music audience of the future The chorus of lamentation about the future of classical music is swelling to a fortissimo. Fans fret about the decline in record sales, the dearth of school music programs and the loss of 17 American orchestras in the last 20 years. The Cleveland Orchestra, Akron Symphony and Canton Symphony all struggle in a challenging economy. The Columbus Symphony is folding. And the audience that remains in concert halls is graying. But there are good prospects for building the classical music audie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some positive sides to the foreclosure crisis The U-S housing crisis may not be the worst thing that could have happened to some affordable housing agencies. A pair of Northeast Ohio non-profit groups that help low-income people achieve home ownership have actually seen some positives for their programs. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Northeast Ohio company plans massive expansion for massive product An Aurora company says it's ready for an 82 million dollar expansion thanks in part to wind and solar energy, and in part to Ohio tax breaks. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ohio ethanol boom could go bust Ohio opened its first ethanol plants this year and, along with other Midwestern states, has been ramping up its production of the home-grown fuel. But with critics now linking global food shortages to U.S. production of ethanol from corn, Ohio producers may be pressured to find other fuel sources. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Historical society hikes admission The Ohio Historical Society is raising admission to some of its biggest attractions. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Management jobs make up a big part of job loss The jobs disappearing fastest and for good in northeastern Ohio and the nation are not from the factory floor. In their latest examination Sunday of the squeeze on the middle class, Akron Beacon Journal reporters Dave Knox and Dave Giffels discovered management jobs are the ones most often being 'delayered" out of existence. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strickland not interested in being Vice President Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama quietly began his search for a running mate this week, and most short lists include Ohio Governor Ted Strickland. Strickland, says he's not interested in the job, but is interested in ensuring a Democrat is in the White House. Strickland has been a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and was credited with helping to deliver Ohio to her in the March primary. The governor says he still supports Clinton, and believes she may be able to sway enough ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Presidential candidates get health care reform advice from Northeast Ohioans The leading presidential candidates will hear from some Northeast Ohio health care providers. Since the primaries began earlier this year, the Brookings Institute has held forums around the country on issues including the budget deficit, energy policy and the future of the U-S military. Today at the Cleveland Clinic, the topic was health care reform. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Last call for Randall Park A northeast Ohio mall once touted as the nation's largest is closing. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website High grass in Canton could mean jail time The City of Canton is drawing national attention for a proposal to jail property owners who let their grass get too tall. Critics call the idea fascist, but city officials say it's the only way to get people's attention. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Akron advisory group formed to study sewer privatization A group of Akron business leaders is beginning to study Mayor Don Plusquellic's proposal to lease the city's sewers. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First round of research scholars announced Ohio hopes to attract 26 of the nation's top researchers and scientists with the help of $143 million. About half that money is targeted for Northeastern Ohio universities and partners, including Kent State and University of Akron WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website State honors 27 fallen soldiers in special ceremony Twenty-seven Ohioans died in military service from April 2007 to last month. The state honored them with a public wreath laying ceremony this week. Our Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler filed this report. WKSU's Karen Kasler reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New psychiatric hospital on the way in Cuyahoga County Northeast Ohio is getting nearly $84 million for a new psychiatric hospital. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cleveland considering trash to energy plant The City of Cleveland is considering a plan to turn all its municipal trash into energy instead of putting it in a landfill. A preliminary study is underway to determine if an environmentally friendly Japanese technology makes sense for Cleveland. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lake Erie islands ferry company turning to biofuel A ferry company that carries tourists to the Lake Erie islands is looking into alternative fuel sources to offset high gas prices. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some Northeast Ohio companies doing their part to reduce emissions Some Ohio companies are taking the lead to reduce the state's high pollution emissions. A Northeast Ohio brick manufacturer is among 15 in the region voluntarily setting goals to clean up. But a state environmental group is unsure how effective the EPA initiative will be. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Any building can be "green" Building "green" is in vogue right now. When it comes to constructing homes, stores, government offices, schools and factories, architects increasingly stress saving energy and resources. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier visited three very different green buildings here in Northeast Ohio, and filed this report. WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website O'Malley's replacement won't be named until next week Cuyahoga County Commissioners say it will be next week before they name an interim recorder to replace Patrick O'Malley, who resigned yesterday. WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A major project in Akron is doing its job to keep the Cuyahoga River clean Tomorrow, Northeast Ohio marks River Day. The 18th annual event includes cleanups, hikes and bike rides celebrating the Cuyahoga River. A major project completed two years ago in Akron works behind the scenes to help keep the river clean year-round. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone |