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Cleveland Police Hire Firm to Look for Potential Bias When Officers Encounter the Public

A preliminary analysis of 2024 traffic and investigatory stops by Sigma Squared found that Cleveland police did not target Black drivers, records show.

by Mark Puente, The Marshall Project October 23, 2025October 23, 2025

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Ohio News

Ohio Prisons Expand Intrusive Opening and Reading of Confidential Legal Mail

A lawsuit argues that incarcerated people seeking legal advice on sensitive matters should be free from eavesdropping mailroom staff.

by Doug Livingston, The Marshall Project - Cleveland October 23, 2025October 23, 2025

Cleveland News

Meet the Entrepreneurs Behind Cleveland’s Push to Legalize Golf Carts on City Streets

Businesses using golf carts for leisure tours and short-range transport downtown discovered what they had been doing was illegal. City leaders created legislation to clear the way.

by Lee Chilcote October 23, 2025October 23, 2025

Cleveland News

Inside the Backlash Against CSU and Ideastream After Unceremonious Killing of WCSB

Current and former staffers have been joined by fans, community members and even city council in decrying the decision to end the 49-year-old college radio station in favor of simulcast jazz.

by Mark Oprea October 22, 2025October 23, 2025

Ohio News

Ohio Congress Members Keep Up Fight for Health Care as Government Shutdown Continues

“We would like to reopen the government, get an ironclad agreement to cancel the (ACA) cuts, to lower the costs and save our health care,” Rep. Shontel Brown said.

by Susan Tebben, The Ohio Capital Journal October 22, 2025October 22, 2025

Cleveland News

‘A Significant Failure’: Experts Cite Mistakes in Cleveland Hospital Restraint Death

Tasha Grant told a deputy and hospital staff 23 times that she could not breathe. Instead of an evaluation, she got handcuffs and skepticism.

by Brittany Hailer, The Marshall Project, Doug Livingston, The Marshall Project - Cleveland and Mark Puente, The Marshall Project October 22, 2025October 22, 2025

Ohio News

Ohio’s Hemp Bills Saw No Movement Last Week Despite DeWine’s Blocked Executive Order

“We don’t want Delta-8 products being sold to children in stores. Everybody agrees on that. There’s a lot of other details that need to be worked out.”

by Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal October 21, 2025October 21, 2025

Cleveland News

$3 Million Transformative Arts Fund Spreads Art Across Cleveland

At a time when arts funding is being gutted by the Trump administration at the federal level, Cleveland is making an investment in individual artists and creative placemaking – and they’re doing it using federal ARPA dollars.

by Lee Chilcote October 21, 2025October 23, 2025

Cleveland News

Long-Time Quest to Replace Wolstein Center Accelerates

Back in August, Cleveland State’s board of trustees voted to begin negotiations to re-develop the Wolstein Center into a 15,000-seat soccer stadium.

by Kyle Rossi, HoriZone Roundtable October 21, 2025October 21, 2025

Ohio News

Ohio Spent More Than a Billion Dollars on Private School Vouchers in Fiscal Year 2025

“It seems like the EdChoice voucher program is expanding and skyrocketing with the money that’s being poured into that program, and there aren’t nearly as many students in that program to warrant that kind of infusion of money.”

by Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal October 20, 2025October 20, 2025