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Clevelander Dave Lucas was named the second Ohio Poet Laureate suceeding Dr. Amit Majmudar for a two year term. Best known for his monthly Brews + Proseseries at Market Garden Brewery, Lucas wants folks in the Buckeye state to change their reactions to reading poems. "I grew up as I think a lot of people did, certainly many of my students feel this way, that poetry was what we encountered in the books that we had to read in school and that made us often feel stupid or inadequate," Lucas said.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District Board of Education is postponing a vote on new charter school partners after receiving its largest ever number of applicants. Ten already operating charter schools applied to partner with CMSD. The CMSD Board of Education was scheduled to vote on those partnerships at a Tuesday meeting, but pushed the vote to February. Defined in the Cleveland Plan, a partnership allows charters to receive a portion of the district’s local levy dollars in addition to the funding they receive from the state.

Three more people – all elderly women – have died of complications from the flu in Cuyahoga County, upping the total in Northeast Ohio to at least a dozen fatalities. From member station WKSU, M.L. Schultze reports. The deaths range from a 1-year-old boy in Summit County to a 101-year-old woman in Euclid. Health departments throughout the state are reporting thousands of cases of what’s known as H3N2, which is especially severe among young children and older adults. The Toledo area has had 250 cases reported.

The deadline to enroll for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace is next Friday, December 15.

Playhouse Square Executive Producer Gina Vernaci has seen some highly anticipated shows come to Cleveland’s theater district, including “Rent,” “Wicked,” “The Producers” and “The Book of Mormon.” However, when it comes to pre-show buzz, none compare to the excitement surrounding this summer’s arrival of Lin Manuel-Miranda’s multi Tony Award-winning musical “

President Trump is turning his attention this week to the $1 trillion U.S. infrastructure overhaul he promised during his campaign. But Ohio’s Democratic U.S. senator says the details are looking a lot different than candidate Trump promised. From member station WKSU, M.L. Schultze reports:

Home sales in Ohio are at their highest level since the Great Recession. That's according to a new report from Ohio Association of Realtors (OAR).

Cleveland plans to contract with outside investigators to help clear its backlog of citizen complaints about police. The city outlined its plan in a filing in federal court Friday as part of its reform agreement with the Justice Department. Last month, a federal judge told the city to come up with this new plan, after the monitor overseeing the consent decree said Cleveland wasn’t on the right track.

New York and seven other Northeast states are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to get Ohio and eight other states added to the so-called Ozone Transport Region, created under the Clean Air Act to curb air pollution drifting across local borders. In 2013, eight states in the northeast asked the U.S. EPA to add nine more states to the region. It wasn't until late last year that EPA administrator Scott Pruitt officially denied that petition. The EPA argues there are other programs that reduce industrial smog flowing across state lines.

Artists from around the world are due to use Northeast Ohio as their gallery this summer. Photographers, painters, filmmakers and installation artists will create works that reflect on issues facing American cities.