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After September 11, 2001, Rania Matar was troubled by portrayals of the Middle East in the media. “I became very aware of my identity, not only as an American, which I had become by then, but also as a Lebanese and a Palestinian,” she said. “So I decided to go back and tell a different story.”

Case Western Reserve University’s law school Tuesday celebrated with a reception the biggest gift in the school’s history: $10 million to establish the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law. Burke is the founder of major East Coast commercial real estate companies, and a donor to a number of environmental causes.

Cleveland officials cut the ribbon Thursday on a $7.3 million new kennel for city dogs awaiting adoption. The new facility on the city’s west side has been years in the making, and the price tag has grown $2 million from earlier plans. The 15,500-square-foot building is bigger than its predecessor in Tremont at the edge of the industrial valley. The new kennel holds dogs in pods with glass doors rather than metal cages.

The chair of Cleveland City Council’s safety committee said he plans more hearings after the firefighters union complained of poor conditions in stations and other problems. Leaders of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 93 told council last week that too many vehicles are not in good condition. They also said there are problems with the fire stations, too. Councilman Matt Zone, who chairs the safety committee, said he hopes that Cleveland’s forthcoming capital budget will put money toward fixing city-owned buildings.

There’s been a troubling rise in infant deaths due to extreme prematurity, according to new numbers from the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. In the first quarter of 2019, the infant mortality rate in Cuyahoga County increased to 10 deaths per 1000 live births. This compares to last year’s rate of about 8.5. The gain was driven largely by preterm births. Most of the babies were black.

A new website that attempts to quantify the effectiveness of Cuyahoga County government is now live. It is called Cuyahoga Performance. Its purpose is to provide data that county leaders and the public can use to assess how the county is doing economically, socially and bureaucratically.

By M.L. Schultze, WKSU U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) says direct communication, like the kind President Donald Trump just had with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, might have saved the life of Otto Warmbier. The president, in statements after his historic meeting with Kim, said the summit might not have happened if it wasn't for the death of Warmbier, who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months. He said the college student "did not die in vain."

Cleveland police officers say the city’s reform agreement with the Justice Department has left them confused about what’s acceptable in the field. That’s a conclusion from a series of focus groups conducted by the team monitoring the consent decree. Read the full report here. The monitoring team held eight focus groups in December last year, involving 68 officers and detectives and 10 sergeants. There was one all-white group and one all-nonwhite group.

As spring comes to Northeast Ohio women begin to break out their fanciest shoes. But likely no one has a pair shaped like a cat!

Democrats didn’t have to wait long to learn who’d be their gubernatorial nominee in November. Fifty-six minutes after the polls closed, the Associated Press called the race for Richard Cordray, the former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray beat former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich by double digits, taking 62 percent of the vote to Kucinich’s 23 percent.