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Cleveland State University named Harlan Sands as the school’s seventh president Monday. His tenure will begin July 1 following the retirement of current President Ronald Berkman, who has been in the role for nine years. Sands has had a nearly two-decade career in higher education, serving in various academic and administrative roles. He currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer for the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, a position he’s held since 2017.

Forty years ago this week, a massive storm struck Ohio. High winds whipped up snowdrifts and tore down power lines as temperatures plunged. Over two days, the blizzard of 1978 killed 51 people in the state. Kirk Lombardy was about 12 years old at the time. He recalled going outside to shut the doors of a neighbor’s shed. “All I remember about it was I was leaning into the wind,” he said, “and I could not fall over because the winds were so strong.”

International students make up 23 percent of the enrollment in Ohio graduate programs, but new data shows, nationally, that number took a hit last year and is trickling down to Ohio schools. A report from the National Science Foundation, a federally run research agency, shows that after nearly a decade of consistent growth, the number of international undergraduate students with the visas declined by 2.2 percent in 2017, while graduate student enrollment dropped by 5 and a half percent.

Eight projects in Northeast Ohio have won the latest round of state historic preservation tax credits. Northeast Ohio will claim the biggest chunk of the tax credits, with about $9.8 million newly awarded out of the $28.4 million given out this round. The state also set aside credits in this round for the Goodyear headquarters building in Akron, Union Trust building on Euclid Avenue and May Company building on Public Square, three local projects that received large allotments of credits over several years.

The head of the Ohio Bail Agents Association, Charles Miller, is responding to a report calling the state's cash bail system "unfair" to poor defendants.

Fifth Third Bancorp is promising to raise its minimum wage to $15/hour and give most of its employees a thousand dollar bonus after President Trump signs the GOP tax cuts into law. The Cincinnati-based company announced the decision Wednesday, saying it wants to pass on the savings. But some experts say it has other reasons to "spread the wealth."

Republicans say the tax overhaul bill, which President Trump signed into law Friday, will spur massive economic growth and job creation (“Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!” the president cheered on Twitter, after the bill passed both houses of Congress with no Democratic votes). And while many policy experts disagree, one profession is almost certain to see a bump. You guessed it: tax preparers.

Frank Jackson is beginning his fourth term as Mayor of Cleveland. He was sworn in Tuesday morning at City Hall in Downtown. If there was a theme to the ceremony, it seemed to be this: being Mayor is not easy.

In the midst of escalating diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Cuba, the city of Cleveland is trying to build business ties with the island nation. In Havana last Friday, representatives from the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority signed a non-binding "memorandum of understanding" with the country's maritime authority aimed at laying the groundwork for potential future trade.

Amazon says the new warehouse its planning to open in Euclid in 2019 will create 1,000 new jobs. But some of those jobs may have a short shelf-life.