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Staff at Cleveland’s largest news outlet could learn as soon as Monday who has accepted a round of buyouts offered for Cleveland.com staff and for Plain Dealer managers. The Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild, which represents Plain Dealer staff, said on Twitter this week that the news outlet’s parent company, Advance Ohio, offered voluntary buyouts for staff with at least 15 years of experience.

Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood has long been battling a reputation that many residents say is undeserved. These residents have been working to further a new narrative about the neighborhood not rooted in the riots, or rebellion of 1966. In 2016, I spoke with some staff members at the Fatima Family Center at East 66th and Lexington Ave.

The Ohio Department of Youth Services is introducing programs designed to reduce the recidivism rate among young offenders. Within three years of being…

About 15 percent of people in prison are infected with hepatitis C. Screening and treating inmates would save $750 million over 30 years and prevent many new cases in the general public.

Ohio’s two U.S. senators say Congress should act on DACA, now that the Trump administration announced it would end the program shielding undocumented young people from deportation. Still up in the air is how both parties might strike a deal. Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown supports the DREAM Act, which would open a path to citizenship for people brought to the country unlawfully as children.

Cleveland police have agreed to cut in half a backlog of citizen complaint cases by the end of the year. The monitor overseeing the city’s consent decree laid out a schedule of deadlines in a federal court filing last week. The monitoring team in June said that Cleveland is moving too slowly in finishing years-old investigations of complaints against officers.

It's been close to a half-century since a Cleveland modern dance company has graced the stage of the prestigious Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. However, Inlet Dance Theater makes its 'pillow' debut next month, marking a major milestone for the 16-year-old company. Founding artistic director Bill Wade is excited for his company but he also understands the greater significance. "The opportunity to export dance that's made in Ohio to Jacob's Pillow is an honor, it's a privilege and we're taking it very seriously," Wade said.

Saxophonist Kenny Garrett came up in an era when jazz education took place much more on the bandstand than the classroom. The 56-year-old Detroit native honed his skills on the bandstand with the likes of Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey and Joe Henderson.

Some test cases in grassroots urban planning are on display in several Cleveland neighborhoods this week. It's part of a series of events sponsored by the American Planning Association. "We Plan Cleveland" features ideas that spring from local residents and not city planners.

“Free Stamp” is an iconic image for Cleveland, but people may not realize the large, public art piece came with a boatload of controversy.