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Among the thousands of vacant properties in Northeast Ohio, one towers just blocks from a middle school in East Cleveland. It’s a vacant 13-story apartment building that’s counted among the “dirty dozen,” a list kept by the county of property owners who collectively owe millions in unpaid taxes. The building was once a 254-unit affordable housing complex known as Huron Place Apartments. Today, just a shell remains. The outer doors, windows, air conditioning units: all are gone.

The video-sharing website is now 10 years old. YouTube estimates that each day 432,000 hours of video gets posted on the service: a stunning record of our current civilization.

Oklahoma's oil industry is spending millions on science lessons for public schools. But environmentalists say omitting climate change leaves students unprepared.

Verizon's purchase of Yahoo will close the book on one of the oldest Internet companies. What happened to the other famous '90s brands, like GeoCities, Netscape and CompuServe? A nerdy remembrance.

We’ve been talking a lot about the pandemic, but there’s another public health crisis affecting Ohio, and indeed, the nation. It’s pedestrian deaths. In July, the deadliest month on Ohio's highways in 13 years, 17 pedestrians were killed, up 113 percent from the eight who died in July of last year. Pedestrian deaths in 2019 were the highest in 30 years, according to preliminary data from the Governors Highway Safety Association.

It might sound like a cliché, but the subject for Paula McLain’s new novel “Love and Ruin” (Random House) came to her in a dream. After penning “The Paris Wife,” the best-seller about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife Hadley Richardson, McLain had no intention of writing any more about Hemingway until she dreamt of being on a fishing boat with him and his third wife Martha Gellhorn.

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Thanks for checking out "The Downtowner," about Cleveland's newest, oldest neighborhood. Downtown Cleveland is trendy. Are Clevelanders ready for this? That's what we explore in our podcast about the rise in interest in living Downtown, and what the city will need to do to sustain this growth. Check out all of our episodes on our show page.

As you walk, hop a bus or even scoot through downtown Cleveland, it’s easy to miss the fact that the buildings have something to say. Some of these hidden messages are revealed in historian Jeannine Love’s new book, “Cleveland Architecture, 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful.”

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Celia Gregory of Nashville public radio station WNXP to discuss the week's new releases.