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Cleveland City Council held a six-hour meeting Tuesday on a proposal to spend public money on expanding Quicken Loans Arena. This upcoming Monday, the measure will go before council’s finance committee, which is typically the last stop before a vote on the floor. The deal would extend Cleveland’s admissions tax for another 11 years, up until 2034. An estimated $88 million in revenue from collections at the Q would help pay down the debt on renovation work there.

Northeast Ohio native Michael Comet liked to doodle during school and now his doodling takes place at Pixar Animation Studios where he's worked on hit animated films like Up, Brave and The Good Dinosaur. Pixar's latest production, Cars 3, is on screens now across the country. As a characters supervisor, Comet's department takes what comes out of Pixar's art department and recreates the art in the computer digitally.

Playwright Greg Vovos knows the title, “How to Be a Respectable Junkie,” leaves some people wondering what kind of play he created. He is hoping that intrigue brings people to Dobama Theatre for the one-man show, which offers a window into what life is like for a man addicted to heroin. The main character, Brian, is considering suicide and decides to make a how-to video before taking his own life. The instructional video is intended to show drug users how to improve their behavior as addicts.

Thrity Umrigar latest novel, Everybody's Son,tells the story of nine-year-old Anton, a mixed-race boy, who escapes an at-risk life with a crack-addicted mother when he is adopted by a wealthy east coast politician. But, as Anton grows into an adult with his own political aspirations he struggles with personal identity issues. Umrigar starts her story with a lyric from American-balladeer Bruce Springsteen, which capsulizes Anton's dilemma:

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.

Dozens of lawsuits filed by cities, counties and states across the country against opioid manufacturers and distributors will be consolidated in an Ohio court after a ruling issued by a group of federal judges Tuesday. The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ruled 64 lawsuits filed against pharmaceutical companies in 9 federal district courts will have their pretrial motions overseen by Judge Dan Polster in the Northern District of Ohio, in Cleveland.

Ohio has the eleventh highest rate of babies dying before their first birthday, according to new CDC data released Thursday. The report also shows Ohio had the second highest infant mortality rate in the country for non-Hispanic black women. In Northeast Ohio, the overall infant mortality rate has slowly declined over the last several years, but the racial gap has widened, with more than 6 non-Hispanic black babies dying to every 1 non-Hispanic white baby in 2017, said Richard Stacklin at the Cuyahoga County Board of Health.

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.

Jim Gaffigan's known for his stand-up comedy shows on Netflix where he cracks wise about his weight and living with five kids in a New York City apartment. But earlier this year his life as a touring comedian was in jeopardy when a tumor was discovered in his wife's brain. "She had this tumor the size of a pear. We discovered it the week before Easter. It was in a very precarious position. It was right on these cranial nerves which control just about everything you do," Gaffigan said.