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Amazon is getting a tax break from the state worth about $4 million dollars for its planned Euclid facility, but that money comes with some strings attached. Make that about a thousand strings.

Children of color in Ohio fair far worse than their white peers when it comes to well-being and opportunity in the state. The findings come from the latest Kids Count: Race for Results report. The report from the non-partisan Annie E. Casey Foundation uses 12 indicators to compare childhood well-being across states. The indicators cover a range of outcomes in education, health, and economic areas, like 4th grade reading proficiency and teen pregnancy rates. In Ohio, African American children score far lower than their white, Asian and Latino peers.

Jazz is filled with wonderful vocalists who sing songs of love, heartbreak and romance, but that’s not Ben Sidran’s bag. The 74-year-old belongs to a subset of jazz vocalists that includes the late Mose Allison as well as current performers Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough. They might best be described as world-weary hipsters, whose songs are can be a mix of melancholy and mirth, filled with wry observations about life and more than an occasional pointed jab at sacred cows from all fields.

In June of 2012, Trendon Franklin, a 20-year-old African-American with a college scholarship and a budding boxing career, was gunned down on the streets of Brooklyn, devastating the community of Brownsville where he grew up. Award-winning playwright Kimber Lee is an amateur boxer herself and discovered Franklin's story on a boxing blog. Lee wanted to make sure Franklin's story didn't simply become a statistic. "The fact that there wouldn't be any marches for this kid. There probably wouldn't be any candlight vigils," Lee said.

Access to fresh produce is commonly seen as important. And, obviously, if you sow the seeds, then you can reap the veggies later. But gardening itself can also make you healthier. Studies show the exercise, stress relief and companionship connected to gardening all as potential benefits. For example, community gardeners were more likely to have a lower body mass index when compared with non-gardening neighbors, according to a University of Utah study.

The Cleveland Foundation will pitch in to study whether a Cleveland-to-Chicago Hyperloop route is feasible. The foundation is giving $200,000 to help with the study by the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency and California-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.

The 90th Academy Awards are Sunday night. We dig into the archives to listen back to interviews with this year's nominees.

Hours before President Trump is expected to unveil details about his proposed tariff on steel and aluminum imports, Ohio's senators are expressing their reservations. Speaking with reporters Tuesday, Senator Rob Portman said the President should narrow the scope of his proposal, which the President has said will involve a 25 percent tariff on all imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum. Portman argued for a more “surgical” approach, which would rely on tougher enforcement of existing trade laws.

When jazz guitarist Dan Bruce's wife was offered a job in her home city of Cleveland, the couple decided to move back to Northeast Ohio after a decade in Chicago. The move allowed them to be closer to family, but that wasn’t the only reason they chose to return. Bruce, who had played in this area in the early 2000s, realized living in Cleveland would be a good career move for him, as well.

An historic Cleveland neighborhood that's seen over a half-century of decline is the target of a new revitalization effort. The first phase of Mayor Frank Jackson's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative was unveiled Wednesday in Glenville. As traffic rolled by on East 105th street, Cleveland Planning Director Freddy Collier grimaced at the heavily pot-holed roadway. "For those of you who drove up 105th to get here, we're going to handle this," he said.