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The Cleveland Council on World Affairs (CCWA) last month got a new CEO, after the sudden death of the organization's previous CEO, Maura O'Donnell-McCarthy, in July. Carina Van Vliet has been in Northeast Ohio about four years having a post with Jones Day, and previously working for the United Nations in New York.

Elected officials in Florida and Georgia are upset that in its recent budget deal, Congress didn't include money for long-term assistance for communities hit by Hurricane Michael.

NPR's Tiny Desk concert series has more than 500 million views online a decade after its debut. Starting today, anyone can submit his or her own music video for the annual Tiny Desk Contest. The winner will travel to NPR studios to record a Tiny Desk show.

A new poll released Tuesday by Baldwin Wallace University suggests nearly 59 percent of Ohioans who plan to vote this November say the upcoming midterms are more important than previous ones. There is some evidence of that sentiment in Northeast Ohio voter rolls. Although the final tally won't be known for a week or so, elections officials in Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Lake, Geauga and Portage counties report that, as of Tuesday, the last day to register to vote, voter rolls are slightly higher than they were during the 2014 midterm election.

The WNBA Finals are underway, and the league's popularity has increased. But SB Nation's Tamryn Spruill says the WNBA and its players are still trying to win something more than games — respect.

This weekend Kent State is celebrating one of its own. Alice Ripley's star began to rise on Broadway in the 90s - not long after her time at Kent State University and its summer stage - the Porthouse Theater at Blossom. In her Broadway career, she's played a siamese twin ("Side Show") a delusional, bipolar depressive ("Next to Normal") and most recently the mother of an "American Psycho."

This is part of our series highlighting the winners of the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Find more here. Shane McCrae is the winner of the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for poetry for his collection "In the Name of My Captor" (Wesleyan University Press)

A new report says Downtown Cleveland has capacity for thousands more housing units, but is lagging in homeowners and should work to preserve affordable housing options. The report, released Wednesday, was prepared by consulting firm Urban Partners and commissioned by the Downtown Cleveland Alliance, a nonprofit that advocates for the neighborhood. Housing Demand Expected To Continue Downtown population has grown about 56 percent since 2010, and the researchers expect continued demand for market-rate housing.

2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner N. Scott Momaday helped reshape the perception of Native American culture over the course of a 50-year career. His first novel, “House Made of Dawn” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969, making him one of the first indigenous writers to break into mainstream literature. Momaday said there’s a certain satisfaction in telling a story, but that’s not what really motivates his writing.

The Trump administration pushed back hard against warnings of an economic slowdown. But the president is also calling on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates again to help boost growth.