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Cleveland's healthcare providers need to better address trauma and social determinants of health as a way to improve the health of communities, said MetroHealth CEO Dr. Akram Boutros at The City Club of Cleveland Friday. Boutros pushed for the city's major hospital systems to change their focus from curing diseases to preventing poor health outcomes in the first place.

NASA’s Glenn Research Center is playing a key role in the mission to take astronauts back to the moon and on to Mars, Administrator Jim Bridenstine said during a visit to Cleveland Monday. “The moon is our proving ground for how do we live and work on another world, so that we can go to Mars,” Bridenstine said. “And the sooner we can prove that out on the moon, the sooner we can move on to Mars.”

Updated: 4:25 p.m. 6/6/19 Most of the Democrats seeking to succeed Lorain Mayor Chase Ritenauer in November have been bumped from contention after a legal opinion from the county prosecutor’s office. Ritenauer announced his resignation in early May, days after he won the Democratic primary unopposed.

Cleveland Lead Advocates for Safe Housing (CLASH) says it is encouraged to be on the same path as the Cleveland City Council to mitigate lead in houses, but the group believes the current draft proposal may be unconstitutional. CLASH attorney Rebecca Maurer says the group changed its stance on proposed fines for landlords after a case in Bedford was decided by a federal court in Cleveland "which made very clear that a criminal penalty structure similar to the one the city has proposed is actually going to face a very significant constitutional challenge.

Updated 6:02, 6/6/19 Four Northeast Ohio nursing homes are on a list of troubled facilities that has been released to the public by two U.S. Senators. Canton Christian Home, Eliza Bryant Village in Cleveland, Hudson Elms Nursing Home and Stow Glen Health Care Center, were all found to have serious health, safety or sanitary problems according to the federal government.

Cuyahoga County Council banned single-use plastic bags with an 8 to 3 party-line vote Tuesday evening, requiring businesses to offer reusable or paper bags to retail customers. The ordinance is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2020. It was originally drafted for Oct. 1 of this year, but councilmembers agreed businesses needed more time to prepare.

A plan to exempt some Ohio counties from proposed new work requirements for Medicaid recipients is coming under fire from a Cleveland think tank. Many people who receive Medicaid in Ohio could soon have to work at least 20 hours a week to receive the government health insurance. The Ohio Department of Medicaid is waiting for federal approval of the plan. But under the state’s proposal, people in counties with high unemployment would fall under a special exemption.

From his Hall of Fame football career, to his social activism, to his relationships with women, Jim Brown is a complicated figure in American and Cleveland history. Author Dave Zirin has written a new biography charting his life and career - 'Jim Brown: Last Man Standing.'

Middle school is not necessarily an easy time of life to live, but cartoonist Terri Libensen depicts the struggles and joys kids experience through graphic novels. “Weirdly enough, I find it to be kind of natural for myself,” she said. “I think part of me just never grew up (laughing), which is probably part of the reason I’m a cartoonist.” “Positively Izzy,” published by HarperCollins, captures the drama of middle school and explores what happens when two very different characters' lives intersect.

Hilary Plum and Zach Savich are husband and wife and both are accomplished writers. She's the award-winning-author of the novel "Strawberry Fields," while he's a prize-winning poet and memoirist. Last fall the two writers moved from Philadelphia to Northeast Ohio when Plum took a teaching job at Cleveland State University and the position of associate director at the CSU Poetry Center. Savich and Plum met in graduate school at the University of Massachusetts.