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  • Ohio set a new record this week, with more than 4,000 new COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Throughout the pandemic, nursing homes have been hotspots for the virus, with a large percentage of the deaths, but workers and their unions have complained they don't have proper protective equipment.
  • With the end of WVXU's Around Cincinnati Sunday night local arts show, and Chris Thile's national Live From Here Saturday program, weekends will sound...
  • Ohioans receiving unemployment benefits can expect an additional $300 weekly starting mid-to-late September. The payments will be retroactive, going back to Aug. 1. Ohio Restaurant Association (ORA) President John Baker told ideastream those additional funds are “really a lifeline” for many restaurant employees, whose industry has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic.
  • Updated: 5:50 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 Cleveland’s Indian American and African American communities are celebrating the inclusion of a woman of color on a presidential ticket with Sen. Kamala Harris joining former Vice President Joe Biden as his running mate.
  • The Justice Department intervened on President Trump's behalf in a defamation lawsuit brought by the writer, who accuses him of sexual assaulting her in the '90s — long before he was president.
  • Judges in Cuyahoga County held another meeting on Monday to talk about reforming the bail system, their first gathering since a withering U.S. Marshals Service report on the county jail. Local judges and other officials have been talking for years about changing the way bail is set, so that fewer defendants await trial from inside a jail cell.
  • It's Day 18 of the partial government shutdown, and it's now the third-longest on record. In the 90s, it took President Clinton and House Speaker Gingrich a record 21 days to settle an impasse.
  • When Cleveland Heights native Lee Chilcote and his wife bought a townhouse in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood in 2006, little did they know the housing market was about to collapse just a couple years later. "Right around the time we had our first child, the house that we were living in the value went down by about a third. So it was a real wake up call: 'Do we really want to stay here. Is this something that we want to do?'" Chilcote said.
  • The Cleveland Orchestra steps onto the national stage in an episode of the PBS program, “Great Performances,” Friday night. The show focuses on the orchestra’s 100th birthday last year, which was marked with both celebratory events and high-profile terminations. Andre Gremillet, president and CEO of the orchestra, sat down at ideastream for an interview looking back at 2018.
  • Six international composers were invited to the Cleveland Museum of Art to explore the museum’s collection and draw inspiration for original compositions to be performed in Cleveland, but it didn’t quite work that way for composer Henry Threadgill.
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