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Members of Ohio’s congressional delegation are renewing calls for the Defense Department to locate a missile defense site at Camp James A. Garfield, an Ohio National Guard base straddling Portage and Trumbull counties. Earlier this week, both Ohio senators and nearly every House representative signed a letter addressed to Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan urging him to consider the base for the third Continental United States Interceptor Site (CIS).

Joe Vitone is a professor of photo-communications at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Each summer he returns to Akron to spend time with his extended family. For the last two decades, he has photographed various family members during those visits as a way to have a record of his relatives.

One of Cleveland's longest-running community theaters has a new pair of directors after almost four decades of continuous leadership. Near West Theatre [ideastream] Located in Cleveland's Near West Side and the Gordon Square Arts District, Near West Theatre has had two directors for the majority of its existence.

Landlords have plenty to say about Cleveland’s proposed lead-safe ordinance. ideastream and the Plain Dealer heard from 80 rental property owners in an online survey about lead mitigation. Some respondents raised questions about how the law would work, how the city would enforce it and why it focuses solely on rentals.

A new poll by Baldwin Wallace University sheds some light on how Ohioans are feeling about a range of issues from immigration and refugee resettlement to gun control and abortion. The survey was based on a sample of 1,361 Ohioans who were over age 18, and the results were weighted to approximate a cross-section of Ohioans by race and gender.

Warwick Public Schools reversed its decision to bar students with delinquent debt from access to hot lunch meals after it was met with anger. An outpouring of donations has since erased the debts.

The summer months are usually a dead time for theater with many stages going dark. But, a new group wants to turn on the lights and stage a spectacle. The BorderLight International Theater and Fringe Festival aims to turn the corridor between Public Square and Playhouse Square into one big performance space. This four-day event was five years in the making and will offer a grab bag of entertainment.

Veteran bass player and composer Dave Morgan has seen something change about the Northeast Ohio jazz scene over the last several years. “It’s so exciting to see young musicians stay around and lay roots in the community instead of leaving right away once they get good. We’ve seen this renaissance in Blu Jazz + Club they started in Akron, along with our great Bop Stop in Cleveland. It has really become a hothouse for music-making, “ Morgan said.

Even before he saw the 1970 film “Five Easy Pieces,” which help launch Jack Nicholson’s career, Scott Edwards became a fan of the actor when he saw one of the movie’s most famous scenes. “Leading up the Academy Awards on every local and national news story, they showed that diner scene. I saw that probably a hundred times before I saw the movie, so without knowing who this guy was it a made an impression on me.” Edwards said.

Two days before the start of hurricane season, Puerto Rico's governor outlined the steps his government has taken to prepare. He also responded to the Harvard study on the number of deaths after Hurricane Maria.