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The Cleveland Browns' miserable season isn't even over yet, but there's already been a big shakeup of the organization. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam fired Sashi Brown, executive vice president of football operations, hired John Dorsey as general manager, and announced he's keeping Coach Hue Jackson. The Browns are 1-24 since Brown was promoted and Jackson was hired in 2016, so both would seem to share the blame. But Crain's Cleveland sports journalist Kevin Kleps said Brown was responsible for making lousy trade decisions that put the team where it is today.

By Caitlin Whyte On a rainy day, City Forester Jeanne Grace takes me on a tour of the City Cemetery where tall, evergreen trees hang over many of the graves. Hemlock trees. The cemetery has the peace and quiet of any cemetery, but if you take a closer look at the hemlocks -- reeeal close -- you’ll spot the hemlock woolly adelgid. “They’re very small,” Grace says. “I don’t know if you’d be able to see it even… you need like a microscope or a hand lens to see one.”

Cuyahoga County's Transportation Advisory Subcommittee is recommending to the county's public transit agency that it consider a sales or property tax increase to overcome its most recent budget setback, indicating that the system needs more dedicated, local funding. Starting this year, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority and Cuyahoga County stopped receiving money from a sales tax on Medicaid-funded managed care organizations (MCOs). That led to a $20 million hole in the RTA budget.

For the first time in 25 years, Democrats are running in all of Texas' 36 congressional districts. But that doesn't mean they can win in the Republican state.

At a hair salon on the west side of Cleveland, Kritzia Basmeson is finishing her shift, packing away brushes and curling irons before going to pick up her two daughters from school. She just arrived in Cleveland from Puerto Rico a few weeks ago, one of the thousands of people being resettled in Northeast Ohio after Hurricane Maria. For Basmeson, the memories of the storm are still vivid.

If you’re unfamiliar with what sour beer is, the name might sound a bit unappetizing. But the tart, acidic beer is growing in popularity, and Northeast Ohio breweries are making more to meet demand. Platform Beer Company is actually expanding its sour beer production to a new facility. The brewery’s owner, Paul Benner, says the term sour can be somewhat misleading.

Space might have been called the final frontier for exploration, but it’s also a frontier for law. Between private businesses wanting to create colonies or mining operations, to governments looking to expand footprints in and out of orbit, there is a need for space lawyers to parse right from wrong. Cleveland State University hopes to train those lawyers with a new Global Space Law Center. I spoke with the center’s driving force Professor Mark Sundahl, and first asked…why Cleveland?

Part 2 of a series You don’t have to look very far for events redefining the environmental movement – in terms of who works for advocacy groups and who they work for. Just go back to 2014. In April of that year the city of Flint, Mich., switched its source of drinking water from the Detroit River to the Flint River. Soon residents were complaining about the water, saying it was discolored and smelled. And the media seized on the crisis.

Ohio’s latest school report cards are out, and the state says achievement is increasing across all subjects and subgroups, with graduation rates also…

Final part of a series I meet Kim Smith-Woodford on a rainy day at Euclid Creek Reservation east of Cleveland. It’s a big wooded area, with a trail lining the creek and shelters for birthday parties. The park is an urban oasis – where folks from all backgrounds go for exercise or a picnic. And it means a lot to Smith-Woodford. It’s where she became more interested in the outdoors.