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MetroHealth recently announced it will invest $60 million in a new mixed-income housing community in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood on Cleveland's West Side. Case Western Reserve University Professor Mark Joseph spoke with ideastream's Anne Glausser about the influence

On a recent weekday afternoon, Toni Arnold-Spikes drove her black sedan around Cleveland’s East Side, ping-ponging between recreation centers and public libraries, searching for young people who aren’t in school and aren’t at work. As a recruiter for the nonprofit Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU), Arnold-Spikes said she goes out about once a week, scoping out not just public facilities, but also barber shops, beauty salons, block parties, and pickup basketball games.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with former prosecutor Harry Litman about the upcoming Mueller hearings — and how to effectively ask questions to get answers out of a tight-lipped investigator.

Despite the fact that the state has experienced massive population growth in the past decade, officials in Texas have decided not to allocate money or make statewide plans for the upcoming census.

Updated, 10:38 a.m., 6/10/19 The past few years have been tough for transit in Northeast Ohio. The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority has cut routes and raised fares, all while ridership continues to fall. Transit advocates call it the “death spiral.” Jarrett Walker, the consultant hired to help RTA redesign bus routes, said the service is “stretched incredibly thin.” “It isn’t really able to be very satisfactory to much of anyone,” Walker said, “because it is simply being asked to do too many things with too small a budget.”

It was a tale of three counties this week as Sanitation District 1 Executive Director Adam Chaney made the rounds at Northern Kentucky fiscal courts...

Social media is helping drive more people to visit national parks. While it's getting folks out there, it's also causing traffic jams and congestion in places valued for solitude and reflection.

Two Democratic lawmakers are vying for a state senate seat in a contentious race on the west side of Cuyahoga County. The Ohio State Senate District 23 race between State Reps. Nickie Antonio and Martin Sweeney has divided Democratic groups and become increasingly heated in the final weeks of the campaign. Sweeney won the endorsement of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party earlier this year. Antonio has backing from other groups, such as the Cuyahoga Democratic Women’s Caucus and the Stonewall Democrats, an LGBT political organization.

Farmers, needy families, say they support new food stamp rules but want the bill de-coupled from immigration issues. By Nick Evans, WOSU Last week, Republicans in the Freedom Caucus helped scuttle the Farm Bill before members of the U.S. House of Representatives in a bid for tougher immigration standards. The Farm Bill provides support for farmers and for needy families in the form of food assistance. One of the Congressmembers leading the charge against the bill was Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Troy).

North Ridgeville resident Adrian Frederick said he’s had horrible leg pain for years, caused by a surgery he had involving cancer. The pain is constant, and gets worse at night. “I’m just willing to try anything at this point,” Frederick said. “I’m just sick of being in pain all the time.”