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With mail-in voting set to grow due to the coronavirus, experts warn that the companies that print ballots could get overwhelmed. One of the country's biggest vendors is ramping up capacity quickly.

Citing undue influence from China on the World Health Organization among other reasons, the president has said he wants to suspend U.S. funding for the global agency pending a review.

Long before today's COVID-19 crisis the people of Northeast Ohio had a different sickness to fight. We're talking even before the Spanish flu of 1918 and the 1832 cholera epidemic. Cleveland's earliest pioneers battled and eventually overcame a disease known as the ague. When Moses Cleaveland and his team of surveyors arrived along the shores of Lake Erie in the summer of 1796, they stepped out near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River where Whiskey Island is today.

Anthony Body spent Monday at the Justice Center. It’s part of his job as a staffer at the Bail Project, to be there, helping defendants who can’t afford their bonds. Afterwards, he chatted with Cleveland Municipal Judge Michelle Earley, who thanked him for his work. But later that day, police stopped Body twice, eventually arresting him for violating Cleveland’s curfew order — even though he’s a Downtown resident who was heading back to work at the Justice Center.

The isolation and stress brought on by COVID-19 have been particularly difficult for people fighting drug addiction. When Ohio shut down in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, nonprofits that offer services to people with substance use issues had to change the way they operate to keep the virus at bay. MetroHealth, which operates an opioid safety office, also had to limit some services said Kelly Cioletti. “With COVID 19 happening the way it did ... access to treatment, detox, all of that shut down,” Cioletti said.

A couple of months ago, Natalie Kendrick did something that she said was uncharacteristically spontaneous. It began when Kendrick's friend texted her a one-word message: “Iceland?” “I responded with ‘Yeah, when?’” Kendrick said. Within a few weeks, they were halfway around the world, hiking through the Icelandic wilderness, surrounded by beautiful, surreal vistas: lava rocks, green mossy fields, waterfalls, and rainbows galore.

From popular exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art to dozens of productions on local stages to the wide variety of music offerings, Northeast Ohio has many arts options. But, a key source of funding for all of these activities, a Cuyahoga County tax on cigarettes, is on the decline. Earlier this week at the Happy Dog tavern on Cleveland’s West side, a group of artists and community leaders took part in a forum aimed at suggesting ways to keep the area’s arts scene thriving.

There’s a tradition at Cleveland’s Great Lakes Brewing Company. Each day around 4 o’clock, employees gather in the brewpub for a complimentary “shift beer.” It’s a chance to celebrate the fruits of their labor. Soon though, the employees at the 30-year-old company will be getting a new perk, probably worth a lot more than a free drink. By the end of this year, it’ll be one of the latest companies to form an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or ESOP. Basically, it goes like this: work at a company for a while and eventually own it. Or at least a nice chunk of it.

Virginia farmer John Wesley Boyd grows soybeans, and right now he has too many of them. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with him about what he believes is the impact of the U.S. trade war with China.

At the corner of West 25th Street and Detroit Avenue on Cleveland's near west side, there is a new dining destination unlike anything else in Northeast Ohio. Like a high-end food court, the Ohio City Galley is four restaurants in one. The Ohio City Galley [photo: ideastream]