Local news for Cleveland and Northeast Ohio: city hall, schools, events, business, public safety, weather, sports, and arts.https://clevelandmonitor.com/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/husted-ratepayer-bill-echoes-pledge-big-tech-fought-ohio/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/husted-ratepayer-bill-echoes-pledge-big-tech-fought-ohio/Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta fought Ohio's binding cost-sharing tariff, then signed the voluntary pledge Husted's federal bill only requires states to consider adopting.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:08:28 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/sixth-circuit-allows-ohio-bmv-citizenship-requirement-voter-registration/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/sixth-circuit-allows-ohio-bmv-citizenship-requirement-voter-registration/The 2-1 ruling comes days before Ohio's registration deadline, with a Biden-appointed dissenter warning the majority created a Catch-22 for voters.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:00:07 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/miller-taxpayer-funded-ad-waste-critic/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/miller-taxpayer-funded-ad-waste-critic/Twenty-two days after announcing plans to loan his reelection campaign $1 million, the Ohio Republican aired a taxpayer-funded radio ad featuring a constituent praising him by name. The ad ran just seven days before federal rules shut off such mass communications ahead of Election Day.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:55:47 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ramaswamy-follows-acton-gas-tax-data-center-proposals/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ramaswamy-follows-acton-gas-tax-data-center-proposals/The Republican nominee declared “Vivek Leads” after calling for a gas tax suspension hours after Amy Acton called for one.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:25:01 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/mccolley-meets-nationwide-energy-lobbyists-while-ramaswamy-running-mate/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/mccolley-meets-nationwide-energy-lobbyists-while-ramaswamy-running-mate/The Senate president – the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor – held meetings and calls with dozens of lobbyists this year, his official calendar shows.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:28:34 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-gop-gas-tax-holiday-ramaswamy-acton/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-gop-gas-tax-holiday-ramaswamy-acton/State officials say ODOT has no surplus cash for the $640-700 million plan, and Democrats want it funded by money earmarked for Jimmy Haslam's NFL stadium.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:15:36 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/senators-flock-surveillance-cameras-privacy-constitutional-rights/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/senators-flock-surveillance-cameras-privacy-constitutional-rights/Flock's CEO skipped the hearing after a Florida woman testified about a wrongful homicide arrest and an Arizona sheriff described the company dodging his privacy questions.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:12:41 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/federal-judge-orders-white-house-restore-press-passes-cnn-politico-msnow/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/federal-judge-orders-white-house-restore-press-passes-cnn-politico-msnow/Hours after the order, journalists were still turned away at the gate until Secret Service confiscated badges were returned around noon, court filings show.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:09:59 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/senate-republicans-trans-athletes-womens-sports-hearing/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/senate-republicans-trans-athletes-womens-sports-hearing/Durbin blasted the hearing as a distraction, citing NCAA data showing fewer than 10 of over 500,000 college athletes are transgender.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:05:33 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/2026-governor-race-candidates-fracking-positions/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/2026-governor-race-candidates-fracking-positions/Ramaswamy touts a 15,000-acre fracking approval on public land while Acton and Kissick back a Washington County injection well moratorium over water contamination fears.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:40 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/wealthy-foundations-entrench-power-while-barely-meeting-charity-requirements/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/wealthy-foundations-entrench-power-while-barely-meeting-charity-requirements/The Lilly Endowment, boosted by Eli Lilly's GLP-1 profits, paid out just 3% in 2024 while an Ohio voting-rights group faced an FBI search.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:55:25 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/politicians-scapegoat-trans-people-amid-affordability-crisis/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/politicians-scapegoat-trans-people-amid-affordability-crisis/Ohio Democrats like Amy Acton and Marcy Kaptur have shifted toward anti-trans messaging in tight races, drawing backlash from transgender activists who feel abandoned.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:35:23 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ice-victims-families-congress-dual-assassinations/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ice-victims-families-congress-dual-assassinations/Democrats say they've documented over 1,000 abuses and 20 shootings by ICE, with no subpoena power to force administration officials to testify.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:05:31 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/kahoe-censured-revere-school-board-vermilion-drinking/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/kahoe-censured-revere-school-board-vermilion-drinking/The Republican Ohio House candidate was publicly censured less than a year after winning his first elected office. Revere’s board said his conduct failed to meet the standards expected of a school board member.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:53:44 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/democrats-call-for-repeal-school-voucher-program/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/democrats-call-for-repeal-school-voucher-program/Treasury plans to release rules by month's end for the 2027 program, which at least 30 states have already joined despite Democrats' repeal push.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:53:05 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-power-bills-rising-candidates-data-centers/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-power-bills-rising-candidates-data-centers/A former PUCO commissioner calls Ramaswamy's free-power pledge doomed to fail, while a consumer advocate says $10 billion in transmission costs go unreviewed.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:40 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ice-electric-shock-gloves-culture-of-fear/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ice-electric-shock-gloves-culture-of-fear/An Oberlin historian who lived through Pinochet's Chile compares ICE tactics, including a $16.7 million shock-glove contract, to authoritarian fear campaigns.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:35:49 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/30-years-republican-ohio-politics-results/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/30-years-republican-ohio-politics-results/Ohio's median income rank fell from 23rd to 39th since 1999, while K-12 schools dropped from 5th to 21st nationally, the analysis finds.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:30:42 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/medical-groups-patients-sue-trump-medicaid-work-requirements/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/medical-groups-patients-sue-trump-medicaid-work-requirements/Enrollees with cancer, HIV and mental illness argue a June rule narrows medical frailty exemptions, burdening cities that cover the uninsured.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:10:11 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ramaswamy-called-2022-crash-medicine-ohio-pensions-lost-32-billion/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ramaswamy-called-2022-crash-medicine-ohio-pensions-lost-32-billion/The Republican candidate for governor wrote that the 2022 market crash would “ultimately be a good thing for the country.” Elsewhere in the same book, he acknowledged a crash could hit middle-class and poor Americans harder while his own life remained “mostly the same.”Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:55:48 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/diesel-prices-hit-record-grassley-urges-trump-embargo/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/diesel-prices-hit-record-grassley-urges-trump-embargo/The White House rejects Grassley's embargo request as Trump blames Russia's war for the price spike and seven House Republicans defect on Iran authorization.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:37:48 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/cnn-ms-now-politico-sue-trump-white-house-ban/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/cnn-ms-now-politico-sue-trump-white-house-ban/A Trump-appointed judge will hear arguments Wednesday, as other TV networks refuse to fill CNN's pool coverage role in solidarity.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:34:59 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/federal-grants-ohio-head-start-programs-225-million/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/federal-grants-ohio-head-start-programs-225-million/The $2.05 million for 17 Ohio programs follows a government shutdown that closed sites and a GAO finding that Trump officials illegally withheld Head Start funds.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:55:57 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-taxpayers-face-1670-deportation-bill-workforce-loss/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-taxpayers-face-1670-deportation-bill-workforce-loss/Federal data show 47% of Ohio ICE detainees had no criminal history, while immigrants fill outsized shares of Ohio's care, farm and factory jobs.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:35:44 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-jobsohio-workforce-accountability-300-million/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-jobsohio-workforce-accountability-300-million/A confidential RFP marked for recipients only underlies JobsOhio's $300 million training plan, drawing scrutiny amid fraud findings in other state workforce programs.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:30:22 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/trump-endangered-species-rollback-nesvik-memo/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/trump-endangered-species-rollback-nesvik-memo/A leaked memo lets hunters, developers and loggers off the hook if killing endangered species wasn't the stated purpose of their action, experts warn.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:15:06 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/rural-women-c-section-opioid-prescriptions-study/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/rural-women-c-section-opioid-prescriptions-study/The Truveta analysis of 540,000 C-sections found in-hospital pain care was similar nationwide, but rural discharge prescribing gaps raise questions about post-birth addiction risk.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:10:59 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/amy-acton-calls-emergency-ohio-gas-tax-holiday/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/amy-acton-calls-emergency-ohio-gas-tax-holiday/Ohio's Democratic candidate for governor is calling for the state to temporarily suspend its gas tax as regular gasoline averages about $4.52 a gallon and diesel reaches a record $6.77 statewide.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:39:43 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/crypto-super-pac-fairshake-30-million-sherrod-brown/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/crypto-super-pac-fairshake-30-million-sherrod-brown/Fairshake is launching at least $30 million in spending against the Ohio Democrat just days after the Senate blocked the crypto industry's top legislative priority.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:37:04 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/husted-accepted-10k-nazi-ss-reenactor-iott-before-firing-aide/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/husted-accepted-10k-nazi-ss-reenactor-iott-before-firing-aide/Iott's SS reenactments made national news in 2010, years before Husted's campaign accepted his donations, records show.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:21:47 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/house-passes-data-center-ratepayer-bill-trump-objects-senate-stalls/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/house-passes-data-center-ratepayer-bill-trump-objects-senate-stalls/A poll shows just 11% of Americans back local data centers, as Trump attacks critics and Senate Democrats block Husted's ratepayer bill.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:13:02 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/judge-trump-anti-weaponization-fund-case-alive/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/judge-trump-anti-weaponization-fund-case-alive/Judge Brinkema gave DOJ 30 days to produce documents on who structured the deal, questioning whether a functional equivalent to the fund still exists.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:06:00 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/civil-rights-groups-sue-trump-block-ice-at-polls/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/civil-rights-groups-sue-trump-block-ice-at-polls/Nine groups including the NAACP and SEIU cite a federal law barring armed men at polls, as DHS denies any plan to target polling locations.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:03:06 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-voters-see-childcare-affordability-as-crisis/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-voters-see-childcare-affordability-as-crisis/A GOP bill offering free childcare to workers in the industry has sat in committee for a year, with lame-duck session the last chance to pass it in 2025.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:38 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/worker-sues-after-wayne-forest-orphan-well-explosion/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/worker-sues-after-wayne-forest-orphan-well-explosion/ODNR's investigation blamed Monroe Drilling for improper well control barriers on the unplugged well that killed two contractors and burned Chazz Bates.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:55:00 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/kasich-corporate-giveaways-data-centers-jobsohio-clean-ohio/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/kasich-corporate-giveaways-data-centers-jobsohio-clean-ohio/Kasich's 2011 JobsOhio scheme also gutted Clean Ohio, a bipartisan brownfield program that generated $1.16 billion for the state before its 2021 partial revival.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:35:30 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/adults-returning-school-become-teachers-ohio/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/adults-returning-school-become-teachers-ohio/As Ohio districts struggle with teacher shortages, flexible online degree programs are helping working adults with families and jobs enter the classroom.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:30:06 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/black-voters-urged-vote-consequential-election/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/black-voters-urged-vote-consequential-election/Redistricting after a Supreme Court ruling could cost up to 20 Congressional Black Caucus members their seats this fall, panelists warned.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:00:16 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/geis-gave-workman-6589-before-data-center-panel-pick/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/geis-gave-workman-6589-before-data-center-panel-pick/Conrad Geis made Workman’s second-largest campaign contribution after his company sought to lift a Shalersville moratorium so it could market land for data centers.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:48:09 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/dovilla-backed-ohio-data-center-tax-breaks/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/dovilla-backed-ohio-data-center-tax-breaks/Records show Dovilla backed three separate measures expanding the tax break before lobbyists for QTS Data Centers gave his campaign nearly $3,000.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:18:13 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/husted-received-630k-data-center-donors/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/husted-received-630k-data-center-donors/Husted personally championed a sales tax exemption that helped bring a Google data center to New Albany, and his top aide has taken $94,000 in donations.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:05:44 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/firstenergy-seeks-rate-hike-amid-hb6-scandal-fallout/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/firstenergy-seeks-rate-hike-amid-hb6-scandal-fallout/Consumer advocates say the utility tied to the state’s largest public corruption case needs to rebuild trust and be held accountable.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:13:50 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-heating-bills-rise-9-percent-winter-2026/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-heating-bills-rise-9-percent-winter-2026/Home heating costs are anticipated to rise by almost 9% this winter, according to a recent analysis.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:07:12 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-138-municipalities-data-center-moratoriums/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/ohio-138-municipalities-data-center-moratoriums/A BGSU poll finds 78% of Ohioans back the pauses, as developers sue Urbana, Lordstown and other cities over shifting local rules.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:31 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/kroger-overpricing-report-ohio-inspection-data/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/kroger-overpricing-report-ohio-inspection-data/The Center for Responsible Food Business found overcharges outnumbered undercharges nearly 3-to-1 across 389 Ohio inspections, hitting minority and senior shoppers hardest.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:55:56 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/blm-leases-2776-wayne-forest-acres-11-million-fracking/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/blm-leases-2776-wayne-forest-acres-11-million-fracking/Ohio Environmental Council attorney Nathan Johnson says the sale violates environmental law and is preparing a federal court challenge over the first Wayne lease sale since 2017.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:50:19 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/should-ohio-ban-property-tax-incentives-data-centers/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/should-ohio-ban-property-tax-incentives-data-centers/New research suggests data center incentives sway roughly a third of siting decisions, raising questions about who bears the environmental costs versus who gets the tax breaks.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:35:27 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/flock-cameras-mass-surveillance-ohio-fight/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/flock-cameras-mass-surveillance-ohio-fight/An analysis found Flock cameras wrongly flagged 71% of vehicles as stolen, while Texas deputies used the network to track a woman across state lines over an abortion.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:30:04 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/trump-tariffs-raise-tailgating-costs/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/trump-tariffs-raise-tailgating-costs/Ground beef is up 24% since Trump took office and gas hit $4.15 a gallon, as the report ties Canadian aluminum tariffs to pricier beer cans.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:08:27 GMThttps://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/stidham-admits-voting-himself-larose-confirms-fundraiser-timing/https://clevelandmonitor.com/posts/stidham-admits-voting-himself-larose-confirms-fundraiser-timing/Stidham denies the event was a GOP fundraiser even as LaRose confirms attending it the day before certifying him in a 2-2 tiebreaker.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:31:57 GMT