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| What you need to know Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 WEATHER
Temperatures will climb to about 80 degrees today, and it will be a bit muggy with mostly sunny skies. There are slight chances of showers and thunderstorms overnight as temps dip to about 60 degrees. Read more.
Local scores: NFL: Browns 26, Chicago Bears 6 MLB: Chicago White Sox 5, Indians 2 OVERNIGHT
East Cleveland chases: Police are conducting wild, reckless chases on the streets of the poverty-stricken East Cleveland with a regularity unparalleled in Northeast Ohio, creating a pervasive fear among residents without accountability, review or penalty. A cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer analysis found East Cleveland police launched 105 chases in the first 120 days of the year, meaning police in East Cleveland chase people almost nine days out of 10. Fully 40 percent of those chases ended in crashes, reports Adam Ferrise in the first story of a series on East Cleveland police chases.
Mixed messaging: Americans are suffering similar whiplash over the COVID-19 vaccine booster shot. What’s the effect of all the rapidly changing health directives and conflicting messages? Another pandemic of sorts – a rise of conspiracy theories, disinformation and a lack of faith in the system created to protect us, reports Hannah Drown.
Gun violence: The fatal shooting of Mayor Frank Jackson’s grandson highlights what people dedicated to stopping violent crime already know — gun violence in Cleveland is so dire no one is spared from being swallowed up. Activists said the shooting of Frank Q. Jackson, 24, in many ways was ordinary, particularly since the beginning of 2020, when shootings began to spike, Adam Ferrise reports.
Allegiant Air: Allegiant Air, which offers cheap flights to popular vacation destinations, will pull out of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport next year. Susan Glaser reports the leisure-oriented airline entered the Cleveland market in 2017 but never seemed to gain traction with Northeast Ohio travelers the way other low-cost carriers did. This Week in the CLE: The ACLU of Ohio and a pair of prominent state voting-rights groups are suing over new House and Senate districts. We’re talking about the Ohio Supreme Court taking on gerrymandering on This Week in the CLE, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast.
Redistricting lawsuit: A second group of plaintiffs filed suit with the Ohio Supreme Court on Friday challenging the legislative maps recently passed by Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission. Jeremy Pelzer and Seth Richardson report the suit was filed by the National Redistricting Action Fund – a nonprofit affiliate of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee led by former Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder – on behalf of 10 Ohioans who said they were adversely affected by the gerrymandered legislative maps.
Statehouse resignation: A top aide to Gov. Mike DeWine with ties to a dark-money group implicated in the ongoing FirstEnergy bribery scandal resigned Friday. Seth Richardson reports Dan McCarthy, DeWine’s legislative director, submitted his letter of resignation effective Friday, citing a need to “take a break” from the intensity of Statehouse negotiations.
Travel ban: Starting this week, California will restrict state-funded travel to Ohio as a result of the provision on Ohio’s two-year budget passed July 1 that allows medical providers in the state to deny care to LGBTQ patients. The ban begins Sept. 30, Jane Morice reports.
Leadership fund: Cleveland City Council candidate Rebecca Maurer has accused a political action committee controlled by mayoral candidate and Council President Kevin Kelley of skirting campaign finance laws in support of her opponent, Councilman Anthony Brancatelli. Courtney Astolfi reports that in a complaint, Maurer accused the Kelley-controlled Council Leadership Fund PAC of either violating Ohio campaign finance laws or Cleveland laws limiting campaign contributions.
Opioid trial: Attorneys for Lake and Trumbull counties say the failures of four pharmacy chains allowed excessive amounts of opioids to pour into the communities, resulting in addiction, deaths and a crisis that will last for years. The companies – CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and Giant Eagle – deny the allegations, saying their pharmacists properly filled prescriptions from doctors and notified authorities of any red flags. John Caniglia reports the trial starts today.
Property taxes: The property tax bill for most Cuyahoga County homeowners will go up, the result of a new set of appraisals recently completed by the county. Exactly how much depends on where you live and the value of your property. Eric Heisig has a list.
Housing market: The number of homes sold throughout Ohio in August shows that the hot residential real estate market that has lasted through most of the coronavirus pandemic may be stabilizing a bit, even if demand continues to keep prices elevated. Statewide, the average home sales price was $254,239, an increase of 14% from the same month last year and a 1% increase from July, reports Eric Heisig.
Defense bill: A $768 billion defense authorization bill that the U.S. House of Representatives approved on Thursday contains measures championed by Northeast Ohio Congress members that would increase reservists’ pay, fight the Taliban’s illegal drug trade and combat veteran suicide, among other initiatives, reports Sabrina Eaton.
Abortion rights: The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a bill that would keep states from curtailing abortion access and establish a statutory right to provide and receive abortion care as states like Texas pass bills that make the procedure virtually inaccessible. All of Ohio’s Democrats supported the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” which was adopted in a 218 to 211 party-line vote, reports Sabrina Eaton.
Afghan refugees: The 37,000 refugees coming to the United States from Afghanistan - including 855 bound for Ohio - are undergoing a “multi-layered screening and vetting process” that includes background checks and biometric data to ensure they qualify for entry, Sabrina Eaton reports. Immigrants who don’t pass the overseas screenings aren’t allowed to board flights to the United States.
Recycling audit: Brooklyn aimed to decrease its recycling contamination rate of 38.1%, so the city hired four inspectors, including college and high school students, and paid them $15 an hour to rifle through the recycling bins, which are on city property when sitting on a tree lawn. They tagged bins with “Oops!” stickers when they found items that didn’t belong. Two months later, Peter Krouse reports, Brooklyn’s contamination rate had dropped to 20.4%.
Booster shots: The Ohio Department of Health on Saturday issued guidance to more than 3,500 coronavirus vaccine providers in Ohio for booster doses of the Pfizer/Comirnaty vaccine. The booster doses are available now for qualified Ohioans who received their last doses at least six months ago, reports Kaylee Remington.
Clinic COVID tests: Before going to a Cleveland Clinic emergency, urgent care or Express Care location to be tested for the coronavirus, the Clinic is asking that patients first consider scheduling an appointment online, Julie Washington reports.
COVID deaths: Another 224 Ohioans have died with the coronavirus, according to figures released Friday, continuing an upward trend in deaths over the past two months, Seth Richardson reports.
COVID cases: After weeks of seeing daily and weekly coronavirus case numbers rise to levels not seen since the winter surge, it appears Ohio’s cases are beginning to dip, Jane Morice reports. From Sept. 19 through Saturday, Ohio saw 42,972 new coronavirus cases. That figure was 48,615 – or, more than 5,600 higher – one week prior.
COVID timeline: Johns Hopkins University data says an average of more than 2,000 people are dying of COVID-19 every day in the United States, Marc Bona reports in his weekly timeline of coronavirus news.
Officer fired: A Cleveland police officer has been fired after he admitted to drinking before he was involved in a crash with an RTA bus while he was off-duty. Former Patrol Officer Mason Swires, 27, admitted during a disciplinary hearing that he had 10 to 12 alcoholic drinks before he was involved in the December 2020 crash, reports Kaylee Remington.
Wish fulfilled: Baseball helped bring Vernice Evancho together with her late husband, Mike, and the Indians have held a special place in her heart for most of her 96 years. With Cleveland’s baseball team playing its final home games as the Indians before changing its name to the Guardians next year, Vernice and her family were able to enjoy a special “bucket list” experience Saturday, taking in the 6-0 win against the White Sox from a luxury suite behind home plate thanks to an anonymous donor arranged by Hospice of the Western Reserve, Joe Noga reports.
Elandon Hall: Former Elandon Hall owner Alva Bradley II was Cleveland Indians team president and is best known for skirting Major League Baseball rules to sign teenage phenom Bob Feller in 1936. Elandon Hall, a 1910 colonial revival house located at 2114 Elandon Drive, is now for sale, listed at $1,050,000, with six bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms in 7,890 square feet, Joey Morona reports. Man found shot dead in vehicle in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Shaker Square neighborhood Read more
Man leaving park after playing basketball gunned down by duo in ski masks, Cleveland police say Read more
Man arrested after baby found unresponsive in bathtub dies, Cleveland police say Read more
Elyria police officer on paid administrative leave following violence arrest Read more
Armed males rob 3 Ohio State students near main campus Read more
Shaker council could vote Monday (Sept. 27) on proposal to remove Horseshoe dam and lake Read more
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