Although Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser Most is also in charge of the Blossom Festival, he's conducting only one concert there this season. It's tomorrow night. When we talked with Welser-Most, we found out that he has a couple of surprises planned. (more )

Proposed route cuts and fare increases have generated more outrage from Cleveland-area bus riders than local public transportation officials bargained for. RTA faces a $20-million deficit because of rising fuel costs and decreased state funding. The transit agency says cutting service and raising ticket prices are its only real options. So far this week, an estimated 1500 people attended public hearings on the matter. Hundreds packed the downtown Cleveland Library for a sometimes rowdy hearing last night. Because of the crowd's size, RTA had to schedule another hearing for today. (more )

Barack Obama's trip to Youngstown this (Tuesday) morning was billed as a town hall on energy. But the 2 thousand people packed into the Austintown Fitch High School gym were as focused on jobs, education, Iraq and even term limits as they were on energy. (more )

Norwalk Furniture is back in business and its 800 jobs likely will stay in Northeast Ohio. (more )

Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama is meeting with voters in Austintown this morning and in Berea this afternoon. WKSU Morning Newscater Tom Parkinson spoke with WKSU's M.L. Schultze on the scene in Austintown. (more )

The first hearing on proposed transit service cuts and rate hikes for Cuyahoga County public transportation service drew a crowd in Cleveland last night service. U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich was among those attending the hearing. He told officials that the RTA should be lowering fares and extending service instead of increasing fares and cutting routes. Other transit riders said they don't like the fare increases but would prefer paying more over having services cut. (more )

Cuyahoga County's public transportation system expects to hear plenty of complaints this week from people who don't like proposed rate hikes and route cuts. But the Greater Cleveland RTA says it has few choices. (more )

Eight-term Akron Congressman John Seiberling is remembered as a relentless advocate for peace and the environment. Seiberling died of respiratory failure Saturday at age 89. From his efforts to create the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to writing impeachment articles against President Nixon, Seiberling was at the forefront of the issues and events that shaped Northeast Ohio and the nation for decades. (more )

Longtime Akron area congressman John Seiberling has died. The former Akron area congressman died of respiratory failure at his Copley home Saturday morning. (more )

Scores of people who want to change national policy on health care, energy and economics showed up at a Cleveland hotel today to tell Democrats how to do it. (more )