http://www.wksu.org/news/ WKSU News Headlines en-us Copyright 2010, WKSU Radio Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:09:18 -0500 WKSU RSS Generator 1.1 The Akron school board has approved an ambitious plan to redesign two of its public schools. WKSU's Mike Olszewski reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24891 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:53:53 -0500 Mike Olszewski Education The city of Kent is moving ahead with plans to drastically change the look of its downtown area. WKSU's Mike Olszewski reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24890 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:49:44 -0500 Mike Olszewski Economy and Business - A second winter storm is expected to leave Ohio with up to a foot of snow - Ohio based Huntington Banks are expanding their hours and bringing in new hires. - There is a good chance Delonte West will be returning tonight as the Cavs host the New Jersey Nets - Akron and Summit County health deparments look to consolidate WKSU's Mike Olszewski reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24487 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Mike Olszewski In these days of ATMs and on-line banking, Huntington announced this weekend that it will open its Cleveland branches seven days a week, and extend weekday hours. It may be setting itself up for stronger competition in the market with PNC. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24889 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:38:27 -0500 M.L. Schultze Economy and Business The Obama Administration is pledging more than 78 million dollars to fight the spread of Asian carp from the Mississippi River into the Great Lakes. Monday's announcement followed a meeting by EPA and other administration officials with Great Lakes governors, who fear the massive fish is about to leap through Chicago shipping channels into the Great Lakes. The fish can devour more than half its weight and has no predators here. The governors are concerned it will destroy the $7 billion Great Lakes fishing industry. Nearly a billion of that is in Lake Erie alone, and Charlie Wooley of the National Fish and Wildlife Service says the carp already have been found in the shallower water of Lake Erie. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24888 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:49:37 -0500 The grants are being made through the state of Ohio's Industry Energy Efficiency Awards WKSU's Tim Rudell reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24887 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:00:10 -0500 Tim Rudell Economy and Business Ohio has an estimated 850,000 small businesses, and the Obama administration is hoping they see a lot to like in a plan to expand small-business tax credits and lending. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24885 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:50:17 -0500 M.L. Schultze Economy and Business The 2010 campaigns haven't really started heating up yet, but Ohio is already quite the hot spot for high profile political figures right now. WKSU's Karen Kasler reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24883 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:24:20 -0500 Karen Kasler Government Ohio legislators this week plan to look at more than 60 proposals for new state laws. The action will take place in House and Senate committees. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24882 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:10:09 -0500 Bill Cohen Government The 3C personal train plan got a big boost with $400 million in federal stimulus dollars. The plan still needs to be approved by the lawmakers on the state controlling board, and it has plenty of critics. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler sat down with two lawmakers with different perspectives on the proposal to bring passenger rail back to Ohio. WKSU's Karen Kasler reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24881 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:04:40 -0500 Karen Kasler Ohio Quicken Loans Arena has shut down its drinking fountains. WKSU's Mike Olszewski reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24879 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:28:09 -0500 Mike Olszewski Health and Medicine A Cleveland non-profit that helps people with low incomes has hit major financial problems of its own. WKSU's Mike Olszewski reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24878 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:22:05 -0500 Mike Olszewski Economy and Business A 22-year old Mentor woman who wants to make history with a cross-Atlantic Ocean row has reached the half-way point of her journey. Katie Spotz left Senegal, Africa, around the first of the year and will arrive in Brazil in about six weeks. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz catches up with Spotz through her close friend and fellow ocean rower Sam Williams. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24875 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Amanda Rabinowitz Sports The Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2010 includes two players eligible in their first year -- Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith -- and two who have been out of the game for more than three decades. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24877 Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:24:14 -0500 M.L. Schultze Sports Ohio's largest county may have more of that wild-west feel this weekend. The Ashtabula County sheriff's office was forced to lay-off 16 deputies this week, leaving one cruiser per shift available for calls. WKSU's Jeff St. Clair reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24884 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:45:40 -0500 Jeff St. Clair Government A shortfall in state income tax revenues is sparking a disturbing question - could Ohio be headed into yet another state budget mess? Ohio legislators as well as Governor Strickland thought all the holes in the budget were filled, but a new one has emerged. Revenues from the graduated income tax came in $139 million below estimates in January, creating a nearly $100 million shortfall in the state budget. John Kohlstrand from the tax department says there's no need to panic. WKSU's Bill Cohen reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24880 Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:58:39 -0500 Bill Cohen Government The field of candidates for Cuyahoga County's first county executive will officially grow to three next week.... WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24876 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 16:36:25 -0500 Kevin Niedermier Government Advocacy groups on the political left and right are up in arms over a proposal by one Ohio legislator that would make it much harder for activists to get their ballot proposals approved by voters. It would require that future statewide ballot measures garner a super-majority before they take effect WKSU's Bill Cohen reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24872 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:22:51 -0500 Bill Cohen Government Some property owners in downtown Cleveland say they are willing to pay to keep the business district clean and attractive to shoppers. WKSU's Mike Olszewski reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24871 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:45:36 -0500 Mike Olszewski Economy and Business A decision by state regulators caused utility bills to spike for thousands of owners of all electric-homes. And two Northeast Ohio lawmakers have scheduled hearings next week to examine why and to discuss alternatives. WKSU's Mike Olszewski reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24870 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:43:07 -0500 Mike Olszewski Economy and Business The Cleveland Cavs have their longest winning streak of the season at 10 games. Thursday night, LeBron James got the best of Dwyane Wade - his friend and another player at the top of this year's extraordinary class of free agents. It gave the Cavs their third win over the Heat this season. WKSU's Amanda Rabinowitz reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24869 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:42:49 -0500 Amanda Rabinowitz Sports Folk singer Pete Seeger was hoping to help out the country of Haiti but is helping out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well. A few weeks ago, Seeger had placed his famous banjo head on eBay to raise money for planting trees in Haiti. But after the bidding went above $5,000, he decided to find other ways to raise money for Haiti. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24874 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:44:56 -0500 Arts and Entertainment Ohio has put to death a man who killed a convenience store owner and clerk after bragging he would copy a scene from a gang related movie. 37 year-old Mark Aaron Brown from Youngstown died by lethal injection at 10:20am for gunning down 32 year-old store owner Isam Salman in Youngstown in 1994. Brown had also been sentenced to life in prison for shooting a clerk in the store at the same time. Alan Johnson is a reporter from the Columbus Dispatch and has witnessed several executions, including Thursday's. He described it as "calm, fast and peaceful". WKSU's Karen Kasler reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24873 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:27:14 -0500 Karen Kasler Crime and Courts Folk singer Pete Seeger was hoping to help out the country of Haiti but is helping out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well. A few weeks ago Seeger had placed his famous banjo head on E-Bay to raise money for planting trees in Haiti. But after the bidding went above 5 thousand dollars he decided to find other ways to raise money for Haiti.... http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24868 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:11:26 -0500 Arts and Entertainment Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown is introducing a bill to try to side-step a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that strips away most of the limits on corporate spending on political campaigns. WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24867 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:38:51 -0500 M.L. Schultze Politics In his budget released this week, President Obama proposed spending 300 million dollars next year on improving the Great Lakes. That's a reduction of the 475 million approved for 2010, the first year of his Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The money will go toward improving the region's environment and economy, it's a balance that can happen according to Jeff Skelding of the the Healing Our Waters / Great Lakes Coaltion says. Lake Erie is home to more than half of the fish in the entire Great Lakes system, and is estimated to generate $50 billion dollars in economic activity each year. WKSU's Jeff St. Clair reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24866 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:36:00 -0500 Jeff St. Clair Environment The Ohio Inspector General says the former head of the Ohio Department of Public Safety might have committed criminal acts in the way he conducted business while in that office. But some people think the IG's report is based on a flawed and insufficient investigation. WKSU's Jo Ingles reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24864 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:03:24 -0500 Jo Ingles Ohio Ohio is set to go forward with a second execution in as many months, and it could be the third one to use Ohio's new single drug method. WKSU's Karen Kasler reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24861 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:46:17 -0500 Karen Kasler Crime and Courts The design of everyday products is often determined by factors like controlling the cost of raw materials or meeting rigid production deadlines. Living things, on the other hand, follow a different set of design rules, and enjoy millions of years of product development. A growing number of scientists and entrepreneurs in Northeast Ohio think the region's economy could be improved by learning how nature solves industrial design problems. The new field is called Biomimicry. WKSU's Jeff St. Clair reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24860 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:34:12 -0500 Jeff St. Clair Science and Technology A neighbor has been arrested in an arson explosion that ripped through a Westside Cleveland neighborhood last week. WKSU's Mike Olszewski reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24859 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:07:40 -0500 Mike Olszewski Crime and Courts The director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park is transferring to Washington. WKSU's Mike Olszewski reports. http://www.wksu.org/news/story/24858 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:02:07 -0500 Mike Olszewski Science and Technology