The Wake Up - Oct. 18, 2019
Ohio legislators pass bills that fly in the face of science, Lyric Lawson's killing is solved and the Greater Cleveland Food Bank has run out of room. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ohio legislators pass bills that fly in the face of science, Lyric Lawson's killing is solved and the Greater Cleveland Food Bank has run out of room. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Five years after the police killing of Tamir Rice, we finally have a ruling on whether police mistreated his sister in the hour after Tamir was shot. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The earliest major snowstorm in 23 years is forecast, and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is inexplicably skipping the county with the most foster children in the state as he holds hearings on how to improve foster services. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Finding lessons in the fifth anniversary of the police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a second person says U.S. Rep Jim Jordan knew about an sexual abuser at Ohio State University and did nothing, and the Browns win a big game. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Cuyahoga County seeks a $35 million tax increase but refuses to provide the numbers behind the request, the mother of a homicide victim blames and files suit against Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and "Hamilton" is coming back to Cleveland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Larry Householder expands his base of power, Cleveland homicide trends are disturbing and help for adoptive parents. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Cleveland Heights wants an elected mayor, Lakewood elects the daughter of a former mayor as the new mayor, and county voters approve a tax for Tri-C See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A county prosecutor says a lack of homicide detectives is devastating, a Cleveland t-shirt king loses everything and LeBron now will provide crisis housing, as well as an education, to kids in Akron. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We have a big push this week by the people fighting for universal background checks, an investigation into guards who are sleeping in the jail and questions about what is next after the Cleveland Rising summit. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Cuyahoga County is unique in depriving jail inmates of access to lawyers, Cleveland Rising wraps up and a big convention will be heading to Cleveland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Sherwin Williams will not move out of Northeast Ohio and the Cleveland Rising Summit is producing intriguing ideas for a bright Cleveland future. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A hung jury along racial lines in the case of a white jail guard accused of beating an African American inmate, the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the grisly Anthony Sowell case and the first day of Cleveland Rising. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Dan Gilbert cashes out of his casinos and Mike DeWine worries that the parole system is run too loosely. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Workers at one of downtown Cleveland's biggest employers worry their jobs will head south, and Mike DeWine is not executing anyone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Tim Ryan calls it quits, will Cleveland City Council please do its job and a poem about a Christmas Ale See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A big step forward on bail reform, and how that a young mom ended up dead on Interstate 90 during Monday's rush hour See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
How Cuyahoga County will make sure millions of dollars in opioid settlements won't be wasted and more See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Cuyahoga and Summit counties settle for big bucks with the drug companies, the county jail population falls to its lowest number in years and is it too early to talk about Christmas whisky and beer? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
A lot of eyes are on Cleveland as the lawyers make their opening statements in the big opioid trial, today is a big deadline for the people fighting the nuclear industry bailout and a Geauga County judge appears to put the interests of a convicted felon ahead of the interests of the people who elected him. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Armond Budish has a bold plan for the lakefront, and the long-awaited opioid trial starts in Cleveland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Gun control advocates are working to get around Gov. Mike DeWine and have voters approve universal background checks, Frank Jackson wants to plant trees and a wayward cow is chased by the police. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Democratic Presidential candidates actually discuss issues of importance to the midwest when they come to Ohio, a longtime television health reporter battles her own illness and the Rock Hall has its latest round of nominees. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We have some ideas for the issues that should be discussed on tonight's presidential debate, and a Northeast Ohio congressman has an idea for helping the weed industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Ohio hosts the Democratic debate, and the candidates swarm the state. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
For the fourth time in six months, the Cuyahoga COunty Jail makes a mistake and lets an inmate go free. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Cleveland Police and the city come to a quick agreement on a new contract in a rare moment of accord, and Akron says it can do a better job plowing the snow by plowing fewer miles of roads. It actually makes sense. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Time and hope appears to be running thin for the effort to block the Ohio bailout of the nuclear industry, and Akron thinks it can clear the roads of snow this winter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Armond Budish seed aside $1 million to make the bail system fair to all, even though the judge overseeing the reforms seems to have been doing nothing in 2019, and Gov. Mike DeWine submits watered-down proposals for gun reforms. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Cleveland firefighters have prevailed in their push to get the fire chief prosecuted on a charge of violating the charter by campaigning for the mayor. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Donald Trump's election campaign faces trouble in Ohio, and the former jail warden escapes being sentenced to jail for obstructing justice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.