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Uptown development opens with ribbon-cutting spectacle Cleveland Magazine: The Blue Block Party was held Thursday, marking the grand opening of Uptown and Toby’s Plaza. Of the development project, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said at the event, “The best plan is the one you’re doing.”

Is casting aside caste possible? Can one reclassify class? The Huffington Post: In a recent blog, Deepak Sarma, professor of South Asian religions and philosophy, questioned whether class and caste are core claims to Hinduism, if they can both be jettisoned, or if one can keep its centrality but…

Defense of Marriage Act faces widow’s tax case appeal Bloomberg News: A U.S. appeals court in New York is set to consider arguments challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. “The main issues in these cases revolve around equal protection, the idea that this federal law treats similarly situated…

Voters young & old discuss 2012 election ideastream: A recent Gallup poll shows that 63 percent of 18- to 29-year-old registered voters definitely will vote this year; in the 2008 election, it was 80 percent. On Thursday’s edition of “The Sound of Ideas,” two students, Mel Sayre, president of…

Half-shell heroes return to action The New York Times: Nickelodeon is re-launching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this weekend as a computer-animated animated series. The original concept intrigued people because it was a mash-up and parody of various comics, and it turned the superhero formula…

CWRU med school plans take hold Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): The Cleveland Foundation and the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation each have committed $10 million to help finance a 160,000-square-foot building for the School of Medicine. The university hopes to break ground on…

Female factor: Candidates campaign on women’s issues in fight for votes The Ledger: Women outnumber men among registered voters by 8.6 million, or 6.2 percent, and research shows women are more likely to actually vote. "This is a huge impact that women have just in terms of our numbers," said…

More than 1 in 4 Cuyahoga County children live in poverty ideastream: The number of Northeast Ohio children living in poverty is holding steady from last year but is still up from several years prior, at 28.7 percent. Claudia Coulton, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community…

More dismal science for would-be entrepreneurs Bloomberg Businessweek: In a recent column, Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, makes a case for why entrepreneurship programs should focus heavily on microeconomics. “Many company founders make mistakes that…

98,000 trampoline-related injuries in the U.S. result in 3,100 hospitalizations Medical News Today: Susannah Briskin, assistant professor of pediatrics as well as a pediatric sports medicine specialist with Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, co-authored a report from the American Academy of…