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RTA's new Cedar Hill center to offer safer, more efficient way to use buses, trains The Plain Dealer: A groundbreaking for the new RTA transit center near campus was held yesterday, launching an $18.5 million rebuild of the station. The project culminates six years of planning between RTA and Unive...

Are we better off than four years ago? ideastream: Claudia Coulton, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, joined The Sound of Ideas to discuss key numbers and issues related to the question often touted on the campaign ...

Sustainable Cleveland 2019's annual summit begins Thursday The Plain Dealer: Cleveland’s fourth annual sustainability summit kicks off today, during which time participants will review efforts into areas such as local food and renewable energy production. David Cooperrider, the Fairmount Minerals P...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will continue its Revolution film series with a screening of the film Persepolis Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. in the Wolstein Research Building’s auditorium. Pete Moore, associate professor of political science, will introduce the film, which is a coming-of-age story ...

Experts: Suspect like a child Warren Tribune Chronicle: A 22-year-old mother of four is accused of raping a 9-month-old family member. Psychiatry professor Phillip Resnick performed competency tests on the suspect and found that while she is mildly or borderline mentally retarded and reads and func...

Babies born to opiate-addicted moms go through withdrawal The Plain Dealer: In the past decade, the number of babies born addicted to opioids in the U.S. has risen dramatically; in Ohio, the number of women identified as being opiate addicted while pregnant or parenting has grown nearly 200 percent...

Ohio income down, rates of poverty and uninsured unchanged, 2011 census figures show The Plain Dealer: According to recent Census Bureau statistics, Ohio’s median household income declined by 5.7 percent over the previous year—a drop more than three times greater than the national average. "I know ...

Poverty rate mostly holding steady across U.S., Ohio ideastream: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 15 percent of Americans live in poverty—a rate that is leveling off. Ohio comes in at 15.1 percent, a marked increase since 2001 but a similar level to what the state has seen in recent years durin...

Pussy Riot's theology The Chronicle of Higher Education: When members of the feminist punk collective Pussy Riot staged a “punk prayer” in a Moscow cathedral—and were subsequently arrested—many of the group’s supporters viewed their motivation as atheistic indignation toward religion. But, as Timot...

FirstMerit buying Michigan bank for $912 million WKSU: Akron-based FirstMerit Bank plans to buy Michigan-based Citizens Republic Bank in a deal valued at almost $1 billion. William Mahnic, associate professor of banking and finance, said consolidating operations is one way banks can increase profit...