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Casino opening in Potterville, where’s Clarence?

by Phil Trexler 05.18.2012 Blog

As a child, my mother would walk my sister and me to the corner of West 61st Street in Cleveland where we’d hop on a Rapid and swing minutes later into the gut of the Terminal Tower. Stepping off the train, there were no dancing water fountains, no mall and certainly no casino. Mom would [...]

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Night from Hell

by Bob Dyer 05.18.2012 Blog

Every parent’s worst nightmare came true the other night for a mother in Copley. Well, every parent’s second-worst nightmare. Her daughter did survive the late-night car crash, but just barely. Parent Diana Mruk acknowledged that Macy Mruk, a cheerleader at Revere High School, made a horrible mistake when she got behind the wheel after drinking [...]

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Schools Deserve More

by Phil Trexler 05.15.2012 Blog

On NewsNite, we find ourselves routinely talking about schools and money. It’s a conversation that needs to end. It’s time for a fix. When teachers are laid off or programs are cut, our kids pay the price. They need to stop paying. Someone else needs to pony up. It’s amazing that our state universities can just decide to [...]

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Cuts to balance APS budget; help from citizens for APD; and rates don’t change at Falls’ Nat

by Jody Miller 05.11.2012 Blog

NewsNite for May 11 revisits issues that the panel has addressed several times in the past but which never seem to reach resolution … better for us to talk about! Host Eric Mansfield, the Beacon Journal’s Stephanie Warsmith and Phil Trexler (recently named in back-to-back AP Ohio awards for best news writer among big newspapers) [...]

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Bombing out

by Steve Hoffman 05.04.2012 Blog

The five pseudo-anarchists accused of hatching a plot to blow up the Route 82 bridge in the Cuyahoga Valley came off as a bunch of misguided misfits. Still, the whole episode should serve as a reminder that fighting terrorism is not a just a matter of drone strikes in foreign lands or helicopter-borne assaults on [...]

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Dancing, anarchists, and texting while drivin

by Jody Miller 05.04.2012 Blog

NewsNite for May 4 entailed lively discussion between host Eric Mansfield, Ed Esposito, Steve Hoffman and me. We started this week’s edition of NewsNite with a story out of the Summit County Jail about the firing of Deputy Dominic Martucci for misconduct and inhumane treatment of inmates. It was reported (by our NewsNite colleague Phil [...]

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Continued Discussion: Summit DD Fires Veteran Kevin McGee

by the NewsNite. Webmaster 04.27.2012 Continued Discussion
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Summit DD and Kevin McGee

by Phil Trexler 04.27.2012 Blog

I remember some time back in 2011 (at around 11 minutes into the linked video), I made a comment on NewsNite about the Summit County Developmental Disabilities agency and their upcoming tax levy request. I merely wondered aloud how fiscally prudent the agency was being and if they really needed more money. After all, I argued, voters [...]

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Meth madness

by Steve Hoffman 04.20.2012 Blog

The Akron City Council made a three-pronged attack on meth labs, part of a growing effort by local communities to combat the problem. Property owners will now be liable for cleanup costs, incurred when specially trained police officers remove toxic materials and contaminated equipment from apartments and homes. Federal grants to pay for the task [...]

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Like Eric said … it’s all about $$

by Jody Miller 04.20.2012 Blog

Eric’s welcome to viewers on the April 20 NewsNite begins with the introduction that tonight’s show is all about money … and it really is. He leads us (Steve Hoffman, Bob Dyer and me) in a discussion about panhandling (trying to get money) in Fairlawn; local school funding (when hasn’t money been an issue?) and [...]

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Don’t Pay Panhandlers

by Bob Dyer 04.20.2012 Blog

Why don’t we just outlaw panhandling? Because we can’t. The courts have consistently ruled that panhandling is a form of free speech. It can be regulated, as Akron has done for years and Fairlawn is doing now, but the impact is limited. Requiring licenses and moving beggars away from certain locations doesn’t eliminate it. There [...]

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Addressing Akron violence

by Phil Trexler 04.16.2012 Blog

A rash of shootings in West Akron has folks talking. Problem is, police need more of the right people to start talking. A 17-year-old boy is dead. Gunned down in the middle of the afternoon outside a convenience store on busy Copley Road. The gunfire, about a dozen shots in all, prompted witnesses to scatter. [...]

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Continued Discussion: Proactive Policing

by the NewsNite. Webmaster 04.13.2012 Continued Discussion
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Continued Discussion: The Rising Cost of College

by the NewsNite. Webmaster 04.13.2012 Continued Discussion
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