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How People Fall For Bitcoin Scams
SCENE | September 2025
Second Acts: Why Cleveland Is Placing Housing First For Its Homeless
SCENE | July 2025
Cleveland Revels In Its (Long Deserved) Superman Summer
SCENE | July 2025
She Turned Her Yard Into A Cottage Garden. The City Took Her To Court
SCENE | June 2025
Cars Keep Crashing Into His House. Is Cleveland Heights To Blame?
SCENE | December 2024
Pastor Josh Miller Wants to 'Purify' Cleveland's Strip Club District
SCENE | December 2024
Northeast Ohio Immigration Advocates Brace For Trump 2.0
SCENE | November 2024
A Non-Profit Gifted a Disabled Mentor 8-Year-Old a Swim Spa for Physical Therapy. It's Become the Center of an HOA Dispute
SCENE | October 2024
Have Nine Cuyahoga County Deputies Made Downtown Cleveland Safer?
SCENE | Sept 2024
Inflation, High Grocery Prices, Food Deserts. Cleveland Homesteaders Opt to Grow Their Own Instead
SCENE | August 2024
How 'Smart Code' Will Greatly Change Cleveland's Look in Years to Come
SCENE | August 2024
Chad Muska Wants to Build Ohio's Best Skatepark
SCENE | July 2024
On Poetry, Envy and a Six-Figure Book Deal
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May 2024
Six Acres of Land in Lakewood, Ohio Have Sat Vacant for Years. Some Want to 'Save the Pit'
SCENE | July 2024
Pro-Palestine Protesters Remain Defiant Despite Looming Threats
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May 2024
St. Clair Place Residents Take Building Neglect Into Own Hands
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April 2024
Fridrich Bicycle, Cleveland's Oldest Bike Shop, Looks to Close
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March 2024
North Olmsted Blooms as Hub for Ohio's Palestinian Diaspora
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March 2024
A Christian Nonprofit Hoped to Build a Small Women's Homeless Shelter in Munson Township.
Residents Said No
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February 2024
Concrete Jungle:
How Cleveland Built a City Devoted to Parking, and How its Trying to Undo the Damage
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February 2024
In Cleveland's Fight to Address Growing Homeless Population, Outreach Workers Play a Frontline Role
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February 2024
'It Humanizes You': A Q&A with Mayor Justin Bibb Halfway Through What He Hopes Won't Be His Only Term in Office
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January 2024
Weed's Now Legal Across Ohio. Are Psychedelic Mushrooms Next?
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December 2023
He Moved From Hollywood to Convert a Small Town Ohio High School Into a Film Production Studio. Will Business Follow?
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November 2023
In Cleveland's Post-Covid DIY Revival, Queer Black Drag in Midtown and Hardcore in Taco Bell Parking Lots
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November 2023
Baldwin Wallace Thought It Faced a $3 Million Budget Deficit. It Was Actually $20 Million
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November 2023
Pepper Pike, Ohio Nears a Surprisingly Contentious Ballot Issue: Whether to Build Sidewalks
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November 2023
Can Dave Margolius End the Sale of Flavored Tobacco?
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October 2023
A 15-Second TikTok Video Changed Their Lives. But Who Owns The Legacy?
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October 2023
Could a Music Commission Save Cleveland Music?
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August 2023
Two Years After Afghanistan, Evacuees Still Face Legal Limbo
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August 2023
Downtown Cleveland is Ohio's Worst Hazard for Migrating Birds. This Group Wants to Change That
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June 2023
Rats, Dirty Air, Broken Faucets: Lakeview Terrace Residents Wonder When Help Will Come
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May 2023
Queens in the Stone Age: Drag Faces Assault From Far-Right Extremists
SCENE | May 2023
After ArtCraft Building's Closure, Newcomers Offer Affordable Rents
SCENE | April 2023
Is This Downtown Cleveland's Retail Moment?
SCENE | March 2023
A Lakeside Mobile Home Community Fights the Result of its New Landlord: Eviction
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February 2023
He Sees Kratom As An Alcohol Substitute. The City Wants To Shut Him Down
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January 2023
'It's Not Vacant': ArtCraft Building Tenants Given Weeks To Vacate In Preparation For Police Headquarters
SCENE | Dec. 2022
A Cleveland Heights Resident's Pizza Oven Was The Talk of the Block. Until One Sued
SCENE | Jan. 2023
On The Camino, Going Up Slowly: An Essay
Cleveland Magazine | Sept. 2022
After Decades of Underfunding, Cleveland's Youth Football League Gets A Raise
The Land | Sept. 2022
When Crops Are Low, The Wind in O'Brien County, Iowa, Remains Gold
RTBC | April 2022
The Vanishing of Andrea Knabel
Narratively | Feb. 2022
They Flip Houses to Investors Two-Thousand Miles Away. What Can Cleveland Do?
SCENE | Jan. 2022
*Winner of two Ohio Press Club Awards
An Apache Tribe's COVID-19 Contact Tracing Model Saved Lives. It Could Work Elsewhere.
TIME | Nov. 2021
Cleveland Peacemakers Wrestle With Record Year in Gun Violence
SCENE | August 2021
'Blue Dot, Red Sea.' Can a Progressive Reshape Lima, Ohio?
Belt | April 2021
A Sustainable Way to Survive COVID: Go Full Co-op
The Land | Dec 2020
The Rise of the Creep Patrol
SCENE | August 2020
After the Vindy, Mahoning Matters
NPR | August 2020
Hispanic Coalitions Spread Urgent Message For 2020 Census: 'Be Counted'
Belt Magazine | March 2020
Should City Council Have a Public Comment Period?
Cleveland Magazine | March 2020
After a Year of Record-Breaking Floods, Farmers Face a Choice: Stay or Leave?
The Counter | Dec 2019
Is Weaponized Fentanyl the Next Terrorist Threat?
OZY | Nov 2019
The Judge Who Made His Own Bail Rules to Stop Jail Deaths
OZY | Nov 2019
The Tow Truck Turf War and
The Driver Left For Dead
Narratively | July 2019
GM 'Unallocated' Its Lordstown, Ohio, Plant. What's Next for The Village?
Pacific Standard | April 2019
The Spread of Fake News Has Deadly Consequences in Mexico. Meet the People Trying to Stop it.
Pacific Standard | Feb 2019
Chaos, Competition and Insecurity in Latin America's Largest Open-Air Market
Mexico News Daily | Nov 2018
In This Mexican Town, One in 5 People is a Glass Maker
Atlas Obscura | Nov 2018
What Will Mexico Do When Its Deadliest Volcano Erupts?
Pacific Standard | Oct 2018
Days in the Life of a Mexican Feminist Activist
Pacific Standard | June 2018
Tasting the History of Puebla's Calle de Dulces
Atlas Obscura | Sept 2018
The Transformation of Lady J
Cleveland Magazine | Aug 2017
In Heroin's Heartland
Pacific Standard | Jan 2018
This All-Amputee Softball Team is Changing the Way We Think About Trauma
Narratively | Aug 2017
Men of Steel
Belt | June 2017
Can Cleveland Institute of Art Professors Lift East Cleveland?
Crain's | May 2017
The Greatest Sleight of Hand: Chaos At The 2016 Republican National Convention
Fresh Water | July 2016
Adega Chef Could Be On The Cusp of Culinary Stardom
Crain's | August 2016
Ramping Up the Odds
Fresh Water | Jan 2016
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