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Crooked River Cast — Show #74, week of September 14, 2026.

• Columbus pauses Flock ALPRs after officer Melvin Tellis plate-search probe; bags over ~65 cameras

• Cleveland Orchestra musicians authorize a strike; clock runs to Sept. 23

• Testing irregularities at 52 Ohio schools, plus the score incentives that make the flags matter

• Acton at Canfield Fair: Havas misdemeanors vs the campaign "armed lunge" frame; Labor Day parade medicals next day

• Critter Corner: HB 457 (political-murder death penalty), HB 292 (defense/space commission), HB 210 (catalytic converters)

Good Things

• Aurora Park at Geauga Lake (old SeaWorld): Phase 1A opens October

• Crocker Park Wine Festival, Westlake, Sept. 18-19

• Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival, Lincoln Park, Sat. Sept. 19, noon-7

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Crooked River Cast — Show #73, week of September 7, 2026.

Tom’s Ohio City stop + Rob’s first Nashville trip.

• Flu-shot skepticism (2006 NIH clip)

• Medina County families mapping teen cancers near the old Montville landfill

• Vivek’s debate challenge — Acton’s hard pass

• Swift & Kelce’s Lakeshore Blvd / Bratenahl house

• Springfield ICE ops, expired Haitian TPS, and the death of Pierre Damas Bell

• Critter Corner: Ohio police-drone rules (DeWine signed) + Flock teaser

• SB1: ~90 low-enrollment Ohio public degree programs cut

Good Things

• Waterloo Arts Fest — Collinwood, Sat Sept 12, noon–7

• Village Peddler Festival — Lake Metroparks Farmpark, Kirtland, Sept 12–13

Rob and Tom are back for Show 72, week of August 31, 2026.

East Cleveland Schools put up a “we make them career ready” billboard after a first-ever 3-star report card. The guys dig into the numbers behind it: 5% high school math proficiency, moved goalposts on what “ready” means, and whether Ed Choice is why the ads went up.

Then it’s the Statehouse stack DeWine just signed. HB 170 sets Ohio’s rulebook for pumping CO2 thousands of feet underground — including the 70% landowner threshold that can force the other 30%. SB 276 started as a school-psychologist compact and became a Christmas tree, with the “success sequence” (graduate, get a job, marry before kids) slipped in. HB 377 spends General Assembly time on laser hair removal. Also: FAA says closing Burke Lakefront is a non-starter, a judge blocks proof-of-citizenship at the BMV, Flock camera pushback keeps rolling.

Good Things: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Ohio, Labor Day weekend around Northeast Ohio.

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Data centers good, bad or neither?

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Amy Acton and Covid.

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Flock "Safety" episode.

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• Iran “deal” at risk after drone attack on shipping. 
• SCOTUS Immigration rullings. 
• Dewine’s vetoes mail in ballot bill. 
• Ohio bill requiring drivers to identify passes.
• Ohio’s “Anti-Woke” collage legislation a year later.
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• North Canton police introduce speeding database website. 
• Ohio Sheriffs push for Cuyahoga to elect their sheriffs.
• What is the future of the IX center. 

Good Things:

• Unclaimed funds update.
• Gordan Park renovations.

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• Tulsi’s Says Oh and one more thing.
• Trump signs “peace deal” with Iran.
• US strikes Cartel leader in Venezuela.
• You just pissed me off.
• Ohio man turned in by his roommate/Mom.
• Dewine signs $4B “Capital Budget” WTF is that?
• Dewine want to abolish the death penalty in Ohio. CLIP
• Cleveland say no more FLOCK cameras.
• North Olmsted police use FLOCK to track down suspect.
• RTA wants tax hike to save itself.

Good Things:

• Gas prices drop just on time.
• 4th of July events.

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• Tulsi say goodbye with a bang.
• Pentagon release third batch of “files”.
• Shock poll shows Democrats leading in Ohio.
• What have they passed in hurry before break?
• Voter ID amendment will be on November ballot.
• Ohio adds voter ID for mail in ballots to bill.
• Ohio voting right group raided by FBI.
• DOJ settles with Cleveland Clinic.
• Abolish proper tax petition will not be on the ballot this November.
• Fix the potholes or we shut it down.

Good Things:

• TikTok video gives back big.
• Cleveland Metroparks unveils sailing center.