Senate Bill 1, touted by supporters as a way to fight back against liberal indoctrination on college campuses, passed the senate 21-11 this week and is on its way to the Ohio House. It drew loads of opposition before the senate affirmed it. Among other things, it bans Diversity Equity and Inclusion efforts and forbids labor strikes by professors.

Jim Tressel, the former football coach of Ohio State University and president of Youngstown State University is now the lieutenant governor of Ohio. Is it a temporary foray into state government, or will he seek to move up to governor next year?

Lee Fisher, the former Ohio attorney general and lieutenant govenor, now serving as dean of the Cleveland State University College of Law, will become president of Baldwin Wallace University on July 1.

And Jo-Ann, the craft-retailer based in Hudson, is shuttering most of its Ohio stores as it closes 500 locations across the country amid bankruptcy

We will discuss the bill these stories and more on the Friday “Reporters Roundtable.” 

Two Northeast Ohio organizations that support residents with developmental disabilities made groundbreaking appointments to their boards last month.

In Season 2, co-hosts Marlene Harris-Taylor and Myesha Watkins talk to people who live in neighborhoods where gun violence is normalized, and discuss solutions to end the cycle of violence.

Spring training officially starts Tuesday, meaning there is less than two months until baseball's return. In a recent City Club of Cleveland conversation, Vogt discussed how a change in culture is helping drive success for the team.

Later, we'll hear how for decades, community leaders have been trying to develop Cleveland's lakefront, including improving connectivity from Downtown to the lake shore. In a recent City Club conversation, Ideastream reporter Abbey Marshall moderated a discussion on the Lakefront Master plan with a panel of city leaders.

Ideastream Public Media reporters are asking what is being done, and what could be done to stop unnecessary firearm deaths in Northeast Ohio.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine's biennial budget tops our discussion of the week’s news on the “Sound of Ideas Reporters Roundtable.”

WVIZ first went on air on Feb. 7, 1965, originally broadcasting from the gymnasium of Max Hayes Trade School in Cleveland.

This week, President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose or threaten new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, and those countries have proposed retaliations. How could a possible trade war impact Ohio's economy?

Bird flu cases continue to rise in Ohio. Currently, there are 39 affected commercial flocks and more than 8.7 million birds infected.

Last week, the Trump administration announced and then rescinded a pause on federal dollars going to various government agencies and nonprofits.