The Wake Up

The Wake Up

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The Wake Up episodes

  • The Wake Up – July 23, 2021 One year after scandal broke, FirstEnergy charged for its role in House Bill 6 bribery scheme
    One year after the first charges were announced in the House Bill 6 case, the company accused of bankrolling the operation – Akron-based FirstEnergy – has been charged. The new court filings confirm FirstEnergy officials say they paid a 4.3-million-dollar bribe to former PUCO Chairman Sam Randazzo in exchange for Randazzo’s help advancing the company’s interest when he was the state’s top public-utilities regulator. The Cleveland Browns’ Berea training facility gets a new corporate sponsor. It’s still a sellers’ market in Northeast Ohio as home sales and average prices continue to climb. And Prosperity Social Club in Tremont is changing hands, after a sale to The Spotted Owl owner Will Hollingsworth.

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    6 min
  • The Wake Up – July 22, 2021 ODOT awards Cleveland $2.5 million to study Browns’ lakefront proposal
    ODOT awards Cleveland 2.5-million-dollars to study the Browns’ lakefront proposal. Ohio could receive as much as a billion dollars from a massive opioid settlement. Federal prosecutors portray Councilman Ken Johnson as a swindler who fleeced taxpayers. Some of the homeless men who were booted from the Independence Ramada were among about two dozen people who attended this week’s Cuyahoga County Council meeting to protest the ouster brought on by Independence Mayor Gregory Kurtz and County Executive Armond Budish. And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected a GOP request to make Congressman Jim Jordan a member of a new select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, arguing that Jordan’s actions and statements might jeopardize the probe’s integrity.

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    6 min
  • The Wake Up – July 21, 2021 Ohio’s latest spike in COVID-19 infections could indicate that areas with lower vaccination rates are at greater risk
    Ohio is seeing its highest number of new COVID infections in two months. Colleges and universities in Greater Cleveland are receiving $261 billion from the latest federal stimulus. A Cleveland city commission gives the first approval to Sherwin-Williams’ HQ plans. Cleveland hospital construction projects recently completed or in the works total $1.4 billion. Police are searching for the family of a baby girl left at a bus stop.

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    6 min
  • The Wake Up – July 20, 2021 Federal trial against Councilman Ken Johnson should offer insight into checks and balances at Cleveland City Hall
    The trial against Cleveland City Councilman Ken Johnson begins this week. The deputy monitor overseeing the Cleveland police consent decree has returned to her job after controversy surrounding her comments on racism and policing. How might Cuyahoga County foot the bill for its new jail? What do Cleveland doctors think about the third COVID-19 shot debate? And Northeast Ohio is experiencing hazy skies because smoke from Pacific Northwest wildfires is hovering over the Great Lakes.

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    5 min
  • The Wake Up – July 19, 2021 Most Cleveland mayoral candidates oppose proposed charter amendment creating independent, powerful police civilian review board
    Most of the Cleveland mayoral candidates are opposed to creating an independent police civilian review board. K-12 schools in Northeast Ohio are figuring out how to spend a billion dollars in stimulus money. While it’s too early to see results from the H2Ohio program, Lake Erie’s harmful algal bloom is expected to be mild this year. J.D. Vance used to admonish Donald Trump’s ‘xenophobic’ appeals to voters - until he decided to run for Senate. The Cleveland City Planning Commission has approved a “Vision for the Valley” plan to serve as a roadmap for decades of development and investment around an eight-mile section of the Cuyahoga River. 

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    5 min
  • The Wake Up - July 16, 2021 Despite new Ohio law, Cleveland State says it will require students be fully vaccinated before returning to campus
    Cavs owner Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock firm plans to revamp downtown Cleveland’s Tower City Center from a struggling mall into a "retail marketplace." Drug overdose deaths spiked last year in Ohio, but Cuyahoga and Summit counties largely bucked the trend. Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish announced Thursday that the county intends to buy a building next door to the men’s homeless shelter at 21-hundred Lakeside in downtown Cleveland to expand the shelter’s capacity to 435 by adding 70 beds. The federal judge overseeing the consent decree involving Cleveland police broke his silence Thursday and gave a vote of confidence to the person leading the reform efforts.

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    6 min
  • The Wake Up - July 15, 2021 Why isn't the Ohio Health Department tracking coronavirus delta variant cases
    Ohio colleges and schools can't require students to be vaccinated, for now, Solon police department removes “Thin Blue Line” flag after complaints from residents, Cleveland committee to hold meeting on Sherwin-Williams’ new downtown Cleveland HQ, seeks public feedback and ‘Generic and not unique’: Judge dismisses Barrio owners’ lawsuit over trade secrets against former business partner who opened Condado Tacos

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    6 min
  • The Wake Up - July 14, 2021 University Hospitals won't say how it could transplant a kidney into the wrong person
    That concrete and Asphalt factory proposed for Opportunity Corridor? The plan is dead, Bill backed by Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted would create data privacy standards for consumers, More than 100 homeless men leave Independence hotel this week, forced out by mayor, County Exec Budish: Leila Atassi and Gov. Mike DeWine seeks state funding to renovate Progressive Field as part of Cleveland Indians’ lease extension.

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    7 min
  • The Wake Up - July 13, 2021 A Republican Ohio candidate for the U.S. Senate who repudiates Donald Trump? Matt Dolan could be the one

    Former Nickelodeon starJared Drake Bell gets two years of probation after a woman says he raped her when she was 15, Ohio refers 13 ballots -- out of millions cast in 2020 -- for investigation as possible voter fraud, That building is historic? Designation that can lead to Ohio, federal tax credits goes on more than looks and

    Gov. DeWine signs Senate Bill 52 giving counties control over large wind and solar projects.


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    6 min
  • The Wake Up - July 12, 2021 Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office solves its first cold case rape using genealogy databases
    Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes the bill that would have made consumer fireworks legal, Ohio Turnpike wants new power to automatically bill scofflaw drivers as part of plan for high-speed, gateless tolling, Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes bill that would have legalized consumer fireworks in Ohio and Mayfield Heights considers using American Rescue Plan money to give bonuses to city employees who worked during pandemic: Stimulus Watch.

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    5 min

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