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| What you need to know Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022 WEATHER
Temperatures will get near 40 degrees today under mostly cloudy skies. Overnight lows will be around 30 degrees, creating sight chances of snow showers after 9 p.m. Read more. OVERNIGHT
Income taxes: After nearly two years of companies withholding city and village income taxes the way they normally did, employers must now withhold local income taxes based on where you are actually working. For those working from home, this could mean big, and sometimes complicated, changes, with a lot of dollars involved. Sean McDonnell answers key questions, including that employers are required to withhold taxes wherever people are working.
TODAY IN OHIO Trump-ally Jim Jordan won’t cooperate with a Congressional committee probing the 2021 Capitol riot. We’re talking about Jordan’s indignant letter to the committee on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast.
STATEHOUSE & POLITICS Computer chip factory: Gov. Mike DeWine ducked a question on Tuesday about whether Ohio has been chosen as the site of a major new computer-chip factory planned for the Columbus area. But Andrew Tobias reports that DeWine is calling on Congress to pass a bill that would direct $52 billion for domestic semiconductor production.
Hospitalization: Ohio health officials and hospital leaders are discussing breaking down hospitalizations for patients with the coronavirus into two categories -- those occupying beds for COVID-19 illness and those brought in for another procedure who tested positive for the virus, Laura Hancock reports. Right now, people in both categories are counted together in the daily hospitalizations number on the Ohio coronavirus dashboard. Capitol security: The U.S. Capitol complex is much safer than it was after the Jan. 6 riot, but further security improvements are needed to protect Congress members from threats in their homes and workplaces, officials charged with Capitol Hill security on Tuesday told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee chaired by Niles-area Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan. Sabrina Eaton reports Walker said House of Representatives members received almost 9,000 threats last year, almost double the usual annual amount.
METRO Bartek funeral: Hundreds of police officers from across Ohio paid their respects Tuesday to Cleveland police officer Shane Bartek, who was fatally shot during a carjacking on New Year’s Eve. Joshua Gunter has photos from the funeral at Grace Church of Middleburg Heights.
Mayoral request: Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval held an unusual news conference Tuesday to urge Ohio to provide more COVID-19 testing in their cities amid the continuing surge of cases. Courtney Astolfi reports Bibb said he was grateful for Gov. Mike DeWine’s deployment of the National Guard to staff a testing clinic in Cleveland, but he said Cleveland “needs additional [testing] capacity,” particularly in communities of color that have been hit hard by the spike.
GCP: Paul Dolan, owner and CEO of the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, will be the head of the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s board starting in March. Sean McDonnell reports the body that serves as Cleveland’s chamber of commerce announced Monday that Dolan will replace current chair Eric Schnur when Schnur leaves in March.
Home sales: A Rocky River house was the most expensive home sold in Cuyahoga County in December. The top 10 most expensive homes sold in the county last month all went for more than $1 million, Peter Krouse reports. And all but the Rocky River home are in the eastern suburbs.
College credit: Hiram College is discontinuing its College Credit Plus partnership with Hudson City Schools and New Philadelphia City Schools at the end of the academic year, reports Megan Becka. The decision was based on a “program-wide evaluation” and the college cited the “ever-changing student landscape” as a factor without referring to the Hudson controversy over a book of writing prompts.
Pride in the CLE: After two years away due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pride in the CLE plans to return in-person on June 4 in downtown Cleveland. Anne Nickoloff reports the LGBTQ march and festival will take over Malls B and C after a parade route through downtown Cleveland.
COVID-19 Daily cases: The state of Ohio on Monday reported 19,611 new cases of COVID-19, rising once again above the 19,000-case mark first reached in late December, Julie Washington reports.
Tests: The Ohio Department of Health ordered 1.2 million proctored testing kits for January. Thus far, 400,000 kits arrived and were distributed, Laura Hancock reports. Shipment of the remaining kits has been delayed.
BUSINESS Starbucks union: Downtown Cleveland Starbucks employees say about 17 of 20 workers have signed on to an effort to unionize, which was formalized Monday with the filing of a petition with the National Labor Relations Board. Sean McDonnell reports this comes after a Starbucks in Buffalo successfully unionized. He talks to four employees.
Flats development: Companies affiliated with a Cleveland-based developer have bought four buildings on the east bank of The Flats – three of which are on the waterfront of the Cuyahoga River – though the developer is remaining mum on its plans for the space. Eric Heisig reports Samsel Supply Co., which for decades owned a slew of buildings along Old River Road, sold the buildings to companies associated with GBX Group.
BMBW: Workers at the short-staffed Brandywine and Boston Mills ski resorts, and at Vail Resorts across the country, will now get a $2-an-hour bonus if they work the full season, reports Sean McDonnell.
Westfield: Westfield Bank is appointing Michael Toth as its president & CEO. Sean McDonnell reports that Toth, who has been with Westfield since 2017, was president at the company before the promotion. Jon Park, the bank’s founding CEO and first employee, is retiring in March of 2023.
CRIME Tree theft: A brother and sister are accused of working together to chop down a century-old Black Walnut tree in Cleveland Metropark’s Mill Stream Run Reservation that was one of the largest in the state and worth an estimated $28,000, Adam Ferrise reports. Todd Jones, 56, of Bay Village, and Laurel Hoffman, 54, of Elyria, are charged with grand theft and falsification, both fourth-degree felonies.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts funding: Forty-five Ohio arts organizations have netted $1,065,000 in National Endowment for the Arts funding. Marc Bona reports NEA is giving 1,498 awards totaling nearly $33.2 million to organizations in every state.
Freddy’s: Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, the first in Cuyahoga County, welcomed customers Tuesday, reports Joey Morona.
Rock Hall purge: Introducing the Great Rock Hall Purge. Rather than consider a seemingly endless list of “snubs,” Troy Smith is operating under the premise that too many artists were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the first place. He goes year by year, removing artists based on the same criteria we used to establish our Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Tiers. OTHER HEADLINES Man shot to death in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood Read more
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