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01/16/2026

If you've ever wanted to write like a reporter and cover your own neighborhood, we've got an opportunity for you!

The Land's Community Journalism program is accepting applications for our next session! This program will include virtual classes with award-winning reporters and editors, small group mentorship, and a chance to publish (and get paid for) a story on The Land!

Apply now!

Apply to this free,12-week program in which you'll learn to write stories about issues affecting Greater Cleveland neighborhoods for The Land. All participants receive training through weekly classes on Zoom, mentoring from a professional journalist, and a $300 stipend when they publish their first....

01/15/2026

Cleveland is opening warming centers in response to the winter storm. There is also a parking ban in effect.

There are multiple options for people seeking warming centers.

01/12/2026

"The Land recently published an article in which recent transplants explain what they like about Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, and how some natives are surprised to learn that newcomers actually like living here.

The article got me reflecting on my own ambivalent feelings about living here. I’m not a native but have lived in the region long enough — nearly 50 years — that I almost feel like one. I moved here to work as a reporter for a suburban newspaper. I expected that the job, and the locale, would be no more than stops on the road to a position at a national newspaper or magazine in a glamorous coastal city.

But as often happens, life took some unexpected twists. I met a wonderful woman who had strong family ties here. We married, bought a house and had kids. That’s when I began to appreciate the attractions of life here such as affordable housing, the ease of getting around, the region’s diverse and high-quality arts offerings and the friendly, unpretentious nature of its people.

Yet though I fully appreciate Northeast Ohio’s virtues, I have never been an ardent booster."

"Yet though I fully appreciate Northeast Ohio’s virtues, I have never been an ardent booster."

01/10/2026

Protests are planned for Saturday in Solon and Lyndhurst, according to the Indivisble website. Additional protests are scheduled for Akron, Medina and Alliance. Protests have already been held in Cleveland. Details on the upcoming protests are available on the Indivisble website.

President Donald Trump’s administration has said both shootings were acts of self-defense against drivers who “weaponized” their vehicles to attack officers. Indivisible, a social movement group, has organized protests in several states, including Ohio, Texas and Florida. In Minneapolis, a ral...

01/09/2026

Cultivate Yoga says more than 31 million breaths were taken within their Lakewood and Avon studios in 2025. Expect even more tallied breaths in 2026 with Cultivate running its first class at its newest location in Collinwood on Waterloo Road. Joining the Pop Life Cleveland space, Cultivate Yoga Waterloo is open for business, offering classes to anyone and everyone — regardless of if they can pay or not.

Joining the Pop Life Cleveland space, Cultivate Yoga Waterloo is open for business, offering classes to anyone and everyone — regardless if they can pay or not.

01/08/2026

ICYMI: The microwave became a cultural phenomenon. Relive the holiday magic.

Clevelanders became obsessed with a microwave this week. AJ DiCosimo fell into its vortex and he's here to explain the fascination.

01/07/2026

In 2025, we launched our first Lakewood Community Journalism program. We gave Lakewood residents the tools, mentorship and platform to report on their own neighborhoods. Over two separate sessions, we educated more than 30 students and launched a dedicated Lakewood community page on our website.

Now that we’re officially in 2026, we’re looking back at some of the best stories our Lakewood Community Journalists wrote in 2025.

The Land launched a Lakewood Community Journalism program in 2025. See some of the great stories our students wrote last year!

01/06/2026

On Felton Thomas Jr.’s first day of work at the Cleveland Public Library, the temperature was eight degrees below zero.

“I walked down here in my Las Vegas coat,” Thomas recalls, “and everybody waiting for me said, ‘Oh, this is a normal winter day.’”

The library’s new leader was relieved to learn that his colleagues were kidding, sort of. And he’s become one of Cleveland’s many converts: people who come, stay and praise a town that many lifers pan.

“A lot of times,” he says, “folks don’t want to talk about the good things in the city of Cleveland.”

12/23/2025

Clevelanders became obsessed with a microwave this week. One of our writers joined the hunt -- and tracked down the mythical cultural touchstone.

Clevelanders became obsessed with a microwave this week. AJ DiCosimo fell into its vortex and he's here to explain the fascination.

12/15/2025

On the frigid night before he jettisoned his plastic-made sea monster sculpture “Bessie” into the local river feeding Lake Erie, Eddie Olschansky shared to his Instagram story a photo of another spectacle hovering above Ohio’s defining water feature: the aurora borealis. “That’s a good omen for tomorrow,” the local ecological activist wrote on the account he runs under his Trash Fish moniker. “I love them northern lights!”

The following day, November 12, opened to heavily overcast skies and high winds as the members of activist groups, including the People Over Petro Coalition (POPCO), Earthworks, Third Act Ohio and The Climate Reality Project’s NE Ohio Chapter, gathered to see a plastic sea monster cruise the Cuyahoga River. Members of the organizations passionately made their case against plastic pollution as part of a “Rally for a Plastic-Free Cleveland” event along the river’s east bank at Settler’s Landing Park.

The ironic sculpture was part of the "Rally for a Plastic-Free Cleveland" event.

12/14/2025

State officials have suspended admissions to Mohican Young Star Academy while it once again investigates the embattled youth treatment facility, which has struggled to contain escalating violence in the past year.

The move leaves juvenile court judges and local children’s services agencies that rely on Mohican — including in Cuyahoga, Summit, Hamilton and Lucas counties — reassessing contracts or preparing to relocate youth, many of whom have complex behavioral and mental health needs.

The action comes several weeks after The Marshall Project – Cleveland documented escalating violence, staff injuries and campus-wide fights at the state’s largest youth residential treatment facility following an ownership change in November 2024.

Weeks after The Marshall Project - Cleveland found escalating violence, Ohio’s embattled youth treatment center is once again facing scrutiny.

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