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Grant Segall

Grant Segall is a national-prizewinning  reporter who spent 34 years with The Plain Dealer. Besides The Land, his freelance outlets have included The Washington Post, Time, Science, Reuters, The Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Magazine, NEXTpittsburgh, Philadelphia Magazine, American Education, Black Issues in Higher Education, Crain’s Cleveland, FreshWater Cleveland, The (Shaker Square) Connection, Shaker Life and West Life. He has also published fiction in 13 outlets and written the biography “John D. Rockefeller: Anointed With Oil” (Oxford University Press). He has been named Ohio’s best freelancer.

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Councilman Mike Polensek nears half a century of sparring, serving Clevelanders

Polensek (with an accent on the second syllable) is Cleveland’s longest-serving council member at nearly 48 years and counting, dwarfing a predecessor who died in office after 34 years.

Case Western grads clean up microplastics in the wash

Three young alumni of Case Western Reserve University have started a business on campus to make and market filters for microplastics.

As ‘racism gets worse’ revivial of play about Tamir Rice is more important than ever, his mother says

"It’s important that we show our resilience through the arts and any other entities that can open up that conversation and keep it going.”

Funny Times celebrates 40 years of publishing by launching new podcast

Forty years after Cleveland’s popular Funny Times debuted, its creators say that the times need mocking more than ever.

Cleveland researcher gets closer to new restorative treatment for multiple sclerosis

A study led by Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) shows new potential for treating multiple sclerosis (MS) and other diseases while boosting Cleveland’s economy. That is, if America keeps investing in science.

Even in the digital age, Cleveland’s Ellen Strong still binds books

For about 55 of her 80 years, Ellen Strong has been practicing the increasingly rare craft of rebinding and repairing books, magazines, diaries, posters and other paper goods.

“My time, my place.” How a Cleveland State University program helps former foster youth graduate from college

The Sullivan-Deckard Program includes extra aid, guidance and requirements, such as year-round campus residency, to help overcome the daunting odds against success for people from foster care.

Lower Shaker Lakes dam removal proposal sparks debate, confusion

Three cities will decide the dam’s fate: Cleveland, which owns the two lakes and the surrounding parkland between North Park Boulevard, South Park Boulevard, Park Drive and Coventry Road; Shaker Heights, which governs, leases and maintains more than half the area; and Cleveland Heights, which does likewise with the rest.

Artful transforming former church site into artists haven in Cleveland Heights

The nonprofit Artful has bought and started transforming the former St. Alban’s Episcopal Church on Euclid Heights Boulevard. 

After years of collisions, iconic Euclid Beach Arch being moved

The arch once welcomed visitors to the driveway of a beloved lakefront amusement park. Now it straddles narrow East 159th Street near a confusing intersection with Lakeshore Boulevard. Vehicles keep playing Dodgem with the arch, and both sides keep losing.

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