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The Wake Up - Jan. 20, 2021 CSU gave a disgraced Cuyahoga County official a $140,000 job after he applied 10 months past the deadline

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The Wake Up - Jan. 19, 2021 -- Ohio had record number of deaths in 2020, and not all because of the coronavirus

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The Wake Up - Jan. 15, 2021 Is FirstEnergy about to lose the one thing it really wanted out of the corrupt House Bill 6?

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The Wake Up - Jan. 14, 2021 -- The controversial Jim Jordan is front and center for the debate on Donald Trump's second impeachment

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The Wake Up - Jan. 13, 2021 -- Ohio's coronavirus vaccination plan is a bit like the scramble for the Playstation 5

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The Wake Up - Jan. 12, 2021 - If pro-Trump rioters descend on Columbus this weekend, police say they will be ready

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The Wake Up - Jan. 11, 2021 Local leaders want better communication and strategies from Columbus involving the coronavirus vaccine

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The Wake Up - Jan. 8, 2021 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine blames President Donald Trump for Wednesday's insurrection in Washington D.C.

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The Wake Up - Jan. 7, 2021 - Ohio politicians blast Wednesday's Washington D.C. insurrection, and each other

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The Wake Up - Jan. 6, 2021 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine refuses to provides details of how he will vaccinate millions of Ohioans

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The Wake Up - Jan. 5, 2021 Ohio Gov. Mike Dewine, who regularly decries gun violence, signs that Stand Your Ground bill

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The Wake Up - Jan. 4, 2021 Was a non-profit claiming to represent Cleveland Public Power customers just a FirstEnergy front trying to topple a competitor?

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The Wake Up - Dec. 24, 2020 -- Ohio teachers move way up in the line for coronavirus vaccines, so kids can get back to classrooms

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The Wake Up - Dec. 23, 2020 Ohio's Supreme Court ends the great debate by ruling your car tire can legally touch the white line on the side of the road

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The Wake Up - Dec. 22, 2020 -- A judge does what Bill Seitz and Ohio lawmakers will not, blocking the corrupt $1.3 billion nuclear bailout

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The Wake Up - Dec. 21, 2020 Is Bill Seitz working a backroom deal to preserve $1.3 billion for Ohio nuclear plants in the corrupt HB6?

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The Wake Up - Dec. 18, 2020 -- Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan will use procedural rules next month to subvert the voters' election of Joe Biden

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The Wake Up - Dec. 17, 2020 -- Despite efforts to undermine Joe Biden's election, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says our institutions preserved the voters' will

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The Wake Up - Dec. 16, 2020 That predicted post-Thanksgiving coronavirus surge is not happening in Ohio

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The Wake Up - Dec. 15, 2020 -- Why Paul Dolan says he's changing the the name of the Indians in a year

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The Wake Up - Dec. 14, 2020 - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine offers counties to National Guard to help operate their coronavirus-riddled jails

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The Wake Up - Dec. 11, 2020 - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine "announces" new coronavirus protocols that are toothless and not new at all

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The Wake Up - Dec. 10, 2020 -- Ohio tries to bring consistency and order to how police deal with protests

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The Wake Up - Dec. 9, 2020 - Ohio more than doubles its one-day coronavirus case record, but there's a catch

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The Wake Up - Dec. 8, 2020 - Finally, the confusion over Ohio coronavirus daily case counts is ending

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The Wake Up - Dec. 7, 2020 - MetroHealth is closing facilities because fo many staffers have the coronavirus

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The Wake Up - Dec. 4, 2020 -- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes the legislation that would strip him of the power to issue health orders

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The Wake Up - Dec. 3, 2020 - Legislators take aim at HB6's lucrative FirstEnergy rate scheme as well as the nuclear bailout

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The Wake Up - Dec. 2, 2020 -- Finally some movement -- by the Republicans -- on blocking the corrupt HB6 nuclear plant bailout

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The Wake Up - Dec. 1, 2020 Hospitals cope with the coronavirus through ventilator loans and a refrigerated truck for bodies of the dead

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The Wake Up - Nov. 30, 2020 -- Cuyahoga County's former jail warden reveals all in recorded interviews with investigators

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The Wake Up - Nov. 26, 2020 -- Healthcare workers are getting COVID-19 from the community, not on the job

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The Wake Up - Nov. 25, 2020 -- Ohio gets its first batch of coronavirus vaccine Dec. 15th

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The Wake Up - Nov. 24, 2020 -- The Cuyahoga County Health Board yet again decides to withhold coronavirus information from the public

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The Wake Up - Nov. 23, 2020 -- Sam Randazzo, Ohio public utilities chief, quits after the feds raid his house and FirstEnergy reveals a mysterious $4 million payment

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The Wake Up - Nov. 20, 2020 -- Coronavirus cases start surging in schools, among students and teachers

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The Wake Up - Nov. 19, 2020 - The coronavirus surge is so bad now that Cuyahoga County leaders urge you to stay at home

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The Wake Up - Nov. 18, 2020 - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announces a coronavirus curfew

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The Wake Up - Nov. 17, 2020 -- President Donald Trump takes a cheap shot at Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Twitter

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The Wake Up - Nov. 16, 2020 -- Leaders of competing hospital systems come together to implore you to take coronavirus precautions

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Northeast Ohio hospitals make changes to preserve bed capacity, protect patients amid coronavirus spike: The Wake Up - Nov. 13, 2020

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The Wake Up – Nov. 12, 2020 Gov. Mike DeWine reissues mask mandate, threatens to close restaurants, bars, gyms if coronavirus spike continues

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The Wake Up - Nov. 11, 2020 As coronavirus cases rage, will Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announce a new battle plan in his speech tonight?

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The Wake Up - Nov. 10, 2020 -- The house cleaning in FirstEnergy's HQ continues amid a Statehouse bribery scandal

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The Wake Up - Nov. 9, 2020 -- A bellwether no more: Ohio's streak of picking the president ends after nearly six decades

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The Wake Up -- Nov. 6, 2020 Ohio at 5,000 coronavirus cases a day? The unthinkable is here

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The Wake Up - Nov. 5, 2020 -- Tuesday showed the Cuyahoga County has a pretty stark red-blue divide

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The Wake Up - Nov. 4, 2020 Ohio goes big for a second term for President Donald Trump

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The Wake Up - Election Day 2020 -- The numbers are in, and Ohio has never seen absentee voting like this

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The Wake Up - Nov. 2, 2020 Once again, Gov. Mike DeWine pleads with Ohioans to heed the coronavirus but takes no concrete steps to slow it

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The Wake Up - Oct. 30, 2020 Bad news for Larry Householder -- his right-hand guy is pleading guilty in the huge bribery scandal

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The Wake Up - Oct. 29, 2020 -- A whole lot of Cuyahoga School Districts are ready to close down if we go purple today

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The Wake Up - Oct. 28, 2020 -- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will coach local leaders on fighting the coronavirus surge, but with what playbook?

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The Wake Up - Oct. 27, 2020 -- The biggest anti-human trafficking operation ever in Ohio rescues dozens, arrests dozens

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The Wake Up - Oct. 26, 2020 -- Thousands in Cuyahoga County line up on first early voting weekend, and a whopping Ohio coronavirus record

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The Wake Up - Oct. 23, 2020 - Larry Householder spent nearly $1 million in campaign funds on lawyers since he was arrested

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The Wake Up - Oct. 22, 2020 -- Is the Ohio coronavirus surge out of control, with a third record broke in a week?

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The Wake Up - Oct. 21, 2020 -- Counties abandon contracts with Trump-supporting Cleveland ballot printer who failed to deliver

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The Wake Up - Oct. 20, 2020 Now, it's a record for coronavirus hospitalizations that Ohio breaks

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The Wake Up - Oct. 19, 2020 -- Federal prosecutors rack of gun violation arrests in Northeast Ohio, but is it an election year stunt?

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The Wake Up - Oct. 16, 2020 One of the men charged in the HB6 scandal gives an interview and tells a fascinating tale

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The Wake Up - Oct. 15, 2020 -- Ohio crosses the threshold of 2,000 coronavirus cases in a single day

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The Wake Up - Oct. 14, 2020 What's the work history of the Shaker Heights officer who gave protesters the finger?

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The Wake Up Oct. 13, 2020 -- In Ohio campaign visits, Mike Pence jabs Joe Biden and Biden jabs Donald Trump

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The Wake Up - October 12, 2020 -- cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer endorse Biden, finding Trump lacks integrity and compassion

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The Wake Up - Oct. 9, 2020 - Almost everyone in Ohio now lives in a county rated red or orange for coronavirus

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The Wake Up - Oct. 8, 2020 Why did Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost mention werewolves involving a lawmaker's attempt to lock up Gov. Mike DeWine?

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The Wake Up - Oct. 7, 2020 -- Federal judge's apparent blunder puts Cuyahoga County's absentee ballot collection plans into turmoil

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The Wake Up - Oct. 6, 2020 -- As voting begins today, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose does not bend on making it easier

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The Wake Up - Oct. 5, 2020 How about the Browns? They win big over the Dallas Cowboys - in Texas

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The Wake Up - Oct. 2, 2020 -- More and more Ohio school districts are returning students to the classroom

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The Wake Up - Oct. 1, 2020 - Is Dave Yost alone in bringing common sense to repealing the corrupt FirstEnergy nuclear bailout

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The Wake Up - Sept. 30, 2020 -- Cleveland's eventful night has a police brutality protest, a bruising presidential debate and a shocking Indians loss

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The Wake Up - Sept. 29, 2020 - The Greater Cleveland Partnership wants Larry Householder's corrupt HB6 nuclear plant bailout repealed

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The Wake Up - Sept. 28, 2020 The owner of the nuclear plants getting our $1.3 billion bailout won't show proof that it actually needs the money

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The Wake Up - Sept. 5, 2020 - We now know Dave Greenspan was one of the heroes of the FBI probe of the corrupted HB6

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The Wake Up - Sept. 24, 2020 -- Dave Yost sues to block HB6 while legislators who created the corrupt bailout do nothing

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The Wake Up - Sept. 23, 2020 -- Ohio is NOT seeing coronavirus spikes where children have returned to the classroom

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The Wake Up - Sept. 22, 2020 - Hey CDC, is the coronavirus an aerosol or not?

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The Wake Up - Sept. 21, 2020 - Sen. Rob Portman, against confirming a Supreme Court nominee before the election in 2016, is all set to do so now

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The Wake Up - Sept. 18, 2020 -- The proposed Lake Erie wind farm -- effectively killed last May -- is back!

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The Wake Up - Sept. 17, 2020 The IX Center, home to the auto show, garden show and indoor amusement park, is closing

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The Wake Up - Sept. 16, 2020 Score it Voters 1, Ohio elections chief Frank LaRose zero in court battle over ballot drop boxes

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The Wake Up -- Cuyahoga County's election board pulls an end run to try to make it easier for us to vote

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The Wake Up - Sept. 14, 2020 - Last-minute Ohio court battle means you might apply for your absentee ballot online

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The Wake Up - September 11, 2020 -- Donald Trump gets involved in the battle over Ohio's elections

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The Wake Up - Sept. 10, 2020 -- Big surprise: Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown disagree on coronavirus unemployment package

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The Wake Up- Sept. 9, 2020 - Cleveland Police believe they have solved the killing of Det. James Skernivitz

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The Wake Up - Sept. 8, 2020 -- Unexpected torrents of Labor Day rain paralyze parts of Northeast Ohio with flooding

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The Wake Up - Sept. 4, 2020 -- Ohio is going down the toilet for an early warning on coronavirus outbreaks

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The Wake Up - Sept. 3, 2020 -- Why did Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose order hyphens removed from names in the voter rolls?

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The Wake Up - Sept. 2, 2020 -- Larry Householder is back in the Statehouse? Yes, but colleagues will boot him from ethics committee

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The Wake Up - September 1, 2020 -- Are lawmakers finally ready to repeal the corrupt billion-dollar bailout of Ohio's nuclear plants?

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The Wake Up - August 31, 2020 - Cuyahoga health director goes secret on COVID again, despite Mike DeWine's transparency push

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The Wake Up - August 28, 2020 -- Mike DeWine will compel Ohio schools to tell the public about coronavirus cases

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The Wake Up - August m 2020 -- As Ohio legislators balk at ending the corrupt FirstEnergy subsidies, Attorney General Dave Yost might step up

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The Wake Up - August 26, 2020 - Ohio is not even close to herd immunity from the coronavirus

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The Wake Up - August 25, 2020 - Far-right members of Mike DeWine's own party seek to impeach him

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The Wake Up - August 24, 2020 - Cleveland's police union is not endorsing for president this time around

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The Wake Up - August 21, 2020 - Larry Householder can't find a lawyer to defend him in his bribery case