Sam Allard
            
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              Reporter @Axios, emeritus malcontent @ClevelandScene, alum @MedillSchool & @NEOMFA. News, movies, bball, intrigue. Occasionally, Bosnia. [email protected]
              
              Cleveland, OH
            
            
              
              Joined January 2013
            
            
           Tonight, @CLE_State's Student Government Association unanimously passed a resolution in favor of returning WCSB to the students! Reminder: The community doesn't want this. City council doesn't want this. Students don't want this. @CSU_President @Ideastream are you listening? 
          
                
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             New TV timeout segment at Cavs games this year: “Sweet Little Lies” Hooking their players up to a lie detector and asking them questions. Today’s episode: “Teammate Fits”, lying to teammates about their fashion. Crowd loved it. 
          
                
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              The newsroom plans to revive the rewrite desk using AI for efficiency, allowing reporters more time to gather news, with a new AI rewrite specialist role.
            
                
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             Kazy got the mic again and promptly referenced Frozen's "Let it Go" 
           In the course of this hearing, Brian Kazy has likened the Browns to: * The devil * A lover who no longer loves you * A team that has brought Cleveland nothing but misery And yet! “It’s going to be a sad day when that team is no longer playing on this lakefront.” 
          
                
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             Chris Ronayne announces at State of the County address that by January, all of Cuyahoga County's 4500+ employees will be making more than $20/hour. 
          
                
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             Man spends 44 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Finally gets exonerated. ICE immediately arrests him and is trying to deport him back to India, where he hasn't lived since he was 9 months old. 
          
                
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             Mayor Justin Bibb, flanked by Dee and Jimmy Haslam, says the Browns have agreed to demolish the city-owned lakefront stadium as part of a $100 million settlement. 
          
                
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             Loyola University Chicago's Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt has passed away at 106 years old. She was a Catholic nun, campus minister and official chaplain of the Ramblers men's basketball team. RIP. 
          
                
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             New 50% sales tax exemption for a data center in Ohio. To qualify, the data center must be at least $100 million. Sales tax is 5.75%. So at minimum, $2.875 million tax break. In exchange, Ohio gets 37 jobs. 
          
                
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             “The Human Centipede of Content.” 
           Robin Williams' daughter Zelda tells fans: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.” “If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. To 
            
                
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             Hearing that WCSB staffers were totally blindsided by the announcement this morning. 
           I can not believe that @CLE_State would take down @wcsbcleveland ! This radio station has been one of the most vital sources of creativity and self-expression in the area for 50 years! This is entirely unacceptable and I'm ready to do whatever I can. 
          
                
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             Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam says average ticket price at new domed stadium will be more than $200. (That's before extravagant parking, food and beverage costs). 
          
            
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             Ohio Auditor Keith Faber in Cleveland this morning saying he is recommending that East Cleveland be placed in receivership after years and years of fiscal emergency. 
          
                
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