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The U.S. Humane Society has acquired greater than 1,500 complaints about Petland, the one nationwide pet retailer chain within the U.S. that also sells puppies.
Dozens of Ohioans have despatched Ohio Attorney General their grievances, together with that they paid hundreds of {dollars} for dogs from Chillicothe, Ohio-based Petland, just for them to rapidly flip sick or die.
But cities in Ohio couldn’t cross their very own legal guidelines to guard the puppies or their would-be households. That’s as a result of in 2016, Ohio lawmakers handed a “preemption” invoice.
So Toledo, which in 2013 handed native laws prohibiting the sale of non-rescue dogs from retailers, couldn’t implement its personal legislation.
Reporter Jake Zuckerman detailed the issues with Petland and preemption final month.
Now a proposal from Democratic Ohio Rep. Michele Grim, who represents Toledo, and Republican Rep. Sara Carruthers, from Butler County, would reverse the preemption. But the invoice faces lengthy odds of passage.
— Laura
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Puppy legal guidelines: Ohio cities may once more have the ability to ban retail puppy gross sales inside their borders underneath a brand new invoice launched by a bipartisan pair of state lawmakers, reports Jake Zuckerman. State Rep. Michele Grim, a Toledo Democrat, informed the Ohio House Government Oversight Committee this week that retail pet shops are “notorious” for getting dogs from high-volume breeders often known as puppy mills, whose animals have been linked to untimely loss of life and costly well being issues.
Biden poll: A high legislative Republican stated Wednesday that a method or one other, President Joe Biden will seem on the poll in Ohio regardless of an obscure state legislation that threatens to dam him over the scheduled date of this 12 months’s Democratic National Convention. Jeremy Pelzer and Andrew Tobias report that Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman stated the specifics will depend upon whether or not Democrats suggest an administrative repair or a legislative one. But he urged he thinks even a lawsuit doubtless would achieve success.
Today in Ohio: Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has rejected a Democratic proposal meant to get round a authorized technicality that would forestall President Joe Biden from showing on the poll right here this November. We’re speaking about whether or not the legislation is constitutional and the way it’s denying Ohioans’ proper to vote on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s each day half-hour information podcast.
RV housing: State officers are buying a whole lot of leisure autos with tens of millions in state money to offer momentary housing for Ohioans who misplaced their houses to a twister final month. Jeremy Pelzer reports the concept comes as state officers say they should step as much as assist the 250 or so displaced households residing close to Indian Lake in Logan County, as they anticipate that any federal catastrophe help for them will take months to be authorised, if it comes in any respect.
Housing issues: Ohio has a variety of housing issues, from skyrocketing property prices and property taxes to a necessity for extra housing on the whole. Jeremy Pelzer reports a state senate committee on Wednesday unveiled a broad checklist of suggestions, together with rushing up building allow purposes and making it more durable for native residents to problem native housing improvement choices. The sweeping proposal additionally suggests increasing monetary help for poorer Ohioans’ housing prices, together with permitting Medicaid recipients to place advantages towards housing.
Spousal rape: The Ohio General Assembly is on the cusp of closing what sponsors name an “archaic” loophole in state legislation – an exemption to intercourse crime penalties for many who rape or violate their spouses – however the invoice’s destiny stays unsure within the Senate. Jake Zuckerman reports that the laws makes a easy change: It says husbands, like some other aggressor, may be held criminally accountable for rape, sexual battery, illegal sexual conduct with a minor, gross sexual imposition, and sexual imposition when the sufferer is their partner.
Mayorkas impeachment: Hours after swearing in its members for an impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted alongside get together traces to dismiss the costs forwarded by U.S. House of Representatives Republicans who wished to take away him from workplace. Sabrina Eaton reports U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, voted to dismiss the costs, whereas U.S. Sen. JD Vance, a Cincinnati Republican, opposed doing so.
Broadband service: Ohio Congress members on Wednesday urged passage of bipartisan laws that will prolong a soon-to-expire federal program that subsidizes broadband web service for greater than 1 million Ohioans, Sabrina Eaton reports.
EMS billing: Cleveland City Council agreed this week to outsource billing for emergency medical providers, reports Courtney Astolfi. The transfer means metropolis employees will not be dealing with EMS invoice collections they usually’ll as a substitute be dealt with by an outdoor agency which has but to be employed.
Saving wildflowers: Ohio has traditionally been home to greater than 1,800 native crops. Of these, the way forward for greater than one-third are in peril from overdevelopment, invasive species, local weather change and extra. Paris Wolfe reports the conservation horticulturists at Holden Arboretum have a quiet mission to protect all of Ohio’s native wildflower species.
Home gross sales: The median single-family home costs in Cuyahoga County proceed to climb as the actual property market nears its busiest season, reports Megan Sims. March median home costs elevated to $163,900, in response to an evaluation of county information collected by cleveland.com.
Cancer analysis: A protein discovered within the liver referred to as LRG1 could also be what drives the unfold of colorectal, pancreatic and different cancers, say researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. CWRU researchers plan to check simply how the LRG1 protein features, with the intent to leverage it to cease cancers from spreading, Gretchen Cuda Kroen reports.
Office conversions: CBRE stated 119 office-conversion tasks are both underway or already accomplished in 2024, up from an annual common of 45 between 2016 and 2023, reports Sean McDonnell. Nearly 1.7% of the U.S. workplace provide, about 70 million sq. ft, was present process some sort of conversion within the first three months of 2024.
Shriver adviser: Journalist, creator and activist Maria Shriver will function chief visionary and strategic adviser of the Cleveland Clinic’s new Women’s Comprehensive Health and Research Center, reports Julie Washington. The heart is an initiative devoted to serving to girls navigate their healthcare and obtain specialised care, specializing in access, connectivity, schooling, analysis and innovation.
13-year-old killed: A 13-year-old boy was fatally shot Tuesday in Cleveland’s Brooklyn Centre neighborhood, reports Olivia Mitchell. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office recognized the sufferer as Javier Smith Santiago. He was shot at about 5:20 p.m. close to a residence on Riverside Avenue, close to West thirty ninth Street.
Slow chase: A Cleveland man was arrested and accused of stealing his grandmother’s automotive and main officers from a number of departments on an extended, gradual chase. Westlake police tried to tug over Nathaniel Blevins early Wednesday morning on Interstate 90 for a lacking tail mild earlier than the 26-year-old pulled off the freeway and entered Avon, police say. Molly Walsh reports that police say Blevins led officers by means of West Side suburbs for greater than 90 minutes, finally driving down Lake Road in Bay Village.
Sister’s homicide: Jason Iverson was armed with a semi-automatic pistol and an irrational rage over his kids selecting to stick with his sister as a substitute of him when he gunned down Mercedes Iverson, who was seven months pregnant, and Trea “Norbert” Carter III at a Labor Day picnic in Maple Heights, reports Cory Shaffer. He was sentenced Wednesday to life in jail.
Akron chief: Akron is a step nearer to having a brand new police chief after the town introduced that its deputy chief, Brian Harding, is the ultimate candidate for the position, reports Molly Walsh.
Fentanyl deaths: A Cleveland man is accused of promoting fentanyl to 2 males who died from utilizing the drug throughout a one-week span. Adam Ferrise reports Kendale Ware, 23, was charged Wednesday in federal court docket in Cleveland with three counts of drug trafficking and two sentencing enhancements for inflicting the loss of life of two folks in November 2022.
Ask Lucas: What are you able to do in case your neighbor is a hippie who received’t reduce the garden? Lucas Daprile writes your “hippie” neighbor is a bug in a human physique that’s slowly making an attempt to erode your quaint livelihood by upending essentially the most basic norms of civilized society. (Also, lawns are unhealthy for the surroundings.)
CLE Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra is headed to japanese and northern Europe this summer season on a two-week tour, with performances in Austria, Germany, Finland, Slovakia and Switzerland. Susan Glaser reports the tour, which kicks off Aug. 26 in Berlin and concludes Sept. 7 in Vienna, consists of eight performances in six cities.
CLE Ballet: Cleveland Ballet’s Board of Directors has appointed former board member Larry Goodman to the position of president and chief government officer, reports Paris Wolfe.
Pearl Harbor: Nearly 1.7 million folks toured Pearl Harbor final 12 months, making it certainly one of Hawaii’s most-visited locations. But don’t name it a vacationer attraction, stated actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who narrates a robust self-guided audio tour of the location. It’s a nationwide cemetery, reports Susan Glaser. More than 900 U.S. troopers stay entombed underneath the water practically 83 years after the shock attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
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— Curated by Laura Johnston with contributions by Cliff Pinckard
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