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2025 Press Club of Cleveland Awards - In-depth/series: A Slice of Politics

Ideastream Public Media's entry for special coverage of the 2024 election is A Slice of Politics, a year-long effort to engage with voters so they could tell us what issues were important to them.

Warren is like many Northeast Ohio cities trying to remake themselves. The county seat of Trumbull has seen steel mills close, automakers and other industries leave and people move away for better opportunities.

In the 2024 election year, we took a closer look at Warren and what concerns voters there. Four people who live in and around Warren recently sat down at Sunrise Inn, a pizzeria in Warren, to talk about what’s driving their decisions the election.

Marwan Alie, Paul Ringold, Julie Stout and Riley DeCavitch (left to right) talk politics with Ideastream Public Media host Amy Eddings (end right) at the Sunrise Inn in Warren, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.
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Marwan Alie, Paul Ringold, Julie Stout and Riley DeCavitch (left to right) talk politics with Ideastream Public Media host Amy Eddings (end right) at the Sunrise Inn in Warren, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.

Leading up to the conversation over pizza, Ideastream aired a profile of the city of Warren to help introduce our audiences to a place they may not be familiar with and individual profiles of each of residents who joined us for discussion.

The Profiles

Warren has suffered the decline many Rust Belt cities faced, but now it's working to move on from its past — like many in Ohio.
Julie Stout, 49, is a progressive Democrat who doesn’t think much of politicians. To her, they're all more or less the same, as many don’t share her views.
The economy is central to the way Marwan Alie sees this presidential election. But other issues like crime and stability are important too.
Ringold says he supported Biden in 2020 over concerns about the tenor of the election. This year, he said he's sticking with Trump.
DeCavitch said she remembers her parents allowing her to choose her own political opinions when she was in school.

The Conversation

The discussion was recorded and subsequently aired in the weeks before Election Day, with segments woven through Ideastream's presentation of NPR's Morning Edition and airing fully on Ideastream's daily talk show, The Sound of Ideas.