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Should laws be loosened to allow teenagers to be a larger part of the workforce, to fill gaps in industries such as restaurant and hospitality or to earn money for their futures? Ohio lawmakers have proposed dueling ideas.
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Wayne Stewart has written many books on baseball, with his most recent being "I Love Baseball: Players Managers, Sportswriters, and Celebrity Fans Talk About Their Love for the Game."
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A funding cut for libraries in the state's proposed two-year budget is now a funding increase, but the money would no longer be a guaranteed percentage of the state budget under the house's version, which passed this week.
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A survey of nearly 1,500 residents reveals that Clevelanders were two to three times more likely to have unmet food, housing and transportation needs, as compared to the state and nation.
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Work has started on a clean-up in Cleveland to transform a former industrial brownfield into a site for development and new jobs in the Forest Hills neighborhood.
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A proposed state budget calls for the end of the Public Library Fund, as libraries from across the state descend on Columbus for Library Legislative Day.