🎙️ Snow, Shenanigans, Blues Nights & Bigger Ohio Battles
❄️ Word of the Day: Shenanigans
Nothing describes Ohio drivers in the first snowfall better.
Tom and Robert kick off the episode laughing about how the first flakes send traffic into absolute confusion. Then Tom recaps his night at Music Box Supper Club catching the blues legends The Nighthawks, and finally they send listener appreciation to the fan who suggested what kind of music you should introduce to your kids first — great additions to the debate.
🖋️ Trump Cancels Autopen Orders
President Trump says he’ll cancel any Biden executive order he didn’t sign personally. The big unanswered question: Which ones actually mattered?
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🔗: Trump says he’ll cancel Biden’s executive orders signed via autopen
🔗: Trump Cancels All ‘Autopen’ Biden Orders | Newsradio WTAM 1100
📉 Job Numbers & How They Tie Into AI & Data Centers
Weekly job claims hit a three-year low, while Ohio is becoming a data-center battleground. More jobs? Yes. More power demand? Definitely.
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🔗: US weekly jobless claims dive to a more than three-year low | Reuters
⚡ Does Ohio Have a Data Center Problem?
Power watchdogs warn that data center demand could stretch the grid. Translation? Ohio can’t power everything forever. “Guys, when a data center goes up, it’s not just the building that changes things — the soil underneath and around it really takes a hit. Heavy construction and concrete compacts the soil, stops water from soaking in, and kills off the microbes. Heat from the building dries it out, and runoff from generators and pavements can change the chemistry in nearby areas. Basically, the land stops functioning like healthy soil, and even the landscaping around it usually keeps it from bouncing back. So these centers can leave a long-term footprint you don’t see in just the building itself.” This, along with the other issues, this is bad.
🔗: Why Big Tech Companies Are BUYING Up Farmland in Ohio
🏫 Dayton Teacher Investigated
A viral video shows a teacher shoving a student during a classroom conflict. Did they break it up — or lose control? Size DOES matter.
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🔗: Ohio teacher under fire after video appears to show shove of student
▶️ YouTube: Dayton charter school investigating after video of teacher shoving student – YouTube
🐀 CRITTER CORNER
💵 HB 554 — You Must Accept Cash
Ohio pushes legislation requiring businesses to accept cash. Card-only stadiums… are you listening?
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🔗: Ohio bill would require places cash: Why don’t stadiums allow cash?
💊 SB 309 — Abortion Pill Roadblocks
Ohio lawmakers add extra steps for getting the abortion pill. Critics say this makes access harder, not safer.
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🔗: Ohio lawmakers can’t stop abortion, but they can make it harder. Here’s how
📬 HB 324 — Telehealth & Mail Meds
This one could block certain prescriptions from being shipped after telehealth visits. Debate continues.
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🔗: Ohio GOP lawmakers move to ban telehealth, mail-order abortion pills
👶 HB 485 — “Baby Olivia” in Schools
Animated fetal development videos could be mandatory classroom material. Experts dispute accuracy. On the clip, voice-overs do matter (Tom came prepared with a whole new batch of sound bites, effects, and voice distortions — and he had way too much fun experimenting live on the show)
▶️ YouTube: Baby Olivia – A Never Before Seen Look At Human Life In The Womb. – YouTube
🚁 Lorain Approves More Police Drones
Drones are coming to Lorain, and people are worried about privacy. Officials already tried to push this behind closed doors. And can the women officers learn to fly these? Robert and Tom have their opinions.
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🔗: Lorain approves purchase of new police drones
✝️ Cleveland Hts. Church’s “Racial Repair”
Debt forgiveness as racial reparations? Some cheer. Some cringe. Many just raise eyebrows. Lovelace, a doctor/fashion designer?
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🔗: Cleveland Heights church walks a path to racial reparations through college debt forgiveness
🏈 Cleveland Prepares to Say Goodbye to Browns
The Brook Park deal is approved — Cleveland’s gone from denial to acceptance.
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🔗: Cleveland Council OKs reworked $100M Browns deal that greenlights Brook Park move
🔗: With Browns fight over, Bibb prepares for the next battles – and opportunities
🛫 Lakefront Airport Won’t Go Quietly
Aviation groups say: “Not so fast.” Burke Lakefront isn’t dead yet.
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🔗: New coalition protests Cleveland’s push to close Burke Lakefront Airport
🤯 Browns Fans Outraged
Seat license fees? They’re not taking it well.
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🔗: Longtime Browns fans outraged by possible seat-license pricing in Brook Park
✨ GOOD THINGS!
💰 $2M Scratch-Off Surprise 🎄
🎄 Cuyahoga Falls man hits $2M right before Christmas! 🎄 And even though you win 2M, it never is the full amount ☹️
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🔗: Cuyahoga Falls man wins $2M on scratch-off ticket, Ohio Lottery
✨ The Best Christmas Lights in NE Ohio
Perfect family outing spots — get festive, people, there is plenty of prettiness out there around Ohio.
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🔗: Christmas lights worth seeing this season in NE Ohio
🎧 Listener Music Advice of the Week
A shout-out to Captain Canoe, who chimed in with one of the best answers to Robert’s question about introducing kids to music. Greatest hits are fine, but full albums are the way to go — because that’s how they were meant to be heard.
Love it. Respect the art form.
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