Is Cleveland a national leader in the theft of Kias and Hyundais? Today in Ohio

CLEVELAND, Ohio — In December 2022, 66.5% of automobiles stolen in Cleveland have been a Kia or a Hyundai, the second highest share for these manufacturers amongst 62 cities.

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Right here’s what we’re asking about in the present day:

Does Cleveland lead the nation within the proportion of whole stolen automobiles which are Hyundais and Kias?

Is likely one of the causes violent crime has been rampant in Cleveland as a result of the town has too few bushes?

After Cleveland Metropolis Council complained that railroad corporations don’t care concerning the situation and look of their amenities, we went out to take some footage. Courtney, did what we discovered again up what council members stated?

Is the information CEO at MetroHealth planning to kill the thought of a park that was central to the imaginative and prescient of the brand new campus began by her predecessor?

Why is Ohio Home Speaker Jason Stephens adamant about sustaining elements of Home Invoice 6 regardless that the complete regulation was solid within the greatest bribery scheme in state historical past?

Now we have a brand new set of initiatives that Cuyahoga County will deal with utilizing its federal stimulus {dollars}. What are they?

What proportion of Ohio public college college students are homeless?

Cleveland would be the web site of the North American touring debut of a musical, as a part of the KeyBank Broadway Sequence at Playhouse Sq.. What’s it, and what else is on the schedule introduced Tuesday?

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[00:00:00] Chris: We’ve talked about Hyundais and Kias being simply stolen automobiles, however Cleveland has an attention-grabbing lead in some methods on this pattern. It’s in the present day in Ohio, the information podcast dialogue from cleveland.com and the airplane vendor. I’m Chris Quinn. I’m right here with. Lisa Garvin, Courtney Alfi and Laura Johnston. And Lisa is beginning us off by speaking about these stolen automobiles.

Does Cleveland lead the nation within the proportion of whole stolen automobiles which are Hyundais and Kias, Lisa?

[00:00:30] Lisa: Not fairly, however we’re fairly shut. So that is information that U USA information gathered from over 500 police departments, uh, you realize, of their theft information. And in December of 20 22, 66 level a half % of the automobiles stolen in Cleveland have been.

Or Kias. In order that’s 465 out of 699 autos stolen. However we have been crushed by Toledo. They’re primary nationally. 70.3% of their thefts have been Hyundais of Kias, however that they had a [00:01:00] smaller, you realize, theft. However the ratio is what issues right here. So it was 173 of 100, 246 automobiles stolen, or both Hyundais or Kias. Uh, as far.

Uncooked numbers. Chicago is primary. They’ve had 1,483 stolen between July and December of final yr. Cleveland is quantity two although in whole month-to-month thefts. So we had 179 stolen within the first six months final yr, however then that basically escalated within the second half. Virtually 1600 have been stolen within the second half of final.

[00:01:35] Chris: I, I’m gonna exit on a wacky limb right here and say there’s a shiny facet to this story and that it reveals that the thieves in Cleveland are extra tech savvy than thieves elsewhere, , as a result of that’s why they’re making the most of this. They’ve discovered how to do that from watching their TikTok movies, and in a a lot larger proportion, they’re placing that science.

To work for them to steal [00:02:00] automobiles. I, I, it’s simply so odd that Cleveland can be mm-hmm. one of many leaders on this, I imply, all people watches TikTok, proper? So, so why would we be thus far forward?

[00:02:10] Lisa: I, I, I actually don’t know. However you realize, they, they are saying, you realize, everybody needs to attract this again to these movies on TikTok that’s beginning, displaying up in June of 2022 by the Kia Boys.

They usually have been demonstrating. Deal through the use of a USB charger. That’s how they’re stealing it. And the video went viral earlier than it was eliminated, however actually the thefts started to escalate a pair years earlier than that. In Milwaukee, in 20 20, 70 1% of the stolen automobiles, um, by April of 2021, have been Hyundais or Kias.

[00:02:42] Chris: And naturally we don’t know metropolis by metropolis who leads within the proportion of Kia and Hyundai possession, so perhaps Cleveland has extra of those automobiles as a proportion of of brand name names.

However it’s simply an attention-grabbing factoid that we’re so near the highest of [00:03:00] this and what’s going on in Toledo. Nicely,

[00:03:02] Laura: what, what’s happening within the. Midwest, I imply the entire cities you named are like within the Midwest. Are we similar to, we purchase economical automobiles cuz Kias are usually inexpensive? I don’t know.

That’s fascinating. I,

[00:03:14] Chris: I don’t know. Fascinating story. It’s on cleveland.com. You’re listening to in the present day in Ohio is likely one of the causes violent crime has been rampant in Cleveland. as a result of the town has too few bushes. Laura, is that this a kind of ipso facto not likely true items of logic, or is there one thing behind that discovering?

[00:03:34] Laura: Nicely, there’s actually no exhausting proof, and it’s not if then, then, you realize, however there’s actually a correlation between the declining tree cover and a rise in violence. . I’m an enormous proponent of bushes. They’re wonderful in all the nice issues they do. They’ll enhance air high quality, absorb storm runoff, forestall erosion, preserve vitality.

They scale back blood strain while you’re taking a look at them and your stress hormones. They enhance property values and with out bushes. Now we have these [00:04:00] city warmth islands, and that’s not solely is it hotter, however. That’s the place the violence tends to be greater. So within the early two 19 a whole lot, the tree cover within the forest metropolis, which is Cleveland’s nickname, lined 94%.

We lose about 75 acres of tree cowl a yr in Cleveland, and that’s not simply growth, that’s bushes which have reached the tip of their pure life and are usually not being taken care of in addition to they need to. So the tree cover is now as low. ever been at 18%. Cuyahoga is roughly double that at 35%, and we’re taking a look at a number of the highest gun violence in many years.

And I, I don’t assume you possibly can say should you plant a tree in your yard, you’re by no means gonna get shot. Proper. That’s ludicrous. However this concept that bushes make a. Only a, a more healthy, extra nice lifestyle and that it’s a greater place to stay when there are bushes. I, I might not argue with

[00:04:53] Chris: that. I’m not shopping for this in any respect.

I’m simply not shopping for it. , I imply, let’s face it, bushes present cowl. In case you wanna have [00:05:00] the, the darkness of evening doing it beneath bushes provides you extra cowl. Look, I feel. , you can see these each as signs that of a, of a decaying poverty stricken metropolis. Mm-hmm. that there are fewer bushes being planted as a result of the town is in poverty and there are extra folks turning to crime as a result of the town is in poverty.

However the thought that if we plant extra bushes, it’ll scale back. The crime that appears preposterous to me. I, I might like to see anyone sit throughout from a desk and with a straight face say that’s the mechanism by which you’ll scale back gun crime. Nicely,

it

[00:05:35] Laura: just isn’t the one factor that we needs to be doing, proper. We needs to be lowering weapons on the road.

However I feel should you plant bushes, it makes a greater neighborhood. And should you’re extra proud to stay in your neighborhood, should you’re extra optimistic, in case your well being is best, when you have extra alternatives, perhaps you aren’t gonna be turning to gun violence. And, and the warmth island, I. You possibly can level at, keep in mind when it, when it will get scorching within the summertime, that’s after we say, oh God, it’s gonna be a violent weekend.

Proper? Like if it’s [00:06:00] chilly out and wet out, folks don’t go shoot one another. Prefer it’s when the temperas boil and the temperatures are scorching that, that, it occurs extra. I, I imply, I’m not saying that’s immediately associated, nevertheless it simply. It tends to occur. Is

[00:06:12] Chris: there a examine that reveals whether or not unicorns and rainbows have any influence on crime?

I imply,

[00:06:17] Laura: if there have been unicorns and rainbows, then I feel there can be much less gun violence. Positive. However no Uhhuh , I imply,

[00:06:23] Courtney: effectively you guys, you guys are speaking about correlation and Chris, you’re speaking about each signs. I imply, I, it appears type of obvious to me. That, that this can be a dialogue of funding care, consideration paid to sure neighborhoods over others, and I, it looks as if all of it type of flows from that.

Mm-hmm. , I imply, isn’t that what you guys are saying?

[00:06:42] Chris: Yeah, I that there are loads of causes of, of the crime wave, and I feel most of them are going to be socioeconomic and the shortage of bushes in a neighborhood is one other socioeconomic issue. The, the town can engineer that. They’ll go plant extra bushes. However [00:07:00] that’s not gonna assist the folks dwelling within the neighborhood overcome the socioeconomic challenges that always drives folks into a lifetime of crime.

It’s an attention-grabbing story to consider. It’s these type of correlations are at all times nice for discussions, which is why we’re having this one you’re listening to in the present day in Ohio. After Cleveland Metropolis Council complained that railroad corporations don’t care concerning the situation and look of their amenities.

We went out to take some footage, Courtney did what we discovered again up, what council members have been saying.

[00:07:32] Courtney: Yeah, certain, certain. Looks like it. Our report, or our photographer, Josh Gunner, went out across the metropolis simply to type of doc the state of railroad infrastructure. He, he surveyed principally Norfolk Southern, uh, strains, however he additionally discovered, you realize, Amtrak commuter strains and a few C S X properties and, and the huge takeaway from these images, you possibly can verify ‘em out on.

Web site is simply nearly all of bridges he, he discovered of, of 20 or so bridges he [00:08:00] surveyed. He discovered 4 that gave the impression to be in effective situation, however 16 others, 75% of the bunch was simply, uh, trying in fairly tough form. Josh discovered there was, you realize, rusty metal beams and, and, you realize, aesthetic points. Peeling paint, graffiti.

However then, you realize what, what I discovered most troubling in trying on the footage is the, is the, simply the crumbling concrete. Mm-hmm. on the undersides and assist constructions mm-hmm. Of those bridges. Now, I’m no engineer. That appears mighty scary. I don’t know what this, you realize, I don’t know what an engineer would say, however, you realize, one bridge he took a photograph of, it was over 100 years previous.

You gotta think about that perhaps these haven’t had the capital upgrades over time that we. To see there,

[00:08:44] Chris: there are inspections of bridges they usually price ‘em and, they usually’re speculated to improve them. You’re not speculated to have concrete falling off of them cuz that may injure folks. However the aesthetic a part of that is, is disturbing as a result of.

The railroad [00:09:00] corporations can simply determine to not do it, and that’s poor citizenship. Look, I simply spent a small fortune as a result of the tree in my tree garden, the town owned tree, turned my sidewalk into Earthquake Central. And so I needed to pay an organization to return out and degree all of it since you wanna be an excellent neighbor.

You don’t need folks strolling down the road to see this horrible trying earthquake zone in your tree garden. That’s what the practice corporations needs to be doing. They need to be taking a look at these items and going, man, we’d like a coat of paint on this, or We have to sandblast this rust off or do one thing. They usually’re not, which is what Metropolis Council’s massive grievance was.

They present utter disdain for the cities the place they’re resonant.

[00:09:40] Courtney: Yeah, completely. And in that massive listening to final week between council and members of Mayor Justin BIB’s administration, we heard precisely these sorts of complaints, Chris, and requires the town to kinda. Ramp up its efforts to, to try to wrangle the railroads into fixing up their properties the way in which they are saying, you realize, owners are required, like your [00:10:00] instance to handle their properties.

And I, I did get a bit little bit of an replace from the administration yesterday after we have been placing this collectively. So one of many, one of many solutions from council final week was, let’s put collectively a full record of all of the properties in Cleveland the place we wanna see the railroads. Enhance them, convey them up, you realize?

And the administration, the mayor’s Workplace of Capital Undertaking is engaged on compiling that record. Now they’re in search of to get sit downs with lobbyists to attempt. And principally what the town needs to do is simply create higher strains of communication with the railroads who they are saying don’t actually prefer to have these strains of communications with cities.

And the hope there’s that they’ll nudge them in the direction of repairs on this massive record of properties. They’re. One

[00:10:43] Chris: of the issues that should be on that record is the final time the bridges have been painted, cuz I swear loads of these bridges, the final coat of paint they received that wasn’t graffiti was in all probability many years in the past.

These are metal constructions, metal rust, paint fails and it’s a must to repeatedly [00:11:00] keep it or they appear like. This, the images are disturbing. You’re proper. They, they, you take a look at ‘em and assume, is that secure? However what actually strikes you in virtually each case is they simply are usually not saved up in a visible method, which reveals disdain for the those that stay and drive close by.

Good things on-line. Test it out. It’s cleveland.com. Laura, is that within the paper in the present day? Sitting within the plain vendor?

[00:11:26] Lisa: It’s

[00:11:26] Laura: on the entrance web page. It’s the entrance web page. It’s an entire massive shot that Josh took of, it’s the entire horizontal factor. So yeah. However heaps extra footage on-line. I feel there’s 42 images that Josh took of 16 completely different bridges, so.

Simply make certain

[00:11:40] Chris: to verify them out. The railroad corporations are sticking it to us. you’re listening to in the present day in Ohio is the brand new c e o at Metro Well being Planning to kill the thought of a park that was central to the imaginative and prescient of the brand new campus, began by her predecessor, Lisa. This park has been central to the imaginative and prescient.

It’s one thing that everyone [00:12:00] thought would enhance that neighborhood and that nook of city, after which rumors began spreading that it was gonna. ,

[00:12:06] Lisa: effectively, president and c e o Steed just isn’t saying that, she’s simply saying that, you realize, since she got here on board early this yr, that she’s performing due diligence on this $1 billion campus transformation plan.

I imply, she had nothing to do with it. She got here to it when it was, you realize, beginning to transfer forward. She says, we’re nonetheless full steam forward. She loves the idea for a hospital in a park, for the Metro Well being campus. However she says, you realize, these plans have been created earlier than she got here. Earlier than the pandemic. And she or he says there have been native modifications to the healthcare panorama since then.

So, however that is type of already in movement. I imply, the 1992 outpatient pavilion on the east facet of West twenty fifth is meant to be raised subsequent yr to make method for this 12 acre park. They usually, that is, was seen because the keystone of this transformation. The brand new entrance door for Metro Well being, a [00:13:00] group asset for the Clark Fulton neighborhood.

Historic home and church West of the Glick Heart has already been demolished, and that is for the primary few acres of that park. It’s now panorama. They’ve a short lived picnic space and different facilities as they await the total buildout if it happens. Um, Metro Well being Architect Walter Jones, who led the redevelopment plans retired final yr, however Steve requested that he come again final month.

So he’s now the interim Senior Vice President of Services, development and Campus Transformation. So, I don’t see a no there. I simply assume that she’s doing her job, she’s looking at anyone else’s plan to see whether or not they nonetheless work.

[00:13:41] Chris: Yeah, I imply, in, in some ways this isn’t information, proper? She is available in, after all, she’s in a due due diligence, particularly since her predecessor was ousted as a result of some, some very critical spending irregularities.

You wanna take a look at that billion greenback mission Now, the, the state auditor is taking a look at Metro Well being [00:14:00] due to what occurred. So it’s excellent news. That she needs to look and ensure the cash is being effectively spent. I, I simply surprise the way it, this mushrooms so rapidly into fears that the park wouldn’t be constructed.

Cuz that’s not what she’s saying. She’s saying, I really like this concept. Mm-hmm. , I simply wanna ensure that we’re on sound monetary footing. Mm-hmm. given my place

[00:14:19] Lisa: right here. Completely. And you realize, uh, uh, for all butcher’s faults, I feel the imaginative and prescient for Metro Well being is a superb imaginative and prescient. He actually wished to tie Metro Well being Campus to the group.

They’re speaking about constructing housing on the sting of campus there. So regardless of his , his different proclivities, you realize, he did have a imaginative and prescient for Metro Well being.

[00:14:40] Chris: Oh, it, yeah, it’s grand. It’s a, it’s a fantastic plan. I feel that’s why the mere thought that this wouldn’t occur rippled so rapidly with, with worry, and she or he’s rightly put that fireside out by simply saying, look, I received a job to do right here.

Now we have to be fiscally accountable. I really like the plan. You’re listening to in the present day in [00:15:00] Ohio. Why is Ohio Home Speaker Jason Stevens adamant about sustaining elements of Home Invoice six, regardless that the complete regulation was solid within the greatest bribery scheme in state historical past. Laura, I simply don’t get how these lawmakers can’t see how dangerous it’s for Ohio.

To take care of a rotten, pungent regulation on the books. Why don’t they repeal it and simply move the stuff they need to hold?

[00:15:25] Laura: Possibly they’re afraid they wouldn’t get it handed once more. Possibly as a result of one of many coal vegetation getting a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in taxpayer subsidies is in Steven’s district, which. I didn’t know till I learn this story.

So we’re being charged as Ohioans an estimated 700 million on month-to-month payments by means of 2030. And the Ke Creek energy plant in Steven’s district is likely one of the two plant vegetation is getting that. And right here’s what Steven stated. He says it’s been very useful. It’s really been, I might argue, very useful to the state of Ohio and the regional energy grid.

Standpoint of base load energy. I, clearly it’s [00:16:00] good for Steven, so he stated he wouldn’t repeal any subsidy and he stated, we’ll see if he’d even allowed this situation to return to a flooring vote. Uh, thus far since this took impact in 2020, we’ve been. Spent 158 million subsidizing these coal vegetation operated by Ohio Valley Power Company.

And don’t neglect, we’re not simply doing this. We’ve additionally gutted our renewable vitality requirements and principally, I imply, it’s very clear that our Ohio State governments doesn’t care about inexperienced vitality or any type of renewable vitality in Ohio. And people

[00:16:31] Chris: report out simply, uh, yesterday, that throughout the USA, renewable vitality, not together with pure fuel, uh, was larger final yr for the primary time than Mr.

Stevens coal. The, the look, if he’s fearful about dropping this, this isn’t a debate concerning the subsidy, it’s the concept that a corrupt regulation stays on the books, go to his physique. Move the subsidies in a separate regulation, then repeal HP six. I imply, there’s [00:17:00] a technique to do it, however the picture of Ohio having a crooked, pungent regulation, they usually’re saying, effectively, the ends justify the means.

That’s a horrible message to these residents of Ohio. ,

[00:17:12] Laura: I’m not disagreeing with you in any respect. I imply, governor Mike DeWine stated the coal subsidy needs to be repealed. Uh, however Matt Huffman, the Senate president, has no real interest in doing it. Steven’s referred to as it throwing out the child with the bathtub water. However I, I agree.

Like should you, should you assume these items are so essential, then do away with the regulation that has been confirmed in courtroom to have been fully corrupt and go after the issues that you really want. I, I don’t know. They in all probability simply don’t need scrutiny on it. They, they’ve what they need. They don’t wanna undo it. Nicely,

[00:17:40] Chris: however take the child out of the bathwater first, then

Move the subsidy. Move the subsidy earlier than you repeal it, however get the, the regulation off the books. These guys are, are, simply, don’t have a way of, of integrity right here. Oh, they’re, oh actually? . However they’re standing by a crooked regulation. [00:18:00] As a result of the EMS justify the means. It’s a horrible look. And you realize, Mike Dew wine’s title stays on probably the most crooked regulation within the historical past of the state.

And also you

[00:18:08] Lisa: know what’s actually disheartening about this can be a lot of the Republicans who voted to do away with some elements of Home Invoice six, you realize, they voted in opposition to it as a result of they didn’t need these renewable subsidies, you realize? Mm-hmm. , they usually don’t need ‘em to return again. So, you realize,

[00:18:25] Chris: Okay, so move a regulation that claims we’re gonna hold renewables as they’re now, which is dangerous, however move.

And we’re gonna subsidize coal vegetation, however we’re gonna repeal HB six and do away with it. I, the entire thing simply stinks. You’re listening to, in the present day in Ohio, we now have a brand new set of initiatives that Cuyahoga County will deal with utilizing its federal stimulus {dollars}. Courtney, a part of stimulus Watch what.

[00:18:49] Courtney: Sure, so Lucas Dpri gave us a rundown of this newest record.

It quantities to 2.3 million and all however considered one of these initiatives. There’s a couple of dozen, [00:19:00] all however one come from Councilman Jack Schwan. And this sort of stems from council’s choice to separate up a portion of the ARPA {dollars} among the many council members for every council member to type of determine the place to place that cash.

We’ve heard quite a bit on this podcast about that technique, however. What we noticed this week was this record of proposals from Councilman Jack Tron. He was one of many people, as Lucas type of shared with us in earlier reporting. He was one of many council members who, who tried to make use of a considerably aggressive course of to find out the place to place his cash, and he used like a scoring committee and capped every proposal at $250,000.

So we type of received a way of what occurred when council. Considerably of a course of to determine the spending yr, excuse me, and 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 {dollars} every are going if council approves them. two street initiatives in Glen Willow in Oakwood, uh, wastewater therapy, plant enhancements in chagrin Falls, a a brand new pool at [00:20:00] the Aquatic Neighborhood Heart in Mayfield Heights, an growth of a park in Soland new fireplace station headquarters in Broadview Heights.

Simply loads of these completely different group, type of largely capital wants. After which we did see one proposal from District 9, Councilwoman Meredith Turner, and she or he put forth a. To present 10, $10,000 to enterprise group companions to pay advisors to assist with homelessness.

[00:20:25] Chris: Yeah. I I, I’m glad you identified Jack Tron.

We speak quite a bit concerning the wayward nature of this council and the way they squander cash, however Jack Tron is likely one of the accountable members and when, when this controversy first got here up, he was very clear about how I’m. To do that in a accountable trend, and I feel the way in which he has spent his cash bears that out.

[00:20:49] Courtney: Yeah, and, and, and like we see it, it, it’s attention-grabbing that this method resulted in smaller greenback initiatives. He’s not placing down 1,000,000 to, to 1 mission, however he has unfold the [00:21:00] peanut butter out throughout communities in his district for these capital wants.

[00:21:04] Chris: You’re listening to in the present day in Ohio. All proper, Lisa, what proportion of Ohio public college college students are homeless nowadays?

[00:21:11] Lisa: Nicely, there’s a glimmer of hope right here as a result of numbers have trended down. That is information from the Nationwide Heart for Homeless Training, and within the college yr of 20 18, 20 19, 30 2,780 Ohio youngsters have been homeless. That’s about 1.9% of the coed physique, however the 2020. Faculty yr, it dropped a good quantity. Uh, 24,699 college students have been homeless.

That was 1.5 of the coed, % of the coed physique. So 4 tenths of a % enchancment, however we’ll take it out of the, uh, you realize, the demographics. Simply seven tenths of a % of the homeless youngsters have been white. 3% have been. And 1.7% have been Hispanic. And commencement charges amongst residence homeless college students could be very [00:22:00] low.

It’s 50%. That’s extraordinarily low. Um, however there’s, in, if we’re taking a look at it nationally, you don’t see loads of distinction at completely different grade ranges so far as homelessness goes, however they discovered a lot greater charges amongst college students who’re disabled or who’ve English as a second language and the best by far, um, of homeless youngsters nationally.

Hispanic youngsters, 39.4%. Apparently sufficient, white youngsters got here in second at 26.3% and black youngsters trailing at 24.3%. Uh, within the US there are about 1.1 million homeless college students, and that’s about 2.2% of the complete scholar physique. However that’s down 21% from the 20 18 20 19. Faculty

[00:22:45] Chris: yr. We all know from our protection of the Cleveland faculties, what an academic problem it’s while you’re coping with homeless college students as a result of their, their presence, their attendance will get hit and they’re transient [00:23:00] transferring from college to highschool.

It’s a, it’s one of many hardest elements of coping with the excessive poverty college district. It’s good to know that the numbers are taking place, however they’re nonetheless fairly excessive in Cleveland. You’re listening to in the present day in. Cleveland would be the web site of the North American touring debut of a musical as a part of the KeyBank Broadway collection at Playhouse Sq..

Laura, you go to those issues. What’s it and what else is on the schedule introduced Tuesday? I do know you might be most excited. I received a message from you, I feel at six within the morning. I

[00:23:32] Laura: did that, it was popping out. That is the Again to the Way forward for the musical, in order that’s gonna have the North American Touring debut.

We even have a present that’s coming to us earlier than it even goes to Broadway, and that’s a brand new model of The Wiz, which is an up to date model of The Wizard of Oz. However I’ve had my Broadway collection ticket for the reason that E-book of Mormon got here to city 11 years in the past, and I’m considered one of about 44,000 I feel, in Cleveland, which is astonishing.

and that’s what permits us to [00:24:00] get such nice reveals. Based on Greg Hassell, he’s the Playhouse Sq., new president and c e o there have been up 5,000 do, uh, season ticket holders from a yr in the past. And no Broadway venue in North America has an even bigger subscriber base than Playhouse Sq.. So hats off to all people who helps it.

So we’re gonna get The Wiz Humorous Lady Firm. These are all classics. And. The brand new ones are the woman from North Nation, Mrs. Doubtfire, mj, which is Michael Jackson, in addition to that again to the Future.

[00:24:30] Chris: And the woman, the North nation after all is Bob Dylan. So

[00:24:32] Laura: some Sure. Sure. It’s um, it’s a 2022 Tony nominee for greatest musical makes use of, 20 iconic Bob Dylan songs to inform the story of group of vacationers whose handed cross throughout the Nice Melancholy.

In order that sounds attention-grabbing, MJ. Clearly focuses on Michael Jackson from his rise to star stardom from Jackson 5 to the launch of the Harmful tour in 1992. And what’s cool about Again to the Future, I assume it’s at the moment [00:25:00] in London, hasn’t introduced a debut in Broadway but. That’ll be June. Um, It’s really, it was written, the present was written by the man who wrote the film from 1985 and songs by um, Alan Sylvere and Glen Ballard.

So it’s an enormous deal. It’s gonna be the official tour launch. There’s gonna be particular results. The DeLorean, the clock tower. Will, will all be there. I feel it’s gonna be on the State theater. Um, the remainder of them are on the, most of them are on the palace at Playhouse Sq., however no, Michael

[00:25:29] Chris: J. Fox or Christopher Lloyd.

How will it even really feel like again

[00:25:33] Laura: to the long run, you realize, all people’s gonna present up with that, that pink vest, proper? dressing like Michael

[00:25:41] Chris: J. Fox. All proper. One thing to look ahead to subsequent yr. You’re listening to in the present day in Ohio. Okay, Courtney, you wrote a narrative every week or two in the past about how Cleveland is lastly gonna transfer out of the stone Age and put in parking meters which you could pay by bank card or by app.

What’s the response, Ben? .

[00:25:59] Courtney: Yeah, [00:26:00] so I imply, I feel persons are fairly excited right here in Cleveland about this, about this modification. You already know, nobody carries round sufficient quarters to actually feed these meters or, you realize, it’s a ache to take action, so persons are able to step into the twenty first century, I feel right here and, and use bank cards and their cellphone apps to pay for parking.

And we’re attempting to do some comply with as much as get an understanding of. Will influence Cleveland. Specifically, I’m, I’m personally curious on the way it’s gonna have an effect on metropolis revenues. Uh, you realize, mayor Justin BIB’s crew says that is anticipated to drive up parking income. The thought is at the moment folks don’t pay their meters as a result of they don’t have quarters, cuz folks don’t carry money and cash like that anymore.

And, and the thought is we will up parking income. Folks would even have the flexibility to pay utilizing the bank cards and telephones they’ve of their pockets. In order that’s usually what I’ve discovered is we’ve been doing this follow-up reporting to be what, what occurs in cities throughout America. Cleveland’s actually, actually late to the ballgame [00:27:00] right here.

It, it seems that most cities made this change a couple of decade in the past, and plenty of cities did, did prior switches within the years earlier than that. So, We’re, we’re, we’re fairly behind issues and classes discovered from these cities type of present us that income does are likely to go up and, and normally the thought is that parking tickets will go down.

However, um, I spoke to 1 gentleman in Pittsburgh, he’s the top of their parking authority, and, they usually curiously discovered that, uh, with higher enforcement, that’s, that’s, that comes by means of this new parking meter system. That truly ticket income hasn’t actually modified, so we may very well be seeing some extra money pour into metropolis coffers with this modification.

I’ll warning although, in Indianapolis, I did discover some reporting that the projections for a way a lot further income this could herald have been, have been overblown and, and didn’t fairly stay as much as projection a number of years out after they made

[00:27:55] Chris: the. I despatched a query about this to the individuals who subscribe to my [00:28:00] textual content, the morning texts I despatched out about tales you’re engaged on.

I despatched one out about this, by the way in which. Nothing in the present day. Nothing tomorrow, cuz I’m really off the following two days, however I’m again Friday and I used to be shocked by how I stated I don’t carry rolls 1 / 4. So the town loses parking income for me cuz I’ve to go discover a storage. And I requested how many individuals are like that.

and I used to be stunned half of the folks, and I heard from quite a bit, effectively over 100 who stated they carry across the quarters they usually use the meters. There have been others like me who say, yeah, I carries quarters anymore, however an entire lot of individuals did have cash of their automobiles, which I might assume is, uh, enticing to thieves.

They did say they have been, they have been very proud of the concept that they may renew the meter. Remotely in order that in the event that they, in the event that they’re didn’t put sufficient quarters in and the meter’s expiring as a result of the assembly goes lengthy, they’re more likely to get a ticket and this has the flexibility, my assembly’s going unsuitable. I want an additional half hour.

They’re very excited to get this. They’ll’t imagine it’s taken this lengthy to get there. [00:29:00] Some are fearful that this may scale back the variety of folks employed writing tickets. Though it appears like from what you’re discovering, if the parking ticket income stays, then

[00:29:09] Lisa: in all probability not. Nicely rely me among the many 50% who carries quarters,

particularly after I go downtown. I imply, it prices 75 cents for an hour to park like on Superior East Ninth or no matter. So I imply, I don’t know, however I’m a Luddite, you realize me, I’m money and carry.

[00:29:26] Laura: Nicely, effectively, I do carry, I hold the quarters in like a, the little. factor that was once an ashtray in your automotive, proper?

Mm-hmm. . Um, and so like final evening I went to West twenty fifth Avenue with my youngsters, uh, to pins to that arcade, um, bowling place. There was a spot proper in entrance. I paid 1 / 4 at 5 30 and I received to park there for the remainder of the evening as a result of after six it’s free. So I’ll have an interest to see if the occasions change with the entire new meters, cuz usually weekends and after six it’s free.

However I, I agree. Um, I used to be assembly my sister there and after I tried to elucidate to her that Cleveland. [00:30:00] Meters nonetheless take quarters. She’s like, what? What are you speaking about? Proper. She lived in Columbus for a very long time and uh, there it’s all app on a regular basis.

[00:30:08] Chris: So the one, the opposite drawback is they’ll, as a result of they’re going to must pay.

a proportion of the income to the bank card corporations that you just’re, you’re attaching these two, they’re in all probability gonna increase the charges as a result of Yeah,

[00:30:20] Laura: it’s not gonna be 1 / 4 for a half hour anymore as a result of that’s extremely low cost in, in

[00:30:25] Courtney: my analysis, taking a look at metropolis, you realize, I’ve been taking a look at examples, Buffalo, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Columbus, for the reason that, simply type of across the area, pier cities, and it.

Look like loads of the cities that made the change paired it with a rise or a change in hours. Mm-hmm. , we don’t know what they’re going to do in Cleveland, however it’s price noting that that occurs. I feel one attention-grabbing instance from Pittsburgh, and a few of that is obscured by the speed enhance, however earlier than they rolled out their new system, they have been accumulating about six mil in parking income a yr after they rolled out their new.

And did a price [00:31:00] enhance. It was about 20 million a yr.

[00:31:02] Chris: All proper. Um, I l Laura, I do imagine it’s 1 / 4 for 20 minutes, until there’s completely different zones, not quarter for a half hour, however

[00:31:08] Laura: it, I’m telling you, it, it confirmed a half hour after I put 1 / 4 in it. So no less than on West twenty fifth Avenue. Yeah. I perhaps downtown it’s extra.

[00:31:14] Lisa: Spend. Yeah. For me it was 75 cents for an

[00:31:17] Laura: hour. I feel that’s what downtown

[00:31:19] Chris: is. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. All proper. So Courtney, you realize all these information. When are you gonna share them on our varied platforms?

[00:31:24] Courtney: Nicely, um, I’ve gotta publish a narrative. I’ve received an interview right here shortly and I’ll, uh, get cracking. So

[00:31:30] Chris: someday within the subsequent few days.

Okay. Search for Courtney’s story. A preview of a captivating piece. There’s loads of curiosity in parking meters. I do know, cuz I heard from lots of people. That’s it for the Wednesday episode. Thanks Lisa, Courtney, and Laura. Due to all people who listens. We’ll be again Thursday speaking about some extra information.