25 April 2026 (Jacquelyn Ferguson identified)
The Akron Police Department's Accident Reconstruction Unit had identified Jacquelyn D. Ferguson as the driver in a hit and run crash that lead to the death of Richard Williams.
23 April 2026 (Summit County building sale)
*Summit County Council discussed a real estate purchase agreement with the Summit County Land Reutilization Corp. (Land Bank) for the sale of Parcel No. 0209872 located at 2525 State Road in Cuyahoga Falls.*
23 April 2026 (Vivek wants to shut down universities)
If Vivek Ramaswamy considers your university to be "subpar", he'll just have the university get shut down. Good luck getting anything for all that time you spent on a degree, and even better luck getting all of your money back for the absolutely nothing you will be getting in return!
23 April 2026 (Copley Police Chief Michael Mier retiring)
The police chief of Copley Township has submitted his retirement notice that will take effect on the 1st of June.
He had been with the Copley Police Department since 1999.
22 April 2026 (Heather Hill no longer qualified for Governor)
*The running mate of a long-shot Republican candidate for governor apparently ended their campaign by resigning from the race.
From the Ohio Secretary of State on X:
Stuart Moats submitted to our office today a withdrawal of candidacy for the office of lieutenant governor as part of the Heather Hill / Stuart Moats joint candidacy for governor and lieutenant governor.
Absent a valid lieutenant governor candidate, Ms. Hill no longer qualifies to receive votes for the office of governor.
Ohio's 88 county boards of elections have been notified that any votes for Heather Hill / Stuart Moats will not be counted, and each board must also provide notice.
Vote for Casey Putsch anyways!
21 April 2026 (Sruthi Chandran's DPL Bits)
*(A short) Bits from the new DPL.*
21 April 2026 (Barberton school levy)
*Barberton City Schools is asking voters to approve an operating levy tax to address its estimated $11 million operating budget shortfall.*
21 April 2026 (Akron Downtown)
Business owners in Downtown want to see a revival of Akron's Downtown. That would be great to have!
Mayor Shammas Malik announced almost a week ago that there are 110 events planned for this summer, "built by Akron, for Akron, shaped directly by community feedback calling for more variety, more local talent, and more family-friendly experiences. The result: a summer that hits every note."
21 April 2026 (Akron Beacon Journal letters)
Basicallly: one guy defends crime by blaming all of Akron's problems on police, the United Church of Christ continues to be heretical with fake bible translations and a lack of respect for Jesus's actual messages, and a Fairlawn resident says what we're all noticing about Trump.
21 April 2026 (William Judge's behavior)
*Barberton City Council leadership acknowledged during a April 20 work session that Mayor William Judge's behavior on the job led the council to take steps toward his potential removal.*
21 April 2026 (Hyundai body camera footage released)
The Akron Police Department has released the body camera video from when a car software issue caused the power-seat to collapse on a 2-year-old girl who was sitting in it. Her death prompted Hyundai to recall over 68,000 vehicles.
This is yet another reason why I think cars and car owners could be so much better off without computers and software in them.
My condolences go to the family of the girl. May her soul, and the souls of the faithfully departed, through the mercy of God: rest in peace.
21 April 2026 (Akron Children's Golisano Campus)
*Akron Children's Hospital will name its main campus the Akron Children's Golisano Campus after philanthropist Tom Golisano announced a $50 million gift to the hospital system.*
According to the hospital, this is the largest unrestricted donation they've gotten from anyone. Summa sure could have used more people like this.
21 April 2026 (Additional AGPLv3 term stance)
*FSF clarifies its stance on AGPLv3 additional terms.* As stated by Krzysztof Siewicz, the Licensing and Compliance Manager for the Free Software Foundation: *You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away.*
From OnlyOffice: "If the Euro-Office team believes our approach conflicts with the AGPLv3 license, we invite them to submit an official request to FSF (Free Software Foundation) for review. Let the respected open-source community evaluate the situation and provide a decision. If FSF determines that our license and project align with AGPLv3, we will continue as an open-source initiative. However, if the decision goes against us, we are ready to consider other options." Does that last part mean they'll happily become proprietary if the FSF doesn't agree fully with them?
*A deal to end the Iran war seemed close. Then Trump started posting on social media.*
21 April 2026 (Trump gas prices)
*Trump team's gas prices rhetoric has become a fiasco.*
21 April 2026 (Heather tries to drop running mate)
Because of a dispute, Heather Hill tried to drop her running mate.
Of course there are far better choices though.
*Akron is one step closer to transforming the Innerbelt.*
17 April 2026 (Tara Mosley Weems)
Tara Mosley Weems: *The United States does not automatically become safer because a president decides to involve us more deeply in a foreign conflict. Military escalation is not a press release, it is a policy decision with real consequences. It affects troop deployments, military readiness, federal spending, oil markets and most importantly, American families.*
17 April 2026 (Fran Wilson's council vacancy legislation defeated)
Akron's Ward 1 Councilmember Fran Wilson introduced legislation several weeks ago addressing when a vacancy occurs in the city council, to put the city's existing process into writing. With a vote of 5:6, the legislation was defeated.
Wilson said that the legislation was to put the city's current procedures into writing, but Ward 3 Councilman Margo Sommerville said it would be best to not make changes while the council is trying to fill a vacancy. If nothing was changing, what would the problem have been?
The Barberton City Council has voted to begin proceedings to remove their current mayor, Bill Judge, with a "no confidence" resolution over how he handled a personnel matter involving a domestic violence incident.
17 April 2026 (Mozilla vs Microsoft Copi(a)lot)
*Mozilla argued that Microsoft's design choices - particularly those that link the Windows experience tightly to Edge and Copilot - undermine genuine user control.*
17 April 2026 (FOP Lodge 139 fundraiser)
*The Summit County Deputies F.O.P. Lodge No. 139 will host its annual basketball game fundraiser April 24 at 6 p.m. at Green High School, 1474 Boettler Road.*
Good opportunity for those in and around Akron/Green to support our area's law enforcement!
16 April 2026 (Summit County voting changes)
Akronites who live in Cuyahoga Falls (4-A) and Fairlawn (4-A, 5-A, and 6-A) have had their voting locations moved.
15 April 2026 (Internet Archive Blocked by New York Times)
Looks like I have been living under a rock. As published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation: *But in recent months The New York Times began blocking the Archive from crawling its website, using technical measures that go beyond the web's traditional robots.txt rules. That risks cutting off a record that historians and journalists have relied on for decades. Other newspapers, including The Guardian, seem to be following suit.*
That was from March 16, 2026, meaning that IA was blocked before then already. The new error messages are not NYT errors now, but IA itself, reading like "The target server blocks access to [link]. (HTTP status=403)". So much for the open Web!
15 April 2026 (No Harm Data Center Act)
Democrat U.S. Representative Greg Landsman has filed legislation require data centers to cover their own energy costs, prohibit officials from signing nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), and require environmental impact studies when building new data centers.
You may read H. R. 8033 here: "To ensure that American families are protected from the impacts of data centers on the electric grid, and for other purposes."
15 April 2026 (Summit County judge candidates)
A writeup of Summit County's judge candidates that uses data provided to Signal Akron by the Akron Area League of Women Voters.
14 April 2026 (Highland Square violence)
*New barriers now block off a stretch of on-street parking along West Market Street right in front of several bars. Mayor Shammas Malik says the hope is to cut down on street parties and large crowds gathering around parked cars.*
14 April 2026 (Trump and Pope Leo XIV)
Aaron Blake's article saying that Trump's feud with a Pope is different when compared to his feud with Pope Francis.
*Few demographics were more important to President Donald Trump's 2024 win than Catholics. While Catholics usually split close to 50-50, the data shows Trump won between 55% and 59% of them -- apparently the most of any presidential candidate in decades.*
Additionally, the recent computer-generated blasphemous depiction of Trump as Jesus healing a sick man did not help his falling image.
14 April 2026 (New York Times blocking Internet Archive)
When trying to get a stable link for a New York Times article, I found out that it appears that the New York Times has taken to blocking Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. For example: here is an article regarding Trump's attacks on the Pope and how they may affect the midterms. The problem is that the link is useless due to the following message:
You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot.
Why am I seeing this? There are a few possibilities:
- You are browsing and clicking much faster than is typical of a human being
- Something is preventing Javascript from working on your computer
- There is a bot with the same IP address as you
Either its bot filter is a bit too stringent, or they realized people were getting around the identification walls with it. Either way: not good, New York Times. Looks like I need to find a different article then.
*[LLMs] lead people to self-harming actions which moreover become a burden on real medical professionals. NHS staff is compelled to "argue" against people who "know better" because some chatbot said this and that (even if it lacks any comprehension and merely parrots a bunch of inputs based on word correlation weights).
Oh, how I envy Roy Schestowitz's LLM usage.
7 April 2026 (CareCloud breach)
The healthcare company CareCloud has confirmed that it had suffered a data breach for several hours on March 16, but so far had not confirmed whether sensitive data was exposed during that time.
The article says that "the company believes the attackers are no longer inside." Does that mean they don't know for sure?
7 April 2026 (Akron Public Order Policy)
The City of Akron has announced a new Public Order Policy which was announced by Mayor Shammas Malik and Police Chief Brian Harding.
7 April 2026 (Hung jury in FirstEnergy trial)
*A jury in Akron hearing bribery and corruption charges against former CEO Chuck Jones and former senior vice president Michael Dowling is unable to come to a verdict.*
An on-line resource by Citizens Against AIPAC Corruption for tracking AIPAC's congressional spending in the federal government. The Israel Lobby Tracker, at least, functions well enough without running nonfree JavaScript.
3 April 2026 (Cisco data breach)
Crackers broke into AWS accounts belonging to Cisco, leading to over three million records getting published on-line. The records reportedly contain personally identifiable information, git repositories, AWS buckets, and other internal data".
2 April 2026 (Israel propaganda)
*Israel Boosts Funding to Propagandize Americans.*
There are already a number of companies established throughout the country that get money from Israel to publish Israeli propaganda. For example: Clock Tower X LLC.
This company's rather interesting: it's registered in Delaware, but the FARA documents say it is located on 3745 Medina Road, Ste C, Medina, OH 44256 with Bradley Parscale as a federally registered foreign agent.
The 1124-0006 document says in 10b and 11 that Clock Tower X LLC is supervised by Israel. The Services Agreement explicitly states that the company has been engaged by the state of Israel to "coordinate and execute public communications and media activities".
*Akron City Council Vice President Jeff Fusco is retiring Tuesday after 40 years in public service.*
31 March 2026 (Urgent: Elect Casey Putsch)
Ohioans: Elect Casey Putsch in the May Primary Election. Do what is best for Ohio: elect someone that will take action for Ohio's people, culture, and institutions. Here is some information about his platform.
If universities mean anything to you, you may be interested in Vivek Ramaswamy's intention to shut down universities, claiming it's to cut down on "bloated bureaucracies and administrative duplication." Not a good plan, let alone a good idea.
If the University of Akron were one of the universities that get shut down, what happens with all of the time and money students spent to get degrees that won't exist anymore?
Do what is best for Ohio. Vote Putsch.
7 March 2026 (Urgent: Stop Senate Bill 87)
Ohioans: call on your Ohio House representative to kill the bill, urging him/her to not pass SB 87 in order to protect your constitutional rights granted under the 1st and 14th amendments.
To find your area's representatives: you may use either the member search form or the house directory. You should also be able to send an e-mail your representative with the following address format: rep##@lis.state.oh.us.
Make sure you are contacting your state house representatives. For example, if you live in Ohio House District 31, you will contact Bill Roemer rather than Emilia Sykes. She's the federal rep rather than the state rep.
[I put a link to a promotional video and post by the organizer here, along with an RSVP link. As the references are no longer available, I have removed the note and added this explanation.]