Bert Stratton News Today

Regarding anonymous pledges (“Maimonides Goes Wrong” by Bert Stratton , op-ed, Dec. 7), I’ll always remember what Rabbi Leo Landman , of blessed memory, would…

Its always nice to get feedback on my TRMs, and this week I was delighted to hear from Kathleen Jones.

Three hundred dollars is decent bread (leavened or unleavened) for performing, or not performing, in a grocery store during the expected pre-Passover Sunday surge of Jewish customers doing their Seder shopping. I learned my lesson. Don’t pass up a Passover gig, writes guest columnist Bert Stratton of Cleveland Heights, leader of the band Yiddishe Cup.

"Yiddishe Pirat," the project from Vulfpeck’s Jack Stratton, revives klezmer music for a younger, funkier audience.

A brush with the past

Adventures in tenant vetting

Northeast Ohio landlord Bert Stratton explains in The Wall Street Journal why he's no longer a last-minute airport gate crasher, and a Clevelander is among those who talks with the paper about avoiding airline fees. (Big lesson: Pack light.) Plus, a Case Western Reserve University professor has thoughts about whether you should clone your pet, and the Journal dives into the Ohio-heavy world of butter bargain hunters.

Long-deferred maintenance, a changing climate and the construction of homes, businesses and highways below previously remote dams are all contributing to the soaring numbers.

More than 2,200 dams built upstream from homes or communities are in poor condition across the U.S., likely endangering lives if they were to fail, according to an Associated Press analysis.

An Associated Press analysis has found a growing number of hazardous dams in poor condition across the U.S. The AP tallied more than 2,200 dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition that are rated as high hazard, meaning their failure likely would kill someone.