Shaker Heights

In 2016, white suburban women helped launch Donald Trump to presidential victory. The win jolted many Democratic suburban women into action. Katie Paris, a Shaker Heights mother of two and the former CEO of a left-leaning media company, found clusters of like-minded women all over Ohio, even in Republican strongholds. She formed Red Wine and Blue to harness their power, flip Ohio Blue in 2020 and loosen the GOP’s grip on statewide races.

Updated: 5:25 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 The Shaker Heights police officer who made an obscene gesture at demonstrators outside the presidential debate in Cleveland last month has been fired. In a letter sent Thursday, Shaker Heights Police Chief Jeff DeMuth informed Cpl. Michael Spuzzillo of the decision to terminate. According to DeMuth’s letter, Spuzzillo broke 11 of the department’s rules and standards when he flashed a middle finger at demonstrators while driving an unmarked police van outside the Sept. 29 debate site.