A Clevelander’s Voting Guide: CLE Daily
Plus, it is clambake season. Here is everything you need to know for Northeast Ohio and Cleveland.
by Ron Ledgard | Oct. 1, 2026 | 5:00 AM
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🏈 Browns Host Steelers Tonight in the Season's Only Primetime Game: Cleveland and Pittsburgh renew their rivalry at 8:15 p.m. at Huntington Bank Field, the Browns' lone nationally televised game this year.
👻 Historic Haunts Walking Tours Return to Gordon Square: Starting tonight, lantern-lit walking tours wind through West Clinton's residential streets with theatrical, spooky-but-family-friendly Cleveland history, running through Saturday.
⚾ Guardians Open the ALDS at Home Saturday: Cleveland hosts Game 1 of the American League Division Series at Progressive Field at 1 p.m., airing nationally on TBS. The Guardians, fresh off their third consecutive AL Central title and a first-round bye, will face the winner of the Astros-White Sox wild card series. Game 2 follows at Progressive Field at 5 p.m. Monday.
🎉 Towards Employment Marks 50 Years With a Gala, a Podcast and Its First Board Emeritus Class: The Cleveland workforce nonprofit celebrates five decades of helping people build careers with an Oct. 2 anniversary gala, a new "Dignity of Work" podcast launching with Ohio Supreme Court Justice Michael P. Donnelly, and its inaugural Board Emeritus honorees, including founder Soad Mansour.
ICYMI: Remember Mayfield Theater's restoration in Little Italy? The historic movie house has been undergoing work to bring the shuttered theater back to life as a neighborhood landmark.
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Today's Trivia
What organization, a vital part of the national temperance movement, was founded in Oberlin in 1893?
News: Here is a Clevelander's guide to voting in the November election.
By Cleveland Magazine staff
Election Day is Nov. 3, and the deadlines to get ready for it are closer than you think. Voter registration and updates are due by Oct. 5, early in-person voting starts Oct. 6, and absentee ballot requests run through Oct. 27.
At the Polls: Bring a photo ID — driver's license, passport, state ID, military ID or VA card. Forgot yours? You can still cast a provisional ballot, but you must submit valid ID to your county board within four days.
Can't Make It Nov. 3? Absentee ballots are available for anyone, not just those away from home, and early voting runs at county boards of elections through Nov. 1.
Worth Noting: Polls are open 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and anyone in line by closing time still gets to vote. Check your precinct and sample ballot at voterlookup.ohiosos.gov.
Talk of the Town
Highland Heights-based Park Place Technologies launched an AI platform that scores IT hardware health on a scale of 0 to 100. ParkView Asset Intelligence draws on 35-plus years of maintenance records and nearly a million serviced assets to help enterprise IT teams decide whether to refresh, repair or retire equipment. Data that CEO Chris Adams says was previously visible only to original manufacturers.
Thousands of refugees and other lawfully present immigrants in Ohio lose Medicaid coverage starting today. Cuyahoga County has already notified roughly 3,500 residents they could be affected, though the state says it can't say how many will ultimately lose coverage statewide.
A new NEO Voter Voices poll of 621 Northeast Ohio voters finds grocery affordability topping the list of concerns. Sixty-four percent worried about the economy overall, with urban voters flagging housing costs and Black voters naming crime as their top local issue.
A Downtown Cleveland skate club is staying alive after CMSD's school mergers moved its longtime faculty sponsor. Senior Juls Pippenger stepped up to lead the Benjamin O. Davis High School club herself, keeping weekly sessions going for skaters of every skill level.
The Hessler Street Fair returns Saturday after a seven-year hiatus. The free Hessler neighborhood tradition is back as a one-day "soft reboot," with seven live bands, local artists and makers from noon to 7 p.m.
Ohio City Oktoberfest takes over Market Square Park from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday. The free, family-friendly celebration brings Bavarian food, local brews, a pretzel toss and live music to the West Side for the day.
Guides: Here are Northeast Ohio clambakes to check out.
By Cleveland Magazine staff
Fall clambake season is in full swing, and our guide rounds up where to shuck and slurp across Greater Cleveland. From lakefront patios to wine country estates, the region's clambake trail runs from now through November.
Classic Spreads: Alley Cat Oyster Bar's patio bake (Oct. 24, $65) and Brennan's Fish House's Sunday feasts in Grand River ($43.24) both pair a dozen clams with chowder, chicken, corn and sides.
Something Different: CLE Urban Winery pairs its Oct. 16 clambake with a live music set, while Euclid Fish Co. offers a to-go version complete with a rentable burner and steamer for the DIY crowd.
Worth Noting: Some spots run clambakes every weekend through October or November — Winking Lizard, Salty Mary's and Pickle Bill's among them — so there's no shortage of chances to dig in.
Yesterday's Trivia Answer
What Cleveland philanthropist and poet endowed book awards in 1935 in honor of her father and husband? Edith Anisfield Wolf
Check back tomorrow for the answer to today's question.
From the Editor
Registering to vote is the easy part. The deadline is Oct. 5, and Ohio makes it possible online in minutes.
What's on the ballot this fall is anything but small. Ohioans pick a new governor, choosing between Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton, and decide a heated U.S. Senate race between Jon Husted and Sherrod Brown. Closer to home, Cuyahoga County voters weigh in on the developmental disabilities levy, Issue 10.
Local elections shape daily life as much as national ones. Don't sit this one out.
— Ron Ledgard, Managing Editor
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Ron Ledgard
Ron Ledgard is Cleveland Magazine's managing editor and a Pittsburgh native who has made his peace with Cleveland (except on Sundays). He's a University of Pittsburgh graduate, a veteran of The Athletic and the Akron Beacon Journal, and was there for every chapter of LeBron's Cleveland story. After two decades of chasing deadlines and box scores, he's happily landed in magazines. He's a sucker for a long story done right, the kind you save for a Sunday morning (before kickoff, of course). When he isn't editing, he's out on a trail, trying a new restaurant or hunting for the next great thing to do. Sports is his subject of choice, and coffee is his fuel. Most Starbucks baristas in the area greet him like the Cheers crowd greeted Norm.
