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Downtown Cleveland has seen some intense athletic contests waged over the years: baseball, basketball, football and now… cornhole.Say what you will about this humble, much-loved beanbag toss game, but there’s no denying that it brings people together. That’s one of the goals of the Second Annual MedCity News Medical Cornhole Tournament, which will be held on Thursday, Aug. 19 at Gateway Plaza in Cleveland between Progressive Field and Quicken Loans Arena.

The Rubber City Radio Group (RCRG) and MedCity News have agreed to a content partnership, it was announced today.Under the agreement, Rubber City Radio will use MedCity News content on the award-winning AkronNewsNow.com and will also feature MedCity News content in broadcast programming. The agreement provides for MedCity News staff members to periodically appear [...]

This post is sponsored by MedCity News.Competition in the medical industry is nothing new. But usually, the nurses and scientists don’t have bags of feed corn in their hands. Come Aug. 19, they will.It’s time for the Second Annual MedCity News Medical Cornhole Tournament. Cornhole,known as beanbag toss outside of [...]

It’s time for the Second Annual MedCity News Medical Cornhole Tournament. Cornhole, known as beanbag toss outside of Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, is almost a national backyard pastime for residents in Ohio — including the local medical industry. This year’s cornhole tournament and picnic starts at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 19 at Gateway Plaza in Cleveland between Progressive Field and Quicken Loans Arena. You’ll get a little time to size up the competition before the games begin at 5 p.m.

One of the many fortunate things about living in Ohio is the chance for promising businesses to receive grants and other incentives. MedCity News closed on two such opportunities in the past month that will certainly help fuel our growth. We received the prestigious B Grant from The Innovation Fund and were certified for the state’s Technology Investment Tax Credit, which provides a 25 percent tax credit for those who invest in approved Ohio businesses.

Ohio’s Channel will include a segment focused on the business of health care through a partnership with MedCity News. The Tuesday segment will focus on innovation, influence and the business of health care.

MedCity News can use any coverage from MassDevice, a Boston-based online journal that covers the medical device industry. In addition, MassDevice can use any content generated by MedCity News, which follows innovation, influence and business in Minnesota and Ohio, as medical dealflow from the rest of the Midwest.

If you’ve appreciated some of the work MedCity News has done in the past year, could you give us a present? Namely: Fill out the MedCity News Reader’s Survey.

MedCity News has been writing about the medical industry in Minnesota for some time now. But today we start covering the community full time. Thomas Lee, a familiar name in business journalism in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, starts full time today as the MedCity News Service’s Minnesota Bureau Chief.

We’d like to hear from you and learn a little bit more about you so we can continue to make MedCity News better. To that end, we’ve posted a short survey that asks for some basic demographic information as well as some advice. We’d like to know the kind of stories you want to see on MedCity News and where you’d like to see us in your medical community.