He’s the comedian Cleveland has watched poke fun at local quirks for years, unleashing viral clips like the “Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video.” She’s the journalist and Ideastream host with a law degree and a knack for cutting through noise — the person you want explaining anything complicated.
Together, Stephanie Haney and Mike Polk Jr. are a distinctly Cleveland couple: two public personalities whose paths somehow never crossed despite living nearly parallel lives for years. They moved through similar media circles, yet it took Cleveland, and ultimately WKYC, to finally put them in the same room.
Mike, who works as a features reporter for WKYC, noticed Stephanie’s energy from his loft workspace above her desk. He jokes that “illicit eavesdropping” gave him an inside track on “this truly remarkable person.”…