Akron-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is one of the companies mentioned in this Wall Street Journal story about the impact the biggest tax overhaul in three decades is having on the corporate world.

The Journal says companies large and small are "dusting off once-shelved plans, re-evaluating existing projects and exploring new investment in factories and equipment."

Specialty drugmaker Amicus Therapeutics Inc. "has decided to spend as much as $200 million on a new production facility in the U.S. instead of Europe." Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex tissues, "is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to put new machinery in one of its U.S. factories, even as it closes others and cuts thousands of jobs." Aramark, the catering and uniform giant, "expects to save nearly $500 million on two recently completed acquisitions."

The rapid adaptation "goes well beyond the early announcements of $1,000 bonuses or minimum-wage increases for rank-and-file workers" and is "just the beginning" of new developments, according to the story.

The Journal says the U.S. Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service "have offered guidance on just a few of the two dozen provisions in the law that will likely require formal regulations. Companies must navigate complex rules imposing minimum taxes on foreign income, tax breaks for partnerships, faster deductions for capital spending and new limits on interest and operating-loss deductions."

Goodyear, for one, "estimates it won't pay cash taxes until 2025, because its existing credits will stretch out an additional five years when used to offset taxes at new, lower corporate rates," the newspaper reports.

Analysts expect the legislation to provide a 7% to 8% boost in aggregate per-share profits for the companies in the S&P 500 this year, The Journal says.

The funding challenges facing public transit, in Cleveland and elsewhere, are significant, so it's refreshing to read this Streetsblog profile of Toledo's new mayor, Wade Kapszukiewicz, who has pledged to commute by bus one day a week.

He tells Streetsblog's Angie Schmitt that he hoped his pledge would "start a community conversation about public transportation. TARTA (the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority) unfortunately has struggled in recent years. For Toledo to be the sort of city we all know it can be and all want it to be we have to do better with public transportation. ... There's all sorts of evidence that public transportation is crucial to economic growth. Biking, public transportation — it's also a big deal for the emerging economy."

Although the mayor has no direct authority over TARTA, he says it's "a big deal for the future of our city that we get public transportation right. I am doing this to lead by example. … I'm not saying me taking the bus to work once a week is going to solve all our problems."

It's a good, wide-ranging conversation that's worth your time to read.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland, is getting the hang of working with President Donald Trump.

Politico reports that Trump on Monday, Jan. 29, "will propose a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — a key concession to Democrats that he hopes will win their support for a massive border wall with Mexico."

Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller tells the website that the new framework also calls for dramatic restrictions on legal immigration as well as $25 billion for border security.

But there's a long time between now and Monday, and with Trump and the White House active in the negotiations, "that could be bad news for senators who were banking on Trump supporting whatever can get 60 votes in the Senate," Politico says.

"I welcome when he says the right thing. But I know the next day he might be 180 degrees different," Brown tells Politico. "We've got to get him to sign something right after he says the right thing."

• Struggle with eating carbs? You might get some motivation in this essay on the Whole30 diet, which includes comments from an Akron surgeon. Writing in The New York Times, Larissa Zimberoff says that as the calendar turned to 2018, she pledged to eat better via the Whole30 program. From the piece: Adhering to Whole30 involved staying away from almost everything I loved. Wine? Forget it. Bread? No way. Even foods I'd assumed were healthful were verboten, including peanuts and chickpeas. (There went my hummus habit.) Other no's included: no wheat, no dairy, no soy and no sugar. ... For an entire month I happily consumed plants, protein and fat. Breakfast became coconut yogurt layered with blueberries, chia seeds and hemp hearts. Lunch was a mound of kale, carrots, tomatoes and tuna. Dinner featured roasted sweet potato, zucchini "noodles" and salmon. She says her self-experiment "provided direct evidence that not all carbs are equal," an experience shared by Dr. Carrie Diulus, an orthopedic spine surgeon in Akron who learned she had Type 1 diabetes in her 30s. She carefully monitors nutrition in her patients before and after surgery. "If you take anyone on a standard American diet and you increase the number of whole foods that they are eating, they are going to do better," Diulus says. She eats a very low-carb, whole-foods diet because she doesn't want to worry when she's in the operating room. "For me to be a surgeon, I cannot have variation in my blood sugar," the surgeon notes.

• Dr. Susan Rehm, vice chairwoman of the infectious disease department at the Cleveland Clinic, is quoted in this New York Times story about a topic that's top of mind these days: When your significant other gets a bad cold or the flu, is there anything you can do to reduce the likelihood of getting it, too? Frequent hand washing is a must, the story notes, and Rehm advised being careful with shared cups in the bathroom, which can be a transmission source. If a significant other catches the flu, being vaccinated is the best protection, Rehm notes. She adds that whenever she's worried about being exposed to illness, she concentrates on the basics that she can control, such as eating well, exercising and getting enough sleep. "Potentially that will help me withstand the exposure, or at least put me in a better place to get through it," Rehm tells The Times.

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