The cleveland.com team talks about wildly different predictions about Ohio and coronavirus, one dire and one not so bad. And we debate whether we all have been misled all these months about not needing masks.

Our podcast goes from once a week to every weekday, to discuss and answer all of the questions you are sending us through text messages.

If you are argue that saving the economy is worth sacrificing more lives to the coronavirus, which people in your life are you willing to lose? Is it time to abolish county health boards and come up with something that is more accountable to taxpayers?...

The cleveland.com team breaks down the decision to make Ohioans stay home, wonders whether Michigan's delay explains its higher numbers and analyzes the brand new Baldwin Wallace University Great Lakes Poll.

How much should you trust and how much should you question your government in a crisis like the coronavirus? How does a government that stockpiles helium and petroleum against future shortages not have a stockpile of medical masks and gloves? Why aren...

We attempt a podcast while sheltering in place, with all of us in remote locations. Give it a listen and see how you think we did. It's all coronavirus on This Week in the CLE this week.

What will be the lasting impacts on our culture from the coronavirus

Everything coronavirus in Ohio this week -- a conversation with the people covering it.

Will the long-term result of the China coronavirus be that we're all much healthier because we know how to avoid viruses? Why can't technology end the scourge of robocalls? How would fully legalized marijuana change our culture and your neigh...

We also talk about the chances you will be able to grow marijuana in Ohio and what Cuyahoga County is thinking in ending in-person visits at the embattled jail

Why hasn't the government helped prepare us for a pandemic like the China coronavirus? We finally shut down cleveland.com comments -- why can't America have civil discussions online?

A first for the podcast, a guest who joins remotely from Columbus. Not bad for a first try, and we'll tweak the sound in future episodes.,

Questions are what we pose in the Saturday bonus episode of our podcast, This Week Week in the CLE, from cleveland.com. In our regular episode, published Thursdays, we discuss in some length the news of the week. In this shorter episode, we pose the qu...

Cohost Laura Johnston and I start the podcast talking about Jane Fonda’s continuing ability, at age 82, to polarize and spark discussion. The latest is the controversy over her scheduled appearance at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the shootings...

Is the record-breaking high water mark of Lake Erie our new normal, is Mike DeWine going to far on distracted driving, and does the Ginn Academy have the solution for Cleveland prosperity?

We wonder why the allegations against Jim Jordan keep coming back. We have a roundtable on all we have learned on the China virus. We get Seth Richardson's first handicap of 2020 on the presidential election.

How would Northeast Ohio deal with a coronavirus epidemic, when will Ohio embrace helping foster kids after they leave the system and will the next Case president care about Cleveland?

Columnist Leila Atassi fills in as co-host for vacationing Laura Johnston, and we get fired up about Leila's watchdog reporting on Cleveland Public Power.

How far will the China coronavirus spread, how many people will be able to prosper because Cleveland won't prosecute minor marijuana cases and how effective will a countywide bag ban be if it is not countywide

We also talk about in some depth about why Cuyahoga County treats so many juvenile criminals as adults and the seemingly loony behavior of the county’s now-former human resources chief.

Can the case of Cuyahoga County human resources chief Doug Dykes get any stranger? Can Donald Trump win back women? Why won't the Ohio Supreme Court go all in on bail reform? Should police stop chasing people? Can you crowdsolve an old mystery de...

Can the case of Cuyahoga County human resources chief Doug Dykes get any stranger? Can Donald Trump win back women? Why won't the Ohio Supreme Court go all in on bail reform? Should police stop chasing people? Can you crowdsolve an old mystery death?

We go deep on the first Great Lakes Poll from Baldwin Wallace University. Women look likely to determine the election, and people are fed up with the electoral college.

Are Cuyahoga County finance computers really that lame? How much will we know aboutt any Sherwin Williams incentives? What can state youth prisons and courts do to reduce youth violence

Are Cuyahoga County finance computers really that lame? How much will we know abouyt any Sherwin Willaims incentives? What can state youth prisons and courts do to reduce youth violence