In the first episode of 2020, we use the spiking number of youths who die by homicide and youths who commit violence to ask whether Juvenile Court is failing, we ask whether the bid to shrink Cleveland City Council will subvert its century-old purpose,...

Do we really need a $130,000 job for spending Cuyahoga County's opioid money, will the Cleveland airport workers ever stop breaching security

Predictions for 2020

As the century's teen years come to a close, the reporters and editors at cleveland.com pick the top 10 news stories of the past 10 years.

Will Giant Eagle's bold move stop the plastic bag war, is the criminal investigation of Cuyahoga County just an expensive fishing expedition, and can Cleveland provide is does not discriminate

The reporters and editors at cleveland.com discuss the biggest news stories of the year, what they mean and what the future might hold.

Which Ohio gun measure will prevail, is the Lake Erie wind turbine project dying and can Rob Portman convince his conservative Senate colleagues to help him fight needless evictions

We get into the bona fide reasons for putting the Cleveland Police Headquarters on Opportunity Corridor, strike three for Dave Yost's grab at the opioid cash and the fun tale of the Northeast Ohio guy who set the record for the coast-to-coast Cann...

Much-needed answers on the Cleveland Police HQ, a question on how a Cuyahoga County firing was handled, and the Twinsburg guy who set the record for the Cannonball Run

We’re wondering whether the ease of buying marijuana in Michigan will bring a cultural shift of Ohio, as people in the Buckeye state embrace the convenience of getting their weed legally across the border.

Questions about Cuyahoga County corruption probe, government dysfunction on plastic bags and what's up with those Hallmark holiday movies

The battle over the shopping bag ban, the inexplicable prosecution of Cuyahoga County's highest ranking African-American official and we try to be thoughtful about Hallmark holiday movies.

The top stories of the week, along with lingering questions. Will City Council ask how a police headquarters fits the original vision for Opportunity Corridor? What do prosecutors think Bioenterprise did at the building formerly known as the Med Mart. ...

The fifth anniversary of the Tamir Rice shooting and putting a police headquarters on a road designed for economic development

Anti-science legislation, Tamir Rice turning point and Play it Loud at the Rock Hall

On this week’s episode of This Week in the CLE, we’re talking about huge leaps in our understanding of why the mortality rate for African American babies is so much higher than for white babies. We also discuss some thoughts on Tuesday’s elections, the...

The opioid settlement, the last gasps of the fight against the nuclear bailout, a huge step forward on bail reform

Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish has asked the intriguing question: What if you could walk, run or ride a bike along nearly the entire lakefront in Cuyahoga County? We consider some answers to that question and analyze Budish’s bold l...

Cuyahoga County suddenly finds itself with millions of dollars because of its lawsuits against companies that created the opioid crisis, and County Executive Armond Budish has some ideas on how best to use that money.That’s where we begin the latest...

The cash heading to Cuyahoga and Summit counties in opioid case settlements has topped $65 million and continues to climb, which makes us wonder whether we are getting more than we actually spent on the crisis.That’s where we start the conversation ...

The latest blow to Cleveland by largely by southern and central legislators came this week with the Ohio Supreme Court’s death knell for the Fannie Lewis law that city leaders were using to fight poverty.It’s just the latest of the efforts by rural ...

We talk about the growing battle over the bailout of the state's nuclear plants, the motives behind a potential Ohio vaping ban, the evolution of the discussion on conflict of interest involving Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Troy Smith's ...

We’ve got three anomalies so far in the criminal investigations into Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s 22-year-old grandson, and we talk about the lack of explanations for them on the latest episode of This Week in the CLE. Cohost Laura Johnst...

Disorder at Mayor Frank Jackson’s house, jail escape secrecy and, suddenly, First Energy Solutions calls its bailout a tax?

We're loaded with outrage over Dave Yost’s cash grab, anti-China baiting, an unprecedented tax giveaway, City Council expenses and a jail guard drug ring