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

Botched voter purge, death knell for executions, three judges in controversy, Cleveland’s rare moment and Troy Smith on the Avengers

Is the sheriff a victim or stooge, do we want front license plates, and is Mike Dewine soul-searching or playing politics on executions – This Week in the CLE

Lawmakers pass sleazy bill to help the rich while Trump targets the poor, Heartless felons run drugs in jail, Biden trounces Trump in Ohio, and Cleveland film makers are most successful on the planet – This Week in the CLE

Big Pharma launches an opioid epidemic, Sherrod Brown gets rejected at the border, Sheriff Cliff Pinkney refuses to answer questions and much more – This Week in the CLE

Mike DeWine’s privacy invasion, St. Pat’s Day voter suppression, Cuyahoga County Council’s tough questions on contracts, Racino riches, Indianapolis lessons for CLE, innovative journalism in Lakewood and Mark Maymik’s farewell thoughts – This Week in...

Columbus Statehouse bungling, unsanitary Cleveland restaurants, Bernie Moreno’s Tower City gambit, justice reform’s big leap. All-Star Game fun and how non-musicians can rock out at the Rock Hall

Robust debate about Lake Erie wind turbines and the view from 30,000 feet of the criminal investigation of Cuyahoga County government: A special Independence Day week

More state action on jail while Cuyahoga council does nothing, Armond Budish details his jail reforms, murder suspect accidentally freed, Ohio’s new top employer, Dan Gilbert pays up, Anthony Sowell settlement mystery and Mitchell’s flavors ranked

Bill Mason returns, Cuyahoga County Council’s backward step, dueling tax cuts, Akram Boutros’ moving speech and what's up with that earthquake -- This Week in the CLE

Lawyer Roger Synenberg’s astounding bad judgment, disturbing videos inside the jail, Ohio’s Amazon cash bonanza, an update on bikelife’s Streetgod and Armond Budish’s “gotcha guy”

Plastic bags are taboo, opioid deaths take frightening leap, county treasury loses the cash, how to park a boat on the river and insider clues on eating, drinking on both sides of town

NFL draft comes home, Cleveland’s southern Ohio overlords, post-Roe v Wade landscape, Sherwin Williams abandoning Ohio and top Mexican fare: This Week in the CLE

Tragic death and a drug ring at the jail, idiotic antics on the Cuyahoga River, hurdles for women leaders, new Cavs coach and a Game of Thrones debate

More bucks for utilities, ray of light for film industry, more jail distress, Trump’s Lordstown misdirection and the best album of the 1980s

Cleveland movie industry’s peril, City Hall subterfuge, who’s blocking jail oversight and a very cool way to rank Rock Hall acts

Cuyahoga’s high taxes, Tim Ryan’s lonely campaign, Greater Cleveland’s population fizzle, Troy Smith talks Avengers and more.

Armond Budish talks trees, Metroparks' trail troubles and Rock Hall rocks expansion idea - and more