Today in Ohio

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., See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 questions that remain from that news. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

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 of protesting students by the Ohio National Guard. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

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? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cuyahoga County screws up the tax bills, the Chapel Hill Mall in peril, Twinsburg police shenanigans, potential secrecy in the Sherwin Williams deal and what's up with the Rock Hall inductees. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is race a factor in Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's prosecution of Cuyahoga County government's human resources chief, How wasteful is the Ohio Department of Transportation, and what's the key question to consider before shrinking Cleveland City Council? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is race a factor in Dave Yost's prosecution of Douglas Dykes, How wasteful is ODOT and the real question about shrinking Cleveland CIty Council See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, we ponder why Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish tried to hide the creation of a new high-paid position and we talk a bout the agony of the Br...

Do we really need a $130,000 job for spending Cuyahoga County's opioid money, will the Cleveland airport workers ever stop breaching security See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Predictions for 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The reporters and editors at cleveland.com discuss the biggest news stories of the year, what they mean and what the future might hold. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Cannonball Run See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices