Sound of Ideas Reporters Roundtable

East Cleveland's books are a mess, and a court-appointed state receiver should take control of the city's finances, according to Ohio Auditor Keith Faber. East Cleveland Mayor Lateek Shabazz is fighting it, laying blame on the state.

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb's administration accused a city council staffer of improperly downloading unredacted public records from a city database he has legal access to, and demanded he be fired. Council President Blaine Griffin said council's policy analyst did nothing wrong and the mayor is trying to strong arm council.

A local congressman wants the National Guard deployed in Cleveland to make it safe, saying suburbanites are afraid of the city. Meanwhile, the governor says a multi-agency team from the state, not the National Guard, is coming to Cleveland.

Democrats in the Ohio legislature, likely to be unsatisfied with political mapmaking process once again, offered their own maps pre-emptively, saying they want to end gerrymandering. The Republican speaker of the house called that map a gerrymander.

As the Browns kick off the season Sunday, the battle over relocation to Brook Park continues.

The tragic death of a motorist, struck by a suspect fleeing Cuyahoga County Sheriff's deputies has raised new questions about police pursuit policy, the county's Downtown Safety Patrol and the qualifications of deputies.

The Ohio Department of Transportation decision to deny a permit for the Cleveland Browns Brook Park stadium did not come out of the blue. The groundwork for the denial may have been laid as far back as this past spring in a letter from the city's director of port control.

Cleveland City Council has not censured one of its members since the 1970s.

After paying hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies for coal power plants tied to scandal-torn HB 6, ratepayers get a break next week. Payments stop.

After losing $50 million last year and on track to go deeper in the red this year, the MetroHealth System announced yesterday that it's laying off 125 non-medical workers, freezing non-clinical hiring and scrapping an executive bonus program.