Sound of Ideas Reporters Roundtable

Voters in Cleveland and Akron earlier this month overwhelmingly approved new combined levies.

They skipped the magic markers and went right to the paint sprayer as Ohio grew an even deeper shade of red Tuesday. Republicans dominated nationally and in the Buckeye State.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has sued the Department of Homeland Security for access to citizenship databases to check against Ohio's voter rolls.

Voter registrations are being challenged in unprecedented numbers and the ACLU of Ohio is pushing back against the Ohio Secretary of State's newly revised form that could require naturalized citizens to produce papers if challenged at the polls.

A frustrated Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb announced yesterday that the Browns have decided to move to suburban Brook Park, where they envision a complex that would include a stadium with a roof over 176 acres near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

Most of your neighbors are worried about the economy, immigration and public safety, according to the NEO Voter Voices poll commissioned by Ideastream Public Media and two other media partners.

The city of Cleveland has formed a task force to investigate a series of illegal street takeovers that terrified people last weekend on city streets and Interstate 90. One arrest has been made.

Residents in a 20-mile radius of the East Palestine toxic train derailment will soon see proceeds of a class-action suit against Norfolk Southern. A federal judge this week approved the $600 million settlement.

The Portage County sheriff on Facebook this week called undocumented immigrants "illegal human locusts" and encouraged collecting addresses of Kamala Harris supporters. The local NAACP and others say it's voter intimidation. The sheriff says it's his First Amendment right.

City leaders in Springfield, near Dayton, say Haitian immigrants are not eating their neighbors' pet cats, but the surging immigrant population there has presented challenges for health care, education and traffic control. Gov. Mike DeWine is sending money and highway patrol troopers to help.