Leila Atassi

Sometimes voters get so angry that money from special interests can't buy elections.

Leila, this might be such a year, but that hasn't stopped the Republicans in Ohio from trying as hard as they can to spend their way into office.

How much of a final- financial edge does Vivek Ramaswamy have over Amy Acton?

Well, his, his advantage is pretty big, especially when you look at the money being spent on ads.

Sticking with politics, we're a few weeks into our experiment with fact-checks of political ads via short video.

The goal is to reach people who are seeing the false claims in the ads but don't read our stories to know the truth.

Leila, you're helping coordinate this project.

How do you think it's going?

It's the news discussion podcast from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.

I'm Chris Quinn, here with Lisa Garvin, Leila Atassi, and Laura Johnston.

Leila, in what has to be one of the most outrageous stories to come from Ohio's incredibly anti-citizen embrace of data centers, Anna Staver, like I said, tells the story about how a data center has the right to pretty much condemn private property for use in transmitting power.

Let's talk about this travesty.

Yeah, Chris, I, I think we're, we're seeing here how far Ohio is willing to go to accommodate the data center industry, even at the expense of its own residents.

I'll, uh, I'll be interested to see if Mark Bona puts together a story now about how people can change their buying habits if they want to.

You're listening to Today in Ohio.

And we thought we worked remotely, Leila.

It's the news discussion podcast from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.

I'm Chris Quinn, here with Laura Johnston, Lisa Garvin, and Leila Atassi.

Laura, Donald Trump rallied in Youngstown Monday and talked about John Husted's ass.

I'm just repeating what the president said, so I think it's still clean enough for the podcast.

First up on Today in Ohio, it's the news discussion podcast from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.

I'm Chris Quinn, here with Lisa Garvin, Leila Atassi, and Laura Johnston.

Laura, as you know, we long ago decided to stop reporting political horse race polls because they're pretty much useless.

They always seem to get it wrong.

Our chief political writer, Jeremy Pelzer, is taking a look at them.

You're listening to Today in Ohio.

Republicans think calling people socialists is the best way to stop opponents? How did that become a dirty trick in an Ohio race, Leila?

Well, this-

I'm Chris Quinn.

I'm here with Laura Johnston, Leila Atassi, and Lisa Garvin.

Lisa, readers were asking, so we published a story Wednesday about the $500 checks Donald Trump has sent to about 70,000 Ohioans, along with a letter trashing Joe Biden yet again.

What's this about?

I'm Chris Quinn.

I'm here with Leila Atassi, Laura Johnston, and Lisa Garvin.

Laura, less than a year after Mark Zuckerberg announced his plans to have Facebook invest in the Lake County nuclear plant and expand its capacity, the federal government is adding a bunch of money.

Kinda hard to parse where one ends and the other begins.

That's that giant, majestic arched bridge we reported last week might be replaced.

This week, though, one of those people from that plot was convicted or was arrested anew.

Why, Leila?

Well, reporter Lizzy Koboski tells us that one of the men involved in that bizarre 2012 plot, it, this time he is accused of possessing ricin, a biological toxin that can be deadly.

It's Today in Ohio, the news discussion podcast from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.

I'm Chris Quinn here with Leila Atassi, Laura Johnston, and Lisa Garvin, and I thank you all for having this podcast.

The couple of days I was gone, it looks like you had a lot of fun with it and had some wonderful conversations.

We have some more coming now.

She was walking home from a high school football game.

The family never got justice.

What happened now in Tennessee? Will there be similarities, Leila?

Well, yeah, I, I agree.