Finally, Statehouse must-dos are clear - the Browns, private schools, a tax sop for the people: Thomas Suddes

The Ohio General Assembly’s real priorities: Lickety-split, the legislature tucked into the state’s operating budget a $600 million handout to help the NFL’s Browns abandon Cleveland by building a new stadium in suburban Brook Park, and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine readily signed off on that. (Coincidentally, the governor and his family own North Carolina’s Asheville Tourists, a Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Houston Astros.)

Meanwhile, after more than 18 months of hemming-and-hawing over the homeowners’ tax revolt sweeping the state like a prairie fire from Lake Erie to the Ohio, Ohio’s House – but not, so far, the Senate – passed legislation to address to some degree homeowners’ crushing school-levy burdens .

Key reason for the Statehouse wake-up: The possibility fed-up vote