Want an eye-opening look at the increasingly bitter power struggle between Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Mike O’Malley and County Executive Chris Ronayne ?

Listen to Friday’s Today in Ohio episode for insights into what began as a technical dispute over legal authority and is now an ugly, full-blown turf war that threatens to consume county government.

As Leila Atassi bluntly put it: “At its core, this is really a very big power struggle, and it’s a personality clash over who’s the county’s true lawyer here. Omalley’s framing it as a question of ethics and independence, saying that the law department can’t be impartial because it reports to Ronayne. And the administration calls that nonsense and says that their attorneys handle thousands of contracts and public records requests every ye

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