Cleveland City Council has put its stamp on the Browns’ $100 million departure deal, but the almost insignificant changes raise one significant question: Was council’s goal to create slush funds that members can spend without oversight.

Today in Ohio podcast hosts discussed the slush fund notion in dissecting council’s last-minute modifications to Mayor Justin Bibb’s agreement with the Browns. The most significant change involves flipping the allocation of funds between lakefront development and neighborhoods.

“When you compare the tweaks they made, which are not all that meaningful to the big words that they threw around in opposition to the deal when it came forward, they don’t match up,” said Chris Quinn, highlighting the disconnect between council’s initial bombastic opposition and

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