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The podcast Serial has called new attention to the power that local judges wield over everything from license suspensions to prison sentences. “Judges in America are really the only elected public officials that the public invests with the authority to take their property, their liberty and sometimes even their life,” retired Cleveland Municipal Judge Ronald Adrine said. There are more than a dozen contested judicial races on Cuyahoga County ballots this November, from the state supreme court down to the court of common pleas.

One of the best teams the Cleveland Indians ever fielded had a nickname, but it was hardly flattering. The 1940 Tribe squad was dubbed the “Cleveland Crybabies.” The story behind how the team landed this unpleasant sobriquet is one of many writer Scott H. Longert explores in “Bad Boys, Bad Times: The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Prewar Years, 1937-1941.” (Ohio University Press)

Clevelander Robert Madison got his marching orders when he was six — his mother told him he should become an architect. Three decades later, he became the first African American architect in Ohio. But, that achievement came after a hard-fought struggle against cultural forces working to keep people of color out of the profession. Madison’s new memoir, “Designing Victory,” co-written with Carlo Wolff, traces the struggle from segregated water fountains in the Jim Crow South up through building a U.S embassy in Senega

In the weeks following the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, there’s been a lot of talk about how such a tragedy might be prevented from happening again. And although much of the discussion has centered around guns, the anxiety over school shootings is also feeding a growing industry for school security products and services.

Less than 9 percent of the physicians at the Cleveland Clinic come from underrepresented minorities, and at University Hospitals, the number is less than 6 percent. This is the norm in hospitals across the country, not the exception. Some believe that having more minority health providers could help tackle the big problem of health disparities in the region and across the country. A program at Cleveland State University is working to recruit and train more minority health professionals.

Thanks for checking out "The Downtowner," about Cleveland's newest, oldest neighborhood. This episode launches our next season. We'll have several other episodes every other Thursday. If you missed our first season, have no fear. Check out all of our episodes on our show page.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Brett McGurk, a former U.S. envoy to the coalition fighting ISIS, about the changing U.S. policy and strategy for defeating ISIS.

Cleveland's failed bid for Amazon's second headquarters is no longer a secret. After months of public records requests by several news organizations, and a court case on behalf of WEWS-TV News5's investigative reporter Sarah Buduson, the city released the bid Friday. In it was the promise of more than $3.5 billion in tax breaks and the creation of Amazon's own power grid. Sarah Buduson joins me for details.

It’s been six years since the Cleveland Indians hired two-time World Series champion manager Terry Francona to lead their team and he’s been at the helm of a renaissance, a rebirth of the franchise that had so much success in the 1990’s. Francona has six straight winning seasons as Indians manager, one American League championship, and perhaps one rain delay short of a World Series title in 2016. On Friday, he leads the Indians into their fourth playoff appearance under his leadership.

To win, Beto O'Rourke needs to change the Texas electorate. But voter registration data suggests Democrats aren't registering enough voters to offset Republicans' structural advantages in the state.