What happens when the two most powerful figures in Cleveland city government can’t settle a basic dispute? Apparently, they hold competing press conferences to complain about each other rather than picking up the phone.

In a scathing analysis on the Today in Ohio podcast , hosts criticized into Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Council President Blaine Griffin for their embarrassing public feud over a council staffer’s access to city records.

“They’re being children,” Quinn declared on the podcast, expressing disbelief at the city leaders’ inability to resolve a basic administrative issue through direct communication.

The dispute centers around Stephen Rys, a longtime council aide who downloaded thousands of files from the city’s public records database before lawyers had vetted them,

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