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Play Podcast    Ohio State Considers Transition to Semester System
Friday is the final day of classes for the fall quarter at Ohio State. In a few years it could be the end of the fall semester. Governor Ted Strickland wants to more closely coordinate the offerings of the state's public colleges and universities. That includes changing the few remaining institutions that use the quarter system to a semester-based academic calendar.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:44:59 GMT
GOP Wants to Continue Ohio Workers Comp System
GOP lawmakers say want to preserve a system used by the state to set job-injury insurance rates.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:56:15 GMT
Chrysler President Encouraged by UAW Offer
The president of Chrysler says the United Auto Workers' willingness to change the union's contract is a good step.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:26:51 GMT
Study: Ohio Flunks College Affordability Test.
Ohio flunks the affordability test in a new independent report on American higher education. The study says even after financial aid is taken into account, poor and working-class Ohio families would have to devote 57 percent of their income to send a student to a public four-year college.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:43:08 GMT
Play Podcast    Overall Abortion Numbers Down; Increase Among Black Teens in Franklin County
Ohio health officials report the number of abortions performed in Ohio has dropped to a 31 year low. About 30,860 were performed last year - the fewest since the State Department of Health starting keeping track in 1976.But while the overall number of abortions are down, one segment of the population - teenage African Americans - is seeing a rise in the number of abortions.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:30:41 GMT
Play Podcast    Ohio Lawmakers Debate "Golden Week"
A bill to deal with the so-called "golden week" in which first-time voters can register and cast ballots on the same day may come up for a vote in the lame-duck legislature.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:59:58 GMT
Play Podcast    Columbus Council Gives Tax Breaks In Return For 2,400 New Health Care Jobs.
Columbus City council has given a green light to a 30 percent income tax abatement to Children's Hospital. The tax incentive is designed to help the hospital expand and create 2,400 new jobs during the next five years at its Parsons and Livingston location. Council-member and development chair Mary Ellen O'Shaughnessy says the agreement will keep jobs from possibly moving to the suburbs.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:42:16 GMT
Ohio Will Boost Its Tracking Of Parolees.
Crime victims will be able to find out when an inmate is released with the help of changes to Ohio's criminal tracking system. State officials say a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will allow Ohio to upgrade its current tracking system by 2010.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:37:51 GMT
Play Podcast    Governor Strickland Heads To Philadelphia For Budget Talks
Governor Strickland is in Philadelphia, where the nation's governors are meeting today with President-elect Barack Obama. The state leaders will make their case for more federal money for health care programs and for road and bridge repair projects. On Monday, Strickland said Ohio tax revenues are falling short of projections.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:01:14 GMT
Governor And First Lady Will Light Statehouse Trees.
Gov. Ted Strickland is ready to flip the switch on the holiday season at the Ohio Statehouse. The governor and First Lady Frances Strickland will officially light two Christmas trees on the state Capitol grounds Monday during a short ceremony scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:58:17 GMT
Play Podcast    Depression of 1870's Felt by Ohio Families
In the current economic downturn, the Great Depression has been receiving a great deal of attention.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:27:11 GMT
Ohio Veterans Advocate Wants More Funds To Treat Gulf War Illness.
The 1991 Persian Gulf War has been followed by 17 years of pain and anguish for hundreds of thousands of veterans. John Schwertfager heads the advocacy group Ohio Gulf War Veterans. He says many of the veterans who came home physically ill were told it was all in their heads. Now, he says they struggle with real mental health problems after years of chronic pain and personal problems such as divorce and the inability to work.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:22:09 GMT
Play Podcast    Stellar Season for Retailers? Probably Not
Leftover turkey was barely in the fridge Thanksgiving night when thousands of people headed out the door to go shopping. Some retailers wanting to capitalize on the most profitable shopping day of the year - the day after Thanksgiving known as "black Friday" - opened their stores at midnight. One popular destination - the Prime Factory Outlet stores in Jeffersonville. Meanwhile a professor of retail merchandising at Ohio University predicts a less than stellar season for retailers
meyer.26@osu.edu   Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:31:47 GMT
Play Podcast    Ohio National Guard Members Return Home In December.
Members of the 37th Ohio National Guard Infantry Combat Battallion are making plans to return home next month. Members of the Brigade spent 2008 at military base camps in Kuwaithelping soldiers get in and out of Iraq.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:28:41 GMT
Play Podcast    Ohio Historical Society Hopes "Rockwell" Will Be Big Draw
The financially strapped Ohio Historical Society is hoping to bring in visitors and needed revenue with the largest and one of the most expensive exhibits it's ever hosted. It's called Rockwell's America, and it's not a typical show of artwork. It features all 322 covers that the American painter did for the Saturday Evening Post, and much more.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:25:25 GMT
Play Podcast    Columbus Police Chief Leaves Office for Last Time
It's the end of an era at Columbus Police headquarters. Chief James Jackson left the job for the last time. WOSU was there as fellow officers honored Jackson's half century of service.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:30:02 GMT
Play Podcast    Southside Columbus Food Pantry Distributes Thanksgiving Food.
This year has brought lob losses, budget cuts and rising bills. And some people are finding it hard to be thankful. Last year, Ohio Public Radio's Karen Kasler went to a Columbus food pantry just before Thanksgiving. She went back to find out how clients and volunteers are holding up going into the holiday season.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:09:09 GMT
Play Podcast    Keno Revenues Fall Short Of Projections
Earlier this year, amid a flurry of controversy, Governor Ted Strickland asked Ohio lottery officials to launch a new game, Keno. The governor said it could bring in enough extra profits to protect Ohio schools from spending cuts that were hitting other state programs. Now comes word that revenue predictions for Keno may have been too rosey, way too rosey.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:05:10 GMT
Play Podcast    Ohio Supreme Court Will Rule on Provisional Ballot Case
A 3-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that the Ohio Supreme Court rather than federal court is the proper forum to decide whether thousands of provisional ballots will be counted. Riding on the outcome of that count is the congressional race in Ohio's 15th District where Republican Steve Stivers leads Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy by fewer than 600 votes.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:43:23 GMT
Columbus Welcomes Soccer Champions.
Members of the Columbus Crew arrived home Monday night to a welcome from more than 100 fans, many wearing the team's black and gold. The team was cheered as it descended an airport escalator with Mayor Michael Coleman, who helped hold up the MLS Cup.
meyer.26@osu.edu   Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:17:17 GMT

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