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Latest Episodes

Two former judges translate Trump legal cases into simple terms.
March 18, 2024

Retired judges Gayle Williams-Byers and Tom Hodson dissect Donald Trump’s legal issues into understandable terms for the public. In this episode, they examine two recent rulings by Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton County Georgia concerning the dismissal of s

“One More War to Fight” author Dr. Stephen Goldman talks about the bonding of Civil War Union soldiers after the war.
March 07, 2024

Psychiatrist and author Dr. Stephen A. Goldman tackles postwar life of Union Civil War soldiers and their commitment to social change.In his book, One More War to Fight: Union Veteran Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Lost Ca

Rural Practice Incentive Program brings lawyers to underserved populations.
February 14, 2024

Ohio, like most states, has vast regions that have too few lawyers based upon population needs.In Ohio, 82 of the 88 counties do not have adequate representation. Only the top six urban counties meet the standard of one lawyer per 700 people, says Chief

MIT Technology Review’s 2024 10 breakthrough technologies.
February 02, 2024

At the end of each year, the editors and staff of the MIT Technology Review select the top 10 new technologies that will breakthrough in the coming year.The list is prepared and published to give the average person a glimpse of what is on the horizon an

News media are obsessed with covering former Pres. Donald Trump.
January 22, 2024

There are mutual obsessions between the news media who cover former President Donald Trump and Donald Trump and the news media.Both rely on the other and both benefit from the other. The news media makes money off covering Trump and Trump gets unending

Local news outlets disappearing at an alarming rate…What’s next?
January 05, 2024

While 60 percent of Americans have more trust in local news than national news, local media are disappearing at an alarming rate. We are losing an average of two newspapers per week and by 2025, we will have lost nearly one-third of our local newspapers n

Political update on both parties from Time Washington Correspondent
December 12, 2023

Philip Elliott, Washington correspondent for Time and author of Times newsletter, D.C. Brief, breaks down the status of national politics as we sit just less than a year away from the 2024 Presidential Election.Although former President Donald Trump is

New “National Climate Assessment” says effects of climate change worsening across USA.
November 27, 2023

Recently, the fifth National Climate Assessment was released by the US government. It is an interagency effort mandated by Congress to provide the scientific foundation for informed decision making about climate change for the next five years. The report

Saving Democracy Entails Saving Journalism and Journalists
November 21, 2023

Newspapers and other forms of news media are disappearing in the wake of more people getting their news through social media,The result, according to the Medill Local News Initiative, is that our democracy is being threatened; civic engagement is declin

Trump cases’ legal terms are translated to plain English by two former judges.
November 09, 2023

Too often legal terms are used, without definitions, by the news media while covering cases involving former President Donald J. Trump. This leads to public misinformation, misunderstanding and confusion. Periodically, this season, WOUB’s Spectrum podcas