Allergy season is in full swing and more than 80 million Americans suffer with seasonal allergies.

How does this year compare to years in the past? Are people going to be sniffling more, or is this year going to finally be a downturn in pollen?

We'll get the answers from a local allergist.

Conservation can take on many forms. It can involve protecting animals, plants, forests or any of Earth’s natural resources.

We are going to meet a woman who has dedicated herself to protecting and preserving wildlife areas, including The Dawes Arboretum in Newark.

For many young people, a little guidance and mentorship can be life changing.

When someone dedicates themselves to being that change, their community grows and prospers.

We'll talking with an individual who has worked for decades to teach and help young people to reach their full potential through various initiatives and programs.

It's all coming up on this week's edition of Fascinating Ohio.

Guests:

• Dr. Summit Shah, allergist/founder, Premier Allergy & Asthma
• Holly Latteman, director of science and research, Dawes Arboretum
• David Bush, founder, Madd Poets Society/commissioner of youth civic engagement, City of Toledo

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The city’s women’s volleyball team, Columbus Fury, has new owners.

Married entrepreneurs Andrea Mitchell and Andy Sandler acquired100% of the team from the previous ownership group, which included Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and his parents.

This comes at a time when The Greater Columbus Sports Commission is putting a greater emphasis on women’s sports, including trying to get a women’s soccer team in the city.

Women’s sports are on the rise with increased viewership of the women’s bracket in March Madness and more focus on women in the recent Winter Olympics.

Guests:

• Andrea Mitchell, owner, Columbus Fury
• Linda Logan, CEO/president, Greater Columbus Sports Commission
• Dunja Antunovic, associate professor, sports sociology, University of Minnesota

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The State of Ohio Adversity and Resilience (SOAR) project is Ohio State University College of Medicine's attempt at creating a comprehensive mental health study for Ohio’s population.

Researchers have collected mental health data on many counties across Ohio.

What the Framingham study did for heart disease is what the SOAR project wants to do for mental health.

We're discussing the issue on this hour of All Sides.

Guests:

• Scott Langenecker, PhD, professor and vice chair of research for psychiatry and behavioral health, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
• Anthony King, PhD, psychologist and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center/director, STAR Trauma Recovery Center and Program for Resilience

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Drugs flow into Ohio’s prisons in ways that are both brazen and clandestine.

The brazen way is with visible and noisy drones making drops inside prison yards or provided by corrections officers themselves.

The clandestine way is when contraband is smuggled inside prisons on tiny pieces of drug-soaked paper.

Potent narcotics addict, and even kill, men and women trying to turn from a life of crime while housed in state-run, taxpayer-funded facilities, which are under constant surveillance.

In the words of one prison official, keeping narcotics out of prisons is "like playing a game of Whac-A-Mole." You close off one route and another one pops up.

Coming up on this hour of All Sides, reporters from the Columbus Dispatch and The Marshall Project discuss their year-long project: Smuggled.

Guests:

• Laura Bischoff, investigative reporter, The Columbus Dispatch
• Doug Livingston, staff writer, The Marshall Project-Cleveland
• Chris Mabe, president, Ohio Civil Service Employees Association

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NASA plans to blast a crew back to the moon any day now, with Wednesday marking the earliest possible launch window.

It’s been more than 50 years since the last moon mission, and the Artemis Two crew is the most diverse to orbit the lunar surface.

When it comes to breaking barriers and records, former astronaut and current central Ohio resident Kathryn Sullivan knows a thing or two about that.

The first American woman to walk in space, she’s also the first woman to dive to the lowest point on Earth.

She joins us for this week's Tech Tuesday to talk about the evolving role of women in space, her adventures under the sea and how she’s educating a new generation of thrill seekers.

We'll also discuss the significance of the recent Meta verdict.

Guests:

• Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space/oceanographer/author
• Russell Holly, director of commerce content, CNET

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The recent strikes on Iran by the United States and its allies have resulted in one of the lowest-approved conflicts in history, according to recent polls of the American public.

Further action is polling even lower, with most Americans deeply opposed to boots on the ground in Iran.

How does the reaction to this war compare to past conflicts with the United States, and what makes this one different?

Also, it’s not just the public reaction that matters, but how do lawyers and lawmakers feel about this war?

Guests:

• Dakota Rudesill, professor, Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law
• Bill Butler, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)/president, National Veterans Memorial and Museum

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Ohio and Ohioans star in Season 10 of “Love is Blind."

We’ll talk with Ohio State professor and reality TV star Victor St. John, who made a splash and gained a wife during his time in the limelight.

This hour, we’re exploring the enduring and growing popularity of reality TV.

Guests:

• Victor St. John, Ohio State professor/star of season 10 of "Love is Blind" reality TV series
• Kim Akass, professor of television studies/independent scholar
• Bobbi Miller, pop culture critic and host, Culture Kitsch

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The jury is still out in the corruption trial of two former FirstEnergy executives. The utility company's former CEO Chuck Jones and former lobbyist Michael Dowling are accused of bribing a top utility regulator.

How many taxes can we propose getting rid of? Turns out, quite a few.

Joining proposals to ditch property taxes and income taxes comes this one from an Ohio Republican: capital gains taxes.

Reverse an abortion? A new bill would require providers to tell patients about an experimental process to “give your baby a second chance at life.” Two previous attempts to pass similar legislation failed.

Drag shows aren’t entertaining; they’re obscene. That's according to a new House bill.

One of the few monuments in the country honoring women is dedicated at the Ohio Statehouse.

We're talking about all of it on this week's Reporter Roundtable.

Guests:

• Jo Ingles, senior reporter, Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau
• Jessie Balmert, state government and politics reporter, Columbus Dispatch
• Jeremy Pelzer, chief politics reporter, Cleveland.com

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(Photo: Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal/NABJ)

Central Ohio is slowly warming up as spring is starting to take hold. Like so many spring flowers, the central Ohio arts community is blossoming.

All Sides Weekend and Classical 101 Morning Host Christopher Purdy is talking with some leaders of the local arts community about what's to come during this spring season.

Host:

• Christopher Purdy, Classical 101 Morning Host

Guests:

• Melissa Starker, film critic
• Antoine Clark, founder/conductor/music director, Worthington Chamber Orchestra
• Julia Noulin-Merat, general director/CEO, Opera Columbus

Have you ever gotten confused while trying to measure something very precise with a ruler?

If you have struggled with those tiny black lines on a ruler, you’re not alone. We will meet a local man who reinvented the standard ruler by adding colors.

And then we’ll meet a landscaper who believes that good designs with native plantings can cure most of our environmental and emotional woes.

And finally we will meet a local Air Force veteran who channeled his grief into a means of helping others via an entrepreneurial effort that launched at this year’s Arnold Sports Festival.

We're talking with two innovative entrepreneurs and a landscaper on this week's edition of Fascinating Ohio.

Guests:

• Keith Scanlon, artist/art educator/founder of ColoRule
• Amy Dutt, co-owner, Scioto Gardens Native Plant Nursery
• Zach Caudill, founder, Battle Flow Nootropics

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