The Biden administration has announced plans to cancel billions in student debt. We’ll look at the support and criticism towards the plan, as well as the persisting issue of higher education costs.

After decades of population decline, the monarch butterfly has officially been classified as endangered. We discuss the future of the monarch butterfly and more with entomologist Mark Berman.

Columbus city school students get another swipe at having the first day of classes, returning after their teachers approve a new three-year labor deal to end a strike that started last week. We’ll talk about the return to classes and more about the impact of the strike and more on our weekly reporter roundtable.

There’s a lot going on in our arts community in these late days of summer. We discuss the latest in local music, the upcoming Columbus Children’s Theater production of Newsies and meet the new director of Ohio State's school of music.

Jeff Daniels, the esteemed film and stage actor, philanthropist, and playwright is also a talented and prolific songwriter and the special guest on the 100th episode of Songs at the Center.

Thanks to a pandemic program, over the past two years about 90% of schools were able to serve free meals to all students regardless of income. We take a look at the lessons learned from the two-year experiment in universal free school meals.

In July, the first US case of polio in nearly a decade appeared in New York. The case was contracted from someone who had received the oral polio vaccine which, although no longer used in the US, continues to be key to the global effort to eradicate polio.

Former President Trump’s continued dominance over the GOP has some in the party worried about its future.

Columbus city school teachers have gone on strike after talks fell apart at the bargaining table late last week. We'll discuss the strike and more.

Tucked into the newly passed Inflation Reduction Act is $40 billion to make farmland more environmentally friendly.It’s been hailed as an historic investment – one that a number of agricultural groups say is good news for farmers and the environment.