All Sides with Amy Juravich

In U.S. history, previous periods of gridlock and partisanship eventually gave way to bursts of constitutional amendments. Given our current political climate, are we positioned to see a wave of new amendments?

A panel of doctors advising the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommend emergency use authorization of COVID-19 shots for kids ages 5-11. We talk with a medical doctor to answer your questions about the COVID-19 vaccine for kids.

The pandemic brought schools to the center of ongoing public health debates over masks and vaccine mandates. All of this has brought the formerly dull races for local school boards to the front of many parents' minds.

We talk about the state of public education with Paolo DeMaria, who retired in September as the Ohio superintendent of public instruction, and as he prepares for his next role at the helm of a national association for state boards of education.

Election Day 2021 is a week out, and county boards of election are still working to recruit poll workers, particularly in Ohio’s big cities. We'll discuss the need for poll workers and take a quick look at what is on the ballot in central Ohio.

The pandemic saw an increase in animal adoptions to the point that some animal shelters emptied. We’ll look at how the pet explosion is changing our homes, culture and economy.

Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp said earlier this month that the Republican-controlled legislature will move on from efforts to ban or limit COVID vaccine mandates. But a fellow Republican lawmaker has other ideas. We catch up with the latest news from the Statehouse on our Weekly Reporter Roundtable.

The Chef’s Garden, now a world-famous center for innovation in northeast Ohio, is home to the Culinary Vegetable Institute that attracts chefs from around the world. We talk with Farmer Lee Jones about the history of the farm and recipes for unusual and common vegetables.

The advent of autumn offers even casual night-sky observers spectacular astronomical sights: Stars, moons, planets, water constellations. We talk about the night-time wonders with Tom Burns, former director of Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan.

There’s no shortage of haunting tales of ghosts culminating in the celebration of Halloween at the end of October. We’ll find out what spectral spirits are causing things to go bump in the night at Green Lawn Cemetery.