All Sides with Amy Juravich

Fall is coming, and that means football, a new season for arts in Columbus, and the Best Damn Band in the Land. We talk to the band's director as well as the executive directors of the King Arts Complex and Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus.

The largest increase in 46 years is coming to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as Food Stamps. We’ll learn how the food stamp program has changed and continues to serve as a safety net for individuals and families.

Columbus is on a list of cities that could become home to Afghans fleeing their country in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal. We talk about the challenges ahead and the lessons learned from previous refugee resettlement efforts in central Ohio.

This week on Wellness Wednesday, we round up the latest COVID vaccine news, look at individual dietary choices that can add time to your life and cases of lung cancer in nonsmokers.

Ohio settled a lawsuit against the Medicaid managed care organization, Buckeye Health Plan for more than $88 million for defrauding taxpayers, but the company is a new pact. We look at managed care organizations and how they fit into the future of Medicaid in Ohio.

The United States is now more multinational, racially and ethnically diverse than ever. See how governments, from the federal level to the local level, use the numbers to plan for the future.

Torrential rains are now the norm due to climate change, which poses unprecedented challenges to Ohio farmers. We explore what a changing climate means for Ohio’s agriculture industry.

An Ohio bill that would ban any vaccine mandate, from measles to meningitis, and so-called vaccine passports is scheduled for a hearing tomorrow in the Ohio general assembly. We discuss how COVID continues to be a political football even as the number of cases in Ohio surges to the highest number in six months.

See what’s coming from books publishers this fall on All Sides Weekend: Books with Christopher Purdy.

A new documentary is raising questions about how Jack Hanna and the Columbus Zoo procured some animals. We talk about the documentary, “The Conservation Game,” with the film’s director and a Columbus Zoo official.