All Sides with Amy Juravich

Diseases carried by ticks and mosquitos have largely been overshadowed by concern over COVID-19, but they haven’t gone away. As people plan summer activities in the great outdoors, it’s important to avoid getting bit. Today on Wellness Wednesday: what to know about insect repellents.

Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher, political journalist Ken Rudin gives us his take on voting restrictions in the Lonestar State and more national political news.

The 93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in historic fashion July 8, with Zaila Avant-garde of Louisiana becoming the first African American winner. We talk the history of spelling bees and our fascination with them, with Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty.

Critical race theory is the idea that to understand American history you must consider the role of race and racism. Today on All Sides: how school districts and teachers are dealing with the sudden backlash over critical race theory.

In early June, a nesting pair of piping plovers was found in Maumee Bay State Park, the first sighting in Ohio in over 80 years. We talk about the shorebird and more with lifelong naturalist, photographer and author Jim McCormac.

Today on “All Sides with Ann Fisher:” the U.S. Senate race is just one that’s heating up. It’s our Weekly Reporter Roundtable.

In his new book, The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town, author and journalist Brian Alexander examines the grim realities facing America’s medical industry. Alexander offers a blueprint for the crisis we’re in, a crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Even before the pandemic, demand for teachers exceeded supply in the nation’s public schools by more than 100,000. We look at what’s keeping would-be teachers out of the classroom and causing current educators to consider leaving the profession.

While working on an oral history project, author Kaitlyn Greenidge learned about the first Black woman to become a doctor in New York. We talk with Greenidge about how that became the inspiration for her new novel Libertie.

The Supreme Court last week decided to leave the Affordable Care Act intact. We look at that decision and health care program 12 years including its origins, the controversy and how it’s working today.