All Sides with Amy Juravich

Smartmatic, an election technology company, filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News among others, accusing the network of acting as a megaphone for election misinformation. Dominion Voting Systems has filed similar suits against lawyers for the Trump campaign, Rudi Giuliani and Sidney Powell. Both companies have been at the center of election conspiracy theories which falsely allege massive voter fraud in the 2020 election.

This episode originally aired on Jan. 28, 2020. Both Merriam Webster’s and Dictionary.com named “pandemic” their word of the year for 2020. On March 11, 2020, the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the word fueled Merriam Webster’s single largest spike in dictionary traffic in 2020, an increase of more than 115,806% over searches the same day in 2019.

The city of Columbus has launched yet another nationwide search for a police chief. This time, Mayor Andrew Ginther has promised, the next chief will come from outside the force. More than 300 faith leaders and community activists are lobbying for someone who will both build trust with the community and reform a department embroiled in controversy.

Signing up for a COVID-19 vaccine in Ohio frequently takes no small amount of luck and persistence. A patchwork system of vaccine providers can present a frustrating hurdle, especially for older adults and people with limited phone or internet access.

Despite high levels of traffic on social media sites prior to January 6, federal agencies were caught flat-footed as events unfolded at the doors of the U.S. Capitol. The missed signals and slow response beg comparisons to the September 11 terrorist attacks among those in the intelligence community who continue to piece together clues.

The high cost of higher education coupled with changes brought on by the pandemic has altered the trajectory for many would-be college students. Public two-year colleges were hit especially hard in 2020. Such schools, which enroll more lower-income students and students of color, saw enrollment drop about 10% from the previous fall.

Just over a year after former President Donald Trump was acquitted in his first impeachment trial, the Senate will convene for a second impeachment trial. Democrats will focus their case on Trump’s attempted subversion of the election which culminated in the attempted insurrection on January 6 while Republicans question the constitutionality of impeaching a former president.

Generation Now, the dark money nonprofit at the center of the $61 million statehouse corruption case, last week copped to its involvement and agreed to plead guilty. That’s the third guilty plea in the HB6 scandal that federal authorities have called the largest public corruption case in state history.

This episode originally aired on Jan. 28, 2020. Both Merriam Webster’s and Dictionary.com named “pandemic” their word of the year for 2020. On March 11, 2020, the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the word fueled Merriam Webster’s single largest spike in dictionary traffic in 2020, an increase of more than 115,806% over searches the same day in 2019.

This episode originally aired on Jan. 28, 2020. The founding fathers knew that democracy depends on an educated citizenry that understands how the system works. Thomas Jefferson advocated for public education for that reason and defended the need for citizens to be taxed for it. But for years civics education has been shuffled aside for the sciences and mandatory testing.