All Sides with Amy Juravich

While much of the restaurant industry was battered by shutdowns and other Covid restrictions, pizza parlors, and especially independents, proved well-suited to thrive. Columbus foodies have always supported their hometown pizzerias, which have a rich, and cheesy, history stretching back nearly a century.

Four Ohio House members tested positive for COVID last week, leading to canceled sessions ahead of the busiest weeks on the legislative calendar. More than 100 bills, including some of the most consequential of the term on gun rights, school funding and abortion, await action.

This episode originally aired on Nov. 19, 2020. Musical performances have been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. Venues are closed for the foreseeable future and many groups have had to lay off performers. The Columbus Symphony has managed to keep all of its full-time staff and even managed a few concerts this fall with more planned for the holidays.

Corruption, secret deals and dark money are nothing new in Ohio politics. The House Bill 6 nuclear bailout scandal has renewed calls for improved ethics and transparency in government.

History has shown us that African American mothers and wives who embrace the values of homelife, who have felt a sense of belonging and persist in those ambitions, often attract the animus of racists. This has been true from the time of Black enslavement to the experience of Michelle Obama as the first African-American First Lady.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials today will hear from an advisory panel of outside experts, the first step in the authorization process for the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19. Pfizer will ship 300,000 doses to Ohio next week. Health care workers and nursing home residents are first in line.

Mindfulness has been shown to reduce cancer-related symptoms, improve the childbirth experience, reduce stress and more. The technique has been embraced by doctors, therapists, and lifestyle gurus alike, but it’s not a cure-all.

President-elect Joe Biden has selected a racially diverse, all-female communications team to speak for his administration when he takes office in January. It’s the first time the top officials charged with speaking for the administration will be female. That’s in keeping with Biden’s pledge to have the most diverse administration in history.

Nearly seven out of 10 U.S. parents blame technology for their parenting struggles, according to a Pew Research Center study in March. And that was before the pandemic, the shutdowns and stay-at-home orders that forced a paradigm shift to online learning and the age of hyper-connectivity.

Corruption, secret deals and dark money are nothing new in Ohio politics. The House Bill 6 nuclear bailout scandal has renewed calls for improved ethics and transparency in government.