All Sides with Amy Juravich

Rep. Bob Cupp was sworn in Thursday as Ohio’s third Speaker of the House in two years. He replaces Larry Householder, who was unanimously stripped of his leadership position following his indictment in a federal racketeering case.

This episode originally aired on June 17, 2020. The pandemic has heightened a host of ethical dilemmas, from medical decisions about which patient to save to social quandaries about mask-wearing etiquette. As far back as the 14th century, people living through plagues and pandemics have sorted through modern versions of the same essential questions.

This episode originally aired on May 19, 2020. From the plague to the present day coronavirus pandemic, disease outbreaks have shaped everything in society from politics to personal relationships. Yale medical historian Frank Snowden explores this theme in his recent book, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in so-called “dark money” have flowed into 2020 election coffers at all levels of government -- with both parties taking advantage of legal means to conceal who’s donating to them. In Ohio, federal investigators last week alleged undisclosed contributions funneled through a 501(c) 4 nonprofit was the lynchpin in a $61 million dollar bribery case brought against Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four others.

The plethora of statistics used to quantify the coronavirus pandemic can overwhelm anyone. Experts track cases, hospitalizations, deaths, positivity rates and R-naughts, but it is hard figure out which ones give us the best idea of how we’re doing fighting the virus. At the same time, many experts say that we are undercounting the number of cases and number of deaths, removing what little certainty existed.

This episode originally aired on June 18, 2020. In the summer of 1964 more than 20 members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers in a tragic episode of racial injustice that would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case. The identities of the killers, which included a sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, but charges were never brought until newspaper journalist Jerry Mitchell started to work on it.

This episode originally aired on February 24, 2020. The history books are full of stories about the women who marched arm-in-arm to win the right to vote. Most of the heroes of the day were white women of means.

This episode originally aired on July 15, 2020. Nearly one in five adolescents has a diagnosable mental health disorder, and nearly one-third of them show signs of depression.

This episode originally aired on July 23, 2020. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced in early July guidelines for local school districts to reopen buildings this fall. But returning to school has parents and teachers worried, and the rise in COVID-19 infections is causing schools across the state to re-think plans for reopening.

A statewide mask mandate goes into effect as Ohio’s number of COVID-19 cases surge. Meanwhile, Gov. Mike DeWine and state lawmakers juggle the aftershocks of what the U.S. attorney has described as the biggest public corruption case in the history of Ohio.