Columbus Perspective

00:00 Show Open / Governor Mike DeWine and Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, Director of the Ohio Department of Health, discuss COVID and the latest vaccine that has just been made available.

11:00 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Doug Petcash talks with Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost; State Senator Michael Rulli (R-Salem), who represents the East Palestine area; and Columbus Metropolitan Library CEO Pat Losinski.

37:00 Victor Amesquita, manager of the 'Blood Prison' attraction at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield.

45:30 Lisa Courtice, President & CEO of the United Way of Central Ohio.

00:00 Show Open / Derek Longmeier, Director of the Problem Gambling Network of Ohio.

08:00 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Doug Petcash takes a look at Ohio’s decline in serving as a barometer for presidential elections and talks to Columbus City Councilwoman Lourdes Barroso de Padilla.

24:00 Ariane Datil from the Verify Team presents an in-depth look at the nationwide teacher shortage and the efforts to address it.

38:30 Dr. Douglas Scharre, Director of Cognitive Neurology at Ohio State University.

00:00 Show Open / U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).

6:00 Vicki Gregg, Clinic Manager for Remote Area Medical (RAM), a Tennessee-based non-profit organization that will operate a free pop-up medical, vision and dental clinic at East High School in Columbus on Sept. 23 & 24.

21:30 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Tracy Townsend presents information about economic development in Central Ohio; and a move by U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) to ban mask mandates.

49:00 Dr. Gregg Sylvester, Chief Health Officer for CSL Seqirus, which makes flu vaccines.

00:00 Show Open / Sammi Lawrence, an attorney with the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

23:30 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Tracy Townsend presents information on a battle over the language that will appear on the November ballot when Ohioans consider an abortion rights amendment; the billions of dollars in developments going on in Central Ohio; and school absentee rates and what is being done to improve them.

45:00 Vicki Gregg, Clinic Manager for Remote Area Medical (RAM), a Tennessee-based non-profit organization that will operate a free pop-up medical, vision and dental clinic at East High School in Columbus on Sept. 23 & 24.

00:00 Show Open / Kerstin Sjoberg, Executive Director of Disability Rights Ohio.

20:00 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Lindsey Mills talks with a local infectious disease specialist about new COVID strains and vaccines; a segment about civil rights 60 years after Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream Speech”; and a look at where Ohio’s sports betting revenue goes.

51:00 Tom Kamber, Executive Director of Older Adults Technology Services (OATS), a charitable affiliate of AARP.

00:00 Show Open / Rea Hederman, Executive Director of the Economic Research Center and Vice President of Policy at The Buckeye Institute, discusses tax and educational aspects of Ohio’s new two-year budget.

16:30 Hannah Halbert, Executive Director of Policy Matters Ohio, discusses tax and educational aspects of Ohio’s new two-year budget.

33:30 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Tracy Townsend talks with the new superintendent of Columbus City Schools; presents information about Ohio’s teacher shortage; and Kevin Landers has a segment about a Central Ohio school district that is arming staff members to provide another layer of security.

00:00 Show Open / Dr. Ariana Hoet, Executive Clinical Director of the On Our Sleeves Movement for Children’s Mental Health at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

20:00 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Tracy Townsend looks back at the special election earlier this month, as well as ahead to the abortion rights issue to be decided by Ohioans in November.

46:30 Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, Director of the Ohio Department of Health, discusses the upcoming fall season and the expected uptick in cases of Covid-19, influenza and RSV.

52:30 Sonya Thesing, Executive Director of Huckleberry House, which shelters and homeless youth in Columbus.

00:00 Show Open / Gene Smith, Athletic Director for Ohio State University, announces at a news conference that he will retire next year.

15:00 U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) provides some comments following the defeat of State Issue One.

17:00 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Andrew Kinsey looks at how previous Constitutional amendments have fared in Ohio; Lindsey Mills provides an update on East Palestine, six months after the toxic train derailment there.

35:00 Holly Holtzen, the State Director for AARP Ohio, discusses the growing number of Ohioans who are caring for elderly relatives and the need for more support.

45:30 Dr. Whitney Raglin Bignall, Associate Clinical Director for ‘On Our Sleeves’ at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, discusses concerns about social media use by kids.

00:00 Show Open / Alan Shaw, CEO of Norfolk Southern, discusses the train derailment that happened six months ago in East Palestine.

15:00 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Tracy Townsend presents information on the abortion rights and recreational marijuana issues that Ohioans will decide on the November ballot; the Period Project at Ohio State University which helps women to afford menstruation products; and a move to make adult changing tables more available in public places.

43:00 Nate Toops, Director of Community Engagement and Advocacy at Directions for Youth & Families in Columbus, discusses kids and resiliency.

00:00 Show Open / Portions of a news conference held Thursday in front of the Ohio Statehouse by Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther and others addressing gun regulations.

19:00 Courtesy of our sister station, WBNS 10-TV, Tracy Townsend presents various topics, including the August special election; legislation at the Statehouse to restrict drag queen performances; and the controversy over Greyhound’s new bus station on the west side of Columbus.

45:00 U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) discusses various issues.

50:00 Dr. Clinton Wright with the National Institutes of Health discusses a study of those with long COVID.