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Podcast title WOSU News
Website URL http://www.publicbroadcasting....
Description WOSU News
Updated Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:11:35 GMT
Category Public Radio
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1. Democratic Representative Mary Jo Kilroy To Vote "Yes" For Health Care Bill
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Description: Ohio's 15th District Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy says she will vote for President Obama's health care overhaul. But WOSU reports others Ohio representatives have yet to make a decision.

2. Ohioans Begin Balloting For U.S Capitol Statue
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Description: Starting Saturday, March 20th, Ohioans will get a chance to vote for one of a group of historical nominees to be cast as a statute for Statuary Hall in the U-S capitol building. Among the nominees: Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Jesse Owens.

3. Huge State Budget Hole Looms?
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Description: The current state budget was finalized only three months ago, when lawmakers plugged a deficit by taking back last year's 4.2 percent income tax cut. But with ten months to go before the next spending plan will be written, there are many who are worried about a huge budget hole ahead.

4. Ohio To Require New Childhood Immunizations
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Description: Ohio will require students entering kindergarten and seventh grade to get more shots starting in the new school year. Officials say the changes adopted by state health officials in December and first announced on Friday are the first since 2006 and reflect federal immunization guidelines.

5. Ohio Supreme Court Decides Offender Notification Case.
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Description: The Ohio Supreme Court has delivered a major setback to efforts by state lawmakers to apply the tough new sex offender notification requirements laid out in the federal Adam Walsh Act.

6. Passenger Rail Supporters Tout Suburban Economic Development
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Description: Ohio passenger rail supporters hope trains running along the 3C corridor will boost economic activity for two suburbs along the route. WOSU reports critics of the rail plan say there won't be enough riders to support an increase in economic development.

7. Non-Stop Liquor At Ohio Casinos?
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Description: Ohio voters last November approved a constitutional amendment authorizing full-scale gambling casinos in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo. But now, it's up to state legislators to draw up the rules the casinos will have to live by. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen has learned that the casino developers are negotiating behind the scenes to relax the liquor rules that would govern them.

8. Libraries Help Unemloyed at Job Help Day
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Description: Central Ohio job seekers found help at local libraries today, and the programming went above and beyond the job help libraries usually offer.

9. Court: New Sex Offenders May Avoid Registry Rules
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Description: The Ohio Supreme Court has delivered a major setback to efforts by state lawmakers to apply the tough new sex offender notification requirements laid out in the federal Adam Walsh Act.

10. "Smart Meters" Tested On Central Ohio Homeonwers
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Description: In an effort to reduce energy costs and curb consumer usage, scientists are developing something called "smart grid" and "smart meter" technologies. Some Central Ohio homeowners already have smart meters. WOSU reports the goal is a smart meter for every home within five years.

11. ODOT Defends Passenger Rail Plan
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Description: Ohio's transportation director Wednesday defended the cost of bringing passenger rail to the state. Jolene Molitoris said the project can be completed with the $400 million in federal stimulus funds already awarded the state. She met with Republican Senate President Bill Harris who is skeptical about the passenger rail plan.

12. Governor Signs Bill on Teen Dating Violence
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Description: Governor Ted Strickland has signed into law a bill that legislators passed to try to protect teenagers.

13. Ohio Democrats Have Key Role in Passage of Health Care Measure
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Description: Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich today became the first House Democrat to move from a "NO" to a "YES vote on the health care bill.

14. Despite Education Hispanics Still Reluctant About Census
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Description: It's time again to take another count of the people living in the U.S. The first round of Census forms already have been mailed out. WOSU reports it's actually illegal not to fill them out and return them.

15. Hundreds Protest For, Against Health Care Reform in Columbus
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Description: Hundreds of people protested for and against health care reform in Columbus Tuesday. The protest took place outside the local office of 15th district representative Mary Jo Kilroy.

16. Ohio House Approves DNA Expansion
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Description: The Ohio House of Representatives has approved a senate-passed plan to greatly expand the state's DNA testing program.

17. Complaint: Ohio Youth Prisons Limit Education
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Description: A legal complaint says the state is wrongly banning educational classes for imprisoned youth who violate a zero-tolerance violence policy.

18. Ohio Executes Inmate Who Killed Neighbor
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Description: Ohio has executed an inmate whose lethal injection was delayed one week because of a suicide attempt.

19. Ohio State Adds 2 Years to Tressel's Contract
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Description: The Buckeyes football coach has had his original contract, signed in 2008, extended through the 2014 season.

20. Several Ohio House Democrats Won't Say How They'll Vote On Health Care Reform
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Description: A House committee has voted for fast-track rules for health care legislation, the first step toward a decisive floor vote on President Barack Obama's sweeping overhaul. The move will get the historic health care overhaul bill before the House of Representatives by the end of the week.