Welcome to WYSO Weekend, WYSO’s weekly radio magazine. In today’s program, you'll hear Dayton Youth Radio, and Bill Felker has this week's Poor Will’s Almamack. We’ll also hear stories about redemption and relocation.
- As we learned this hour, the Republican bill that was to begin the repeal and replacement of Obamacare was pulled from a congressional vote. For this week’s Politics Ohio, we spoke to Karen Kasler with the Ohio Statehouse News Bureau on first - where some Ohio legislators fell on the issue.
- The reporters at member station WOSU have been hard at work reporting on some serious issues. Up first - In the wake of President Trump's executive order on immigration, people living in the U.S. undocumented face an uncertain future. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have realigned who they prioritize for deportation to include anyone in the country illegally, even if they have not been convicted of a serious crime. Esther Honig reports a small group of concerned citizens are organizing to help undocumented Columbus families dealing with deportations.
- A new program is feeding the hungry by using prison labor. Inmates at the Pickaway Correctional Institution are taking park in a pilot program called Meals for Ohio. Also from public radio station WOSU, AdoraNamigadde reports the program benefits the hungry and the inmates.
- Beginning today, WYSO is partnering with New Hampshire Public Radio to bring you Civics 101 –– a series about how the federal government works. Over the next few weeks, we’ll learn about the impeachment process, executive orders, the federal court system –– and more. Today, a look at the White House National Security Council. New Hampshire Public Radio host Virginia Prescott spoke to Steven Sesanovich, a member of President Ronald Regan’s National Security Council. They began by talking about the council’s beginnings... *This series is based on a podcast of the same name produced by NHPR. You can hear an extended version of this interview and more episodes by subscribing to the podcast.
- This week on Dayton Youth Radio we have a story from a teenager who says that she's different from other students at her high school.
- Bill Felker rounds out our program with Poor Will's Almanack.
