The Mud Run Conservancy is hosting another benefit concert this year to support their efforts to preserve and mantain the waterways of the Mud Run Creek, this event a music festival curated by local musician "Crazy Joe" Tritschler (of Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws). Tritschler, along with Mud Run Conservancy board member Carol Culbertson and volunteer (and WYSO alum) Kathy Estep, came to WYSO's Excursions to talk about the event, play a few tunes, and talk WYSO history through the decades.

In this edition of WYSO Weekend:

When a tornado tore through Old North Dayton on Memorial Day, one of the buildings destroyed was the neighborhood's last affordable, full-service grocery store. Eight months later, that family shop is still working to reopen, so the neighborhood association and a local ministry are offering residents free rides to the nearest supermarket. Reporter Jason Reynolds went shopping with them.

A coalition of Springfield groups is trying to stitch together a food safety net for thousands of people. On March 4th, the city’s South Side will become the region’s newest food desert, when the neighborhood’s Kroger supermarket closes. WYSO’s Jason Saul talked with Clark County reporter Tom Stafford about the emergency.

WYSO is partnering with Stats and Stories, a podcast produced at Miami University.

When people think of what it takes to get a new drug approved, they likely think of the various trials a drug has to be run through, then the production and marketing of a drug once it’s ready for release. What they might not consider fully is the scope and impact of statistics in the production and manufacturing of drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. That’s the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories. Rosemary Pennington and regular panelists John Bailer, Chair of Miami’s Statistics Department and Richard Campbell former Chair of Media, Journalism and Film, are joined by Steven Ruberg. Ruberg was involved in the drug industry for almost 40 years working in all phases of development and marketing. At his last ten years at Eli Lilly he formed the advanced analytics hub for which he was the scientific leader, and eventually distinguished research Fellow. He now runs analytics thinking which he founded to promote good statistical principles and to help organizations come up with analytical strategies. 

A coalition of Springfield groups is trying to stitch together a food safety net for thousands of people. On March 4, the city’s South Side will become the region’s newest food desert, when the neighborhood’s Kroger supermarket closes. WYSO’s Jason Saul talked with Clark County reporter Tom Stafford about the emergency.