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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

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Paying for Schools
There is a new school funding initiative that would revolutionize the way we pay for schools. If backers can gather enough signatures, voters will be asked in November to pass an amendment to the Ohio constitution taking the power to funds schools away from the state legislature and giving it to the state board of education. Is this an idea whose time as come, and would this change really make a difference in your child's education?

Minimum Wage
Hundreds of thousands of Ohioans got a raise on January 1st when the new higher state minimum wage went into effect. Voters passed the hike last November. During the campaign, opponents said upping the minimum wage would really help lift people out of poverty but it would hurt small business. Has it hurt business and are low wager earners really any better off? We'll ask Amy Hauser of the group Ohio Policy Matters

Ohio Policy Matters

Inside the Idea Center
Recently students from across Northeast Ohio came together both inside the Westfield Insurance Studio Theater for an event we called Inside the Idea Center. Students were given the rare opportunity to have an open, no rules conversation with Adam Guettel, composer of Light in the Piazza currently running at the Palace Theater in Playhouse Square. We'll have some highlights of the event, which was broadcast on WVIZ and WCPN's Around Noon. Dee Perry hosted the event.

The Light in the Piazza at Playhouse Square

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