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Thursday, September 21, 2006

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Voices and Choices Town Hall Meeting
Last weekend saw the culmination of 20 months of work in the Voices and Choices campaign, with nearly 900 people turning out for a town hall meeting to discuss the initiative's priorities. Rick Jackson was also there in Akron and will report on that session. Then he'll interview leaders of the Voices and Choices campaign as to what will be done with the thousands of findings and hundreds of suggestions given during the project.

Voices and Choices

New Wireless Network
OneCommunity is a nonprofit provider of community-based ultra broadband networking services, which last week rolled out a new program in conjunction with CASE, the major East Side hospitals, and with many University Circle businesses. It allows internet users to connect wirelessly throughout a five-mile radius of Cleveland's John Hay High School But the program has many other unique uses, and we'll talk with one of the creators, as well as demonstrate some of the effective capabilities of the plan.

OneCommunity

2nd Gubernatorial Debate
We will have reaction to this week's debate between gubernatorial candidates Ted Strickland and Ken Blackwell. The debate will focus of education. We'll have a panel of local political and education reporters reacting.

Issue 18
State Senator Eric Fingerhut will join us to talk about a Cuyahoga Country ballot initiative that, if approved, would pump $25 million in to the local arts community by taxing cigarettes as an additional 30 cents per pack.

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