WCBE Presents Vitamin String Quartet & Girl Named Tom Live From Studio A Tues. Oct. 20, 2026 @ 2PM!
Arrests for more minor offenses, including vagrancy, rose in the U.S., even as violent crime rates dropped to historic lows, according to an analysis from criminal justice reform advocacy group FWD.us
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WCBE Presents Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet Live From Studio A Mon. Oct. 12, 2026 @ 1PM!
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Sarah Biddick joins the show to chat about her love of music and latest material. She performs a song live and takes part in Foley's Fast Five.
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Centering Ohio and Columbus as testing grounds, this CMC forum explores how American communities can move from reflection to renewal—and what responsibility today’s leaders and citizens have to future generations of Americans.
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Anthony Hopkins needed a copy of The Girl from Petrovka to prepare for a movie role, but none of the major London bookstores he tried had one. Then, while waiting for a train at Leicester Square Underground station, he spotted the exact novel sitting abandoned on a seat. Months earlier, author George Feifer had lost one very particular copy of that book somewhere else in London, and when the two men finally compared notes, an already improbable coincidence became almost impossible. We tell the full story in this episode of The Internet Says it's True.
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This CMC forum explores what it means to finally place women’s courage, leadership, and fight for equality at the center of Ohio’s public memory.
National
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A quilt artist who spent decades on death row now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
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Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander along with about 80 American and Israeli rabbis and activists were helping Palestinian olive harvesters when they were detained by Israeli forces.
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Less than two weeks before the election, Trump continues to crash through barriers that he wouldn't dare cross in his first term.
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The Leeds, U.K. band's latest album, You're Gonna Need A Little Music, is a critique of modern-day hyper individualism.
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The Justice Department's "likely" noncitizen voter list in California is "unreliable," according to officials. And, the United Nations reports a major increase in U.S. climate pollution.
Health, Science, Technology, Environment
The warnings surfaced in a trove of unreported court records. "I have been fighting about fixing this for months with people who didn't think the harms are severe enough," wrote one executive.
Arts & Life
Defense Secretary Hegseth's announcement of a livestreamed execution elicited reactions of disgust and condemnation from some faith leaders and politicians. But within his church, it's not an outlier.
The WCBE Podcast Experience
Centering Ohio and Columbus as testing grounds, this CMC forum explores how American communities can move from reflection to renewal—and what responsibility today’s leaders and citizens have to future generations of Americans.
Listen to Protecting What Matters on Saturdays at 8:30am on 90.5 WCBE, or online on WCBE's Podcast Experience
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