Cheesy

By John DeSando, "It's Movie Time," "Cinema Classics," and "On the Marquee

Almost everyone paying a 3D price to see Saw #7 (Saw 3D) knows that the admission includes cheesy sets, wrong-color red, non-sequitur scenes, screaming babes, and a hero who goes through a series of gruesome tests to save someone he loves, usually to no avail. The new element is body parts hurtling out to where you are, a perk that wears not well and not long.

By Letizia

Columbus, Oh –

NWS warns of high winds, possible tornados:00

Feds release more high speed rail money:47

Closing arguments begin in trial of man charged with killing parking lot attendant1:27

Columbus approves tax breaks for two local projects2:01

State awards tax credit for battery plant3:56

State offers tax breaks to local chemical maker4:26

By Letizia

Columbus, Oh –

Police say suspect took his own life before he was hit by a cruiser:00

Cause of three-alarm Mount Vernon fire undetermined:30

Columbus participates in National Fire Prevention Month:44

OU suspects student contracted Bacterial Meningitis1:32

City targets owners of vacant and abandoned homes2:10

September home sales fell 20 percent in Ohio4:15

By Holm

Columbus, OH – Stories include:

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Columbus, OH – It's the final week before the election, and the way ads and campaign rhetoric are coming at voters could be described as fast and furious. But as Ohio Public Radio's Karen Kasler reports, one of the state's leading fact-checkers says some of them are also wrong.

Columbus, OH – Nearly 400,000 jobs have been lost in Ohio since Governor Ted Strickland took office. But the reasons for those job losses are often debated....and so are some of the numbers that are used by politicians and parties to drive their messages home. Ohio Public Radio's Jo Ingles takes a closer look at a case in point.

Columbus, OH – Stories include:

Soldier injured in last week's training exercise dies :00

Man charged in Cleveland workplace shooting :40

Poll finds close race for governor 1:20

Fishing in state's largest inland lake likely won't resume until next fall 2:50

Columbus, OH –

Judge sets bond in Cleveland workplace shooting case :00

No endorsement in the governor's race from Ohio's Tea Party movement 3:05

Ohio plans to network all the state's neighborhood cameras 4:51

High winds likely in most of the state tomorrow 5:29

The beat of the counterculture

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time," "Cinema Classics," and "On the Marquee"

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn." Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"

Still waiting

By John DeSando, "It's Movie Time," "Cinema Classics," and "On the Marquee"

The forces that forever collide when educational reform is the subject are the primary need for great teachers and the urge to protect all teachers through tenure, good or bad, from repression.