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36 People Apply To Become Columbus' Next Police Chief

The City of Columbus released the names of applicants to the vacant police chief position. Thirty-six people applied to become the next Columbus Police chief.

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Communicating Without The Spoken Word

Katie Byrnes was born deaf, but this didn’t stop her from finding ways to relate to others. Her parents, Jayne and John Byrnes remember Katie’s earliest signs of communicating, her intelligence and love of music. Even though Katie passed at the young age of five-years-old, she had an incredible impact on the deaf community.

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Mike Reynolds opens a scrap book full of his biggest running memories, including his race bid from the first Columbus Marathon in 1980.

“It cost $7 to enter,” Reynolds says. “And you had to finish to get your windbreaker.”

Pickerington City Hall
City of Pickerington

A candidate for Pickerington city council is taking issue with how the city recently voted to more than triple the mayor's salary.

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, left, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., center and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speak during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN/New York Times at Otterbein University.
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In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, host Steve Brown discusses the Democratic candidate debate in Westerville. WOSU reporter Nick Evans and Ohio Public Radio Statehouse bureau chief Karen Kasler join the show.

Columbus Police Car
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The City of Columbus released the names of applicants to the vacant police chief position. Thirty-six people applied to become the next Columbus Police chief.

Mark Sanford at the Ohio Statehouse.
Nick Evans / WOSU

Former South Carolina Governor and Congressman Mark Sanford is in the midst of a longshot bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He's taking a cross country tour visiting 11 states and he stopped Thursday at the Ohio Statehouse.

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Katie Byrnes was born deaf, but this didn’t stop her from finding ways to relate to others.

Her parents, Jayne and John Byrnes remember Katie’s earliest signs of communicating, her intelligence and love of music. Even though Katie passed at the young age of five-years-old, she had an incredible impact on the deaf community.

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Lawmakers have introduced a bill in the Ohio House that would expand rights for LGBTQ people by protecting access to housing, employment and public accommodations.

The Planned Parenthood clinic in Athens, Ohio hung a banner outside their office stating they are still open.
Dan Konik / Ohio Public Radio

As many as 99,000 low-income Ohioans who want birth control and reproductive health care services have fewer options now that Planned Parenthood nationwide has pulled out of the federal Title X program. In nine Ohio counties, it’s the only provider that accepted Title X funds.

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Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a Baltimore attorney and civil rights advocate who served in Maryland's legislature before representing the state in the U.S. House, where he took on a lead role in investigating President Trump, has died. He was 68.

Cummings, the head of the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Reform, died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital from complications related to longstanding health challenges, according to The Associated Press.

Democratic presidential candidate entrepreneur Andrew Yang responds to questions following a Democratic presidential primary debate at Otterbein University, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville.
Tony Dejak / AP

During Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate in Westerville, two candidates discussed the idea of decriminalizing opioids.

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Snollygoster is WOSU's new politics podcast. Every week, we'll take an in-depth and seriously irreverent look at Ohio politics, plus talk to the people behind the news.
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