Emily McCord

A decision this week by the Ohio Supreme Court kept in place the maps for state house and senate districts. Emily McCord is joined by Ellis Jacobs to break down what this means. He’s a voter advocate and an attorney with Advocates For Basic Legal Equality, or ABLE. Jacobs discusses how the map influenced the election and why it's important to Ohio's political future.

A new education initiative has launched in Dayton. At an event yesterday, hundreds of community and business leaders gathered for Learn to Earn. The goal is to bring together education and community members to provide students with an education that will equip them to go on to college. It will give a specific focus to high poverty areas to improve kindergarten readiness, third grade reading proficiency, 9th to 10th grade transitions and college enrollment. The nonprofit organization aims to increase the percentage of students with college degrees from 34% currently to 50% by 2025.

State legislators are kicking off the lame duck session with a bill that would affect family planning in Ohio. It would reprioritize funding for family planning so that it would effectively put Planned Parenthood last on the list to receive the funding.  Jo Ingles from the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau  has been reporting on the matter and joins Emily McCord for this week's interview to talk about what this means.

State legislators are kicking off the lame duck session with a bill that would affect family planning in Ohio. It would reprioritize funding for family planning so that it would effectively put Planned Parenthood last on the list to receive the funding.  Jo Ingles from the Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau  has been reporting on the matter and joins Emily McCord for this week's interview to talk about what this means.

With the election decided, all eyes turn to January, when mandatory across-the-board cuts will be enacted unless Congress makes a deal to solve the budget deficit. Emily McCord is joined by Bill Hershey for this week's PoliticsOhio. He's covered every Ohio Presidential election since 1980 and speaks to McCord about the challenges President Obama has to avoid sequestration cuts and about how changing demographics affects future races and the importance of swing state Ohio