In this edition of WYSO Weekend, the home of YSO produced news and features: Community Voices and Dayton Youth Radio. Bill Felker has this week's Poor Will’s Miami Valley Almanack. And we’ll look at a new program taking place in Dayton that aims to curb the high rate of infant deaths in Ohio. See full details below.
- We’ll look at a new program taking place in Dayton that aims to curb the high rate of infant deaths in Ohio.
- There’s a provision in the new Ohio budget that mandates the creation of a statewide police use-of-force database. But as WYSO’s Ariel Van Cleave explains, other work must be done before it’s put into place.
- Last week, more than 40 people attended a gay rights rally in downtown Springfield Wednesday night, to protest what they claim is unfair treatment by a probate judge. WYSO's Wayne Baker reports.
- On today's Dayton Youth Radio segment, we'll hear from Jordan Durham, a student at the Dayton Regional STEM school. He wants drivers to stop using their smart phones behind the wheel.
- At the 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama introduced a new effort to advance something he called Precision Medicine. Community Voices producer Scott Grigsby takes a look at what precision medicine is, its promise, and how it has already changed the life of one young man in the Miami Valley.
- Next Saturday in Yellow Springs is the 2nd Annual Free Health Fair taking place at First Baptist Church. Community Voices Producer Basim Blunt sat down with organizers Linda Cox and Dr. Chris Cox for WYSO Weekend. Here is a segment of their interview.
- Bill Felker has this week's Poor Will's Miami Valley Almanack.
