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Local Hospitals Respond To Warning Of Medical Device Hacking

By | June 18, 2013

Administrators at the OSU Medical Center says they’re tightening safeguards to prevent the type of hacking mentioned in a recent release from the Food and Drug Administration.

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Jury Orders Delaware Church To Pay Victim $3.6 Million

By | June 18, 2013

A Delaware County jury has ruled that a church should pay $3.6 million to a woman who was sexually assaulted by a former pastor when she was a teenager.

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Grading The Teachers: Performance Often Not Reflected In Pay

By Ida Lieszkovszky, StateImpact Ohio | June 18, 2013

An analysis by a coalition of Ohio public radio stations and The Plain Dealer shows there is little correlation between a teacher’s performance and how much they are paid. Across the state, teachers who score the lowest on the new “value added” measurement frequently make more than those who score the highest.

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Previously: Whistle-blowers or Traitors?

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Mental Health Care Big Business

By | June 18, 2013

Mental health treatment continues to evolve. In the second installment of a three part series, WOSU examines the dollars associated with the business.

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Group Uses Weekend Shootings To Push Stivers For Gun Meeting

By | June 17, 2013

A group that lobbies for gun control is using two weekend shootings to call for a meeting with a Central Ohio Congressman.

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Ohio’s “Brain Drain” May Be Easing

By | June 17, 2013

An analysis of census data shows that Ohio may finally have seen the end of a decades-long trend of losing young adults to other states.

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Police Seek Video From Festival Shooting

By | June 17, 2013

Columbus police are seeking any video that may have been taken of a shooting that injured an 11-year-old boy at the Juneteenth Festival.

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“Value Added”: Grading Teachers Through Student Growth

By Ida Lieszkovszky, StateImpact Ohio | June 17, 2013

The state of Ohio is phasing in a new teacher grading system that tries to measure the value a teacher adds to a student’s academic progress. But educators admit “Value Added” is an incomplete metric.

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Changes To Mental Health System Lessen Stigma

By | June 17, 2013

Once hidden away, mental illness has become a very public health issue. This week, 89.7 NPR News examines the evolution of mental health treatment in a special three part series.

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Ohio Could Ban Reporters From Seeing Gun Records

By | June 15, 2013

Journalists would need a court order to access Ohio’s handgun license records under proposed changes to the state’s concealed carry law.