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The State of Ohio - Budget Cuts & "Core Communities"; BCI Headquarters
 
 
HEADLINES: Gov. Ted Strickland orders another round of budget cuts. The presidential candidates return to Ohio. There are some new rules at the Attorney General's office. Ohio pastors are getting into the debate over whether ministers should be allowed to endorse candidates for office from the pulpit.

ROUNDTABLE SEGMENT: The governor's budget cuts were at the top of the agenda at a conference just down the street from the Statehouse - a summit on revitalizing Ohio's communities. The conference centered on a report from the national public policy think tank the Brookings Institution, which suggests that state leaders need to focus on just 32 of the state's 250 cities. These "core communities" are the eight big cities and the major suburbs that surround them, plus isolated cities such as Lima, Findlay, Tiffin, Fremont, Mansfield, Ashtabula, Steubenville, East Liverpool, Marietta, Portsmouth and Ironton, Chillicothe, and Zanesville and Marion.

A discussion with former Republican state representative Gene Krebs and Lavea Brachman. They are the co-directors of the organization Greater Ohio, which helped the Brookings Institution with the report and put together the conference.

FEATURE SEGMENT: The second part of a rare inside look inside the state's top crime lab, where scientists work alongside detectives to piece together evidence and puzzle out the solutions to terrible crimes.

HIGHLIGHTS: Images from the memorial set up on the Statehouse lawn each year by volunteers with the Ohio Community Service Council - three thousand flags to honor the lives lost on September 11, 2001.
September 12, 2008