Good afternoon and welcome to the city club of cleveland. Im christine merit, president of the Ohio Association of broadcasters and a board member of the Ohio Debate Commission. I am pleased to introduce todays forum, a conversation on the emerging role of statewide debate commissions. The Ohio Association of broadcasters is the association of local radio and television stations here in ohio and weve been involved with the Ohio Debate Commission since its inception last year with many stations around the state airing the gubernatorial and u. S. Senate debates organized by the Commission Last fall. Political debate has been an intrigual part of the american political process at all levels and yet over the last decade, debates between candidates seeking Political Office has declined. This is not for lack of effort, as community and civic groups, including the city club as well as television stations and other media organizations have organized debates only to have candidates, often incum
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Accident over i95, they moved e it off the roadway, everythingg is opening up on 95 northbound, heading toward triangle, with delays out of stafford county,rd past the accident scene, unusual backups, north of that, past the occoquan, and past springfield. Over to the cameras, we have a problem in brandywine, maryland, it was an accident that was on southbound 301, at 105, we did have it blocked. Right now traffic was released on the southbound direction, on route 5, its still blockedocked northbound, accident activities, 305 at route 5, with significana delays headed through thatthroug section of Prince Georges County, we will head over to montgomery county, backup on river road. Ri it was ar bus fire that was extinguished. We had to alternate traffic on on river road north of the beltway near bradley boulevard. Unusual delays trying to get down to the beltway, thats awa, look at the fox 5 on time on traffic. Steve, thank you very much. How close are we to a govern. Shutdown, with the
You longer to get home, but all Things Considered it went off pretty well considering that we did have this snow moving through. Lusby an inch, ashburn about 1 2inch, germantown uninch and overall this is what we saw germantown one inch and overall this is what we saw, 1 2inch up to 1 inch, a few more 1 1 2 inches up to the Northern Maryland sections, alexandria 1 2inch, herndon. 7, gaithersburg. 7 and nationality they basically got a little less than 1 2inch. So we really havent had much this season at national. If again, temperatures tonight dropping down real cold. Everybody will be below freezing. So watch out for some slick spots out there overnight tonight and early, early tomorrow morning. Warmup is still in the cards. Well talk about that, full forecast coming up. Viewers sending in pictures from all over the region, even Fairview Beach covered in snow in king george, virginia. This came in from peggy in winchester. She says it was her grandsons first time playing in the snow.