You are viewing the August 17, 2022 daily archives
![Child smiling at camera on a school bus](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Back-to-school_feature-image-900x422.jpg)
Back to School Newsletter
Back to School Resources from PBS KIDS VIEW IN BROWSER New Staff for Early Childhood We are very excited to have an Early Childhood/Elementary Specialist back on the team…. Read More
![Ohio University's Cutler Hall on the first day of the semester.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/OU-Image-scaled-e1599491277344-900x422.jpg)
Ohio University scales back mask policy ahead of fall semester
By: WOUB News Team
Posted on:
ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Ohio University revised its mask policy ahead of the 2022 fall semester to roll back where masks would be required if the county in which the campus… Read More
![Angela Pike watches her fourth grade students at Lakewood Elementary School in Cecilia, Ky., as they use their laptops to participate in an emotional check-in at the start of the school day, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ap22227637596428_custom-e1fa87668f9f6cfe313a7764e0852d3ed7bf0c51-scaled-e1660754166631-900x422.jpg)
For the first time in 20 years, teachers can deduct more for school supplies
By: Ayana Archie | NPR
Posted on:
WASHIGNTON, D.C. (NPR) — For the first time in 20 years, the Internal Revenue Service is increasing the deduction limit for the amount of money teachers spend on school supplies,… Read More
![J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan, Ohio U.S. Senate candidates](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/download-e1660753877546-900x422.jpg)
J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan square off on electric vehicle measures in new federal climate change plan
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
Posted on:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The candidates for the U.S. Senate race in Ohio are offering different takes on the new federal plan that puts $369 billion into the… Read More
![graphic of a gavel on a blue background](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AP_988139653357-e1567534743990-900x422.jpg)
A judge rejects the plea agreement in a submarine secrets sale case
By: Associated Press
Posted on:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have withdrawn their guilty pleas in a case involving the sale of secrets about American nuclear submarines. The moves… Read More
![President Biden hands a pen to Sen. Joe Manchin during the signing ceremony for the Inflation Reduction Act.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/gettyimages-1242546239-916b349584cae31f1ba1269182b9a595aa5e89b9-scaled-e1660752190762-900x422.jpg)
Biden signs sweeping climate, health care, tax bill into law
By: Barbara Sprunt | NPR
Posted on:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — President Biden signed Democrats’ hallmark spending bill into law on Tuesday, a major legislative victory punctuating a string of bipartisan legislative achievements that Democrats hope to… Read More
![A promotional image for WOUB's "Who Lies Beneath: The Asylum" podcast. The image is of an aged headstone in a grassy graveyard with the podcast's title superimposed over it.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/woub_2022_podcast_lies_beneath-900x422.jpg)
Episode 4 : Eli Stevens and Israel Johnson
With the help of voice-actors Roger Jones and Dan Hauser, Eli Stevens and Israel Johnson tell their own life stories and how the two Civil War veterans, one who fought… Read More
![Emmett Till with his mother, Mamie Till, early 1950s.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Emmett2-1-900x422.jpeg)
His death was a spark that helped mobilize the civil rights movement. “The Murder of Emmett Til” on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. August 23 at 9 pm
American Experience The Murder of Emmett Til Tuesday, August 23 at 9 pm The Murder of Emmett Till, directed by Stanley Nelson, takes viewers back 65 years to August 1955,… Read More
![Gridiron Glory Promotional Graphic](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GG-Premiere-2022-featured-image-900x422.jpg)
“Gridiron Glory” Returns for 23rd Season
Premiere is Friday, August 19 at 11:30 p.m. on WOUB HD ATHENS, OH – Gridiron Glory (GG) returns to WOUB for its 23rd season this Friday, August 19 at 11:30… Read More