WOUB’s first podcast, Spectrum, celebrates its tenth-year anniversary with the launch of a new season. Spectrum started in June 2016 and has already produced 272 episodes that are archived at Apple Podcasts, the NPR Podcast Directory and at https://woub.org/tag/spectrum/.

To launch its new season, host Tom Hodson has a conversation with Dr. Geoffrey Dabelko, a professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Services at Ohio University. Dabelko also serves as the Sustainability Hub Coordinator at Ohio University. He is an internationally known expert on climate change, climate change policies, and environmental security. They discuss Trump gutting of governmental regulations and environmental oversight that directly impacts climate change.

Dabelko also decries this administrations attack on science and fact-based data concerning climate change. On an international level, he expresses his concerns about the United States withdrawing from Paris Climate agreement and the Climate Change Treaty.

Dabelko also discusses his new emphasis in researching the impact of climate change on an aging population. He is striving to help build resilience for older adults and to help them make adaptations to extreme climate change events like record-breaking heat, stronger storms and catastrophic flooding. He announces a launch of a multidisciplinary webinar series “Building Resilience for Older Adults in a Changing Environment, in partnership with Project ECHO.

The webinars will begin Sept. 23 from noon to 1 p.m. and there will be one such webinar each month for the next six. The webinars are also supported by the Grey Green Alliance and the Age-Friendly Innovation Center at The Ohio State University.

The webinars are intended for researchers and practitioners in health, gerontology, social work, social services, community development, emergency preparedness, planning, climate resilience, sustainability, hazard migration, and disaster risk management. They are free to anyone.

For more details about the upcoming program go to this link https://iecho.org/public/program/PRGM1783547854647R7I4NZ7LP9

Both Diddy and former President Donald Trump have had their properties searched by law enforcement authorities pursuant to search warrants.

Diddy just recently had his properties searched by Homeland Security and in August 2022, Trump had his Mar-a-Lago home searched by the FBI.

Both searches took place after judges reviewed sworn affidavits from law enforcement officers alleging that evidence of criminal activity was present at the locations.

Judges then issued the warrants for gathering evidence of potential crimes. In Trump’s case, the warrant called for the seizure of the allegedly classified documents from Trump’s Florida residence.

Trump’s search warrant was issued after numerous requests and a subpoena for the return of the documents were unsuccessful.

Subpoenas and search warrants are often confusing to the average citizen. It is sometimes difficult to understand the difference. They also should not be construed, alone, as indicators of crimes.

On this edition of Spectrum, host and retired judge Tom Hodson joins with legal analyst and retired judge Gayle Williams-Byers to explain subpoenas and search warrants in understandable terms.

They talk about how they are issued, executed, and enforced if there is noncompliance.

They explain the complexities of these legal processes by using simple examples to which all people can relate.

Retired judges Gayle Williams-Byers and Tom Hodson dissect Donald Trump’s legal issues into understandable terms for the public.

In this episode, they examine two recent rulings by Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton County Georgia concerning the dismissal of six counts from the multicount, multiparty Trump indictment.

They also explain Judge McAfee’s ruling allowing Prosecutor Fani Willis to remain on the case against the former President and his co-defendants.

Judges Byers and Hodson use understandable language and examples to break down complex legal motions and rulings.

Both think it is important for the public to understand what is going on in the courts and both think the mainstream media is not doing an adequate job of deciphering crucial terms and legal proceedings.

“People don’t trust what they don’t understand,” said Judge Byers. So, these retired judges have committed themselves to raising the public’s level of understanding.

Besides both being former jurists, Judge Byers was a former Assistant Prosecutor and Judge Hodson was a former defense attorney. Therefore, they also can give insights into various attorney strategies taking place in the cases.

In addition to talking about Georgia in this episode, the judicial duo also discusses pretrial judicial rulings in the Mar-a-Lago document case against former President Trump.