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	<title>Deadline Now: Jim and Nancy Petro</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Friday, March 25, 2011€Wrongful criminal conviction is much more frequent than most   Americans believe. The thought of imprisoned innocent people haunted me.   I became determined to try to do something about it.€ 
- Jim Petro, Former Attorney General of Ohio
The  flaws in America€s execution of justice lead to an unacceptable  number  of wrongful criminal convictions. Former Ohio Attorney General Jim  Petro was confronted with  this issue when theguilt of several convicts  serving life sentences was  called into question. Petro was the first  state attorney general to intervene on behalf of an imprisoned convict,  an Ohio Innocence Project client.
In their eye-opening book, False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent,  Jim and Nancy Petro detail and challenge commonly held myths of justice  and show how citizens can prevent miscarriages of justice.
Last month, Ohio Governor John Kasich appointed Jim Petro to be the state's next Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.Here are Jack Lessenberry's Final Thoughts for this edition of Deadline Now:Back in the 1980s, a writer I knew did a magazine cover story on a man from Tecumseh, Michigan named Henry Lee Lucas, who was believed to be the worst serial killer of all time.Lucas was then believed to have killed as many as six hundred people, beginning with his mother, back in 1960. He was a cheerful, gap-toothed monster who by that point, had happily confessed to bone-chilling crime after crime. Reporters, including my acquaintance, ate it up, and begged him for more. Police and prosecutors across the country believed in Henry Lee Lucas€s confessions too. After all, he enabled them to €solve€ old crimes and clean up their records. Then, one day, somebody noticed that he had confessed to two murders a few hours and thousands of miles apart. It would have been physically impossible for him to be in both places at the same time. Detectives then made up fictional murders and started asking him about them. Henry Lee confessed to those too, and as a bonus, said he€d killed Jimmy Hoffa as well. The whole thing than began to unravel. Today, Lucas, who died in prison ten years ago, is believed to have killed perhaps only three people, one of whom really was his mother.His story got me wondering about the system. If it was so easy for Lucas to fool prosecutors, who were under great pressure to solve cases, didn€t it stand to reason that a number of truly innocent men and women were being convicted?We now know the answer is, tragically, yes. Former Attorney General Petro and his wife Nancy have done a public service with their book False Justice, and with their involvement with the Innocence Project. Now, Jim Petro starting a new adventure as chancellor of Ohio universities, a job he is taking over in a time of twin crises. The state has seldom been as pinched for money. At the same time, higher education has never been for success in life.Figuring out how to adequately solve this problem just might make proving a convicted man€s innocence look easy. ]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Deadline Now: Joe Napoli and Nick Vitucci</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Friday, February 18, 2011With the Walleye's second season winding down and the Mud Hens new season about to begin, host Jack Lessenberry welcomes back to the program Walleye and Mud Hens President and General Manager Joe Napoli and Walleye Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations Nick Vitucci.
Jack Lessenberry's Final Thoughts for this edition of Deadline Now:
When I first came to Toledo back in the late 1970s, I was struck by how seedy and unappealing the town€s hockey arena and baseball stadium were. They were way out of date, and I couldn€t imagine taking someone to either on a first date.
But today, there are major league ballparks which aren€t as nice as Fifth Third Field, and the Huntington Arena continues to dazzle fans. Someone told me their reaction was, €wow. You get all this and then they eventually play a hockey game here too!"
Keeping fans excited about minor league sports is always a challenge. Your best players are likely to disappear and be called up to the next level at any moment. In a town like Toledo, major league sports of all kind are available only an hour€s drive north in Detroit, or a slightly longer jaunt east, to Cleveland. And of course, anybody with cable TV has their choice of about a zillion major league games.
However, Joe Napoli and his crew seem to have come up with a winning solution, partly through dedication to providing an excellent product in an excellent setting, and partly through shrewd marketing. Actually I think some of their marketing is better than that I see for major league teams. They€ve got other advantages, too.
For one thing, these players are not only immensely talented, they are full of hustle. Most are eager to prove themselves, to try to get to the next level. This is a hard-working town, and a lot of us can relate to that. We also ought to be more easily able to identify with these Walleye and Mud Hen players than with a major league player making ten million dollars a year.
A friend of mine, now retired, is an immense baseball fan who has lived in many different major league cities. But for her, nothing has ever compared to seeing a young Willie Mays play for the minor league Minneapolis Millers.
The day isn€t that far off when somebody will become a huge star with the Detroit Red Wings, and Toledoans will say. €Oh yeah. We knew him back when he was here with the Walleye.€
I hope you€ll be back here with us next time. For Deadline Now, I€m Jack Lessenberry.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.wgte.org/wgte/store/cart_add.asp?item_id=8996">Purchase</a>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Deadline NOW: Andrew Jorgensen and Robert Shiels</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Friday, February 11, 2011Now that the so-called "Groundhog Day Storm" of 2011 and "surprise"  snowfall of February 5 have come and gone, host Jack Lessenberry  explores the art and science of weather forecasting and the issue of climate change with Robert Shiels, Chief Meteorologist for WTOL-TV in Toledo, and Professor Andrew Jorgensen of the University of Toledo.
Robert  "Bobby" Shiels earned a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from  the University of Michigan.He holds the American Meteorological  Society's Seal of Approval for television excellence.He now does the  forecast for News 11 at 5:00, News 11 at 6:00, and News 11 at 11:00.
Dr.  Jorgensen is a noted authority on climate change and has served as a  Senior Fellow for the National Council for Science and the Environment.  He is the Director of General Chemistry studies at the University of  Toledo.Jack Lessenberry's Final Thoughts for Friday, February 11, 2011:
Toward the beginning of last week they began telling us that the mother of all snowstorms was approaching the Detroit area.It would hit Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, and we€d get a foot of snow. Maybe fifteen inches. But when it was all over Wednesday, the snowfall where I live measured only a little over five inches. We€d hoarded all that salt pork and hardtack for nothing.
Three days later, on Saturday, the forecast was that we might get an inch or so of new snow after dark. So we went to a Bar Mitzvah celebration that morning and walked out three hours later -- into a blizzard that left more than six inches on the ground.
So despite modern science, the weather can still be stubbornly perverse on any given day. To me, there€s something sort of charming in this; in the fact that we still can€t completely domesticate the climate. But I am also a bit in awe of what the forecasters are able to accomplish. They were able to tell us that a major snowstorm was headed this way days before the first snowflake drifted down.
That€s pretty impressive. I€ve known a number of meteorologists in my life, some of whom had very impressive backgrounds. One had been a bomber pilot who spent more than a year in a Nazi prison camp. The other was an Air Force intelligence officer.
Both knew how crucial accurate weather reports can be, especially in wartime. Calling the weather correctly was essential to the success of the D-Day invasion, for example.

That, however, was not why either went into meteorology.One of them told me once, €look. Some people like politics, some don€t. Some are crazy about sports. Other people can€t tell a basketball from a barn door. But all of them want to know about the weather. Everybody is fascinated by the weather.€
Everyone, he calculated, including pretty women, would always want to talk to him, because he could tell them about the weather.
I€ve always wondered what happened to his social life on those occasions when his forecasts were wrong. With climate change a new factor to be reckoned with, weather forecasting in the twenty-first century is likely to be as interesting a career as ever.
And perhaps even more difficult. I hope you€ll be back with us next time. For Deadline Now, I€m Jack Lessenberry.
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Deadline NOW: John C. Jones</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Friday, February 4, 2011John C. Jones, the President and CEO of the Greater Toledo Urban League (GTUL), is Jack Lessenberry's guest this week. The GTUL seeks to improve the social and economic conditions of each person in the community, particularly African-Americans, other minorities and those that are disadvantaged through the provision of quality programming and effective advocacy. The GTUL targets its efforts in the areas of education, employment and enriching families.
On the web: www.gtul.org
Beginning this week, WGTE will post Jack Lessenberry's Final Thoughts for each edition of Deadline NOW. Here are his Final Thoughts for February 4, 2011:
I woke up on my sixteenth birthday to the news that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been shot and killed the night before.
I often wonder today what he would have made of the condition of black America -- and indeed of all America -- today.
Would he be primarily overwhelmed with happiness that we have an African American president? Or that there are any number of black millionaires and corporate executives and congressmen?
Would he be gratified that no intellectually superior black student is turned away from any of our nation€s colleges? Or that nobody these days would dream of putting up any legal impediments to any person of color dining anywhere or staying in any hotel?
He would be pleased, no doubt, by many of those things. But I also think he would be very unhappy about other things -- maybe even shocked. Half a century after the Freedom Riders, the vast majority of Americans live in what are still segregated neighborhoods.
Too often, as an upper middle class black friend of mine says, integration is only the time between the first black family moving in, and the last white family moving out. Worse, the same pattern tends to prevail de facto in America€s schools. Far too often, we still have public schools that are largely separate and largely unequal.
Perhaps still worse is that there is now a vast divide in the black community itself. True, a portion of black American has an upper-class status that was almost nonexistent fifty years ago.
Nobody pays much attention these days to announcement sof new black astronauts or senators or supreme court judges. But there is also a portion of black America that has fallen between the cracks, people who if anything have less hope and are less part of the American dream that the poor rural sharecroppers in Martin€s time.
Then, we all thought we knew the problems and the solutions. Turns out the solutions were more complex than we hoped.
For today€s NAACP and the Urban League, the task involves finding them, achieving them. Keeping the dream alive -- and keeping America€s eyes on the prize.
I hope you€ll be back with us next time. For Deadline Now, I€m Jack Lessenberry.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.wgte.org/wgte/store/cart_add.asp?item_id=8856">Purchase</a>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Deadline NOW: Barbara Sears and Matt Szollosi</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Friday, January 28 at 8:30 p.m.
After last November's elections and shifts in political power, what  issues are on the minds of Ohio's state legislators? Jack Lessenberry's  guests this week are Barbara Sears (R-46th District), assistant majority  floor leader, and Matt Szollosi (D-49th District), assistant minority  leader.
Sears was appointed to the Ohio House of Representatives  in January 2008 and is currently serving her first full term. Her  district includes the western portion of Lucas County.
Szollosi is  serving his second term in the Ohio House. The 49th District serves a  portion of Toledo, as well as Harborview Village, Jerusalem Township,  the city of Oregon and Washington Township.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.wgte.org/wgte/store/cart_add.asp?item_id=8776">Purchase</a>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:00:04 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Deadline NOW: Kurt Metzger</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Friday, January 14 at 8:30 p.m.
Kurt Metzger, Director of Data Driven Detroit, joins host Jack Lessenberry to analyze the latest U.S. Census numbers.
Data  Driven Detroit (D3) provides accessible high-quality information  and  analysis to drive informed decision-making to strengthen communities  in  Southeast Michigan.
Metzger provides insight into what the  Census results mean for Southeast Michigan, as well as Northwest Ohio,  including the loss of Congressional seats in both states.
On the web: www.datadrivendetroit.org<br/><br/><a href="http://www.wgte.org/wgte/store/cart_add.asp?item_id=8678">Purchase</a>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:00:05 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Deadline NOW: Kathleen Carroll and Mari Davies</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Friday, January 7 at 8:30 p.m. 
Beginning tonight, Deadline NOW moves to its new airtime: Fridays at 8:30 p.m.
Cultural and arts organizations have to struggle for funding during  the best of times. When the economy turns downwards, keeping them going  tends to be much more difficult. Northwest Ohio was hit harder than most  places by the Great Recession. So, how are arts groups faring? And how  does their future look? Kathleen Carroll, President and CEO of the  Toledo Symphony, and Mari Davies, Executive Director of the Toledo  Ballet, are Jack Lessenberry's guests this week on Deadline NOW.
Beginning  on Friday, January 7, 2011, Deadline NOW will be seen at its  new time:  Fridays at 8:30 p.m. NEED TO KNOW will move to 9:30 p.m. on  Fridays.
On the web: www.toledosymphony.comOn the web: www.toledoballet.net<br/><br/><a href="http://www.wgte.org/wgte/store/cart_add.asp?item_id=8579">Purchase</a>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 6 Jan 2011 19:00:03 EST</pubDate>
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