Untangled

When it comes to redistricting everyone says they want fair maps. That’s the easy part. The hard part is setting a legal standard for drawing them. We’re untangling how to draw fair maps this episode. Guests include: Dave Wasserman, Senior Editor & Elections Analyst for The Cook Political Report; Samuel Wang, Princeton Gerrymandering Project Professor; Dan Vicuna, director of redistricting and rep...

Gerrymandering is bad, right? Drawing congressional or statehouse districts to benefit one party at the expense of the other is wrong. Right? As we untangle redistricting this season, we wanted to unravel the belief that gerrymandering is bad. Guests include: Matt Huffman, Ohio Senate President (R-Lima); Maureen O’Connor, former chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court; Allison Russo, Ohio House Mi...

Ohioans are going to the polls this November to vote on redistricting, again. It’s the fifth time in 20 years that we’ve been asked whether we want to change how we draw the boundaries for our statehouse and congressional districts. Guests include Matt Huffman, Ohio Senate President (R-Lima); Maureen O’Connor, former chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court; Tom Hunter, professor of political scien...

Buckeye voters are being asked this November whether we want to change our process for drawing electoral boundaries. Mapmaking is a complicated process, and it could use a little untangling. Over the next five episodes, we'll untangle the history of redistricting, how to draw fair maps, how other states do redistricting, and let both sides of Issue 1 make their case.

What can be done at the local, state and federal levels to solve the immigration crisis? Join us for the final episode of this season. Guests: Angie Plummer, Executive Director, Community Refugee & Immigration Services (CRIS) and David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies for the CATO Institute.

Politicians on the right often bring up crime when discussing immigration but research shows that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the U.S. Guests include Marty Schladen, Reporter, Ohio Capital Journal; Austin Kocher, Geographer, Syracuse University; and Alex Nowrasteh, Vice President of Economic and Social Policy Studies, Cato Institute.

When we talk about our immigration system being broken, we’re really talking about asylum. Our laws let people seek refuge from persecution, but the rules weren’t created to handle hundreds of thousands. Out guests include Emily Brown, director of the Immigration Clinic at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law; Chris Levesque, assistant professor of law at Kenyon College; and Debu Ghandi,...

When it comes to the politics of immigration, Ohio's members of Congress have been front and center. We look the political fault lines that severed bipartisan efforts at immigration reform. Guests include Theresa Cardinal Brown, Senior Advisor for Immigration and Border Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center, and James Massa, CEO of NumbersUSA.

The immigration system in the U.S. needs to be fixed, but how and when? We'll discuss with New Yorker reporter Jonathan Blitzer and Roy Beck, an author and founder of NumbersUSA.

Untangled is back. Listen as we take a complicated topic and untangle it. This season we’re untangling immigration - from an Ohio perspective. Guests include Angie Plummer, executive director of Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS); Rob Cohen, an immigration attorney at Porter Wright; Steven Hubbard, data scientist for the American Immigration Council; and Julia Gelatt, associate dire...

Let's be honest, these days immigration feels like a four-letter word. Compromise in our current political environment feels impossible and a showdown at the Texas border feels inevitable. But Ohio isn't Texas. Our borders don't touch other countries, but we are touched by immigration.

Housing is the foundation on which our lives are built. Throughout this special series, we’ve looked at the affordable housing puzzle from many different angles.

The growth of income inequality has reached every level of society, and as inflation drives up prices, many people are struggling to afford housing. In this episode, we examine how generational wealth and income inequality can hurt people seeking to buy a house. Guests: Leah Evans, Chuck Collins, and Gene Slater.

A look at how the increased cost of living expenses affects the ability to save up to afford a home. We talk to Stephanie Moulton, Ken Johnson, and Richard Cordray.

How many Ohio homes are part of corporate portfolios? Is Wall Street cashing in on the American dream? In this episode, we talk with State Sen. Bill Blessing, Prof. Athena Tsouderou, and Gene Slater.

It’s not just the raw number of houses being built that is driving the current housing crisis. It's also about what types of houses are being built. In our continuing series looking at the challenges surrounding affordable housing, we're examining the impact of supply and demand. In this episode, we talk to Vincent Squillace, Richard Kahlenberg, and Jason Reece.

The housing crisis is complicated and frustrating. Untangled, the new series from All Sides with Anna Staver, is here to help. In this episode, we look at the highly competitive real estate market in central Ohio and across the nation. We'll talk with Carlie Boos, executive director of the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio, Mic Gordon, real estate consultant with Keller Williams Greater...

Untangled, a new podcast from All Sides with Anna Staver, takes a complicated topic and untangles it for you. In the first season, we're untangling the housing crisis, why Gen Z thinks they'll never be homeowners while baby boomers are getting priced out by rising property taxes. Subscribe to Untangled wherever you get your podcasts or listen live on Monday mornings at 11 a.m. on 89.7 NPR news.