Leigh Barr
Coordinating Producer “Sound of Ideas”Expertise: Producing and writing television, radio and digital news scripts and newscasts
Education: Kent State University - bachelor's degree
Experience:
Leigh Barr is a career producer with more than 20 years' experience covering the people and stories of Northeast Ohio.
Highlights:
- · 2020 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists Award - Radio “Best Public Affairs Program in Ohio”
Why trust Ideastream Public Media?
The mission of Ideastream Public Media is to be a trustworthy and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Our highest priority is providing news and information that is reliable and accurate, that is gathered with integrity and professional care and that is presented with precision and respect for the intelligence of our audiences. We are transparent about how we discover and verify the facts we present and strive to make our decision-making process clear to the public. We disclose relationships, such as with partners or funders, that might appear, but will never, influence our coverage.
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The book “Reluctant Conquest: American Wealth, Power, and Science in the Arctic” traces US policy in the strategic region through the centuries. -
The Ohio legislature will come off summer recess to consider overrides to three of the governor's budget bill vetoes, all dealing with property taxes. -
The Cleveland Clinic is more than three years into a massive study to better identify and understand the development of a wide range of brain ailments including Alzheimer's. -
Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost to the ever-evolving opioid overdose epidemic. We will discuss where Cleveland and Cuyahoga County stand with regards handling the crisis. -
Gov. Mike DeWine has signed off on the state's new two-year operating budget but not before using his line-item veto 67 times to strike items from the massive spending bill. -
We'll talk about the impact of the new state budget on school funding, income and property taxes and a Browns move to Brook Park. -
Lawmakers in Columbus are proposing and considering several methods to deliver property tax relief to Ohioans. But schools and local governments say some of the proposals would be devastating to districts and public services. -
The Ohio Senate has passed its version of the state budget with zero support from Democrats. -
We will talk with academics in politics and law about a newly implemented travel ban as well as the call-up of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles. -
The Ohio Senate proposed in its budget amendments to tap the state’s unclaimed property fund to give the Browns $600 million and create a fund for future sports projects as well.
